Eunice Kennedy Shriver
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| Eunice Kennedy Shriver | |
 Zurab Tsereteli with Eunice Kennedy Shriver (right) | |
| Born | Eunice Mary Kennedy July 10, 1921 Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.A. |
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| Spouse(s) | Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. |
| Parents | Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy (née Fitzgerald) |
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[edit]Personal life
Kennedy was educated at The Convent of the Sacred Heart, Roehampton, London, England, and in 1944 graduated from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, with a Bachelor of Science in Social Science/Social Thought, after which she went to work for the U.S.Department of State, in the Special War Problems division. In 1950, she became a social worker at the then-named Federal Industrial Institution for Women in Alderson, West Virginia, and the following year she moved to Chicago, Illinois, to work with the House of the Good Shepherd and the Chicago Juvenile Court.
On May 23, 1953, she married Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. at Roman Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, New York.[1]
Her husband served as the U.S. Ambassador to France from 1968 to 1970 and was theDemocratic U.S. Vice Presidential candidate in 1972 (with George McGovern as the candidate for U.S. President).[1]
They have five children: Robert Sargent Shriver III (born April 28, 1954), Maria Owings Shriver (November 6, 1955), Timothy Perry Shriver(August 29, 1959), Mark Kennedy Shriver (February 17, 1964), and Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver (July 20, 1965).
With her husband, she has nineteen grandchildren, the second-most of any of the children of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Kennedy. Her late brother U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy had eleven children who have produced thirty-two grandchildren.
Upon the death of her sister, Rosemary Kennedy, on January 7, 2005, Shriver became the eldest of the four then-surviving children of Joseph and Rose Kennedy. (Her sister, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, later died on September 17, 2006, leaving just her brother U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy and her sister, former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith.)
Shriver, who is believed to suffer from Addison's disease,[2] has had several health setbacks in recent years, and on November 18, 2007, she was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts;[3] she spent several weeks there.[4]
I KEEP WONDERING HOW ALL THE KENNEDY'S REACT TO MARIA'S HUSBAND
IT HAD TO BE SOMEWHAT DEPRESSING FOR ENUICE TO WATCH THE BUDGET CUTS IN
CALIFORNIA THAT AFFECT THE CHILDREN OF THE
MOST DISADVANTAGED SEGMENTS OF OUR POPULATION
ANY CHILD IN NEED THAT IS DENIED HELP AS PART OF A BUDGET CUT IS A MORAL
FLAW IN THE CONDUCT OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT ENUICE KENNEDY SHRIVER HAS LIVED A LIFE OF INCREDIBLE
EMOTIONAL HIGHS AND LOWS and ARNOLD'S RECENT BEHAVIOR HAS TO BE ONE OF
THE LOW POINTS
IF MARIA'S HUSBAND HAD JUST STUCK TO HIS MOVIE STAR JOB
THEN THIS ARTICLE WOULDN'T HAVE TAKEN A NEGATIVE TURN.
AND THE ISSUE OF GOVERNING COMPETENCE SHOULD BE RAGING THROUGH THE
STREETS.....
GRAY DAVIS WAS ALMOST CRUCIFIED FOR HIS LACK OF LEADERSHIP WHILE ACTING
AS GOV......
AND ARNOLD SEEMS TO BE IN WAY OVER HIS HEAD AND YET PEOPLE DON'T SEEM TO
BE TALKING ABOUT IT.
I JUST WANTED TO WRITE SOMETHING NICE ABOUT ENUICE BEFORE SHE DIED AND
NOW IT'S TURNED INTO AN ARNOLD BASHING...BUT EVER SINCE HE TOLD ME TO "JUST
RELAX" WHEN I ASKED HIM LAST MAY ABOUT THE BUDGET, WHILE HAVING BREAKFAST
AT A LOCAL EATERY, I'VE FOUND MYSELF BEING LESS AND LESS RELAXED WHEN THE
ARNOLD SUBJECT COMES UP.
BUT BACK TO ENUICE
THE FACT THAT SHE STARTED THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS PUTS HER INTO THE
HUMAN BEING
HALL OF FAME.
The first SPECIAL OLYMPICS was held in Chicago in 1968......
It seems like something else happened in Chicago in 1968 shortly after something else
happened in Los Angeles....hummmmm....
A great life to be remembered and honored.
EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER.....a life of privilege that became a life of value and
substance.
Well done
Michael Timothy McAlevey
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