History

Pittsburgh-North Hills Chapter #595 of American Association of Retired Persons, Inc.

was approved and filed in the Department of State on the 31^st day of December 1969. Fred Hunt, William DeHaven, Ida Betzler, Eugene Baur, and Earl Hehman were sworn in by Regis C. Welsh, Justice of the Peace on November 6, 1969. The official address was Wildwood Center, Hampton Administration Building, Allison Park. The first Board of Directors were Earl Hehman, William Kerwin, and Charles LaZaro. The term of the chapter existence is perpetual.

The purposes of AARP 595 were established:

1) to understand aging as a modern social achievement measurable in terms of longer life and a shift from a work-centered society to one that is leisure centered.

 2) to offer the individual senior citizen opportunities for self-appraisal and for planning a way of life designed to attain the maximum amount of self-realization and enrichment in the years ahead.

3) to help foster equality of opportunity for the aging population by promoting its continued

growth and development; its self-respect, its self-confidence and its usefulness; encouraging its participation in the stream of contemporary life; stimulating a dynamic public interest in all segments of the aging population, and recognition of their potential.

4) to study and to discuss the meaning of a longer life for retired persons in a society which offers more and more free time, and to present statistical data for gerontological purposes.

5) to identify through educational procedures, experiences which will further growth and development of personality for retired persons and lead to new, useful and creative roles which in turn will provide a sense of life-fulfillment in our changing society.

6) to devote the energies of the Corporation to furthering its educational, scientific and philanthropic objectives of prolonging and improving the mental and physical well-being of retired persons.

7) generally, to aid retired persons in their social, physical, economic and intellectual needs by acting as a local chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons, a District of Columbia Nonprofit Corporation (hereinafter referred to as “AARP”), in accordance with and in furtherance of its purposes, objectives and ideas.