Fargo Retired Teachers Association

The Fargo Retired Teachers Association began in September 1955 as the Fargo Retired Teachers Club, a social club for women teachers who retired from the Fargo school system.  Once North Dakota established a retired teachers association, the Fargo club affiliated itself with the state association.  A new constitution in 1966 changed the name to Fargo Retired Teachers Association and expanded membership to anyone 55 or older who had served as a teacher in the schools of the nation at any level.

The collection consists of the constitution, meeting minutes (1959-1983), scrapbooks (1955-1980) documenting its activities and members, newsletters, and biographical files on Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus, founder of the National Retired Teachers Association and Sadie Walker. 
 

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