Podcast appearances and mentions of Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Introducing Oprah & Maria Shriver on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home from The Oprah Podcast.Follow the show: The Oprah Podcast Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@OprahBUY THE BOOK!https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720451/i-am-maria-by-maria-shriver/https://books.apple.com/us/book/i-am-maria/id6736963057This episode of The Oprah Podcast features special guest Maria Shriver, an Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist, former national news anchor, seven-time New York Times best-selling author and a world-renowned women's health and Alzheimer's research advocate. Maria Shriver, who has been dear friends with Oprah since they met nearly 50 years ago, joins the Podcast to talk about her new book of poetry titled I AM MARIA: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home. After reading the breathtaking book, Oprah said Maria Shriver “has Americans reading poetry again!” And she called it “raw and soul-baring… My jaw was on the floor!” Through poetry, Maria Shriver, who was born into American political royalty and public tragedy, shares never-before-heard intimate stories from her childhood including what it was like growing up with her mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and her father, Sargent Shriver, as well as being the only girl in a household of brothers she calls “chaotic” and “terrifying.” Maria candidly talks about her 25-year marriage to Arnold Schwarzenegger and what happened the moment she found out her marriage was over. Maria shares lessons on what the betrayal and heartbreak of her divorce taught her about her past traumas and how she's been able to find forgiveness. Maria writes about raising her four children, her favorite role of all – grandmother to Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger's three children (they call her Mama G) - and how she's finally found peace. Maria says, “I never imagined writing poetry would help me embark on a journey deep into myself. I never imagined that everything I sought or thought I needed was within me all along.” Oprah tells viewers and listeners she sees this book of poetry as an invitation for anyone who is ready to create an authentic and meaningful life for themselves. This episode of The Oprah Podcast is presented by LillyDirect. Redefining the healthcare experience as a digital health platform that offers disease management resources to help make it easier for people living with chronic conditions to access quality care. Visit their convenient healthcare services at LillyDirect.comFollow Oprah Winfrey on Social:https://www.instagram.com/oprah/https://www.facebook.com/oprahwinfrey/Listen to the full podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0tEVrfNp92a7lbjDe6GMLIhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-oprah-podcast/id1782960381 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in conjunction with the host podcast feed or any of its media entities. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the creators and guests. For any concerns, please reach out to team@podroll.fm.

Introducing Oprah & Maria Shriver on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home from The Oprah Podcast.Follow the show: The Oprah Podcast Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@OprahBUY THE BOOK!https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720451/i-am-maria-by-maria-shriver/https://books.apple.com/us/book/i-am-maria/id6736963057This episode of The Oprah Podcast features special guest Maria Shriver, an Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist, former national news anchor, seven-time New York Times best-selling author and a world-renowned women's health and Alzheimer's research advocate. Maria Shriver, who has been dear friends with Oprah since they met nearly 50 years ago, joins the Podcast to talk about her new book of poetry titled I AM MARIA: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home. After reading the breathtaking book, Oprah said Maria Shriver “has Americans reading poetry again!” And she called it “raw and soul-baring… My jaw was on the floor!” Through poetry, Maria Shriver, who was born into American political royalty and public tragedy, shares never-before-heard intimate stories from her childhood including what it was like growing up with her mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and her father, Sargent Shriver, as well as being the only girl in a household of brothers she calls “chaotic” and “terrifying.” Maria candidly talks about her 25-year marriage to Arnold Schwarzenegger and what happened the moment she found out her marriage was over. Maria shares lessons on what the betrayal and heartbreak of her divorce taught her about her past traumas and how she's been able to find forgiveness. Maria writes about raising her four children, her favorite role of all – grandmother to Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger's three children (they call her Mama G) - and how she's finally found peace. Maria says, “I never imagined writing poetry would help me embark on a journey deep into myself. I never imagined that everything I sought or thought I needed was within me all along.” Oprah tells viewers and listeners she sees this book of poetry as an invitation for anyone who is ready to create an authentic and meaningful life for themselves. This episode of The Oprah Podcast is presented by LillyDirect. Redefining the healthcare experience as a digital health platform that offers disease management resources to help make it easier for people living with chronic conditions to access quality care. Visit their convenient healthcare services at LillyDirect.comFollow Oprah Winfrey on Social:https://www.instagram.com/oprah/https://www.facebook.com/oprahwinfrey/Listen to the full podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0tEVrfNp92a7lbjDe6GMLIhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-oprah-podcast/id1782960381 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in conjunction with the host podcast feed or any of its media entities. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the creators and guests. For any concerns, please reach out to team@podroll.fm.

Best Buddies: Champions of Disability Inclusion with Anthony Kennedy Shriver In this episode of ‘Pushing Forward with Alycia,' Alycia welcomes Anthony Kennedy Shriver, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Best Buddies International, to honor Best Buddies Month and Spread the Word Day. They discuss the harmful use of the ‘R word,' the growth and impact of Best Buddies since its establishment in 1989, and Anthony's personal inspirations from his family, including his mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and his aunt, Rosemary Kennedy. The conversation highlights the importance of employment, social connections, leadership, and inclusive living for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Anthony emphasizes the cultural shift towards inclusion, the powerful role of companies in creating inclusive environments, and Best Buddies' various initiatives, including employment programs, leadership training, and the exciting new launch of a dating app in collaboration with Bumble for people with special abilities. Themes That Shaped the Conversation  The True Spirit of America

Tim Shriver is an acclaimed advocate for individuals with intellectual disabilities, serving as the chairman of the Special Olympics. He has an extensive family legacy, being the son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver, and a nephew to President John F. Kennedy. Tim has committed his life to numerous social causes, particularly emphasizing social-emotional learning through the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. He holds degrees from Yale University, Catholic University, and a doctorate in education from the University of Connecticut. Furthermore, Tim Shriver is also a film producer and New York Times bestselling author. Episode Summary: Greg welcomes Tim Shriver back to discuss bridging divides in an increasingly polarized world. Greg and Tim explore how contempt and dehumanization exacerbate divisions in society, whether in politics or personal interactions. The episode highlights the need for a cultural shift towards empathy, respecting differences, and cultivating the rare and valuable skill of deep listening. Shriver shares stories from his work with the Special Olympics and insights from his efforts in social-emotional learning, underscoring that while differences are inevitable, recognizing the inherent dignity in others can pave the way for solving shared problems. Key Takeaways: The Power of Listening: Tim emphasizes that the skill of deep listening is increasingly vital in today's polarized world for understanding and solving conflicts. Dehumanization and Contempt: The discussion addresses how contemptuous language and dehumanizing others lead to escalating violence and societal fragmentation. Empathy in Action: Examples from the Special Olympics showcase how exposure, when thoughtfully managed, can transform attitudes and relationships, promoting empathy and respect for differences. Role of Relationships in Problem-Solving: Relationships are defined as the ability to solve problems together, highlighting the necessity of building trust and understanding before tackling contentious issues. Common Humanity: Regardless of political affiliation or personal stance, recognizing our shared vulnerabilities can lead to more compassionate and effective interactions. Notable Quotes: "We cannot bridge these times of polarization by starting with the things we most disagree about." - Greg McKeown "The biggest reducer of free speech is not the government. It's contempt." - Tim Shriver "Difference isn't the problem. Difference is not the problem. The problem is treating each other with hatred and dehumanizing contempt." - Tim Shriver "It's almost physiologically impossible to have a good conversation when starting at the point of greatest pain." - Tim Shriver Resources: Tim Shriver on Twitter Join my weekly newsletter. Learn more about my books and courses. Join The Essentialism Academy. Follow me on LinkedIn, Instagram, X, Facebook, and YouTube.

Tim Shriver is an acclaimed advocate for individuals with intellectual disabilities, serving as the chairman of the Special Olympics. He has an extensive family legacy, being the son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver, and a nephew to President John F. Kennedy. Tim has committed his life to numerous social causes, particularly emphasizing social-emotional learning through the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. He holds degrees from Yale University, Catholic University, and a doctorate in education from the University of Connecticut. Furthermore, Tim Shriver is also a film producer and New York Times bestselling author. Episode Summary: Greg engages in a thought-provoking discourse with Tim Shriver. Tim reflects on personal stories, such as the profound loss of his cousin Maeve Kennedy McKean, underscoring the importance of empathy and dignity in healing societal divides. They discuss the structural issues behind today's political landscape, the role of media, and the influence of faith-based institutions. Furthermore, the episode explores actionable steps individuals can take to foster respect and understanding in their communities, with Tim providing insights from his new initiatives and upcoming podcast, "Need A Lift?". Key Takeaways: Treating Others with Dignity: Tim emphasizes that building relationships through respect is fundamental to mitigating societal polarization. Actionable Steps for Change: Listeners are encouraged to actively reject contemptuous behavior in their political engagements and media consumption. Cultural Shifts: The conversation highlights the shift in today's cultural and political landscape and the importance of developing resilience and empathy. Impact of Individual Actions: The discussion underscores how small personal changes can collectively lead to significant societal transformations. Faith-Based Institutions: Insights are provided into how faith-based institutions can evolve to better meet the needs of modern society. Notable Quotes: "Treating people with dignity doesn't mean you don't believe strongly. It just means that you also see, at the deepest level, that the other person also has dignity." - Tim Shriver "We face a serious understanding paradox in our times, that as information has exploded, understanding has imploded." - Greg McKeown "It's not how you treat your side, it's how you treat the other side that will bring them back." - Tim Shriver Resources: Tim Shriver on Twitter Join my weekly newsletter. Learn more about my books and courses. Join The Essentialism Academy. Follow me on LinkedIn, Instagram, X, Facebook, and YouTube.

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Willy was joined by Anthony Shriver, founder, chairman, and CEO of Best Buddies, the leading global organization dedicated to supporting individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Inspired by his mother Eunice Kennedy Shriver who started Special Olympics, Anthony has taken Best Buddies from an idea to a leading global non-profit impacting millions of lives.  He and Willy discussed his upbringing and how his parents' emphasis on giving back shaped him, the story behind creating Best Buddies and developing it into global movement, the importance of inclusion, the challenges of mental health, his commitment to faith and living a life of service, and much more.

Susan Senator is an author, blogger and journalist living in the Boston area with her husband Ned Batchelder. She has three sons, the oldest of whom is 33 and has severe autism. Ms. Senator is the author of Making Peace With Autism as well as The Autism Mom's Survival Guide and Autism Adulthood: Insights and Creative Strategies for a Fulfilling Life. A journalist since 1997, she has a blog in Psychology Today, and she has published many pieces on disability, parenting, and living happily, in places like the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and NPR. Senator has appeared as a guest on the Today Show, MSNBC, ABC News, PBS, NPR and CNN. Her writings on Special Olympics took her to the White House in 2006, to a state dinner for Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Ms. Senator's blog, publications, and events can be found on www.susansenator.com Person Centered Planning http://personcenteredplanning.com/index.php/team/cheryl-ryan-chan/ Susan Senator https://susansenator.com/blog/ Autism Adulthood: Strategies and Insights for a Fulfilling Life by Susan Senator https://www.amazon.com/Autism-Adulthood-Strategies-Insights-Fulfilling-ebook/dp/B01CN2N6RG?ref=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=a2ba04a3-8a49-4c40-a894-b8c3f5946d26 _______________________________________________________ Become a JOWMA Member! www.jowma.org  Follow us on Instagram! www.instagram.com/JOWMA_org  Follow us on Twitter! www.twitter.com/JOWMA_med  Follow us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/JOWMAorg/ Stay up-to-date with JOWMA news! Sign up for the JOWMA newsletter! https://jowma.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9b4e9beb287874f9dc7f80289&id=ea3ef44644&mc_cid=dfb442d2a7&mc_eid=e9eee6e41e

We're back with Season 2 of Tiger Therapy!!!What's it like growing up in one of the most famous families in the world? How does this shape your sense of self worth, and the pressure you put on yourself to have an extraordinary career?I'm beyond excited to be kicking off S2 with a conversation with the amazing Dr. Timothy Shriver, disability rights activist and Chairman of Special Olympics. You may well already know who Tim is - he's a disability rights activist, and Chairman of Special Olympics. Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.And if you recognise the name “Shriver” beyond Tim - then that may well be because of Tim's family. While nobody wants to be defined by one's relatives, it's fair to say his family have shaped the world as we know it today - and have also shaped Tim's life work.His mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founded Special Olympics, and also happened to be sister to former U.S. President John F. Kennedy. His father Sargent Shriver, founded the Peace Corps. I'm so grateful to Tim for opening up with me and sharing what he's learned about self doubt, why the comparison game is dangerous, and the life lessons and unexpected meaning he's found from working with those with intellectual disabilities._______Social media: @pippa.woodhead@tigerhall@timothyshriver@specialolympics Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the 1990s, Dr. Steve Perlman and Eunice Kennedy Shriver met in Washington, D.C. to discuss the lack of access to health care for people with intellectual disabilities, who were often denied treatment by doctors and health-care systems. From those initial talks, Dr. Perlman created Special Olympics Special Smiles to provide free dental screenings for Special Olympics athletes. Today, this is one of eight disciplines offered by Special Olympics Healthy Athletes, a program that offers free health screenings to Special Olympics athletes worldwide. Meet Dr. Perlman and the athletes who are thriving today, thanks to this life-saving intervention.

In the 1990s, Dr. Steve Perlman and Eunice Kennedy Shriver met in Washington, D.C. to discuss the lack of access to health care for people with intellectual disabilities, who were often denied treatment by doctors and health-care systems. From those initial talks, Dr. Perlman created Special Olympics Special Smiles to provide free dental screenings for Special Olympics athletes. Today, this is one of eight disciplines offered by Special Olympics Healthy Athletes, a program that offers free health screenings to Special Olympics athletes worldwide. Meet Dr. Perlman and the athletes who are thriving today, thanks to this life-saving intervention. Learn More Here: https://bit.ly/3m0Pec7 

This June, the 2023 Special Olympics World Games were held in Berlin, Germany. Some 7,000 athletes from 170 countries took part in the annual celebration of people with disabilities, people often dehumanized and marginalized.   The Special Olympics were founded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. She was inspired by her sister Rosemary, who lived with intellectual disabilities her entire life. Shriver started the first special Olympics in 1962 as a summer camp in her backyard. The competition grew, and her efforts earned her admiration and the honor of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.   Some years ago, New York Times opinion writer Ross Douthat described Shriver as a “different kind of liberal,” who “saw a continuity, rather than a contradiction, between championing the poor, the marginalized and the oppressed and protecting unborn human life.” That consistency, he thought, was in large part due to her upbringing in the Church, specifically what she learned there: that all people are made by God in His image.

This week, we discover the Kennedy Curse, a haunting saga that has shadowed one of America's most influential political families for decades. From the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert to the untimely deaths of siblings Joseph Jr., Kathleen, and Teddy Kennedy, the Kennedy family's chronicles are steeped in sorrow. We also shed light on lesser-known aspects, such as the stories of resilience and redemption that emerged from the shadows of tragedy. From Caroline Kennedy's dedication to public service to the indomitable spirit of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, we highlight the remarkable individuals who rose above the curse's dark cloud.   Email: crimeculturepod@gmail.com Website: crimeculturepodcast.tumblr.com Instagram: @crimeculturepodcast Twitter: @CrimeCulturePod Facebook: @crimeculturepodcast And join our Patreon! (All other links can be found on our website and linktree in our social media bios!) Hosts: Hayley Langan and Kaitlin Mahar Theme Song Composer: Michael Quick Mix Engineer: Elliot Leach We'll see you next Tuesday! xx

It isn't easy to be born into a famous family with big expectations. And there's few families more famous or with bigger expectations than the Kennedys. Tim Shriver's immediate family includes not only a former US president, a US Attorney General, and a US Senator, but his parents, Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver, founded global humanitarian organizations like the Special Olympics, The Peace Corp, and more. But Tim has risen to the challenge in every respect and is adding a new aspect to the legacy.In this week's conversation with Zach Davis, Tim shares what it was like to grow up in his remarkable family, the motivation behind the important initiatives he is currently leading, and how his deeply-held Christian faith shapes all aspects of his life.Tim serves today as the CEO of  Special Olympics and is also the founder of Unite, a national grass-roots organization dedicated to transcending seemingly intractable difference. He is also a leading researcher focusing on the social and emotional factors in learning and has also produced six films, including Amistad and The Loretta Claiborne Story. He is the author of Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most, and co-editor of The Call to Unite: Voices of Hope and Awakening. Tim and his wife, Linda Potter, reside in the Washington, D.C area and have five adult children.

This week, on the last Kennedy Dynasty Podcast episode of 2022, Alyson talks about the life and career of Sargent Shriver and Eunice Kennedy Shriver's daughter, Maria Shriver. Recommendation: https://amzn.to/3Vk3caa Newsletter: www.kennedydynasty.com/newsletter Shop New Merch: www.kennedydynasty.com/shop Recommendations: www.kennedydynasty.com/recommendations Instagram: www.instagram.com/kennedydynasty Facebook: www.facebook.com/kennedydynastypodcast Patreon: www.patreon.com/kennedydynasty Website: www.kennedydynasty.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Joye Jeffries Pugh is an alumnus of South Georgia College, Valdosta State College, and Nova University where she received her doctorate in education. Her background involves working as a researcher, counselor, mental retardation professional, human services director, and consultant. Dr. Pugh appears in several television documentaries on the HISTORY Channel concerning end times. Dr. Pugh's complete biographical history is featured in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Women, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, Who's Who in American Education, and Who's Who in Georgia. Joye is a member of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is a descendant of Dr. John Taliaferro a Minuteman who fought during the American Revolution. Joye is the daughter of the late Stella and CB Jeffries III. She was married to Melville Eugene Pugh for 33 years until his passing in March of 2018. She resides in Douglas, Georgia. Dr. Pugh has written many books, has an audio edition of one of her books, as well as, an album of her original songs. She was a contracted author with Tate Publishing through 2016. Dr. Joye Pugh, as of May 2017, became a new contracted author with Sacred Word Publishing.DR. JOYE'S BOOKS...The first edition of ANTICHRIST The Cloned Image of Jesus Christ was a TOP TEN BEST SELLER at Armageddonbooks.com in 2008, 2009 and 2010.ANTICHRIST - The Cloned Image of Jesus Christ has now been completely updated and is available as a beautiful Updated Second edition as of June 2017 with Sacred Word Publishing. The first edition of EDEN The Knowledge of Good and Evil 666 was in the TOP 50 BEST SELLERS of Prophecy books at Amazon.com back in January 2008 and went to NUMBER 1 in 3 Best Seller Categories (Theology/Eschatology/Prophecy) in February 2009 with a Sales rank of #200 for all books sold at Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/Eden-Knowledge-Good-Evil-666/dp/1598862537/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213839259&sr=8-1 ; EDEN, also, reached #8 in Best Sellers at Armageddonbooks.com for June 2008 and Hit #2 in February 2009. Dr. Pugh was ranked in the Top 5 Best Selling Authors at TATE Publishing during her tenure with them.EDEN- The Knowledge of Good and Evil 666 has now been completely Updated into a Second Edition and will be available in July 2017 through Sacred Word Publishing.Dr. Joye's first Album entitled "Before Time Stops" was released in May 2010. It features 12 of her original songs, original arrangements and she plays all the instruments on the entire CD. The CD can now only be purchased through the author... contact at www.drjoye.com ; DR. JOYE'S PUBLICATIONS... Dr. Joye appears on various radio shows world-wide explaining her latest research as well as appearances on the HISTORY CHANNEL. Follow her appearances at her website www.drjoye.comDr. Joye Pugh has written hundreds of articles about the mentally and physically handicapped for various newspapers and magazines over the years. Because of these outstanding articles, she was presented the prestigious Georgia Association for Retarded Citizen's "News Media Award" and their state "Public Education Community Service Award". Dr. Pugh's writing also won her the coveted Georgia Special Olympics distinguished "Outstanding Writer Award" and "Spirit of Special Olympics Award." She was also the recipient of the "Humanitarian Award" of the Nathanial Abney Chapter of the American Revolution as an outstanding Author - Educator - Humanitarian.Dr. Pugh was chosen by Eunice Kennedy Shriver to serve on the International Special Olympics Task Force to improve athletic training for handicapped athletes in the world. As a certified coach, Joye trained mentally and physically handicapped athletes for State, Regional, USA and International competitions in a variety of individual and team sports for over 12 years. She served two terms on the Georgia Special Olympics Board of Directors in Atlanta and received their "Award of Excellence". She was grant writer, founder and past president of two HUD projects in Irwin County which she served as Registered Agent for: Irwin County Resources Complex and Camelot Court, Inc. These million dollar projects, as well as, and her highly praised and respected Special Olympic Programs were funded under her leadership of annual non-profit fundraising events for over 12 years."Dr. Joye," as she prefers to be called, was the name given to her by some of her outstanding athletes. Besides being an outstanding athlete herself, she also, began her musical career playing the drums and tambourine at age 6. When she turned 9, she started piano lessons. At age 10, Joye began playing the guitar. Many years later, at 38 years of age, she added the bass guitar and a little saxophone to her musical capabilities. She added the 6 string Banjo to her talents in December 2008. Dr. Pugh plays Conga drums and percussion in her local church's Praise and Worship band, Satilla. She, also, plays piano and organ for Satilla Baptist Church in Irwin County during their weekly Sunday AM, PM, and Wednesday night services. Dr. Joye writes and composes her own songs, as well as, rearranges and performs the music of others.DR. JOYE'S CHILDHOOD...Joye began singing with her younger sister, Gaye, as a duet for church specials and holiday events, as well as, at various local pageants when they were children. She was a member of the Irwin Academy Youth Choir which competed on a yearly basis. At 12, Joye joined the Satilla Adult Church Choir. She and a musical friend, Steve Gibbons, traveled her senior year to various churches in South Georgia where they performed services of contemporary music and oral interpretations of which she developed from the sermons of James Weldon Johnson. Dr. Pugh received Christ and was baptized when she was 11 years old. Her love for prophecy began at 6 years of age after having an unusual and prophetic dream about the End of Time. Her gifts of interpreting prophetic events increased even more after reading the Book of Revelation and Hal Lindsey's Great Late Planet Earth at age 13. From there she continued writing speeches for college involving Biblical and Scientific issues affecting this generation. Her Masters thesis was entitled, "Light: A Theory Of Alpha And Omega - From The Beginning Until The End." Joye continued her research and received accolades from her Curriculum Professor during her doctoral studies for her final paper, "A Theory of Alpha And Omega - From Beginning Until The End."DR. JOYE'S RESEARCH...Dr. Pugh's dissertation, "A Program to Decrease Obesity in the Mentally Retarded Adult Population" was a major applied research project encompassing 18 months of training and data collection which allowed her to scientifically prove her theory that mentally retarded adults could achieve the same physical level as that found within the normal population. The subjects, some both mentally and physically handicapped within the clinical trial she developed, all achieved and were presented Presidential Sports Fitness Awards; something no other mentally retarded group had ever achieved. Many of her adult subjects went on to compete in athletic events against non-handicapped individuals thus proving mentally retarded individuals do not have to remain on the sidelines of life but can successfully engage in strenuous and advanced levels of competitive sports without adverse effects. Dr. Pugh is keenly interested in how the spirit within human beings allows subjects with limited mental and physical capabilities to transcend established expectation. Her theories prove that if the normal population could somehow transcend expectation then there would be no limit to capability; as capability is harnessed by what one believes one can achieve.Most importantly, for over 40 years, now, Dr. Pugh has been involved in researching Biblical prophecy. Joye consults with people from around the world on various issues and current events involving science and religion. She also serves as a consultant in education with MUFON regarding the spiritual and religious aspects of paranormal and UFO experiences.https://www.drjoye.com/

Special Olympics ist die weltweit größte, vom Internationalen Olympischen Komitee anerkannte Sportbewegung für Menschen mit geistiger und mehrfacher Behinderung. 1968 von Eunice Kennedy-Shriver ins Leben gerufen, einer Schwester von US-Präsident John F. Kennedy, ist Special Olympics heute mit über fünf Millionen Athleten in fast allen Ländern der Welt vertreten. Alle vier Jahre finden Weltspiele statt, regelmäßig auch Bundes- und Landesspiele. Vom 20. bis 22. September 2022 richtet Koblenz die Special Olympics Rheinland-Pfalz aus. Die Teilnehmer kämpfen in elf Sportarten wie beispielsweise Judo, Badminton, Tennis, Golf, Radfahren oder Fußball um Medaillen, es steht aber nicht allein der Wettbewerb im Vordergrund, sondern das Miteinander. Ziel von Special Olympics ist es, Menschen mit geistiger Behinderung durch den Sport zu mehr Anerkennung, Selbstbewusstsein und letztlich zu mehr Teilhabe an der Gesellschaft zu verhelfen. Die Organisation versteht sich somit auch als Inklusionsbewegung. Dietmar Thubeauville, Geschäftsführer von Special Olympics Rheinland-Pfalz und der Athletensprecher Francisco Galante berichten im Podcast, welche Begeisterung die Landesspiele entfachen können, wie viele Freundschaften dort entstehen, mit welchem Aufwand die Organisation verbunden ist und wie schwierig es mitunter sein kann, den Inklusionsgedanken in allen Sportvereinen zu verankern.

The Special Olympics exists in every corner of the globe and has supported over five million athletes. Fran Racioppi travels to Minneapolis to sit down with the leaders of the 2022 and the 2026 Special Olympics USA Games, Joe Dzaluk, Christine Sovereign and David Dorn. The 2022 USA Games in Orlando, through partnership with Jersey Mike's Subs, set a record and a new standard for financial support to the games. Jersey Mike's CEO Peter Cancro is an original member of our Jedburgh Team and committed 100% of sales during the Annual Day of Giving to the 2022 Games, this totaled $20 million. The group covers the history of the Special Olympics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver's call to action, the Special Olympics place as the leader of inclusion before inclusion was even a term in mainstream society, Jersey Mike's unprecedented leadership and example in giving, and what to expect for 2026. Learn more about Special Olympics at specialolympics.org and @specialolympics. Read the full episode transcription here and learn more on The Jedburgh Podcast Website. Check out the full video version on YouTube.Highlights: -Joe, Christine and Dave share why they got involved with Special Olympics and how Special Olympics opens its doors to athletes of all backgrounds, disabilities and abilities. (9:15))-The group explains why Special Olympics has led society in diversity, equity and inclusion over the past 50 years. (18:10)-Jersey Mike's gave 100% of revenue from the annual Day of Giving to Special Olympics totaling $20 million. (27:32) -Joe reflects back on the 2022 Games in Orlando discussing both the athletic events and the over 13,000 health exams provided to the athletes. (33:46)-Christine and Dave share the focus for the 2026 Games and Jersey Mike's commitment to continued support. (40:32)Quotes: -”Most people think about it as just a track and field event, and now you see it is really a movement about inclusion.” (6:59)-”Unified sports is people with and without disabilities playing on the same field, playing on the same team.” (7:45)-”You can run the 50 yard dash in eight seconds or you can run the 50 yard dash in 8 minutes. We're still going to take you.” (14:10)-”The Special Olympics oath…talks about ‘if I can't in let me be brave in the attempt.” (20:30)-”He looked at me. He goes, “Joe, are you listening to me? I'm giving to give.”(30:19)-“It was just a great overall experience, a great partnership, and a great example of what corporate America can do.” (32:52) -”It ultimately comes down to acceptance. Inclusion has to be there to be accepted.” (44:32)Special Olympics Three Daily Foundations to Success-Keep the mission of acceptance in the forefront-Surround ourselves with a dedicated team-Remember the legacy of Special OlympicsThis episode is brought to you by Jersey Mike's, 18A Fitness, and Analytix Solutions

Tune in to this week's episode of Inclusion Revolution Radio to hear more about Mary Hammerbacher Manner's experience as a counselor at Camp Shriver, her favorite moments with Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and what working as a camp counselor taught her about inclusion.  

On this week's episode of the Special Chronicles Show: Molly Shriver and Kathleen Shriver, Chairwomen of Special Olympics Founder's Council, join us on the Special Chronicles Podcast in a special rebroadcast conversation about the legacy of inclusion of their grandmother Eunice Kennedy Shriver just a day after what would of been her 101st Birthday.  Molly and Kathleen share stories from their early memories of their grandmother and how their cousins and themselves continue Mrs. Shriver's legacy of inclusion through the newly founded Special Olympics Founder's Council. Special Chronicles Podcast Episode 487 ShowNotes & Links: Listen and Subscribe to this week's episode at: https://specialchronicles.com/podcast487 Watch the livestream video episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DWa7zvzKr-I Watch Live Every Monday 6PM CT: http://specialchronicles.com/watch/live Support This Podcast: Support SpecialChronicles by becoming a supporter today at https://SpecialChronicles.com/give …. “Her Grandchildren Continue Eunice Kennedy Shriver's Legacy” Read excerpt article on SpecialOlympics.org: https://www.specialolympics.org/stories/news/her-grandchildren-continue-eunice-kennedy-shrivers-legacy?locale=en “Meet Eunice Kennedy Shriver's Grandkids, Who Are on a Mission to Carry Her Special Olympics Torch—Read article on People: https://people.com/human-interest/eunice-kennedy-shrivers-grandchildren-are-carrying-her-special-olympics-torch/ Get involved in your local Special Olympics program: https://www.specialolympics.org/programs Connect with @SpecialOlympics on Socials: http://specialolympics.org/ Connect with Molly Shriver @molly_shriverv on Instagram: http://instagram.com/molly_shriver Connect with Kathleen Shriver @kshriverr on Instagram:  http://instagram.com/kshriverr ..... Connect with Special Chronicles: Instagram: http://instagram.com/specialchronicles Facebook: http://facebook.com/specialchronicles Twitter: http://twitter.com/specialcpodcast YouTube: http://youtube.com/specialchronicles Sign up for our SpecialChronicles Newsletter: http://specialchronicles.com/Newsletter Send us audio or email to: feedback@specialchronicles.com Rate & Review this podcast on ApplePodcasts: http://specialchronicles.com/feedback Join The Conversation: #SpecialChronicles ….. Connect with Daniel Smrokowski: Instagram: @podmandan http://instagram.com/podmandan Facebook: @podmandan http://facebook.com/podmandan Twitter: @podmandan http://twitter.com/podmandan LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/danielsmrokowski Sign up for Daniel's Mailing List: http://specialchronicles.com/Journal Daniel's Speaking Page: https://specialchronicles.com/speaking/ ..... Listen Anywhere! Subscribe to the Special Chronicles Show on wherever you get your podcasts and be notified of new episodes every Monday: http://specialchronicles.com/Show More on Special Chronicles Network: http://specialchronicles.com/Shows …… Thank you to our partners! ComEd EnergyForce Ambassador Program: http://SpecialChronicles.com/ComEd Find Ways to save energy, rebates, discounts and assessments with the ComEd Energy Efficiency program: http://comed.com/info Bridge, United's Business Resource Group Connecting People of All Abilities: Book your travel today at http://united.com or on the United App. StreamYard: Create easy and professional livestreams and get $10 in credit when you sign up with our referral link at https://specialchronicles.com/streamyard ….. Credits! Podcast Theme Music: “It Starts With A Voice" written By Amy Wright and performed by Ben Wright, co-founders of Bitty and Beau's Coffee. Used with permission, visit https://specialchronicles.com/WrightFamily and listen to our podcast interview with Ben & Amy Wright to hear their backstory before Bitty and Beau's Coffee. Executive Produced by: Daniel Smrokowski/ Special Chronicles Network, visit http://specialchronicles.com/podmandan to read more about Daniel. The post REBROADCAST: Conversation with Molly and Kathleen Shriver (Ep.487) first appeared on Special Chronicles.

There are 200 million people in the world living with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). In 1989 Anthony Shriver, son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver (founder of the Special Olympics) started an organization while a student at Georgetown university that paired individuals with an IDD (buddies) and those without an IDD (peer buddies).  That organization has evolved into Best Buddies International, which today has nearly 3,000 chapters around the world, Best Buddies founder Anthony K. Shriver and MOD Pizza co-founder, Ally Svenson to discuss how Best Buddies is teaming up with MOD Pizza to help support their mission.

There are 200 million people in the world living with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). In 1989 Anthony Shriver, son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver (founder of the Special Olympics) started an organization while a student at Georgetown university that paired individuals with an IDD (buddies) and those without an IDD (peer buddies).  That organization has evolved into Best Buddies International, which today has nearly 3,000 chapters around the world, Best Buddies founder Anthony K. Shriver and MOD Pizza co-founder, Ally Svenson to discuss how Best Buddies is teaming up with MOD Pizza to help support their mission.

Kelsey Nicole Nelson of Fox Sports Radio joins the Inclusion Revolution Radio podcast to discuss the Special Olympics Founder's Council videos as p[art of a year-long celebration of our founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver's centennial (#EKS100)

Special Olympics Deutschland (SOD) ist die deutsche Organisation der weltweit größten, vom Internationalen Olympischen Komitee (IOC) offiziell anerkannten Sportbewegung für Menschen mit geistiger und mehrfacher Behinderung. Im Jahr 1968 von Eunice Kennedy-Shriver, einer Schwester von US-Präsident John F. Kennedy, ins Leben gerufen, ist Special Olympics heute mit 5,2 Millionen Athletinnen und Athleten in 174 Ländern vertreten. In dieser Folge sprechen Florian und Steffen Zunker mit Bradley Kerr über seine Arbeit als Golf Koordinator des Special Olympics Golf Team Germany. Neben seiner Arbeit als Golfprofessional im Bielefelder Golf Club gibt er Einblicke in seine Arbeit mit geistig behinderten Athleten und die damit verbundene Vorbereitung auf die Special Olympics World Games in Berlin welche vom 17. bis 25. Juni 2023 stattfinden. https://www.berlin2023.org https://www.bradleykerr.de https://www.florianzunker-golfakademie.de https://www.steffenzunkergolf.com

In today's Love Letters to... we celebrate the remarkable passion of Eunice Kennedy Shriver who, informed by the struggles of her sister, Rosemary Kennedy, founded the Special Olympics and helped change the world for millions of children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

138: Global Expansion for Nonprofit Leaders (George Smith)SUMMARYRegardless of where you are on Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership, insight gained from today's episode with George Smith will no doubt up your game.  Within the first few minutes, George will inspire you as he and Patton reminisce on shared experiences with Eunice Kennedy Shriver and the single most important leadership skill the entire Kennedy clan learned early on.  George expands on his early leadership experiences as he transitioned to the global sector. He shares how not relying on assumptions of standard practices but adapting and capitalizing on the different norms and values of other cultures will develop a higher quality and better performing team.  George also lays out specific examples of leading through varying cultural norms in a collaborative way will build strong leaders throughout an organization who are confident and articulate in communicating with their superiors and peers. By implementing some of the adaptations discussed to your own leadership style, you're sure to enjoy an environment of collaborative learning and development that will elevate your own skills as a nonprofit leader.ABOUT GEORGEGeorge has worked for over 30 years in senior management for International Non-Government Organizations and is recognized as a leader in NGO management and international development. From 1985 until 2002, George worked for Special Olympics International (SOI).  During his tenure he opened the first SOI office in China and served as the Managing Director, East Asia, based in Beijing, China.  He led the development and global roll-out of Unified Sports, an inclusive program bringing together people with and without intellectual disabilities.  Finally, he is recognized for his pioneering work developing SOI programs in other regions including Eastern Europe/Russia and the Middle East. Since 2010 he serves as the Managing Director, North Asia with Orbis. He has helped position Orbis North Asia as a leading International NGO in China and has strengthened relationships with the government and corporate communities.  During his long NGO career, George has been responsible for high level strategic planning, staff management, project development and evaluation, fund raising, donor stewardship, government relations and advocacy. He has received several awards including the R. Tait McKenzie award for his contributions in Health and Physical Education around the world.  He has been awarded the Presidential Citation by the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance for outstanding contribution to international development projects.  EPISODE TOPICS & RESOURCES Lee Iacocca's Where have All the Leaders Gone?Find out more about Special Olympics International and Orbis 

Loretta Claiborne is the most accomplished Special Olympics athlete of all time. Loretta was raised by a single mother, born partially blind, with an intellectual disability, and clubbed feet.  This future marathon champion was unable to walk until the age of four and learned to talk at seven. Loretta's strong mother had the courage, strength, and fortitude to refuse institutionalization for her daughter. We learn of early teachers, an uncle teaching her to read the paper and count money. Janet Mc Farland, an early mentor who introduced Loretta to the newly formed Special Olympics, setting her on a path to become the most celebrated Special Olympics athlete in history with ten medals over six Special Olympics World Games. She has run 26 marathons, placing in the top 100 in the Boston Marathon twice, and finished in the top 25 women overall in the Pittsburgh Marathon. This global speaker was awarded the Arthur Ashe ESPY Courage Award in 1996, presented to her by Denzel Washington. This tireless warrior for the intellectually challenged was the first Special Olympics athlete elected to the Special Olympics Board of Directors. Loretta's life was the subject of an ABC-TV made-for-Disney movie,  The Loretta Claiborne Story. Loretta is represented in the historic portrait at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, of her friend and Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver. As a result of this change agent's advocacy, those with intellectual disabilities are living longer,  more rewarding, and productive lives. The Special Olympics is now in 200 countries, with five million participating athletes, providing resources for those once removed from society and marginalized.It was a gift to spend time with Loretta, Chief Inspirational Officer of the Special Olympics. We welcome her to this episode of Intrinsic Drive™. Intrinsic Drive™ is produced by Ellen Strickler and Phil Wharton. Special thanks to Andrew Hollingworth, our sound engineer and technical editor.  For more information on this and other episodes visit us at www.whartonhealth.com/intrinsicdrive. Follow us on socials (links below) including Instagram  @intrinsicdrivelive 

Sarah Klein is an attorney, an advocate for victims of sexual abuse, and a former competitive gymnast. Sarah is also one of the first known victims of former Olympic Women's Gymnastics Larry Nassar, and in July 2018, at the ESPYs, Sarah accepted the Arthur Ashe Courage Award on behalf of herself and the hundreds of other survivors of Nassar's sexual abuse. Prior recipients of the Ashe award include Nelson Mandela, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and Robin Roberts. Today, Sarah is a widely respected advocate for legal, cultural, and political change. Her op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, “I lobbied to change the law after I was abused by Larry Nassar,” caught the attention of Pennsylvania's Attorney General, and she has worked in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and elsewhere for legal reform that will bring survivors healing and justice. Sarah believes that the time has come for the law to impose upon abusers and their enablers, both institutions and individuals, the legal consequences they deserve. Are you looking to get stories like Sarah's out to the masses and make a change in the world? One of the best tools is by hosting your own Purpose Driven Podcast! I've developed an online course for you to do it affectively. Start Today and make a difference. Join us at Growth Now Summit LIVE in May - less than 60 tickets left!

Molly Shriver and Kathleen Shriver, Chairwomen of the Special Olympics Founder's Council, join us on the podcast in conversation about the legacy of inclusion of their grandmother Eunice Kennedy Shriver just two months after her 100th Birthday. Molly and Kathleen share stories from their early memories of their grandmother and how their cousins and themselves continue Mrs. Shriver's legacy of inclusion through the newly founded Special Olympics Founder's Council. ….. Show Notes for this week's episode: http://specialchronicles.com/Podcast445 Support SpecialChronicles by becoming a supporter today at http://SpecialChronicles.com/give The #SpecialChronicles Show is streamed LIVE weekly every Monday 6pm (central) on SpecialChronicles at http://specialchronicles.com/watch/live Connect with Daniel: http://specialchronicles.com/podmandan @podmandan Subscribe to Daniel's Mailing List: http://specialchronicles.com/Journal Connect with SpecialChronicles: http://specialchronicles.com/Socials @SpecialChronicles Subscribe to our Newsletter: http://specialchronicles.com/Newsletter Write a Review for this podcast: http://specialchronicles.com/feedback Send us audio or email to: feedback@specialchronicles.com Subscribe to this podcast: http://specialchronicles.com/Show More on Special Chronicles Network: http://specialchronicles.com/Shows …… Thank you to our partners! ComEd EnergyForce Ambassador Program: http://SpecialChronicles.com/ComEd Amazon: Shop using our affiliate link: https://specialchronicles.com/shop StreamYard: Create easy and professional livestreams and get $10 in credit when you sign up with our referral link at https://specialchronicles.com/streamyard The post #EKS100: Conversation with Molly and Kathleen Shriver (Ep.445) first appeared on Special Chronicles.

A ativista Eunice Kennedy Shriver morreu faz hoje 12 anos.

11 tháng 8 là ngày gì? Hôm nay là sinh nhật của Chris Hemsworth, nam diễn viên người Úc SỰ KIỆN 2006 - Tàu chở dầu MT Solar 1 chìm ngoài khơi Guimaras và Quần đảo Negros ở Philippines , gây ra vụ tràn dầu tồi tệ nhất của đất nước . 1959 – Sân bay quốc tế Sheremetyevo mở cửa, nay là sân bay lớn thứ hai tại Nga. Sinh 1944 - Frederick W. Smith , doanh nhân người Mỹ, thành lập FedEx 1950 - Steve Wozniak , nhà khoa học máy tính và lập trình viên người Mỹ, đồng sáng lập Apple Inc. [12] 1983 - Chris Hemsworth , nam diễn viên người Úc. Anh được biết đến nhiều nhất qua vai diễn Thor trong các bộ phim thuộc Vũ trụ Điện ảnh Marvel như Thor (2011), Biệt Đội Siêu Anh Hùng (2012), Thor: Thế giới bóng tối (2013), Avengers: Cuộc chiến vô cực, Avengers: Hồi kết (2019). Vai diễn này đã giúp Hemsworth trở thành một trong những diễn viên hàng đầu và được trả cát-xê cao nhất thế giới. Mất 2014 – Robin Williams, diễn viên người Mỹ. Ông đã ba lần được đề cử Giải Oscar cho ""Nam diễn viên chính xuất sắc nhất"" và nhận giải ""Diễn viên nam phụ xuất sắc nhất". Ông cũng từng nhận được hai giải thưởng Emmy, bốn giải thưởng Quả cầu vàng, hai giải Screen Actors Guild và năm giải Grammy. 2009 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver , nhà hoạt động người Mỹ, thành lập Thế vận hội đặc biệt (sinh năm 1921) Chương trình "Hôm nay ngày gì" hiện đã có mặt trên Youtube, Facebook và Spotify: - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aweekmedia - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AWeekTV - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rC4CgZNV6tJpX2RIcbK0J #aweektv #11thang8 #SteveWozniak #RobinWilliams Các video đều thuộc quyền sở hữu của Adwell jsc, mọi hành động sử dụng lại nội dung của chúng tôi đều không được phép. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aweek-tv/message

The Olympics are still going strong and so is the inspiration.  Teresa starts of with Anthill Creations, a non-profit making playgrounds out of upcycled materials in the poorest parts of India.  Next up is a deep dive on Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who despite many family tragedies, focused on improving the lives of special needs individuals and created the Special Olympics as a celebration of what amazing things they can achieve.  Amy digs into the Boys in the Boat, an amazing tale of the US Olympic rowing team as they face challenges on the way to the 1936 Olympics and defy all odds.  We finish up with some rapid fire questions for Teresa, where we learn whether Teresa excelled in ballet (spoiler alert: she did not).  Its a great day to get inspired!We would love to hear from you.  Send us your comments or even your own inspirational stories at tangentialinspiration@gmail.com or give us your comments on our website, TangentialInspiration.com.Follow us on our social media:Website: https://tangentialinspiration.com/Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/tangentialinspiration/Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Podcast/Tangential-Inspiration-110449931124565/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TangentialInsp1

The first Special Olympics were held in Chicago on this day in 1968. Organized by Eunice Kennedy Shriver and inspired by her love for her sister Rosemary, who was intellectually disabled.

Episode four falls under the season one brand name, "Fellow Friends of SOI" of the Special Olympics podcast.  Episode four celebrates the life and legacy of our founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Loretta Claiborne, Kester Edwards as well as Ricardo and Donna Thornton share shared their reflections on Mrs. Shriver and the impact she made on each of their lives.  

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver may not be as well known as her brothers Jack, Bobby, and Ted, but during her lifetime, she worked tirelessly behind the scenes to influence public policy and serve the public good. In celebration of the centennial of her birth, we speak with biographer Eileen McNamara and her son Timothy Shriver, and hear from Eunice herself.

On this special edition of "Listen in With KNN" presented by FOX Sports Radio, host Kelsey Nicole Nelson welcomed in special guest Jason Teitler, SVP, Global Communications and Brand Lead for Special Olympics. The duo discusses the growing Special Olympics movement and the upcoming celebration of the 100th birthday of the late Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Jason and Kelsey also share the untold story of Special Olympics coaches and how they go the extra mile for those with intellectual disabilities and preview the upcoming Special Olympics games in Orlando, Florida, Kazan, Russia, and Berlin, Germany. Join the movement and choose to include. #LIWKNN #ListenInWithKNN

I 11. episode af vores podcastserie KENNEDYLAND taler Anders Agner og Peter Keldorff om Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Kvinden, der i mange år stod i skyggen af sine brødre Jack, Bobby og Ted, men som i dag anerkendes som en af de mest betydningsfulde i Kennedyklanen, blandt andet som initiativtager til Special Olympics.

If you want to witness the difference ONE person can make; meet Sarah Klein. Her remarkable COURAGE and story will astound you. Sarah Klein is an attorney, an advocate for victims of sexual abuse, and a former competitive gymnast. Sarah is also one of the first known victims of former Olympic Women's Gymnastics Larry Nassar, and in July 2018, at the ESPYs, Sarah accepted the Arthur Ashe Courage Award on behalf of herself and the hundreds of other survivors of Nassar's sexual abuse. Prior recipients of the Ashe award include Nelson Mandela, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and Robin Roberts. Today, Sarah is a widely respected advocate for legal, cultural, and political change. Her op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, “I lobbied to change the law after I was abused by Larry Nassar,” caught the attention of Pennsylvania's Attorney General, and she has worked in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, California and elsewhere for legal reform that will bring survivors healing and justice. Sarah believes that the time has come for the law to impose upon abusers and their enablers, both institutions and individuals, the legal consequences they deserve. Sarah is an alumna of Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Global Entrepreneurship program. She sits on the Board of Directors of CHILD USAdvocacy, an organization committed to protecting children's civil liberties and keeping children safe from abuse. She also sits on the Board of the Montgomery County Advocacy Project (MCAP), preventing child abuse and neglect in Montgomery County through legal services, advocacy, and education. Follow Sarah on Instagram at @SarahGKlein or on Twitter @SG_Klein **Trigger Warning: Explicit language and sensitive topics re: sexual abuse. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alimarielong/support

Mark Kennedy Shriver has spent a lot of time with incredibly impressive people. His father was Sargent Shriver, who founded the Peace Corps, was the architect of Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty, and ran for vice president of the United States in 1972. Sargent Shriver was married to Mark’s mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver -- sister of JFK and RFK -- for 56 years. She, in turn, founded the Special Olympics, among many other accomplishments. The public service values Mark learned from his parents have taken root in his own life. Mark served as a Maryland state delegate for eight years and has been leading the Save the Children Action Network for the last seven. He knows what it means to be a servant leader. And he shares those lessons with a fresh generation in his brand-new children’s book “10 Hidden Heroes,” published by Loyola Press. The book is a vividly illustrated “Where’s Waldo?”-style collection of people serving their communities in big and small ways, meant to show kids that they don’t need a lot of money or superpowers to be a hero in their own communities. Mark talked to AMDG host Mike Jordan Laskey about why he wrote the book, how his Catholic faith and Jesuit education shape his values, and what today’s leaders navigating the coronavirus pandemic might learn from the example of his parents. Get your copy of "10 Hidden Heroes" here, written by Mark K. Shriver and illustrated by Laura Watson: https://store.loyolapress.com/10-hidden-heroes Mark's other two books: https://www.amazon.com/Mark-K-Shriver/e/B006LTJ19A AMDG is a production of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States.

Alyson talks about Eunice Kennedy Shriver, her career, and the Special Olympics. Link to Eunice book: Click Here Instagram: @kennedydynasty Website: www.kennedydynasty.com Shop: www.kennedydynasty.com/shop Recommendations: www.kennedydynasty.com/recommendations

In this episode we have a discussion with Dr. Diana Bianchi about work at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.   For more information on this topic please go to our website www.asrm.org

Collin looks into the lives of Eunice Kennedy Shriver & Sargent Shriver. Eunice is a member of the Kennedy family and is the founder of the Special Olympics ,which she started in 1968 to empower people with intellectual disabilities to find their full potential through sports and competitions (John F. Kennedy Presidential Museum & Library). Sargent Shriver met Eunice in 1947 while he was working for Joseph P. Kennedy, her father. They married in 1953 at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. He was the director of The Peace Corps from 1961-1966 and the 1972 vice-presidential candidate under the nominee George McGovern. They were destroyed in a landslide by President Nixon in the 1972 election. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/collin-sugg/message

In 1968, two Tennessee athletes travelled from Chattanooga to Chicago to compete in the first ever Special Olympics Summer Games. Eunice Kennedy Shriver's charge to the athlete's echoed that of ancient Roman gladiators. "Let me win, but if I cannot win let me be brave in the attempt."Amy Parker joins us today to describe her path in joining the Special Olympic of Tennessee and the amazing legacy and impact of those 1968 games on generations of Tennessee athletes today.

After years of planning, Eunice Kennedy Shriver opened the first Special Olympics game in 1968.  Her brother, Robert Kennedy, was assassinated just seven weeks before. Today, by one estimate, more than three million Special Olympic athletes from all 50 states and 181 countries around the world take part in year-round training for the games. Shriver believed in justice for those with different abilities. Join us on this episode of Ballot & Beyond to learn more about the founder of the Special Olympics.

A brief introduction to a series exploring the life and work of major figures connected to Stanford University. Expert guests will join host Daniel Rey to discuss John Steinbeck, Sally Ride, Edith Head, Harry Hay, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Alexander Kerensky and Martin Luther King. 

We wrap up our series on Eunice with the fates of her children, her legacy and end with the funeral. Eunice and Sarge at Maria Shriver's Wedding to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Her children as pall bearers. Some of her Special Olympic athletes in attendance at her funeral.   

Eunice takes her family to France, takes on the issue of abortion and bails the Kennedy young fry out of trouble. 

How do the Kennedy's rebuild Camelot after JFK's death? What does Eunice do now that she's effectively the oldest Kennedy child? Is there even a calm between the storms?

Eunice's role in JFK's rise to the the most powerful job in the world all the way through his tragic murder. JFK consulting Eunice while on the campaign trail. Happy Kennedy Siblings Eunice at JFK's Funeral. 

Eunice becomes a mom and goes to bat for the mentally disabled community. What on earth does the balance of working motherhood look like for the Eunice?  Eunice and Maria Eunice and her son Bobby

The college girl, to the government employee, to Sarge's girl. Post-War Eunice stays busy, busy, busy. 

We begin this episode with The Great Depression and end with the beginning of WWII. The if that wasn't enough we reveal the tragedy upon tragedy that is visited upon Rosemary Kennedy and begin to see how it impacts Eunice for the rest of her life. Sailing at Hyannis Port Meeting the Queen

Eunice Kennedy's early life was defined by being the "smack dabber." Smack-dab in the middle of a large and boisterous family. She had to scramble and scrape for any attention that might be up for grabs. Her early life also tuned her into the needs of the disabled and disadvantaged and plant the seeds of what will grow into her life's great legacy. 

This is Around Ocean County with Lisa Anderson.  Today, Lisa is joined by Heather Andersen, President and CEO for the Special Olympics of New Jersey.   Before 1968, the global movement known as Special Olympics was an idea for one visionary woman Eunice Kennedy Shriver.  This movement inspired the founder of Special Olympics New Jersey to bring this opportunity to the state.  Special Olympics is a 501C3 non-profit organization dedicated to bringing pride into the lives of all involved. Their mission is to provide sports training and athletic competition to children and adults with intellectual disabilities completely free of charge. 

Hothouse Flowers front man Liam Ó Maonlaí shows Róisín around his Dublin home where he keeps his 19th century Bechstein piano, once played by James Joyce during a visit to his grandfather’s house in Galway. They talk about life on the road with the Hothouse Flowers, walking the Camino de Santiago, singing at Eunice Kennedy Shriver's wake and lots more. Next time: Actor, Amy Huberman Back to Yours, a podcast from The Irish Times, sponsored by Green & Blacks.

During President Reagan’s 8 years in office, he awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 71 people.  This included Secretary of State George Shultz, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Senator Barry Goldwater, and Frank Sinatra.  Posthumously he also gave the award to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Jackie Robinson and others.  

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Content note: discussion of ableism/sanism, forced medical procedures, the fucking patriarchy Welcome to the Spooky Sconnie podcast, the show that talks about the spooky, paranormal, criminal, and just plain odd Badger State. While we're known for sportsball and food, there's a lot more to learn about Wisconsin if you know where to look. In this first episode, I cover St. Coletta's School in Jefferson, Wisconsin, lobotomies, and the Kennedy family. Further reading History according to the school JFK Library link about Rosemary First-hand accounts about lobotomies including history Movie link on IMDB Transcript You're listening to the Spooky Sconnie Podcast. I'm your host Kirsten Schultz. I have lived in Wisconsin for 12 years now and one of the things that always surprises me and that has pushed me to create this podcast is when we talk about odd things, creepy things, paranormal things, there are only a few things that people think about when they think about Wisconsin and usually quite frankly it's Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer, and as creepy as those two motherfuckers are, there is so much more to this state then either have them or beer or cheese or the packers. And that's really what I want to talk about on this podcast. We'll touch on things from aliens to cryptids to plain odd facts to haunted towns, to serial killers and true crime. It will be a really fun journey and I'm really excited that you're listening. I hope this is something that you'll wind up liking and subscribing to, to kind of break with the traditional podcast thing. ----more---- Um, I do just want to list kind of my social media at the top of the show in case you want to peek around. The twitter is at SpookySconnie - that's s-p-o-o-k-y-s-c-o-n-n-i-e and our instagram is SpookySconniePodcast, so just pop the name of the podcast in there and the facebook page is also SpookySconniePodcast. So, hopefully that makes it easy for you to find. I think that's all the social media I've got set up right now. If you have creepy Sconnie stories you want to send in, you can send them in at SpookySconniePodcast@gmail.com. And I will eventually work on doing some listeners episodes, um, with this being the first episode of the podcast and want to do something like super creepy or super terrifying. But I wanted to do something I was really interested in. And um, as someone who lives with a number of chronic illnesses and deals with mental health issues, something that I was surprised to learn recently was that Rosemary Kennedy, lived in Wisconsin for the bulk of her life and that has to do with a place called St Coletta's in Jefferson. Jefferson is a city that's about halfway between Madison and Milwaukee. Madison is our capital, uh, and where the Wisconsin badgers reside and where I reside, and Milwaukee is probably the most well known Wisconsin city. It sits on the West Bank of Lake Michigan and um, that's where Jeffrey Dahmer played around. So... Some very different spaces as well, geographically, Milwaukee's very flat. Um, the, the glaciers back in the glacier moving era of the world, um, moved through that area pretty quickly. So there's a lot of flat land, whereas the further west you move in Wisconsin, you actually get to what is known as the driftless area where the glaciers didn't move through. And so I'm in Madison and, west of here, we have a lot of rolling hills and things like that. Jefferson is, I would say it where it starts to get a little hilly, um, but not enough to where you're like, whew, rollercoaster on the road. Jefferson's founders were settlers from New England and they really came during the 1800s. So it was while New England farmers were headed west into what was known as the wild kind of northwest territory. So what we're looking at are usually second generation or first, like, American-born generation, uh, you know, settlers who came, colonized this country and then started their movement westward when they came to Jefferson. It was basically forest and prairie and they started building farms and roads and government buildings and everything we kind of take for granted today. They really set themselves up as a, a place for education, a place for good schools, a place for abolitionism. Um, and it was relatively religious. We're looking at Episcopalians, we're looking at methodists. We're looking at baptist. Um, and that's, that's pretty par for the course when you're looking at people who came from New England in the 1800s. Uh, the school I'm going to talk about is called St Coletta. Um, it still kind of operates? It's In this interesting state at the time, and we'll get to that later, but I do want to address really quickly that the school was a school for the developmentally disabled. So if you do look it up, you may find the r word. You may find other ableist slurs, slurs, that are rooted in the discrimination against disabled people. And as a disabled person, I'm not going to use those because they piss me off and make you want to slap someone and I'm by myself. So I'd really like to not slap myself. So, um, you know, you're, you're welcome to look it up and, uh, take a look at other things and I'll put some links in the show notes, but this is not necessarily an investigation for the faint of heart when it comes to a discriminatory ideas. In 1904, a family approached Father George Meyer, who ran a school called St Coletta about accepting their developmentally disabled daughter as a student, uh, by September that year, four students had arrived and by December that grew to 10 students, which also included boys. So it very quickly became a coed school. Technically the school is organized by the sisters of St Francis Assisi, which is the, um, you know, religious chapter that was right there. The property immediately east of the city was purchased because the existing convent in school for girls that was operated by the nuns. By the early 20th century, a large campus with residence halls, chapels, an infirmary, administration building, classrooms, and even a natatorium occupied the southeast corner of highway 18 and county road Y in Jefferson? And technically this was in the town of Jefferson. It then became annexed to the city of Jefferson. A lot of places that have been settled had both the town and the city by the same name. In fact, actually Madison has both the town and the city and the town is only a few spots. There's actually one spot over here on the west side where I live that is still technically a town spot Most of the town is kind of in that, um, off of fish hatchery and um, oh, what's the other road? It starts with an R. I can't remember even though I lived off of it. It's fine. This is what happens when you have what we call brain fog. Um, which is something that you deal with, with chronic illness, it's like a, like a cognitive delay. So sometimes I might use the wrong word even though I know the correct one or it might not be able to find the information I'm looking for in my head. Rimrock. That was it. So it's a predominantly kind of the south part of Madison is technically town, which is fascinating to me. Um, by 1931, the 'St Coletta Institute for backward youth' as what it was called, became incorporated under a new title called the 'St Coletta School for exceptional children', which was chosen out of the consideration of parents, family members and residents. Um, and, and the myth at least is that one of the students, residents brought up, "hey, we don't walk backward, we're not backward youth." And, and while the change was good, backward youth is an awful term. Exceptional children is a bit inspiration porn-y, and I'll put a link in the show notes to Stella Young's talk about inspiration porn. She coined that term in a Ted talk and in writing before her death. And, um, there's so many layers of nuance to it that I'm not going to get into it here, but I highly suggest you look at it. Uh, we're just normal people, like anyone who's disabled in any way is just a normal person. We're not exceptional people for existing - that's kind of the cut and dry of it. And so they quickly became the most influential Catholic school in the United States that specialized in the care and training of people with developmental and mental disabilities or illnesses by 1948. Um, you know, they were expanding and building new new homes, new buildings, and really amassing a very large amount of residents by in 1963. This is, I'm going to just say this, knowing that I prefaced that there was the R word. I hate this so much. The first international awards for achievement in the field of mental retardation (Jesus Christ) which was sponsored by the Joseph P Kennedy Jr. Foundation was attended by, um, some of the sisters at the school. They started a habilitation program in 1965 that was started to encourage young adults to become more successful community members. and by 1976, a public law was passed that guaranteed a free appropriate education in the least restrictive environment for these residents - particularly focused on anyone with a disability, but, uh, it really affected these residents in a positive way. The Kennedy Foundation, um, gave a gift to the school, um, in honor of Rose Kennedy's 93rd birthday that was to help create a program that would eventually serve as a national model to help, um, aging people who were dealing with developmental disabilities. Now there's more that goes on with the school, but that's really kind of where our big, um, the most important part that we need to know stops. As I said, the school's kind of still running programs. Um, they kind of got rid of their main building and renovated it to, um, to be a corporate headquarters and all sorts of things they've expanded to not only helping people across Wisconsin, but now in like northern Illinois, all these different things. While important - and definitely, um, interesting to learn - don't really have to do with what we're going to talk about and you may have mentioned or you may have noticed that I mentioned several times, uh, the Kennedys and I mentioned Rosemary Kennedy at the top of the show. Rosemary Kennedy is the sister of JFK and RFK, and she was born in September 1918 - on the 13th in fact - and she was the third child and oldest daughter. They quickly noticed that she was a little bit slower to reach some of the youth milestones than her brothers were. So learning how to walk, learning how to crawl, speaking some of those kinds of things. She was just a little bit slower to reach those milestones. and, um, it doesn't really, when you, when you look at pediatric care now, there are some, um, mile stone kind of trackers almost that will help you decide with your physician, with your child's physician if the child should be tested for any sort of developmental delay or disability. Um, and they come at a number of different benchmark ages, you know, six months, a year, 18 months, two years, all sorts of things and they actually continue into young, young childhood and not just being a toddler, so that can be a really helpful for people. At this point, those weren't really developed. Um, but you hear a lot about, oh, parents notice that this person was just not as quick to do stuff. And I do want to say that that's not always a marker of um, you know, any sort of disability. My husband is a, was a very lazy baby and so he didn't really walk until he was like a year old because he knew if he cried, someone would come pick them up. So it's not always a marker of disability, but it is something that you could work with your child's doctor to, to keep an eye on 'em. We don't all follow the same growth patterns and some of us maybe learned to be a little bit more manipulative than others as we're children. Rosemary had a really nice childhood. She participated in most of the family activities, going to dances, concerts, visiting the White House when Roosevelt was there. Um, her father was appointed us ambassador to Britain in 1938 and Rosemary moved over to London with her mother and her sister Kathleen, and they just really enjoyed living there. When they came back in 1940, Rosemary was not making the progress that they wanted her to be making. Um, she was 22 at the time and she was becoming 'increasingly irritable and difficult.' And, unfortunately that is, um, about the time when Joseph Kennedy learned about lobotomies. Now I want to go into the history of lobotomies before we kind of continue on this because I'm a really big proponent of learning, uh, about what we're talking about. And lobotomies are terrifying. There are a lot of jokes that people make about lobotomies like, "oh, I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." And I think once you learn the history of these kinds of things, how harmful they were, how harmful they still remain. Um, it's really terrifying. And it's not something I feel like we should be joking about, but that's just me. And you can make your up your mind up after you hear about these facts. In 1936, a psychiatrist named Walter J. Freeman modified a leucotomy, a surgery that a portuguese neurologist, Egas Monez created to treat mental illness. He renamed it the lobotomy. And with his neurosurgeon partner James Watts, they performed the first ever pre frontal lobotomy in the United States on a housewife from Topeka, Kansas, Alice Hood Hammatt. In 1945, Freeman begins experimenting with a new way of doing the lobotomy after hearing about a doctor in Italy who accessed the brain through ice sockets. By January of the next year, he's performed his first trans orbital lobotomy. Um, this is also called an icepick lobotomy. His patient at the time was a depressed housewife named Sallie Ellen Ionesco. He rendered her unconscious through electric shock, something that's terrifying in and of itself. He then took an ice pick and inserted it above her eyeball, but closer in towards her nose. He banged through her eye socket and into her brain by using a, like a little mallet on the other end of that ice pick. And he made cuts in her frontal lobes. When he was done, he sent her home in a taxi cab of all things just by herself. He was convinced that he had cured her depression and he believed that cutting away the brain would help regulate mental illness because he thought mental illness was related to overactive emotions. And of course, cutting away your brain is the solution to overactive emotions. These kinds of things were really common, um, before the medications that we have now came to be, um, institutions were overfilled with not only people who were developmentally and physically disabled, but women who had the nerve to speak up, speak back to their husbands and those who tried to vote and those who read too much and those who are dealing with vaginal pain and a number of things could get you landed in an institution and labeled as insane. Um, there's a lot of racism involved and misogyny and discrimination against all sorts of people, including queer and trans people that happened in institutions and within the field of, I guess institutional torture, including lobotomies, including electro shock, um, and more, unfortunately, which is terrifying. And I think, um, being someone who is disabled, queer and trans, that terrifies the shit out of me because that is, you know, the history of my people and um, that's terrifying. It's terrifying. But, these kinds of miracle cures that really served to shut patients up and make them how we wanted them to be, um, was, was really what happens. And even today, um, that still happens with ABA therapy for autistic people. Um, that's really geared at "here, here are the skills you have to learn right now to be as normal and allistic (the opposite of autistic) as possible." Um, and that's not a way to go through life. I've tried it for chronic illness shit - it doesn't work. In the prefrontal lobotomy - because there's the difference between these two lobotomies - The doctor actually drilled holes in the side or the top of the patient's skull, you know, through, through the actual bone itself to get to the frontal lobes. And so it can be messy. It takes more time. In the transorbital lobotomy, you could actually just access the brain through the eye sockets, as I mentioned a bit ago, um, and Freeman really kind of created what we know as the transorbital lobotomy today. It left no scars apart from having terrible black eyes, as you can imagine. It took less than 10 minutes and it could be performed outside of an operating room. And Freeman believed it produced better results. Uh, in 1949 Egas Monez - the portuguese neurologist - wins the nobel prize for developing the lobotomy and Freeman nominated him. It was about this time that James Watts - Freeman's partner - expresses disapproval about the procedure and basically leaves the practice. He's done. Um, and at this point, Freeman's career really takes off. He does these like nationwide tours teaching at different state hospitals and institutions how to perform lobotomies and, by 1952 he performs or in that year, I'm sorry, he performs 228 transorbital lobotomies within a two week period in West Virginia. It was for a state sponsored lobotomy project that was called Operation Ice Pick. And it was a huge thing for him. Uh, newspapers and news agencies were flipping their shit to be there and see him 'cure', you know, people. Two years later though, a medication called chlorpromazine or thorazine as it's more commonly known, comes out and actually helps treat a lot of the conditions that these lobotomies were supposed to fix. The medication itself has a really interesting history. It actually came about because of a french pharmaceutical company. And I'm going to ruin this because french is not my strong suit called Laboratoires Rhône-Poulenc. I don't know. I suck at French. Um, they wanted to search for new anti histamine, which is something that treats allergies and immune system reactions and kind of stumbled upon this medication. And today it treats everything from anxiety and mood disorders to nausea and even chronic hiccups, um, which is fascinating and terrifying. I don't want, I don't ever want chronic hiccups. It largely replaced, for a lot of people, things like electro shock, things like hydrotherapy (which at this point was really drowning you and waterboarding you), psychosurgery, other brain surgeries to make you how they wanted you to act. And insulin shock therapy, which is also terrifying as fuck. They would give you too much insulin, you'd kind of be in this almost comatose state. They'd bring you back. What was happening in these institutions and schools and hospitals was legitimately torture in the name of medical science. And it got us really nowhere other than these are all torture techniques that we use today against "enemies of the state." So yeah, you thought you were listening to a fun podcast, didn't you? In 1967. Freeman performs his final transorbital lobotomy on a patient named Helen Mortensen. it wasn't uncommon for him to do a couple of lobotomies on people, and this was her third lobotomy. She dies from a brain hemorrhage after the procedure and, um, he's actually banned from operating ever again. His medical license got taken away, um, which is frankly far too late. Um, there's actually a case in 1951, he was treating a patient at Cherokee Mental Health institute in I believe Iowa. And he paused for a photo op because he was so excited and the photo op happens when he's got the pick in her eye and you know, is hammering, smiling at the camera hammering and um, he went too far into her brain and he killed her. And that's not an uncommon story. He kIlled hundreds of his patients, whether directly or indirectly because of the "operations" he was performing. He had no formal training in lobotomies. Um, I mean as a spearheader of the technique, you generally don't get formal training, but, um, you know, he didn't clean his instruments often between patients. He didn't wear gloves, he didn't wear a mask. He didn't operate in a sterile environment. He often did it in his, um, office, like, like his home office or like academic office. You know where it's dusty and shit? Yeah, he did there. And a lot of his patients were queer or trans and they were given lobotomies to change how they were expressing their sexuality or their gender. And that's something that's really hard to sit with. I don't have words. My heart is beating in my throat because I'm just thinking about how lucky I am to have been born 30 years later than what could have potentially killed me. It's terrifying. By 1968 freeman is going on cross country followup studies of his lobotomy patients visiting them, visiting their families, trying to kind of prove that his shit is working, which is still terrifying. About 50,000 people received lobotomies in the United States. Most of those were between 1949 and 1950. About 10,000 of those were transorbital lobotomies and the rest were mostly those prefrontal lobotomies. Freeman performed about 3,500 the bottom of his career during his career, sorry, of which were, um, 2,500 with these ice pick/transorbital lobotomies. Freeman believed that cutting certain nerves in the brain could eliminate too much emotion, could stabilize your personality, and I mean he wasn't incorrect with those things, um, but for the wrong reasons. Where he's cutting into the brain, it gives patients an inability to feel very intense emotions and, sometimes, any emotions at all. And they kind of aren't as worried. People expressed that they've seemed childlike. Some patients did improve, which is terrifying to lend any credence to this. Some essentially became comatose and for others it didn't really have an effect and still others died. If you're looking for a good, um, fictional account of a transorbital lobotomy, you can go read One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. Randall McMurphy is a character within that book who receives a transorbital lobotomy. Um, I dunno, I don't think it does it justice, but I'm a weird person. Freeman's most common rationale for doing this lobotomies was to treat things like schizophrenia. He also used it to treat suicidal depression, major depression as we know it today. And even chronic pain, which is a whole 'nother layer of terrifying to me. He had a quote, I'm in a New York times article 1937 - It wasn't his quote, but uh, but this article talked about the different things that a lobotomy could help with: "Tension, apprehension, anxiety, depression, insomnia, suicidal ideas to things like delusions, hallucinations, crying spells, melancholia, obsessions, panic states, disorientation psychalgesia," which is pains of psychic origin - I Think they really mean like psychosomatic, like that you're making up your pain essentially. Just bullshit. "nervous indigestion" - Hey, IBS pals! - "And hysterical paralysis." I don't know. It's ridiculous. He traveled in a van during his visit to all of these psychiatric hospitals, um, that he did over his career and basically had crossed the nation 11 times. During the time that he practiced, he performed the lobotomy on no less than 2,500. It could be more than that, this ice pick lobotomy. But it was on patients across 23 states, which is an amazing. The reach. He could perform over 20 of these operations in a day, banging them out quickly. And there were staff members who were horrified about how he treated patients about the procedure, about, you know, the, the likelihood of people dying during it and all of that. But there were, there were often people who couldn't speak up. Um, I read one account of someone who was an immigrant who was really just starting in medicine as an aid to freeman and, um, didn't feel he could speak up because Walter Freeman was Walter Freeman. How are you going to tell him he's wrong when you're just a peon? Um, again, terrifying and unfortunately still relatively common in medicine today. Um, this kind of the White Coat Syndrome is what we call it, that the white coat is seen as a, some sort of god like apparel and that a physician knows everything, sees everything and um, you should follow everything they say. And in reality - nerd tangent - In reality, whether you're a staff person or a patient, that's not the case. Studies have shown - and I did my master's capstone on this. I won't go too preachy, but, um, you know, studies have shown that patients who are more involved with their care, who gets the opportunity to participate in their care have far better health outcomes, you know, fewer emergency department and urgent care visits, lower health care utilization, lower health costs, etc. Etc. Etc. So, just uh, there's that, I guess. Coming back from our tangent and our discussion about lobotomies in general. Um, Joseph Kennedy approves Freeman to give Rosemary a lobotomy. Unfortunately, it left Rosemary permanently incapacitated and she was unable to care for herself. Um, this arch bishop was like, "oh, hey, you should send her to St. Colleta's." And um, the family traveled there. They built her own house on St Coletta ground so that she didn't have to deal with the overcrowding in the institution itself because after all, she's the Kennedy. She lost the ability to speak coherently. Her movement, um, took awhile to gain back. She lost the ability to walk for quite a long time, had to relearn it. Movement in one of her arms and the use of that arm was lost permanently. Her family really just kind of dropped her. Her mother didn't visit her for two decades and her father never visited after they got her there. After her father's death and only after his death she'd be taken on trips to go visit, you know, the Kennedy home every so often. And after JFK's election, um, in 1961 after he took office, the family came out publicly saying that she'd been diagnosed as a R word. It's a really sad story. I think people forget about her so much. Um, she had an older sister named Eunice Kennedy Shriver. I'm sorry, not an older sister a younger sister. I read my notes wrong. Um, and they were very close, very close. In 1962 Eunice started at a camp in her own backyard that was meant for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. And that camp actually involved into the Special Olympics, which is pretty cool. It's really nice to kind of learn the basis for how things like that came about. The Special Olympics is not perfect and I don't like some of the inspiration porn ideas that it sets up. But it is cool to know that that came from there and, um, I think that really pushed for the paralympics to start and things like that. So it's, um, it is kind of really cool. Rosemary lived at St. Coletta's for the rest of her life. She died in January of 2005 at age 86. On January 7th, Eunice said in her eulogy that Rosemary left a legacy that was long and deep, particularly for, you know, the beginning of the Special Olympics - but even when JFK was in office, he was pushing to improve, how the government handled disability and really used her story to try to spearhead that. And I'm really sad that he died at this point because who knows, the, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) could have been passed 30 years earlier. Um, you know, other things happened as well that, that she really helped with. Rosemary died at Fort Atkinson Memorial Hospital and her three surviving sisters - Eunice, Patricia Kennedy Lawford and Jean Kennedy Smith - And then, um, Ted Kennedy were all by her side. She was the fifth child of the Kennedy family to die, but the first to die from natural causes, which is also sad. There's actually an IMDB movie in there - err there's a movie that's listed on IMBD that's in the works right now about Rosemary and I am so fucking excited I cannot contain it! And I'm going to read some facts kind of about what they've got listed about the storyline, um, because I just think it's so fantastic. So she was really easy going as a teenager and a child. Um, as she returned, she became increasingly assertive and rebellious - how rare for a teenager! She had some violent mood swings and mood changes, but they thought that maybe that had to do with her own frustration with being expected to do so well and performed at these high Kennedy family standards. And then when you just didn't reach that, it's really frustrating and I could definitely see that shit. She began to sneak out at school. She, she was in a convent school in dc. She would sneak out at night and her parents were pissed. Joseph thought that she was bringing shame and embarrassing the family and could damage his political career and the political career of his sons, which was all he cared about. About of the 80 percent of lobotomies in the forties and the fifties were performed on women. They were very often performed at the behest of a man in their life, whether it's a father or a husband or even a son. And the youngest person that Freeman operated on was a four year old, so there were really, it was a very wide range of people, but it was often at the behest of other people and not someone coming in and being like, "doc, you gotta give you this lobotomy!" Joseph didn't tell his wife that they were going to do this procedure on Rosemary until it was done, which is terrifying. It was basically uh, they used an instrument that was basically like a butter knife to cut the brain tissue. And as they were doing such rosemary was awake. All of these patients were awake for transorbital um, and even for prefrontal at times. Um, she just had a mild tranquilizer but, but she was awake and they asked her to recite things like the Lord's Prayer or sing God Bless America or count or anything like that. And they made estimates on how far to cut based on how she responded and only stopped when she became incoherent. They estimated that her brain capacity went down to that of a two year old child. I hate the notion that we have to quantify those things. Um, I also really disliked the idea that just because someone may not be able to express more complicated ideas, um, means they don't have them. There are a lot of cases where even people in a coma, for god's sakes, and knew what was going on around them or could grasp the horrible things that family members were saying about them or around them and just maybe didn't have a way to communicate that outside their brain. And that's something everyone needs to remember. Anyone with a, with a medical condition, a chronic illness. it's not always that we aren't able to even comprehend things. Sometimes it's just finding the right words, sometimes it's finding the right way to communicate those things. I'm going back to the brain fog idea, right? It's really hard sometimes for me to find the words and that's actually why I do a lot more writing than I do podcasting and videos and things. Um, but it is really important, uh, to just remember that like, just because I might communicate better via writing doesn't mean that I'm like awful or the, my mental capacity is diminished that have so and so age child. I just hate those quantification - barf. Um, she, uh, again, she couldn't walk or talk after the procedure and she actually became incontinent for her entire life. So she had urinary and fecal issues, uh, which are awful at the time. That arch bishop Richard Cushing that I mentioned earlier told Joseph about St Coletta's. There were more than 300 residents there, which was, you know, growing rapidly. And the home they built for her was called the Kennedy Cottage. Two catholic nuns were really assigned to take care of her. And then there was a student that would come help - students across the years, and there were artists, uh, a woman who works on ceramics with Rosemary several times a week. Some of those kinds of things as she got allowances that other residents didn't often get. She had a dog, she'd get taken for car rides. She'd loved riding in cars. Um, and, and things like that that, that other people wouldn't get because after all, again, she's the Kennedy. Her, her family freely abandoned her for a long time. They would explain when, when John was running for reelection in the senate in the late fifties, you know, they explained away her absence, said, "Oh, she's reclusive. Oh, she's too busy, you know, working as a teacher for disabled kids. Oh, she's doing this, she's doing that." And they didn't tell people again until 61 after John was an office in the presidency that, um, she was dealing with developmental disabilities, but they, they also never said that that was the result of a procedure that Joseph approved. I mean, why would you? You wouldn't want that out there. Of course. I think in today's day and age it would be found out almost immediately and there would hopefully be an uproar. But after Joseph died in 1969 again, Rosemary was taken to visit relatives, visit home. Um, she'd learned to walk again. She always had a limp. Um, and she really didn't ever regained the ability to speak clearly, which is unfortunate. Um, she deserved to have that. She deserved to have a long life and a life full of support and care. She's buried beside her parents in holly hood's cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts. Of course, with this being the Spooky Sconnie Podcast, I mean, obviously we're going to talk about hauntings. I found just a smatterIng online. There wasn't a lot. Um, but I think they're interesting and they're, or do seem to be a lot of rumors, but there weren't a ton that I could find that weren't, you know, that, that existed across a couple of different sites and not just, "oh yeah, I heard one time x, y, z." And I really want it to not just be hearsay, but like, it's also weird to be like, don't be a hearsay ghost, like I don't know. So, one of the dormitories, Serra Hall, was built during that time when they expanded a lot, has had several occurrences where there's someone walking up and down the hallway in the second floor. But every one is in their rooms and all the staff members are downstairs. Then there's also these interesting occurrences where apparently there's a spirit on the second floor that likes to turn on the showers. Cause there's no one around and that's what happens. I don't know - it's interesting. Um, and they, they call her the girl spirit. So it would be like, "oh, that girl turned on the showers again." They would always just refer to her as a girl. Um, but I don't know, you know, I couldn't find anything about why they say she's the girl. Like has anyone seen her? Or is it just like did, was there a resident at some point that loves to just run and turn on showers and they assume that it's her ghost? I don't know, I couldn't find anything. Uh, there, there's that. And there's also some reports of weird cryptid-like appearances around the campus. Um, Wisconsin has a lot more cryptids than anyone knows. I think the Beast of Brey Road [I misspoke] is the one that people may know. And I think that's especially because there was a movie that came out earlier this year about that. There's a lot. And apparently there's a werewolf/wolf man that has been spotted in the area. Um, Jefferson itself has some interesting haunted history and it definitely could be related to this wolf. My idea. So, so there's that. There's st coletta's school in jefferson, Wisconsin. Um, I hope that you enjoyed this episode. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do next, but I have a ton of research sitting in my evernote and really just kind of going with the flow as to what I want to use for our next episode. My goal is to try to make this a bi-weekly podcast for now. That may change. um, and we'll see. I don't think I'd ever run out of creepy Wisconsin or Wisconsin-adjacent stories, um, but you know, some of them may be reaches, I think this one having the focus beyond Rosemary Kennedy might have been a reach, but I didn't know she lived here for so long. Um, so I think it's really important to tell that history. Um, and I think it's important to remember how those of us who are disabled have been treated historically. Um, and I promise not every episode is going to be so goddamn dark, but I think it's a good. I think that's a good base for maybe understanding kind of where I'm going with this podcast. Like I want it to be funny. I want it to be educational. I want it to be fucking weird. Um, but I also want us to all take away stuff from it. Not just from an educational basis, but like a snapple. I mean, maybe tomorrow I'll be talking with somebody who brings up the have of the kennedys were great and you're like, oh, but actually, and you can peel walking snapple cap. Can you imagine? Like somebody just dressing up as a snapple cap for halloween. that would be amazing. Don't steal my ideas, or do you. I mean, are you going to remember this by halloween? I don't know. I don't know that I'm going to remember this balancing. I'm gonna have to write it down. Anyway, thank you for listening to the inaugural episode of the Spooky Sconnie podcast and I will see you back in two weeks for our next installment. You just listened to the Spooky Sconnie podcast. It is produced every two weeks by me, kirsten schultz. The intro, outro music is from Purple Plant. You can find show notes and more over at spookysconnie.podbean.com, including a transcript in case you missed anything. Take a minute and rate and subscribe if you can. You'll help more people see the show by rating and you won't miss a single episode if you subscribe, and that's pretty dope. You can support the show over at patreon.com/spookysconniepodcast and you can email me anything you'd like me to know at spookysconniepodcast@gmail.com. Meantime, sleep tight. Don't let the badgers. Bye.  

$100m F1 betting deal | UEFA's OTT plans | RMC Sport's OTT snag | Tim Shriver and the Special Olympics (starts at 16.23) | Mike Davis and Abu Dhabi's sporting strategy (starts at 37.56). Tim Shriver is the Chairman of the Special Olympics, a movement that exists to communicate as well as to play. The son of Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Shriver guided the movement into its 50th year in 2018. Recorded in Abu Dhabi during the Special Olympics Regional Games in March, Shriver sets out with typical passion and articulacy the mission of the movement, which now includes over 100,000 events per year and over five million athletes.The Special Olympics will bring its flagship event, the Global Games, to Abu Dhabi again from 14th to 21st March, 2019. Mike Davis is the Regional Director of CSM Sports & Entertainment in the Middle East and North Africa. CSM has worked closely with the local organising committee for the Special Olympics in Abu Dhabi, and Davis's experience in the region stretches back across the last decade. On the agenda: - The power of the Special Olympics' message during times of fear and suspicion; - The relationship between Abu Dhabi and the Special Olympics and the expectations and objectives on both sides; - The event-hosting philosophy of the Special Olympics; - Abu Dhabi's considered and evolving sports and cultural events strategy.

This year, Special Olympics is celebrating its 50th anniversary. It was founded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver in 1968 and continues to provide year-round training and competitive events to five million athletes in 172 countries. Competitions are held every day, all around the world, including local, national, and regional competitions, adding up to more than 100,000 events each year.   Helping to quantify what Special Olympics means to athletes, their families, and volunteers all over the world are Elise's guests: Area 10 Program Director, Alex Hubbard; Stacey Johnson, a Special Olympics gold and bronze medalist, as well as the President of the Athlete Leadership Program, a member of the Special Olympics Torch Run Officers, and a Global Messenger; and Martha Johnson, Stacey’s mom, who is also the Director of Finance at Equest Therapeutic Riding Center in Dallas, Texas.   In this episode, Alex describes his joy to be part of Special Olympics; what the community  means to the athletes, volunteers, and their friends and families; and the critical initiatives, above and beyond competition, that help an otherwise under-served segment of the world's population. Martha speaks about the importance of the Special Olympics to her and her daughter, and the miracles she has witnessed from therapeutic riding. Stacey talks about being an Olympian and winning gold and bronze medals for her country on the world stage; why she loves horses and competing; and what it means to share with others the incredible joy that is the Special Olympics.   Topics of Discussion: [:45] About Elise’s guests today. [1:57] Alex quantifies what the Special Olympics means to the people’s lives it touches. [3:55] Alex describes his joy to be part of such this international movement. [5:48] Martha describes the importance of the Special Olympics to her daughter, Stacey. [8:13] Stacey talks about her love for horses and how riding has helped her. [8:55] About Stacey’s accomplishments and the miracles Martha has witnessed through riding. [14:50] More of the amazing benefits Stacey has gained from the Special Olympics. [16:33] The other sports in which Stacey competes. [18:38] About the trip Stacey and Martha are currently on as they record this episode! [19:05] How much therapeutic riding has helped Stacey and about all their travels to various shows. [20:57] The happy-tears phone call Martha received from Equest, sharing news of Stacey’s first jump after recovering from surgery! [25:17] It's much more than "just" competition – Alex talks about Special Olympics initiatives making a huge impact on world health. [31:04] Elise reads listener feedback! [32:19] Which issues affecting Special Olympics' community does Alex feel need to be addressed most urgently? [35:20] How those who work for the Special Olympics help carry and spread their message. [36:35] Martha outlines ways people can support and encourage athletes. [38:55] News about the 2019 Special Olympics and what it means to Martha, Stacey, and Alex to know that millions of people are cheering the athletes on. [42:00] About Stacey’s win in Dublin, Ireland. [45:24] A touching story that happened with another Equest client. [46:33] Where to learn more about the Special Olympics and Equest.   Know Someone Inspirational, Whose Life Has Been Forever Changed Because of Horses? Because of Horses would love to get to share their story! To recommend someone please send an email to elise@becauseofhorses.com.   Mentioned in this Episode: Special Olympics Texas Special Olympics Equest (#: 972-412-1099) Because of Horses Episode 12 with Equest Founder, CEO, and Hooves for Heroes Director Because of Horses Episode 7 with Rupert Isaacson of The Horse Boy Foundation Hooves for Heroes The Horse Boy Foundation Healthy Athletes Global Messengers Unified Champion Schools Eunice Kennedy Shriver (Founder of the Special Olympics) Tim Shriver (Chairman of the Special Olympics) Arthur Ashe Courage Award ESPN   Like what you hear? Because of Horses would love to hear your feedback! Please email elise@becauseofhorses.com to send Because of Horses your thoughts.   To Support the Podcast: ● Donate on Paypal to help keep Because of Horses running — all amounts are welcome! ● Subscribe: RSS Feed, iTunes, Google Play, TuneIn, Stitcher, and Player FM

Maria Shriver, the Peabody- and Emmy-award winning journalist, producer and best-selling author, sits down with Oprah to share inspiring quotations, prayers and reflections featured in her number one New York Times best-selling book "I've Been Thinking...: Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life." Oprah and Maria discuss their nearly 40-year friendship and the lessons they both learned from Maria's mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Maria looks back on the personal challenges she's experienced, including how she found the strength to navigate her mother's death and the grief that came afterward. Maria speaks candidly about growing up as a member of the powerful Kennedy family, and opens up about seeking her own passion and purpose beyond the legacy of her famous forebears. Maria is the founder of the Women's Alzheimer's Movement, a nonprofit committed to researching why women are disproportionately affected by Alzheimer's disease and, in so doing, finding a cure.

Maria Shriver’s life is often summarized in fairy tale terms. A child of the Kennedy clan in the Camelot aura of the early 1960s. Daughter of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics, and Sargent Shriver, who founded the Peace Corps. An esteemed broadcast journalist. First lady of California. This hour, she opens up about having a personal history that is also public history — and how deceptive the appearance of glamour can be. We experience the legendary toughness of the women in Maria Shriver’s family — but also the hard-won tenderness and wisdom with which she has come to raise her own voice. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Maria Shriver — Finding My ‘I Am'”. Find more at onbeing.org.

Maria Shriver’s life is often summarized in fairy tale terms. A child of the Kennedy clan in the Camelot aura of the early 1960s. Daughter of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics, and Sargent Shriver, who helped found the Peace Corps. An esteemed broadcast journalist. First lady of California. This hour, she opens up about having a personal history that is also public history — and how deceptive the appearance of glamour can be. We experience the legendary toughness of the women in Maria Shriver’s family — but also the hard-won tenderness and wisdom with which she has come to raise her own voice. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

In this “revelation” of a biography (USA TODAY), a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, arguing she left behind the Kennedy family’s most profound political legacy. While Joe Kennedy was grooming his sons for the White House and the Senate, his Stanford-educated daughter, Eunice, was hijacking her father’s fortune and her brothers’ political power to engineer one of the great civil rights movements of our time on behalf of millions of children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Her compassion was born of rage: at the medical establishment that had no answers for her sister Rosemary, at her revered but dismissive father, whose vision for his family did not extend beyond his sons, and at a government that failed to deliver on America’s promise of equality. Now, in this “fascinating” (the Today show), “nuanced” (The Boston Globe) biography, “ace reporter and artful storyteller” (Pulitzer Prize–winning author Megan Marshall) Eileen McNamara finally brings Eunice Kennedy Shriver out from her brothers’ shadow. Granted access to never-before-seen private papers, including the scrapbooks Eunice kept as a schoolgirl in prewar London, McNamara paints an extraordinary portrait of a woman both ahead of her time and out of step with it: the visionary founder of Special Olympics, a devout Catholic in a secular age, and an officious, cigar-smoking, indefatigable woman whose impact on American society was longer lasting than that of any of the Kennedy men. Eileen McNamara is the author of Eunice, the Kennedy who Changed the World, to be released on April 3, 2018. The post Eunice Kennedy Shriver – Ep 37 with Eileen McNamara appeared first on Read Learn Live Podcast.

Oprah sits down with Timothy Shriver, the impassioned chairman of the Special Olympics and a member of the prominent Kennedy family, to talk about some of the spiritual lessons he's learned from the athletes, how courage and grit are fundamental to success, and why vulnerability is a virtue that everyone can nourish. The son of 1972 Democratic vice presidential candidate Sargent Shriver and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics in 1968, Timothy grew up among some of the most powerful public and political figures in American history. Yet, he says, it was his Aunt Rose Marie "Rosemary" Kennedy, born with intellectual disabilities, who taught him that self-worth isn't defined by accomplishments. Timothy also discusses his memoir, "Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most," in which he shares the story of the remarkable teachers and inspiring way of life he discovered during his search for how to make a difference in the world.

056 Marci McAdams—Special Olympics Special Olympics—Smiles for Everyone “I get to see their smiling faces—that’s my reward!” Marci McAdams enthusiastically declares with a big smile on her own face. One of her volunteer jobs for Special Olympics in Florida is to hand out the rewards to the participants. Those smiles keep her coming back and taking on more as a volunteer. She handles much of the administrative work that keeps the program running smoothly; and she also trains new coaches, who are also volunteers. When she runs a training session, she invites at least one of the special athletes to help her by showing the potential coaches the possibilities. Special Olympics is so much more than “a competition here and there.” In the early 1960s Eunice Kennedy Shriver, moved by the lack of inclusion of children with intellectual disabilities (ID) in even basic opportunities for play, set up a summer camp in her own backyard to give them a chance to participate in physical activities, including sports. She set out to change society’s view of persons with ID. Now more than five million special athletes from ages eight through older adults in 172 countries participate year-round in Special Olympics trainings and events in county, state, area, and international levels in more than 30 different sports. Children, age two to seven, can begin developing skills through Special Olympics Young Athletes program. Athletes benefit from the training and competitions as they develop physical fitness, skills, and friendships. They gain courage and self-confidence and experience joy. Society benefits from focusing on the abilities rather than the disabilities of persons with ID and discovering their gifts. Promoting understanding and social inclusion, Special Olympics is making a change for the better for everyone. Volunteers make it all possible. Handing out awards, doing administrative tasks, training new volunteers, including coaches—all of which Marci does—are just a few of the opportunities available to volunteers. Encouraging athletes, setting up and tearing down for events, coaching for the various sports, recruiting other volunteers, and photographing events are a few more of the possibilities. Check the website for your state to find a specific place where your interests intersect with the needs: specialolympics.org. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/specialolympicsflorida/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2168730/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/soflinfo  

On Friday, April 7, 2017 The First Friday Club of Chicago in Cooperation with the Authors Group (Union League Club)   Welcomes Mr. Mark Shriver President, Save The Children Action Network Author, PILGRIMAGE - My Search for the Real Pope Francis Who Will Address the Topic "My Search for the Real Pope Francis" Pope Francis very quickly has become one of the most fascinating and one of the most popular people in the world. He is adored by millions and disdained by many others. Who is he? Where did he come from? What motivates him? How did he become so compassionate to the poor and marginalized? Mark Shriver set out to find answers to those and many other elements in the life of Jorge Marie Bergoglio. In his journeys through Argentina to the places where Pope Francis was born, lived, educated and ministered as a Jesuit, Shriver not only entered into the heart of Francis, he also came into deeper contact with his own faith, values and his motivation for doing good for others. His biographical journey into the life of Pope Francis has also led him to question even his own work as head of the nonprofit, Save the Children. Mark Shriver is the son of Sargent Shriver, who ran the Merchandise Mart here in Chicago and became the first head of the Peace Corps, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, one of the founders of The Special Olympics here in Chicago.   Mr. Shriver will be joined in conversation by Rev. Pat McGrath, S.J., president of Loyola Academy and visiting priest at Old St. Pat's Catholic Church.  

In this episode, Harold Reitman, M.D. speaks with Dr. Steven Perlman in the first of a two-part interview. He is a Clinical professor of Pediatric Dentistry at The Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Co-founder and previous president of the AADMD (), and was an integral part of bringing health care services to the Special Olympics- a move that has revolutionized how the medical system interacts with the developmentally disabled. Dr. Perlman discusses why studying pediatric dentistry allowed him to directly help the disabled, the disparity in health care services available for the neurodiverse, and tells the amazing story of how treating Rosemary Kennedy at the behest of Eunice Kennedy-Shriver led to the Special Olympics’ health care services being given to millions of people around the globe. For more on the AADMD, visit: www.aadd.org For more about the health services offered by the Special Olympics, visit: resources.specialolympics.org

Eunice Kennedy Shriver. What is Special Olympics? What programs do they offer? What are the benefits of joining? Who can apply? How to apply. The difference between Special Olympics, The Olympics and Paralympics. September 19th!

Emily T Gail Show espnhawaii: West Hawaii Special Olympics Powerlifting Coach since 1996, Denise Lindsey talks to us from the 2015 Special Olympics World Games in L.A where she is coaching the 3 athletes in the photo who are from Hawaii. They are Chaunci Cummings from Kauai in Athletics (track & field), Ikaika Morita Sunada from Honolulu in Swimming and Isaiah Wong from her Powerlifting team in Kona. Denise talks about the joy of representing Hawaii at the largest sports-humanitarian event in the world this year. Denise shares stories about Special Olympics, started in 1968 by President Kennedy's sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, to celebrate athletes with intellectual disabilities including their own sister, Rose Marie. Denise also gives us an overview of West Hawaii Special Olympics,free to all the participants. They offer training to anyone interested in volunteering, coaching or learning more about our program. sowh.org for more info on West Hawaii Special Olympics.

Join Carla and LenNY on the high road of sports talk. The World Track & Field Championships in Berlin - very exciting! Usain Bolt,the fastest man on land...ever! He's no cheater, but he is a CHEETAH! Y E Yang roars louder than Tiger down the stretch on his way to victory at the PGA Championship. The new eagle has landed - Michael Vick steps on the field in Philadelphia and a redemption story begins. Eunice Kennedy Shriver had an idea that became a worldwide movement - The Special Olympics. Thank you. We will miss you. Brett Favre...back again?! Listen Up!

Join Carla and LenNY on the high road of sports talk. The World Track & Field Championships in Berlin - very exciting! Usain Bolt,the fastest man on land...ever! He's no cheater, but he is a CHEETAH! Y E Yang roars louder than Tiger down the stretch on his way to victory at the PGA Championship. The new eagle has landed - Michael Vick steps on the field in Philadelphia and a redemption story begins. Eunice Kennedy Shriver had an idea that became a worldwide movement - The Special Olympics. Thank you. We will miss you. Brett Favre...back again?! Listen Up!

In this radio documentary Richard Collins tells the history of the games from inception in 1968 to the present day and interviews Eunice Kennedy Shriver founder of the Special olympics (Broadcast 2003).

We open ourselves to wisdom as we acknowledge how little wisdom we have. We develop our hunger and thirst for Jesus. Some thoughts today on health care and the common good, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and Buzz Aldrin.

Brandon Roy, Portland Trail Blazers star stops by to discuss his new $80M contract and the future of his young team. Christine Brennan, USA Today sports columnist joins us to discuss the amazing legacy of the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the founder of Special Olympics. We also discuss the Philadelphia Eagles signing of Michael Vick.

The mother of the Special Olympics died at age 88.

In this episode, we discuss Twitter, Heidi Montag, American Idol, Squeaky Fromme, and other stuff. In the second half of the show we have a debate about Charles Manson. Intro song "Mechanical Man" by Charles Manson. Outro "Home is Where You're Happy" by Charles Manson.

The unveiling of Eunice Kennedy Shriver's portrait, featuring remarks from Bobby Shriver and artist David Lenz

Interview with artist David Lenz, creator of the newly unveiled portrait of Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Interview by NPG curator Brandon Fortune