The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

She was also the founder of AARP in 1958. Ethel Percy Andrus (September 21 1884 – July 13 1967) was a long-time educator and the first woman high school principal in California. In 1995 Ethel Percy Andrus was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project.