Sen. Edward M. Kennedy to receive Otis Social Justice Award
U. S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass. ) has graciously agreed to accept the Otis Social Justice Award. He will be visiting campus on Monday, Nov. 28 and the award will be presented to him in Cole Memorial Chapel at noon.
U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) will receive the Otis Social Justice Award on Monday, Nov. 28. The award will be presented to him in Cole Memorial Chapel at noon.
The Otis Social Justice Award honors the men and women who have enriched out understanding of the work that needs to be done to create a just society: promoting peace, human rights, economic parity and the protection of children.
Throughout his career in public life, Kennedy has fought to make quality
health care accessible and affordable to every American. In addition, he is
active on a wide range of other issues, including education reform and
immigration reform, raising the minimum wage, defending the rights of
workers and their families, strengthening civil rights, assisting
individuals with disabilities, fighting for cleaner water and cleaner air,
and protecting and strengthening Social Security and Medicare.
Kennedy is currently the senior Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the Senate. He also serves on the Judiciary Committee, where he is the senior Democrat on the Immigration Subcommittee, and on the Armed Services Committee, where he is the senior Democrat on the Seapower Subcommittee. He is also a member of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee and the Congressional Friends of Ireland, and a trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
Kennedy has represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate for forty-three years. He was elected in 1962 to finish the final two years of the Senate term of his brother, Senator John F. Kennedy, who was elected President in 1960. Since then, Kennedy has been re-elected to seven full terms, and is now the second most senior member of the Senate.
Kennedy is the youngest of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, and is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Virginia Law School. Kennedy lives in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, with his wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy. Together, they have five children - Kara, Edward Jr., and Patrick Kennedy, and Curran and Caroline Raclin. They also have four grandchildren.
