Shriver Center presents Scott Stossell



Shriver Center presents Scott Stossell

On Tuesday November 16th from 5:30-7:30pm the Shriver Center at UMBC proudly presents:

Scott Stossel, author of Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver.

Mr. Stossel is senior editor at the Atlantic Monthly and we are pleased to have him join us to speak about his long awaited biography of Shriver, the founding father and first director of the Peace Corps. Shriver is one of the truly great Americans of the 20th century. During the Kennedy and Johnson administrations he was the backbone of the New Frontier, envisioning and implementing numerous programs that have since become household names: The Peace Corps, VISTA, Head Start, Legal Services for the Poor.to name just a few. Married into the Kennedy family, he and his wife Eunice Kennedy Shriver began Special Olympics in the yard of their Rockville MD home and have developed it into an international organization involving more than a million people from over 150 countries. Shriver's local connections to Maryland run deep. For more than two centuries his family has been influential in state politics­they founded Maryland's Democratic Party!­and Maryland catholic history­a young Sarge served the last mass of Baltimore's Cardinal James Gibbons!

Don't miss this chance to hear much more about Sarge from his official biographer!

A social with refreshments will follow Mr. Stossel's presentation.

For directions to the Shriver Center in UMBC's Public Policy Building visit: www.umbc.edu and click "map."

To get your copy of Sarge visit your local bookstore or keyword "Sarge" at www.amazon.com (.Dont forget to bring it along for signing!)

For more information contact Joby Taylor (410-455-6398 or joby.taylor@umbc.edu )

When this story was posted in October 2004, this was on the front page of PCOL:

Director Gaddi Vasquez: The PCOL Interview PCOL sits down for an extended interview with Peace Corps Director Gaddi Vasquez. Read the entire interview from start to finish and we promise you will learn something about the Peace Corps you didn't know before. Plus the debate continues over Safety and Security.

Schwarzenegger praises PC at Convention Governor Schwarzenegger praised the Peace Corps at the Republican National Convention: "We're the America that sends out Peace Corps volunteers to teach village children." Schwarzenegger has previously acknowledged his debt to his father-in-law, Peace Corps Founding Director Sargent Shriver, for teaching him "the joy of public service" and Arnold is encouraging volunteerism by creating California Service Corps and tapping his wife, Maria Shriver, to lead it. Leave your comments and who can come up with the best Current Events Funny?

Peace Corps: One of the Best Faces of America Teresa Heinz Kerry celebrates the Peace Corps Volunteer as one of the best faces America has ever projected in a speech to the Democratic Convention. The National Review disagreed and said that Heinz's celebration of the PCV was "truly offensive." What's your opinion and can you come up with a Political Funny?

Read the stories and leave your comments.