Accomplishments made by individuals over the age of 50.

1. Age is an Advantage
Rose Susami, M.Ed, CPRW

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

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

4. At age 52, Tchaikovsky
composed the Nutcracker
Suite

5. Louise Cooper, a breast cancer
survivor, conquered the 135 mile
Badwater ultra marathon, just 5
months after completing
Chemotherapy…AT AGE 54

6. George Washington was
inaugurated as the first President
of the United States at age 57

7. Jamie Lee
Curtis posed
topless for
AARP
magazine for
her 50 th
Birthday

8. The great pleasure in life is
doing what people say you
cannot do
Walter Bagehot

9. Mona Lisa’s famous
smile was created
when Leonardo
Da Vinci was 52

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

11. At age 53, Walt
Disney opened
Disneyland

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

13. The secret to staying young is to…
Live honestly…
Eat slowly…
And lie about your age.
-Lucille Ball

14. Clifford Batt of Australia successfully
made the swim across the English
Channel at age 67

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

16. Alfred Hitchcock created his
classic film Psycho at age 60

17. Annie Peck, age 57, was the first person to
reach the summit of Mount Huascaran in the
Andes mountain range

18. In love, as in other matters, the
young are just beginners
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

20. 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

21. Betty ford opened her
eponymously named
center to treat substance
abuse when she was 64

22. Clara Barton Established the
Red Cross when she was 59

23. FRANK LLOYD
WRIGHT
COMPLETED
THE
GUGGENHEIM
MUSEUM
AT AGE 89

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