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AGHE's move in 1998 from an independently incorporated organization to a unit within The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) was a return home. In 1972, a confluence of resources, people, and events within GSA led to the birth of AGHE in 1974. This is a summary of those beginnings. First, the resources: In 1972, the Administration on Aging (AoA) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human services established a grant program to fund gerontology training programs in colleges and universities. This was a huge innovation; never before had there been federal support specifically earmarked for aging education and training. The key force behind this new grant program was the late Clark Tibbitts, who had moved to AoA from the University of Michigan. Second, the people: In 1972, George Maddox was the Chair of GSA's Education Committee as well as the new Director of the Duke University Center for the Study of Aging and Human development. Only a handful of aging research centers existed, and the leaders of these centers were also active in GSA. Walter Beattie (Syracuse University), the late Bernice Neugarten (University of Chicago), Harold Johnson (University of Michigan), George Maddox (Duke University), and a few others began discussing the role that GSA's Education Committee could play in helping foster the development of gerontological education and in assisting the university-based aging centers to secure these new AoA training grants...

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