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Munro College is a boarding school for boys in St Elizabeth, Jamaica. It was founded in 1856 as the Potsdam School (named for the city of Potsdam), a school for boys in St. Elizabeth as stipulated in the will of plantation owners Robert Hugh Munro and Caleb Dickenson.
One of seven children, Jones grew up in rural Jamaica and was educated locally, then at the prestigious boarding school Munro College, and subsequently attended Haverford College in Pennsylvania. After Haverford, he went to the Gaza Strip in Palestine in 1949, with the American Friends Service Committee, which organized the refugee camps there ...
Apr 30, 2016 · The illustrious history of Munro College, a traditional British-type grammar school (British-like weather and all), is deeply interconnected with the colourful history of Jamaica itself as a...
May 11, 2023 · From Munro, he went to Haverford College, Pennsylvania, because of his mother’s affiliation to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), and taught at the George School in Pennsylvania and Wesleyan University, Connecticut, before moving to the United Kingdom (UK).
Apr 30, 2016 · Munro was a truly microcosmic United Nations in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The daily regimen included dormitory competitions (overseen by a house master and prefect on duty for the day), breakfast...
Apr 30, 2016 · Charles Plummer Munro’s first headmaster came from a Kentish family but spent his entire life in Jamaica. He started the school in 1856 with only seven or ei...
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5 hours ago · Thirty-one of the secondary school’s 35 buildings were damaged by Hurricane Beryl last week. It will take US$2 million (J$310 million) or more to get Munro College in Potsdam, St Elizabeth, back up and running following Hurricane Beryl’s destructive passage, which left 31 of the 35 buildings on the school’s compound mangled.
