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Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver DSG (née Kennedy, July 10, 1921 – August 11, 2009) was an American philanthropist and a member of the Kennedy family. She was the founder of the Special Olympics, a sports organization for persons with intellectual disabilities.
Perteneció a la familia Kennedy; fue la quinta de los nueve hijos que tuvieron Joseph P. Kennedy y Rose Fitzgerald, y fue hermana de John F. Kennedy. Fundó en 1962 el Camp Shriver, que comenzó en su granja de Maryland y se convirtió en 1962 en la organización nacional Olimpiadas Especiales.
11 de ago. de 2009 · In 1953, she married Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School and former Navy officer who had joined her father's firm in Chicago, the Merchandise Mart, in 1948. The Shrivers had five children: Robert III, Maria, Timothy, Mark, and Anthony.
Hace 3 días · Eunice Kennedy Shriver was an American social activist who worked tirelessly to improve the lives of the intellectually disabled and, in an effort to provide a forum for them to compete athletically, founded (1968) the Special Olympics.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, hermana del fallecido presidente John F. Kennedy y fundadora de Olimpiadas Especiales, falleció a los 88 años, después de estar varios días ingresada producto de un derrame cerebral.
In 1968, she opened the first Special Olympics, welcoming 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities onto Chicago’s Soldier Field just as she and her husband, R. Sargent Shriver, the first director of the Peace Corps, had welcomed 100 children with similar disabilities to a makeshift sports camp on their Maryland estate yearly since 1962.
12 de ago. de 2009 · Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a member of one of the most prominent families in American politics and a trailblazer in the effort to improve the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, died...
