Posted on 01/23/2011 5:25:24 AM PST by MDJohnPaul
Born in Westminster, Md., Sargent Shriver was baptised by legendary Baltimore Cardinal James Gibbons, a family friend who served as Shriver’s godfather. The internationally-known prelate was a frequent guest at the Shriver homestead in Union Mills, and his young godson often served as an altar boy when the cardinal celebrated private Masses in the family chapel.
The Shrivers owned the B.F. Shriver Company, a canning corporation with about half a dozen factories in Carroll County. Young Sargent attended St. John School in Westminster for grades one through three. After his family moved to Baltimore in 1923 when his father took a banking job, Shriver transferred to the “old” Cathedral School in Baltimore for grades four through seven. He later went to the Canterbury School in Connecticut. ... Although Shriver will be buried next to his wife in Massachusetts, it seems he had at one time longed for a different option. In a Catholic Review interview, Shriver spoke of returning to his beloved Carroll County. He recalled visiting old Westminster friends like Eddie Weant, a lawyer who lived in the same house where he had been born.
“I had kicked around the world, been everywhere, seen everybody, done everything,” Shriver said. “Was I any better than Eddie? Did I know anything about life or people he didn’t know? Was Willis Street any less interesting than Fifth Avenue, New York? I’m not sure.”
“All I do know is that Eddie and Sally have lived a full and rewarding life and almost all the values they rely upon are the same ones I learned here,” Shriver added. “No wonder I long ago bought a burial plot in St. John’s Cemetery where I hope (to be buried) one day. Then I’ll be back in Westminster where I belong – for good.”
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicreview.org ...
A lib of the first order.
Sargent Shriver, Seargent York, Dick York, Dick Sargent....too confusing.
That's more integrity than Pelosi, Jesse Jackson, Teddy "Swimmer" Kennedy, etc.
For that, he deserves some respect.
That's more integrity than Pelosi, Jesse Jackson, Teddy "Swimmer" Kennedy, etc.
For that, he deserves some respect.
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