The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

María Eloísa García Etchegoyhen de Lorenzo

To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people

and the affection of children, to leave the world a bit better,

to know even one life had breathed easier because you had lived,

that is to have succeeded. (Adapted from an original verse by Bessie

Anderson Stanley)

was a success

Montevideo Uruguay

Who was

María Eloísa García Etchegoyhen de Lorenzo? Citizen of Uruguay

Wife of Dr. Juan Carlos Lorenzo

Mother of two daughters:

Mariel Lorenzo and Isabella Lorenzo-Hubert

Mother of two sons:

Juan Carlos Lorenzo and Marcos Lorenzo

Pan American Grace: Eloísa with Marcos and Isabella

With her husband, Dr. Juan Carlos de Lorenzo, on a visit to Maryland, U.S.A.

Education

Teacher’s College, Montevideo, Uruguay

1941: B.A. in Education

1944: Specialization in Teaching Exceptional Children

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan  

1948: M.A., Clinical Psychology

Sought-after international speaker

Tireless champion for families of

people with disabilities

Consultant to the United Nations, UNESCO,

World Health Organization, UNICEF, CEPAL

Pan-American Health Organization

At Work

Eloísa, inspired speaker

joie de vivre

Sample of Positions1966-1987

Chief of the Mental Retardation (now Special Education and Preschool) Unit of the Inter-American Children’s Institute, a specialized agency of the Organization of American States. Montevideo, Uruguay

1986-1990

President of the International League of Societies for Persons with Mental Handicap. Brussels, Belgium

1992

Chair, Inter-American Committee on Education (OAS)

Good Friends

Good Cheer

HONORS1966 Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation Award

1976 Leadership Award, American Association on Mental Deficiency, Chicago, Illinois

1977 Award of Merit, President’s Committee on Mental Retardation

1985 Distinguished Achievement Award (Service in Mental Deficiency), International Association for

the Scientific Study of Mental Deficiency

HONORS1988 Eloísa de Lorenzo Award is established by

the Directing Council of the Inter-American Children’s Institute (IACI)

1988 Andrés Bello Inter-American Education Award Organization of American States (OAS)

1991 Spirit of the Special Olympics Award

1994 School Complex in Montevideo named for María Eloísa García Etchegoyhen de Lorenzo

1996 Regina Sophia Award, presented by Queen Sophia of Spain in Madrid, Spain.

On a visit to the University of Kansas Life Span Institute Beach Center on Families and Disability

SALUD

AMIGOS!

Let us have a toast….