Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Eunice Kennedy Shriver will be the first living woman to be honored with a commemorative U.S. coin--for her work in founding the Special Olympics for the disabled. The Treasury Department said Tuesday that Shriver's profile will be on a silver dollar that will go on sale in May. There will be about 800,000 coins costing about $35 apiece, with part of the proceeds benefiting the Special Olympics. Shriver, 73, founded the Special Olympics in 1968.

The partnership of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger was a collision of two worlds, an unlikely but watchable match. Twenty five years ago, when they married, Shriver was a child of American Democratic political royalty — pedigreed, pampered and with a professional ambition unusual for the women of her clan. Schwarzenegger was a fading strongman and minor movie actor with immigrant dreams as outlandishly big as his biceps. Schwarzenegger, 63, would go on to world domination — of the cinematic sort, as a top international box office star — and then the California governor's office.

It's Friday night in a small plane bound for Allentown, Pa., and Eunice Kennedy Shriver is asking questions. She wants to know about Jane Austen, though no subject, it would seem, could be less relevant to Shriver's immediate interests--Special Olympics and the mentally retarded--than a 19th-Century English novelist. But since her questions have brought her to her seatmate's favorite author, she wants to know: What was Jane Austen like? Was she the one with the nasty father?

When Sargent Shriver was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2003, he seized the moment as an opportunity to tell the public and help raise awareness of the disease. Shriver died Tuesday at 95. The longtime architect of social change and his wife, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founded the Profiles in Courage Awards that have been presented at the Alzheimer's Assn.'s annual galas since 2004. The association says of his death: "The Shriver family continues to raise awareness about Alzheimer's by contributing to an increased dialogue about the disease among Americans and by encouraging the government to increase their focus on Alzheimer's disease, including vocal support for the National Alzheimer's Project Act, an Alzheimer's Association-supported landmark act signed into law by President Obama in early January.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a sister of President Kennedy and founder of the Special Olympics, was in critical condition Friday with a postoperative infection. Shriver, 79, had a benign pancreatic tumor removed Oct. 12, and doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital had predicted a full recovery. She was released Oct. 21. But Shriver was readmitted Monday after complaining of pain.

Nathan Hashbarger was not thinking about drugs or the problem of teen pregnancies when he arrived at the school district's headquarters for a meeting early Thursday morning. But Hashbarger, 13-year-old student body vice president at Isaac L. Sowers Middle School in Huntington Beach, and two dozen other middle school students were shortly to confront those issues and other difficult questions. They started by meeting Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of President John F. Kennedy.

Maria Shriver has long sought to protect her privacy as California's First Lady, but today she brought thousands to tears with an extraordinary evocation of her grief two months after the death of her mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver. During a luncheon session at the Women's Conference she is chairing in Long Beach, Shriver told attendees that she stood before them "with a broken heart." She said she has told people that she is holding up well, but "the real truth is that I'm not fine.

Grateful for her work Re "Eunice Kennedy Shriver: 1921-2009; Tireless advocate for mentally disabled," Obituary, Aug. 12 As the parent of a special-needs adult, I am particularly grateful to Eunice Kennedy Shriver for her courage and imagination. By providing a platform for those with special needs and their families -- and the opportunity to feel "normal" for a moment, a day, a race or a swim -- her effort to create the Special Olympics is inestimable. Thousands of families just like mine have been able to proudly cheer on their child as he or she strives to compete.

Like their parents before them, many of the so-called fourth generation of the Kennedy family are public servants, attorneys, authors and activists. They, too, have suffered addiction, divorce and untimely ends. With the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the family patriarch, public attention has naturally turned to the next generation of the family many liken to American royalty. The question on many minds: Will the Kennedys ever produce another political giant? It may not, however, be a question the Kennedys are asking themselves.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of the late President John F. Kennedy, remained in critical condition Monday, a week after entering Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment of a postoperative infection. "Her family continues to be grateful for and to ask for the prayers and support of people everywhere," her son, Mark Shriver, said. Shriver, 79, had a benign pancreatic tumor removed Oct. 12, and her doctors said they expected a full recovery after her Oct. 21 release.

Maria Shriver has long sought to protect her privacy as California's First Lady, but today she brought thousands to tears with an extraordinary evocation of her grief two months after the death of her mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver. During a luncheon session at the Women's Conference she is chairing in Long Beach, Shriver told attendees that she stood before them "with a broken heart." She said she has told people that she is holding up well, but "the real truth is that I'm not fine.

Like their parents before them, many of the so-called fourth generation of the Kennedy family are public servants, attorneys, authors and activists. They, too, have suffered addiction, divorce and untimely ends. With the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the family patriarch, public attention has naturally turned to the next generation of the family many liken to American royalty. The question on many minds: Will the Kennedys ever produce another political giant? It may not, however, be a question the Kennedys are asking themselves.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat and icon of American liberal politics who was the last surviving brother of a legendary political family, died Tuesday. He was 77. Kennedy died in Hyannis Port, Mass., the Associated Press reported. Kennedy had been in declining health since suffering a seizure in May 2008. Subsequent tests determined that he had a malignant brain tumor, and weeks later he underwent surgery at Duke University Medical Center to remove the tumor.

Grateful for her work Re "Eunice Kennedy Shriver: 1921-2009; Tireless advocate for mentally disabled," Obituary, Aug. 12 As the parent of a special-needs adult, I am particularly grateful to Eunice Kennedy Shriver for her courage and imagination. By providing a platform for those with special needs and their families -- and the opportunity to feel "normal" for a moment, a day, a race or a swim -- her effort to create the Special Olympics is inestimable. Thousands of families just like mine have been able to proudly cheer on their child as he or she strives to compete.

HK Bain was home in suburban Denver last week, hardly paying attention to the television, when he heard a snippet of Sarah Palin's speech to the Republican convention that stopped him in mid-step. "To the families of special-needs children all across this country," Palin said, "I have a message: For years, you sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters. I pledge to you that if we are elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House."

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of the late President Kennedy, who founded the Special Olympics and championed the rights of the mentally retarded, has been hospitalized in Boston. Shriver, 86, was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital on Nov. 18 and was in fair condition, said a hospital official who did not release further information. Shriver is also the sister of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and the mother of California First Lady Maria Shriver. In June, Gov.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the mother of California's first lady, Maria Shriver, was recovering at UCLA Medical Center on Monday after a minor stroke and stress fracture in her hip, according to hospital administrators. Shriver, 84, was admitted to the hospital Saturday. "Doctors anticipate a short hospital stay," a statement from the administrators said. Dan Page, a spokesman for the medical center, said it would have no further information beyond the statement. Shriver is the sister of Sen.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of the late President Kennedy, who founded the Special Olympics and championed the rights of the mentally retarded, has been hospitalized in Boston. Shriver, 86, was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital on Nov. 18 and was in fair condition, said a hospital official who did not release further information. Shriver is also the sister of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and the mother of California First Lady Maria Shriver. In June, Gov.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the mother of California's first lady, Maria Shriver, was recovering at UCLA Medical Center on Monday after a minor stroke and stress fracture in her hip, according to hospital administrators. Shriver, 84, was admitted to the hospital Saturday. "Doctors anticipate a short hospital stay," a statement from the administrators said. Dan Page, a spokesman for the medical center, said it would have no further information beyond the statement. Shriver is the sister of Sen.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of the late President John F. Kennedy, remained in critical condition Monday, a week after entering Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment of a postoperative infection. "Her family continues to be grateful for and to ask for the prayers and support of people everywhere," her son, Mark Shriver, said. Shriver, 79, had a benign pancreatic tumor removed Oct. 12, and her doctors said they expected a full recovery after her Oct. 21 release.