Special Collections continues our archival project Archives Gold: 50 Objects for UMBC's 50th, a special series showcasing 50 different objects that tell the story of UMBC. This week we present a photograph of the Shriver Center Board featuring President Hrabowski, Sargent Shriver, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and Mark Shriver.
Portrait of Shriver Center Board, circa 1995-1999. UARC 2013-013-07-0576, University Archives, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD)
In December of 1993, UMBC's Center for Learning Through Work and Service was transformed into the Shriver Center, named in honor of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver, sister and brother-in-law to former president John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The center was constructed on the Shriver's life goals of service, with a mission to use the resources of a higher learning university to solve and confront current social problems within UMBC and the surrounding Baltimore community.
Various pre-existing UMBC programs were continued at the new Shriver Center, including the Choice Program (a community-based, family advocacy program that works with troubled youth), while other new programs were introduced including the Shriver Peaceworker Program (a service based fellowship program that supports returned Peace Corps members). Both programs continue to be run to this day.
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