Ethel Percy Andrus — American Activist born on September 21, 1884, died on July 13, 1967

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... (wikipedia)

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.