{"id":2342,"date":"2015-09-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:58:28","slug":"profile-herbert-macdonald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-profiles\/profile-herbert-macdonald\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Herbert MacDonald, Wolmer\u2019s Boys, National Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <em>Gleaner<\/em> of 8 March 2015, \u201cSir Herbert, father of the National Stadium,\u201d places his birth in Jamaica on 23 May 1902 and his schooling at Wolmer\u2019s Boys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Stadium was built for the 9th Central American and Caribbean Games. MacDonald was one of those who pressed for a stadium and was named president of the organising committee for those 1962 Games. The paper said he \u201cwas awarded a knighthood for his stellar work at the Games.\u201d A bust by the sculptor Alvin Harriott was commissioned. The grandstand tunnel still carries his name \u2014 McDonald \/ MacDonald Tunnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/jamaica-gleaner.com\/article\/sports\/20150308\/sir-herbert-father-national-stadium\">Jamaica Gleaner, Sir Herbert, father of the National Stadium<\/a>, 8 March 2015; <a href=\"https:\/\/past.jamaica-gleaner.com\/article\/news\/20150930\/edward-seaga-sybil-francis-headline-inaugural-wolmers-hall-fame-event\">Jamaica Gleaner, Edward Seaga, Sybil Francis headline inaugural Wolmer\u2019s Hall of Fame event<\/a>, 30 September 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gleaner of 8 March 2015, \u201cSir Herbert, father of the National Stadium,\u201d places his birth in Jamaica on 23 [&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-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trust-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","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=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}