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The high school is named after John I. Leonard, who served as the first president of Palm Beach State College (then Palm Beach Junior College) and as Palm Beach County superintendent of public schools from 1936 to 1947. [3] On August 7, 1964, Melvin J. Adolphson was named as the first principal of the new high school, [4] which opened in 1965. [3]
The school opened as Forest Hill High School in 1959; [4] it is situated next to the West Palm Beach Country Club and I-95 in the southwestern corner of the City of West Palm Beach on a compact 17.38-acre (70,300 m 2) tract. A larger building replaced the original structure on the same site in 2004. The school was first accredited in 1961.
The school began the process of desegregation in 1961 when Yvonne Lee entered the school, one of only four African-American students attending otherwise all white schools in Palm Beach County that year. Seacrest remained almost all white, and Carver remained all African-American, until 1970, when Carver High School was closed and its student ...
In 1900, land developer George Currie plotted a strip of land in the north end of West Palm Beach to provide homes for African Americans forced to leave their living quarters in the "Styx" on South County Road on Palm Beach Island. [1] He called the area Pleasant City, gave the streets pleasant-sounding names, and sold the 100 x 50 lots for ...
The Diocese of Palm Beach (Latin: Dioecesis Litoris Palmensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in eastern Florida in the United States The patron saint of the diocese is Mary, mother of Jesus, under the title Queen of the Apostles.
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This category includes those persons who attended or graduated from Western Governors University located Salt Lake City, Utah and has campuses across the United States. For more information, please see List of Western Governors University people and Western Governors University .
Almost all of the 2,000 students attending PBJC in the early '60s were white. The first Black student, Mary Warren, enrolled in 1960. The Palm Beach County School Board governed the college at ...