CLEVELAND (AP) - Cleveland school officials say a museum curator recently gathered acorns and buds from an oak tree planted at a Cleveland high school in honor of Olympic hero Jesse Owens.
The plan is to grow replica trees at a Southern California botanical garden.
A curator at the Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Galleries in San Marino, California, thinks the oak tree planted at Cleveland’s Rhodes High School might be one of only three surviving trees from the 20 given to Owens and other U.S. Olympians after the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin.
Owens won four track gold medals in Berlin.
Curator Tim Thibault calls Owens’ oak a “national treasure.”
Owens attended East Tech High School in Cleveland but mostly trained at Rhodes High School.
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