Daley Anne Burke, co-founder,1968 Special Olympics Games Stanley Harrison, founding board member, Special Children’s Charities Jack McHugh, founder, Special Children’s Charities. Beverly Campbell is named director of community relations.įrom left: Frank Pauley, VP of the Iron Workers union and early Special Children's Charities board member Richard Kirby, founding board member, Special Children’s Charities man in back, name unknown Chicago Mayor Richard J. A seven-member Board of Directors is named: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Frank Hayden, Robert Cooke, Rafer Johnson, Thomas King, James Lovell and G. Edward Kennedy holds a news conference to announce the formation of Special Olympics, Inc. Special Olympics is officially incorporated, with Beverly Campbell, Wallace Duncan and Dr. Hayden was also executive director of the games. Eunice Kennedy Shriver is honorary chairman. Arthur Peavy William McFetridge, Anne McGlone Burke and Stephen Kelly of the Chicago Park District and Olympic decathlon champion Rafer Johnson. William Freeberg, Southern Illinois University Dr. The advisory committee to the Chicago Special Olympics includes Dr. The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago - a joint venture between the Kennedy Foundation and the Chicago Park District. The event was so successful that Eunice Kennedy Shriver soon pledged that more games would be held in 1970 and every two years thereafter in a "Biennial International Special Olympics." Kennedy Flame of Hope." Over 200 events were offered, including broad jump, softball throw, 25-yard swim, 100-yard swim, high jump, 50-yard dash, water polo and floor hockey. The Opening Ceremony included a teen runner carrying a torch to light a 45-foot high "John F.
Shriver embraces the project and asks Anne McGlone Burke to enlarge the scope to include athletes from around the country.Īnne McGlone Burke travels to Washington to meet with Kennedy Foundation staffers to continue discussion of a large-scale athletic event for people with intellectual disabilities.Įunice Kennedy Shriver and the Chicago Park District hold a news conference to announce plans for the first "Olympic" games for young people with intellectual disabilities.Ībout 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities from the USA and Canada competed in the first Special Olympics International Summer Games in Chicago. A proposal is made to Eunice Kennedy Shriver and the Kennedy Foundation. The Chicago Park District begins plans for a citywide track meet modeled after the Olympics. This was a revolutionary idea at the time.
The goal is to see if these young people-most of whom lived in institutions-could participate in sports and physical activities. Eunice Kennedy Shriver starts an innovative summer camp for young people with intellectual disabilities at her home in suburban Washington, D.C.
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