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Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver DSG (July 10, 1921 – August 11, 2009) was an American philanthropist. [1] Shriver was a member of the Kennedy family by birth, and a member of the Shriver family through her marriage to Sargent Shriver, who was the United States Ambassador to France and the final Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1972.
In the 1970s, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Foundation helped the organization create some of the state's first community-based residential and vocational programs for adults with developmental disabilities. [2]
The organization was founded in 1978 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver to provide children and adults with a year-round sports programme . [1] The organisation was made up of 27,000 athletes. [2] At the time, it was one of the first European programmes of the international Special Olympics movement.
Procter & Gamble Debuts Maria Shriver's Tribute to Her Mother, Special Olympics Founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver, in "The Gift My Mother Gave Me" Digital Video P&G encourages families across the U.S ...
The Special Olympics athlete's oath, which was first introduced by Eunice Kennedy Shriver at the inaugural Special Olympics international games in Chicago in 1968, [57] is "Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt." The origin of the oath came from Herbert J. Kramer, then Public Relations Advisor to the Kennedy Foundation.
Edward Kennedy, the youngest of the Kennedy siblings, died of brain cancer in August 2009, the same month their sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver died. ... Smith founded Very Special Arts, an ...
Rosemary's condition has been cited as part of the reason Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics in 1968. This video includes images from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and ...
Eunice Kennedy Shriver (on right), philanthropist and children's health and disabilities advocate, received an honorary degree in 1999 along with her husband, Sargent Shriver. The couple also founded The Shriver Center on the UMBC campus. [2] 1990. Taylor Branch, Humane Letters; Eli Jacobs, Humane Letters; Gwendolyn King, Public Service; 1991