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Eunice Wins the Juanita Kreps Award
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Eunice Wins the Juanita Kreps Award
1968 Games: Eunice's Charge to the Athletes
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1968 Games: Eunice's Charge to the Athletes
1972 Games: You are the True Champions
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1972 Games: You are the True Champions
1975 Games: An International Event
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1975 Games: An International Event
1979 Games: The Contest Can Last a Lifetime
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1979 Games: The Contest Can Last a Lifetime
1987 Games: Birth of a New Legend
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1987 Games: Birth of a New Legend
1991 Games: Come To Our World
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1991 Games: Come To Our World
1995 Games: Sport, Spirit and Splendor
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1995 Games: Sport, Spirit and Splendor
1997 Games: Look How Far You've Come
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1997 Games: Look How Far You've Come
1999 Games: Thirty Years of Progress
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1999 Games: Thirty Years of Progress
2003 Games: The Power of Love to Change the World
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2003 Games: The Power of Love to Change the World

Eunice Wins the Juanita Kreps Award

In 1999, Eunice won the Juanita Kreps Award, and this moving profile of her life, as told by Eunice, Sargent Shriver and others, was prepared for the occasion.