{"id":2472,"date":"2011-08-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/uncategorized\/audrey-de-sola-pinto-wolmers-girls-head\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:58:48","slug":"audrey-de-sola-pinto-wolmers-girls-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-profiles\/audrey-de-sola-pinto-wolmers-girls-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Audrey de Sola Pinto, head of Wolmer\u2019s Girls, 1962\u20131984"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style id=\"wt-page\">\n@import url(\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Cinzel:wght@600&family=EB+Garamond:ital,wght@0,400;0,600;1,400&family=Inter:wght@400;500;600&display=swap\");\n.wt-page { --maroon:#5C0E14; --gold:#C9A24A; --cream:#F8F1E1; --ink:#1A1A1A; --line:#D9CFB8;\n  background:var(--cream); color:var(--ink); font-family:\"EB Garamond\",Georgia,serif; font-size:20px; line-height:1.55; }\n.wt-page * { box-sizing:border-box; }\n.wt-page a { color:var(--maroon); }\n.wt-page .wrap { width:min(760px, calc(100% - 40px)); margin:0 auto; }\n.wt-page .hero { background:#5C0E14; color:#F8F1E1; }\n.wt-page .hero .wrap { padding:56px 0 36px; }\n.wt-page .eyebrow { font-family:Inter,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12px; letter-spacing:.22em; text-transform:uppercase; color:#C9A24A; margin:0 0 10px; }\n.wt-page h1 { font-family:Cinzel,Georgia,serif; font-weight:600; font-size:clamp(28px,4vw,42px); margin:0 0 8px; color:#F8F1E1 !important; line-height:1.15; }\n.wt-page section { padding:48px 0; }\n.wt-page h2 { font-family:Cinzel,Georgia,serif; font-size:22px; letter-spacing:.06em; margin:28px 0 8px; color:#5C0E14; }\n.wt-page .rule { width:56px; height:2px; background:#C9A24A; margin:0 0 22px; }\n.wt-page p { margin:0 0 16px; }\n.wt-page .lead { margin:0 0 24px; }\n.wt-page .lead img { display:block; width:100%; height:auto; }\n.wt-page figcaption { font-family:Inter,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px; color:#555; margin:8px 0 0; }\n.wt-page .src { margin:0; padding-left:1.1em; font-size:16px; }\n.wt-page .src li { margin:0 0 8px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"wt-page\">\n  <section class=\"hero\"><div class=\"wrap\">\n    <p class=\"eyebrow\">Profile<\/p>\n    <h1>Audrey de Sola Pinto, head of Wolmer\u2019s Girls, 1962\u20131984<\/h1>\n  <\/div><\/section>\n  <section><div class=\"wrap\">\n      <p>Audrey de Sola Pinto was headmistress of Wolmer\u2019s Trust High School for Girls. She was not an old girl. The Jamaica Observer of 6 August 2011 recorded that she was educated at St Andrew High School, Kingston, not at Wolmer\u2019s.<\/p>\n      <p>The same Observer Life Tribute said she was born in the Canal Zone, Panama, of an English father and a Jamaican mother; took a BA Honours from Birmingham University; taught at St Hugh\u2019s and at St Andrew High; then taught at Kingshurst High School for Girls in Warwickshire, England. Her appointment at Wolmer\u2019s Girls\u2019 School took effect in April 1962, on the eve of Independence. The paper printed a report that one trustee had worried that, as a Jewess, her conducting prayers with the girls might present a difficulty. The Observer said she did conduct prayers, in a mildly ecumenical way, with Kingston Parish Church as the school\u2019s spiritual home and with occasional visits by Rabbi Bernard Hooker.<\/p>\n      <p>She stated her philosophy as: \u201cTo aim for excellence within your capabilities and to educate the children to face the realities of life.\u201d The Observer named as her main achievement \u201cthe broadening of the curriculum, excellent performance and the increased capacity of the school,\u201d and her belief, \u201clong before it became popular to say so, that girls receiving an academic education should also know how to do things.\u201d It recorded sixth-form integration with the boys in the 1960s and 1970s; a sports expansion beyond netball and tennis; and, in the mid to late 1960s, a combined school choir under Hazel Lawson-Street of the girls\u2019 school and Sydney Morris of the boys\u2019 school. She was invested with the Order of Distinction for services to education in 1982.<\/p>\n      <p>The Observer of 6 August 2011 reported the funeral on Monday morning, 25 July 2011, at the Jewish Cemetery on Orange Street, in the Matah House chapel, conducted by Stephen Henriques. Pauline Findlay, chair of the Wolmer\u2019s Board of Management, delivered a tribute on behalf of Wolmer\u2019s Girls\u2019 Alumnae (WOGA), Trust Chairman Milton Samuda, and the principals of the Boys\u2019 and Girls\u2019 schools, Dr Walton Small and Colleen Montague. Findlay read excerpts from <em>In the Light of The Sun<\/em>.<\/p>\n      <h2>Sources<\/h2>\n      <div class=\"rule\"><\/div>\n      <ul class=\"src wt-sources\">\n        <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/2011\/08\/06\/wolmers-says-goodbye-to-audrey-de-sola-pinto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jamaica Observer, 6 August 2011, \u201cWolmers says goodbye to Audrey de Sola Pinto\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-news\/audrey-de-sola-pinto-wolmers-girls-2011\/\">Wolmer\u2019s Trust News reprint, 6 August 2011<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/history\/\">Wolmer\u2019s Trust, History \u2014 Girls principals (prints 1962\u20131985)<\/a><\/li>\n      <\/ul>\n  <\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Profile Audrey de Sola Pinto, head of Wolmer\u2019s Girls, 1962\u20131984 Audrey de Sola Pinto was headmistress of Wolmer\u2019s Trust High [&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-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trust-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","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=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2711,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}