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Wolmer’s Preparatory School began on September 16, 1941 on the Wolmer’s Girls’ School campus. Mrs. Evelyn Skempton, the principal of Wolmer’s Girls’ School, was responsible for starting it. Initially, it served as a feeder school for young girls moving into the Girls’ School, with boys joining the Preparatory School after 1957.
Patsy Robertson (née Pyne) [7] [8] was born in the Malvern district of Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica, the fifth child of eight. [1] In 1945, she won a coveted scholarship to attend Wolmer's Girls' School in Kingston (where her sisters Kathleen and Helen were also educated).
Ivy Baxter was born on March 3, 1923, in Spanish Town, Jamaica. [1] She was the youngest of six daughters. When her mother died while Baxter was young, she was raised by an aunt. [2] [3] She attended Wolmer's Girls School in the 1940s, where she learned English country dance. Around this time, she also converted to Catholicism.
Helen Pyne-Timothy (1937 – 2015) [1] was a Jamaican feminist literary critic and academic, who was a founder and the inaugural president of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS), a contributing editor of the journal MaComère, and the author of the 1998 book The Woman, the Writer and Caribbean Society.
The ISSA Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Championships (better known as Champs) is an annual Jamaican high school track and field meet held by Jamaica's Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association. The five day event, held during the last week before Easter in Kingston , has been considered a proving ground for many Jamaican athletes.
She attended St. Catherine High School and undertook Sixth form studies at Wolmers' Girls' School. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in accounting and economics, and a master's degree in accounting, from the University of the West Indies, Mona. [3]
Two teens challenging New Hampshire's new law banning transgender girls from girls' sports teams, Parker Tirrell, third from left, and Iris Turmelle, sixth from left, pose with their families and ...
[18] [19] Throughout her time at the Wolmer's High School for Girls, she was uncertain about pursuing a career in track and field. [20] However, she was active on the youth athletics scene, competing in the famous Inter-Secondary Schools Boys and Girls Championships (known locally as "Champs"), and winning 100 m bronze at age 16.