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RETIRED UNITED PARCEL Service executive Edward Polusky and his wife, Rita, have given $2 million to the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology to establish the Rita and Edward Polusky Chair in Education and Aging.
The Poluskys, residents of Hilton Head, S.C., are longtime friends of USC’s Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center, having es-tablished the Ed and Rita Polusky Student Aid En-dowment Fund in 1982. The couple also contributes regularly to the Ed and Rita Polusky Scholarship Fund – one of the center’s largest individually funded scholarship endowments, which supports up to six gerontology students each year.
The new chair, says gerontology dean and Andrus Center executive director Edward L. Schneider, will “provide on-going resources to attract and support outstanding faculty in gerontological education and research.”
The Poluskys’ involvement with the Andrus Center dates back to 1975, when Edward Polusky was instrumental in securing a gift from the UPS Foundation.
That gift created the UPS Professorships in Law and Aging, now held by USC professors Martin Levine and Jon Pynoos.
Levine, a noted expert on the legal rights of the elderly, has joint appointments in gerontology, the USC Law School and the USC School of Medicine. Pynoos, a top authority on housing issues for seniors, holds joint appointments in gerontology and the USC School of Policy, Planning and Development.
Professor David A. Peterson, a nationally recognized expert on lifelong learning who has served as director of the gerontology school since 1978, is the first holder of the Polusky Chair.
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