Way We Were: The 'most magnificent Games'

Way We Were: The 'most magnificent Games'

They said Park City was too small to host the Special Olympics. Yet, by the end of the Games, people remarked that it was one of the “most magnificent Games ever staged in the history of the Special Olympics.” For some, maybe this came as a surprise. For Parkites, it was par for the course.  In June 1962, Eunice Kennedy Shriver began a summer day camp in her home in Maryland for children with intellectual disabilities. The camp took off, and in …