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Light the Torch – Beijing Olympics and Other Olympic News

May 10th, 2008

Eunice Shriver: Mother of the Special Olympics

In honor of Mother’s Day this weekend, it’s fitting to take a look at the woman who founded the Special Olympics in 1968. A long-time advocate for better schools, programs, and acceptance for the mentally-challenged, Shriver started Camp Shriver, a camp for mentally-disabled children, at her family’s Maryland estate in 1962. She taught the campers […]

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