Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Mary Elizabeth AITCHESON
Living Individual, details withheldMary Elizabeth Aitcheson in Washington, D.C., is the daughter of John (Jack) Kenneth Aitcheson, a plumbing-supply entrepreneur, and his first wife Margaret Odom (who lost her first husband during World War II). Gore grew up in Arlington, Virginia. Her parents divorced and she was raised by her mother and grandmother. Her nickname, Tipper, comes from the lullaby "Tippy, Tippy, Tin".
She attended St. Agnes (now St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School), a private Episcopalian school in Alexandria, Virginia, where she excelled at athletics and played the drums for an all-girl band, The Wildcats.
Tipper and Al with then-President Bill Clinton and then-First Lady, now Senator, Hillary Rodham ClintonShe met her future husband, Al Gore II, at his high school senior prom (St. Albans School in Washington, D.C.) and they were soon dating. When Gore went north to attend Harvard University, Tipper attended Boston University and majored in psychology. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from BU in 1970. They married on 19 May 1970 and have four children: Karenna Gore Schiff (born August 6, 1973), Kristin Gore Cusack (born June 5, 1977), Sarah Gore (born January 7, 1979) and Albert Gore III (born October 19, 1982).
Gore pursued a master's degree in psychology from George Peabody College (which later merged into Vanderbilt University). She then worked part-time as a newspaper photographer until her husband was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1976.
In 2002, Tipper and Al wrote two books entitled Joined at the Heart: the Transformation of the American Family and The Spirit of Family.
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