Age is an Advantage

Rose Susami, M.Ed, CPRW

Did you know about the many notable achievements that were completed by individuals over the age of 50?

The Origin of Species was completed when Charles Darwin was 50 years old

At age 52, Tchaikovsky composed the Nutcracker

Suite

AT AGE 54

Louise Cooper, a breast cancer survivor, conquered the 135 mile Badwater ultra marathon, just 5

months after completing Chemotherapy…

George Washington was inaugurated as the first President

of the United States at age 57

Jamie Lee Curtis posed topless for

AARP magazine for

her 50th Birthday

Walter Bagehot

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

Mona Lisa’s famous smile was created

when Leonardo Da Vinci was 52

Ray Croc, a milkshake machine salesman, open his first restaurant at age 52 called….

At age 53, Walt Disney opened

Disneyland

Margaret Thatcher became Britain’s first female prime minister at 53

The secret to staying young is to…Live honestly…

Eat slowly…

And lie about your age.

-Lucille Ball

Clifford Batt of Australia successfully made the swim across the English

Channel at age 67

Michelangelo completed his Last Judgment fresco in the Sistine Chapel at 66

Alfred Hitchcock created his classic film Psycho at age 60

Annie Peck, age 57, was the first person to reach the summit of Mount Huascaran in the

Andes mountain range

Isaac Bashevis Singer

In love, as in other matters, the young are just beginners

At age 67, Engineer Joseph Baermann Strauss’ decades long dream was finished when this famous landmark was opened:

LAURA INGALLS WILDER PUBLISHED “LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS”,

THE FIRST OF HER EIGHT PART LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE SERIES AT AGE 65

Betty ford opened her eponymously named

center to treat substance abuse when she was 64

Clara Barton Established the Red Cross when she was 59

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

AT AGE 89

COMPLETED THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

An art dealer discovered her paintings in a local drugstore window and turned her into an internationally renowned artist, completing 3, 600 canvasses in 3 decades.

At Age 78, Anna Moses, took up painting after abandoning a career in embroidery because of arthritis