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Eunice Kennedy Shriver
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July 10, 1921- Aug. 11, 2009
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Family Members
- U.S. President - John F. Kennedy
- U.S. Senator - Robert F. Kennedy
- U.S. Senator - Ted Kennedy
- U.S. Ambassador to Ireland - Jean Kennedy Smith
Education and Early Career
- Graduated from Stanford University in 1943 with a degree in Sociology.
- U.S. State Department
- U.S. Justice Department
- Federal Industrial Institution for Women
- House of the Good Shepherd Women's Shelter
- Chicago Juvenile Court
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Charity Work & Awards
Executive Vice President of the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation in 1957
Vice President
Shifted the organization's from Catholic charities to research on the causes of intellectual disabilities and humane ways to treat them.
Shriver championed the creation of the President's Panel on Mental Retardation in 1961.
President's Panel
Significant in the movement from institutionalization to community integration in the US and throughout the world.
Shriver was a key founder of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), a part of the National Institutes of Health in 1962.
NICHD
Helped to establish numerous other university programs, government initiatives, health-care facilities, and support service networks throughout the country.
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Camp Shriver
In 1962, Shriver founded Camp Shriver, a camp for children with special needs that was held on her Maryland farm. Camp Shriver later evolved into the Special Olympics.
Shriver founded the Special Olympics in 1968
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The First International Summer Olympics Games was held in Chicago, Illinois on July 20, 1968 at Solider Field.
Special Olympics Inc. was established as a nonprofit charity in 1968; since that time,nearly three million athletes have participated.
"'The Chicago Special Olympics prove a very fundamental fact, the fact that exceptional children — children with mental retardation — can be exceptional athletes, the fact that through sports they can realize their potential for growth.'"
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver
More Awards Received/Honors -
- Nation's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1984 by U.S. President Ronald Reagan for her work on behalf of persons with disabilities.
- Eagle Award from the United States Sports Academy.
- Senator John Heinz Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged
- The Civitan International World Citizenship Award
- Second American and only woman to appear on a US coin while still living
- Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1998
- In December of 2008, Sports Illustrated named Shriver the first recipient of Sportsman of the Year Legacy Award.
- July 2017, Shriver posthumously received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2017 ESPY Awards.
Married Sargent Shriver on May 23, 1953.
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She passed away on Aug. 11, 2009 at the age of 88.