{"id":2584,"date":"2024-05-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/uncategorized\/watch-proud-wolmerians-celebrate-295-years\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T12:00:00","slug":"watch-proud-wolmerians-celebrate-295-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-news\/watch-proud-wolmerians-celebrate-295-years\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Proud Wolmerians celebrate 295 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Jamaica Observer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May 21, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/pride295-2024-x0.jpeg\" alt=\"Wolmerians celebrate the 295th anniversary, 21 May 2024. Photo: Jamaica Observer\" class=\"wp-image-2002\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wolmerians celebrate the 295th anniversary, 21 May 2024. Photo: Jamaica Observer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KINGSTON, Jamaica \u2013 Hundreds of students, staff and alumni of the Wolmer\u2019s Trust Group of Schools turned out Tuesday to celebrate the 295th anniversary of the institution, the oldest school in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wearing maroon and gold, the proud members of the school community \u2013 which includes the all-boys and all-girls\u2019 high schools as well as the prep school \u2013 marched through the streets of Kingston in celebration of the occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rohan Powell, communications specialist at the Ministry of Justice, was among the many past students who participated in the festivities, which began with a thanksgiving service at 8am. He beamed with pride as he expressed what the school meant to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am very proud to be a Wolmerian. I am so happy that I entered this school gate in 1983. It was five years, some good years, some challenging, but I stood my ground, learnt a lot and it has helped me in my adult life. I wouldn\u2019t have had it any other way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTwo hundred and ninety-five years is a remarkable achievement and for us to be still around, still celebrating, is a joy,\u201d Powell told Observer Online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wolmer\u2019s group of schools was founded on May 21, 1729, the day John Wolmer made his last will and testament, by which he left the bulk of his estate for the foundation of a free school in the parish in which he happened to die. The sum of the legacy was \u00a32,360.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, in honour of the Wolmer\u2019s Trust of Schools\u2019 290th anniversary, Governor General Sir Patrick Allen declared May 21 as Wolmer\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Wolmer&#039;s schools celebrate 295th anniversary\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5HJBkv6zbds?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Observer\u2019s next-day write-up is on this site: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-news\/maroon-and-gold-pride-wolmers-schools-celebrate-295-years\/\">Maroon and gold pride<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/2024\/05\/21\/watch-proud-wolmerians-celebrate-295-years\/\">Jamaica Observer<\/a>, 21 May 2024. Republished for the Wolmer\u2019s Trust community with attribution.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trust keeps the day here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wolmers-day\/\">Wolmer\u2019s Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jamaica Observer May 21, 2024 KINGSTON, Jamaica \u2013 Hundreds of students, staff and alumni of the Wolmer\u2019s Trust Group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trust-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","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=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}