Editing Eunice Kennedy Shriver (section)

==Early life, education, and early career==
Eunice Mary Kennedy was born in [[Brookline, Massachusetts]], on July 10, 1921.<ref name="auto">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/us/12shriver.html|title=Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Influential Founder of Special Olympics, Dies at 88|first=Carla|last=Baranauckas|date=August 11, 2009|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> She was the fifth of nine children of [[Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.]], and [[Rose Kennedy|Rose Fitzgerald]].<ref name="cnndeath">{{cite news |last=Grinberg |first=Emanuella |date=n.d. |title=Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies |work=CNN |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/11/eunice.kennedy.shriver/ |access-date=August 11, 2009}}</ref> Her siblings included U.S. President and Senator [[John F. Kennedy]], U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator [[Robert F. Kennedy]], U.S. Senator [[Ted Kennedy|Edward Kennedy]], and U.S. Ambassador to Ireland [[Jean Kennedy Smith]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/eunice-kennedy-shrivers-death-leaves-2-living-kennedy-siblings|title=Eunice Kennedy Shriver's Death Leaves 2 Living Kennedy Siblings|date=March 25, 2015|website=Associated Press}}</ref>

Eunice was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart School in [[Noroton, Connecticut]], and [[Manhattanville College]]. She studied at [[Stanford University]] where she competed on the swimming and track and field teams.<ref>{{cite web |title=Eunice Kennedy Shriver is 'Teddy' winner |url=https://ncaanewsarchive.s3.amazonaws.com/2001/Association-wide/ncaa-award-recipient-has-lived-a-life-of-giving---12-3-01.html |publisher=[[National Collegiate Athletic Association]] | date = 3 December 2001 |access-date=7 June 2024}}</ref> After graduating from Stanford in 1943 with a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree in [[sociology]],<ref name=wpost/> she moved to [[Washington, D.C.]] and worked for the Special War Problems Division of the [[United States Department of State|U.S. State Department]]. Kennedy eventually moved to the [[United States Department of Justice|U.S. Justice Department]] as executive secretary for a project dealing with [[juvenile delinquency]]. During her time in Washington, she shared a townhouse in [[Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)|Georgetown]] with her brother John, then a U.S. Congressman.<ref>{{cite web |title=John F. Kennedy's Residences |url=https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/life-of-john-f-kennedy/fast-facts-john-f-kennedy/john-f-kennedys-residences |website=www.jfklibrary.org |access-date=6 August 2023}}</ref> Kennedy served as a [[social work]]er at the [[Alderson Federal Prison Camp|Federal Industrial Institution for Women]] for one year before moving to [[Chicago]] in 1951 to work with the House of the Good Shepherd [[women's shelter]] and Chicago Juvenile Court.<ref name="auto"/>