Ethel Percy Andrus

Ethel Percy Andrus was a long-time educator and the first woman high school principal in California. She was also an elder rights activist and the founder of AARP in 1958. In 1995 she was designated a Women’s History Month Honoree by the National Women’s History Project.

Date of birth:
21st September, 1884
Date of death:
13th July, 1967
"We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves."
― Ethel Percy Andrus
Topic(s): Happiness

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