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Biography
Clark Tibbitts was born in 1903 and died at the age of 82 in October of 1985. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Lewis Institute located in Fairview, North Carolina in 1924 and did his post graduate work at University of Chicago. He retired at age 83, after 35 years of government service setting the ground work to establish programs for aging adults. He worked as deputy director of the Office of Aging 1960-66, director of training for the Administration of Aging 1966-74, director of the National Clearinghouse on Aging 1974-76, special assistant to the Commissioner on Aging 1976-1982, both that have roots from Tibbitts’ original committee on aging. His prior work as director of human adjustment and lecture in sociology with the University of Michigan helped gain a broad perspective in gerontology that had gone unnoticed in our current generation.

Career Highlights
Clark Tibbitts was director of the institute for Human Adjustment at the University of Michigan for 12 years before moving to Washington D.C. in 1949. He then served as specialist for aging, before there were any agencies dedicated to the aging population. He was the author of many notable articles and texts on Gerontology and Aging. He was an advocate for government resources for the aging population around the same time as the average life expectancy in the United States was growing rapidly with advances in medicine and technology. He examined the social and psychological aspects of aging that had not been previously studied and explored because of the low life expectancy up until the mid twentieth century.

Awards and Accomplishments
1957- Tibbitts was awarded an honorary Sc. D. degree, a doctorate of science higher than a PHD, from the Institute of Divi Thomae in Cincinnati, Ohio. 1981- Clark Tibbitts won the AGHE award for his outstanding contribution to the study of gerontology (Sagraves, 1989). 1986- The Clark Tibbitts award was established in 1986 for his contributions in the development of The Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, replacing the award he won in 1981 (AGHE, 2011).