Miriam Speid is on the 1929 Wolmer\u2019s Old Girls\u2019 roll and among the bicentenary subscribers. That is the Wolmer\u2019s fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
JIS (2005) and the Observer<\/em> (2018) name her founder of Merl Grove High School, with her father Nathaniel Speid. JIS in June 2005 said she \u201cstarted the school 80 years ago\u201d; the Observer<\/em> in November 2018 called that year\u2019s founders\u2019 week the 94th anniversary. Both papers\u2019 words stand. The Observer<\/em> adds that the school is owned by the Associated Gospel Assemblies. JIS records an annual Miriam Speid Scholarship in the founder\u2019s name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Gleaner<\/em> (1 January 2026), in Alma Mock Yen\u2019s obituary, states that Speid was principal of Merl Grove when she hired Mock Yen, aged fourteen, after Senior Cambridge. Mock Yen taught there ten years. A Gleaner<\/em> photograph caption of 12 February 2016, looking back to 1972, calls Speid a member of the Wolmer\u2019s Girls School Board of Trustees and founder also of Dunrobin High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sources: Wolmer\u2019s School Bi-Centennial Booklet<\/a>, 1929; JIS, Merl Grove Alumni Urged To Mentor Current Students<\/a>, 27 June 2005; Jamaica Observer, Dead student graduates<\/a>, 20 November 2018; Jamaica Gleaner, Alma Mock Yen mourned<\/a>, 1 January 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Miriam Speid is on the 1929 Wolmer\u2019s Old Girls\u2019 roll and among the bicentenary subscribers. That is the Wolmer\u2019s fact. […]<\/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-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trust-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","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=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2524,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Sources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n