{"id":2317,"date":"2015-03-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2026-08-17T21:58:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:58:03","slug":"avis-henriques-jamaica-scholar-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-profiles\/avis-henriques-jamaica-scholar-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"Avis Henriques, Jamaica Scholar, later CD \u2014 Wolmer\u2019s Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <em>Gleaner<\/em> of 2 March 2015, \u201cThe Wolmer\u2019s Family Pays Tribute to Avis Henriques,\u201d wrote: \u201cA recipient of the Jamaica Scholarship in 1942, she returned to her alma mater to teach French, Latin and English to decades of Wolmer\u2019s girls.\u201d A later <em>Gleaner<\/em> profile (7 March 2015) and a Who\u2019s Who file say 1943. Both years are on the record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was later Commander of the Order of Distinction. The <em>Gleaner<\/em> of 27 February 2015 recorded CD for services to the business community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/past.jamaica-gleaner.com\/article\/news\/20150302\/wolmer%E2%80%99s-family-pays-tribute-avis-henriques\">Jamaica Gleaner, The Wolmer\u2019s Family Pays Tribute to Avis Henriques<\/a>, 2 March 2015; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamaica-gleaner.com\/\">Jamaica Gleaner<\/a>, 27 February 2015; 7 March 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gleaner of 2 March 2015, \u201cThe Wolmer\u2019s Family Pays Tribute to Avis Henriques,\u201d wrote: \u201cA recipient of the Jamaica [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trust-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","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=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}