During the decade of the 1960s, as the Shaker Heights school system addressed the needs and demands of racial transition in the city's southwestern neighborhoods, Moreland Elementary School was well-served by its principal, Orville Jenkins. Principal Jenkins came to Moreland in 1956 and served the school until his untimely death from cancer in 1969. Jenkins, an active member of the Church of the Saviour in Cleveland Heights, was a fiery advocate for integrated schools, and was a trustee of a number of important Shaker organizations, including the Moreland Community Association and the Shaker Heights Historical Society. This photo taken in January, 1969, nine months before he died, shows him observing students in the Individualized Learning Program which he instituted at the school in the 1960s. | Source: Shaker Heights Public Library, Local History CollectionDownload Original File
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Shaker Heights Public Library, Local History Collection
