Doris Leah Roland

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Doris Leah of Teaneck died Thursday at the Hackensack Hospice Inpatient Unit. She was 82.
Leah, whose maiden name was Rubin, was born in the Bronx in 1929 and graduated from Evander Childs High School in 1946. She graduated from Hunter College in 1951 after studying at Cornell University with her husband, Leonard Roland, a chemical engineer now also deceased.
She was inspired to go into child psychology by Cornell Prof. Uri Bronfenbrenner, and obtained a Masters degree in psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Her joy in working with children took wing when Leah was a psychologist in the Englewood, Carlstadt, and Old Tappan schools. She also worked for the ERB private testing service.
As a teenager, Leah was active in the left-wing American Youth for Democracy group, and her passion for folk-singing was fueled by Pete Seeger and Harry Belafonte concerts in Greenwich Village.
In the early and mid-1960s, Leah and her husband – joined by many Teaneck friends - actively protested the Vietnam War and supported public-school integration.
She is survived by three children: Neil Roland of Silver Spring, Md.; Paula Marcus of Greenwich, Ct., and Seth Roland of Tenafly, N.J.
She also has six grand-children: Jacob and Lenni Marcus, Joella and Micah Roland, and Hannah and Laura Roland.
The funeral will be held Sunday Sept. 11 at 10 a.m. at Gutterman and Musicant, 402 Park Street, Hackensack, NJ. The family will sit shiva from Sunday to Tuesday, 4-9 p.m., at Seth and Julia Roland's home in Tenafly.
Contributions should be made to the Hackensack Inpatient Hospice Unit.