{"id":2162,"date":"2017-05-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/uncategorized\/wolmers-honours-rocky-meade-2017\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:58:18","slug":"wolmers-honours-rocky-meade-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-news\/wolmers-honours-rocky-meade-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolmer\u2019s honours Rocky Meade, old boy and then Chief of Defence Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/2017\/05\/07\/wolmers-honours-rocky-meade\/\">Jamaica Observer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May 7, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wolmers-honours-rocky-meade-2017-feat.jpg\" alt=\"Rocky Meade with Hardley Lewin, Antony Anderson and Milton Samuda. Photo: Aston Spaulding \/ Jamaica Observer\" class=\"wp-image-2161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wolmers-honours-rocky-meade-2017-feat.jpg 499w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wolmers-honours-rocky-meade-2017-feat-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rocky Meade with Hardley Lewin, Antony Anderson and Milton Samuda. Photo: Aston Spaulding \/ Jamaica Observer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Observer reported that the Wolmer\u2019s fraternity honoured Chief of Defence Staff Major General Rocky Ricardo Meade at the Jamaica Pegasus \u2014 \u201cone of its own heroes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trust Chairman Milton Samuda presented a citation on Meade\u2019s years at Wolmer\u2019s Boys\u2019 School and his path from the cadet corps into the Jamaica Defence Force, and a chairman\u2019s mug inscribed with Meade\u2019s name. Meade thanked Samuda for the \u201cunexpected honour\u201d and for inspiration received from him \u201cas his head boy while at Wolmer\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/2017\/05\/07\/wolmers-honours-rocky-meade\/\">Jamaica Observer<\/a>, May 7, 2017. Republished for the Wolmer\u2019s Trust community with attribution.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Also: JIS, 14 October 2011 (left Wolmer\u2019s Boys in 1982).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jamaica Observer May 7, 2017 The Observer reported that the Wolmer\u2019s fraternity honoured Chief of Defence Staff Major General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trust-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2690,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions\/2690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}