Word: andrus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after 1,868 days in the hospital, off and on (the hospital figures the cost of all this free care at $36,962.15), and after 1,539 transfusions of blood donated by the Red Cross, Helen Maysey, 27, married Shirley (Red) Andrus, 36, an electrician. Although her disease has many of the earmarks of Mediterranean anemia, which appears in successive generations in Italy and eastern Mediterranean countries, there is no history of this anemia in her family, no evidence whether she would pass it on to her children...
...Otherwise, the twelve were encouraged to devise their own programs. They studied in the institute's well-stocked library, worked in its shops and greenhouse, tramped through its acres of woods, set up a whole series of heated round-table discussions. Under the deft guidance of Psychologist Ruth Andrus, they not only rediscovered the art of conversation, they also found a host of talents they had never suspected before...
Since then, Ethel Andrus has set up branch organizations in 43 states. She crosses the country at least once every two months, and on a slim annual budget of $20,000 manages to turn out dozens of pamphlets and to publish a quarterly. She has persuaded thousands of ex-teachers to take up jobs as tutors, counselors, or consultants to children's courts. She and her 20,000 members have also lobbied for bills to enable ex-teachers to work as substitutes, have so far succeeded in Michigan, Indiana and New York. In Omaha, the N.R.T.A. runs a White...
...Climb. After seven years, Ethel Andrus can claim credit for other accomplishments. Largely through the efforts of the N.R.T.A., California has raised its benefits from $60-odd a month to $170; Alabama's are up from $28 to $43; New York's from $90 to $176, and Indiana's are up a flat 10%. All in all, the national average has climbed slowly but steadily-from $885 a year...
...Ethel Andrus still works nearly 16 hours a day. Eventually, she hopes to persuade Congress to increase tax exemptions for retired people, is working on a plan to build a chain of 15 homes for retired teachers. Most important of all, she still dreams of the day when the word "retirement" will have lost its terrors. "As it is," says she, "when you leave a job, they often just give you a gold watch, and all you can do is look at it and count the hours until you die. Yet think of all the grand things...