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He was on Canterbury's baseball, basketball, and football teams, became the editor of the school's newspaper, and participated in choral and debating clubs. [9] On June 9, 2023, Shriver was inducted into the Canterbury School Athletic Hall of Fame for all three sports.
R. Sargent Shriver (born November 9, 1915, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.—died January 18, 2011, Bethesda, Maryland) was an administrator, diplomat, first director (1961–66) of the U.S. Peace Corps, and Democratic nominee for the U.S. vice presidency in 1972.
18 Jan 2011 · R. Sargent Shriver, the Kennedy in-law who became the founding director of the Peace Corps, the architect of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s war on poverty, a United States ambassador to France...
R. Sargent Shriver. Robert Sargent Shriver was born on November 9, 1915 in Westminster, Maryland to Robert and Hilda Shriver. After graduating from the Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut, which he attended on a full scholarship, Shriver spent the summer in Germany as part of the Experiment in International Living, returning in the ...
Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. (November 9, 1915 – January 18, 2011) was an American politician who was the first director of the Peace Corps from 1961 until 1966, then he was the first director of the OEO from 1964 until 1968, and was the 21st ambassador to France from 1968 until 1970.
Peacebuilder, Public Servant. In a career of public service and civic leadership spanning the second half of the 20th century, Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. (“Sarge”) confronted a range of seemingly intractable conflicts that at times pitted Americans against each other, and at others the United States against other nations.
Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver. As founder of the Peace Corps, Head Start, the Special Olympics (with wife Eunice Kennedy Shriver), and other organizations, Sargent Shriver was a key social and political figure whose influence continues to the present day.
