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Tue 18 Jan, 2011 04:21 pm
Robert Sargent Shriver, the former Peace Corps director and vice-presidential nominee, has passed away.
By Emma Brown
R. Sargent Shriver, 95, an influential public servant who served as the founding director of the Peace Corps, and whose work as head of the 1960s War on Poverty resulted in the creation of Head Start, VISTA, Job Corps and Legal Services for the Poor, has died. He had Alzheimer's disease.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmortem/2011/01/r-sargent-shriver-95-an.html
I didn't follow him enough to post any useful memories of him. The peace corps had some problems that I'm not conversant on either, lots of pros and cons, but I know at least one peace corps member of my family that really tried to help. I've read a recent article about a guy working out bringing water to villages in Nepal; now famous for that, he's trying to get the Peace Corps going again.
Anyway, rest in peace.
Sargent Shriver was the positive element of the 60's that contradicted all the negatives. there were lots of negatives, he was a very large positive.
Sad to see another piece of that bygone day pass away.
Yeah. Thursday will mark the 50th anniversary of JFK's inauguration.
He said "Ask not..."
Those were tumultuous times, weren't they? The civil rights movement and the 1st warning signs of a new war.
For a few years, many people responded. Not all of them young, necessarily.
Mr Shriver contributed greatly to making that happen.
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