{"id":2192,"date":"2008-10-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/uncategorized\/wolmers-fetes-fraser-frater-beijing-2008\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:59:10","slug":"wolmers-fetes-fraser-frater-beijing-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-news\/wolmers-fetes-fraser-frater-beijing-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolmer\u2019s f\u00eates Fraser and Frater after Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/old.jamaica-gleaner.com\/gleaner\/20081007\/lead\/lead2.html\">Jamaica Gleaner<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"249\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wolmers-fetes-fraser-frater-beijing-2008-feat.jpg\" alt=\"Shelly-Ann Fraser signs autographs at Wolmer\u2019s Girls. Photo: Junior Dowie \/ Jamaica Gleaner, 7 October 2008\" class=\"wp-image-2212\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shelly-Ann Fraser signs autographs at Wolmer\u2019s Girls. Photo: Junior Dowie \/ Jamaica Gleaner, 7 October 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" height=\"244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wolmers-fetes-fraser-frater-beijing-2008-x.jpg\" alt=\"Pauline Findlay presents Michael Frater with a plaque at Wolmer\u2019s Girls. Photo: Junior Dowie \/ Jamaica Gleaner, 7 October 2008\" class=\"wp-image-2213\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pauline Findlay presents Michael Frater with a plaque at Wolmer\u2019s Girls. Photo: Junior Dowie \/ Jamaica Gleaner, 7 October 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>October 7, 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KINGSTON, Jamaica \u2014 The Gleaner of 7 October 2008 reported that police could not keep Wolmer\u2019s Boys\u2019 and Girls\u2019 students from mobbing Olympic gold medallists Shelly-Ann Fraser and Michael Frater when the two, \u201cpast students of the Heroes Circle-based schools,\u201d visited on an Olympic homecoming tour the day before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A mural of Fraser met visitors at Wolmer\u2019s Girls. Students held placards and shouted \u201cWe love you!\u201d Wayne Marshall, \u201calso a past student,\u201d performed <em>This Moment<\/em>. Fraser said: \u201cIt is amazing! I thank everyone for the support.\u201d She \u201ccredited Wolmer\u2019s Girls for her accomplishment, saying the discipline she received at the school assisted in honing her talent.\u201d Frater spoke against violence toward children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/old.jamaica-gleaner.com\/gleaner\/20081007\/lead\/lead2.html\">Jamaica Gleaner<\/a>, October 7, 2008. Republished for the Wolmer\u2019s Trust community with attribution.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jamaica Gleaner October 7, 2008 KINGSTON, Jamaica \u2014 The Gleaner of 7 October 2008 reported that police could not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trust-featured","category-trust-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192","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=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2727,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions\/2727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}