MANDEL SCHOOL
NEWS AND EVENTS
August 16, 2011
MSASS Mourns Loss of Emeritus Professor Edmond Jenkins
A memorial service for Edmond Jenkins will be held at 5 p.m. on Thursday, August 18, at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. The church is located at 2172 E. 49th St. in Cleveland, just south of Cedar Avenue.
Professor Jenkins died on August 4, 2011. He taught at the Mandel School from 1969 until his retirement in 1992. He directed "Project Go" during the time he was at MSASS. Dorothy Maroff, assistant to the director at the Lillian F. & Milford J. Harris Library, remembers how Jenkins donated the first audio-visual materials there.
Professor Jenkins was named "Outstanding Teacher" in 1982. He held dual degrees from Case Western Reserve University — a Master of Arts degree in theater from the College of Arts and Sciences and a Master of Science in Social Administration from SASS.
For those of us who knew him, there wasn't anyone brighter or with a more biting sense of humor. He was a gourmet cook who spearheaded many of our faculty staff potlucks, considered the entire month of April to be "his birthday", worked as a playwright and director (most notably at the East Cleveland Community Theater), and used theater methods to teach social work classes. He will be missed and remembered by the MSASS community.