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Four Inducted into Munro Hall of Fame
12:40 pm, Mon October 15, 2012
(From left to right) Dr. Keith Peart, Richard Roper and wife Merle Roper, Professor Owen Morgan. Photo courtesy of Collin Reid
Munro College, the 156 year old high school for boys in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, on Sunday inaugurated its Hall of Fame by inducting the first four members.
Those inducted were Richard B. Roper, a former Headmaster, Roper’s former deputy, the late Stephen Harle and two old boys; Lindy Delaphena and John O. ‘Jackie’ Minott.
Among the four inductees, Lloyd Lindberg “Lindy” Delapenha is best known internationally because of his prowess as a professional footballer in England in the late 1940s and 1950s, playing for Portsmouth, Mansfield Town and Middlesbrough.
Life as a football pro in England was preceded by a dazzling array of achievements in schoolboy sports at Munro where he excelled, not just in football, but in every other sporting discipline in which he participated.
After life as a professional footballer in England, Delapenha returned to Jamaica where he had a very successful career in sports journalism and administration at the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation before retiring in 1997.
John Oliver ‘Jackie’ Minott attended Munro in the 1940s and early 1950s.
He’s Chairman of Jamaica Standard Products which manufactures High Mountain Coffee among other products.
He is a past Chairman of the Munro and Dickenson Trust which established Munro College in 1856 and its sister institution, Hampton School for girls in 1858.
Minott founded the High Mountain Coffee 10K Road Race in 1983 and this is now a fixture on the national sporting calendar with a growing reputation.
Richard Roper, appointed Headmaster of Munro at only 28 years of age in 1955, served the school in that capacity with distinction until his retirement at the end of 1982. According to the citation read at his induction, he saw the institution through many social and administrative changes, leaving it with an enhanced academic record and a reputation for molding “educated gentlemen”.
Stephen ‘Staggy’ Harle; Roper’s deputy for most of his time as Headmaster, was a legend among the boys for his excellence as a chemistry teacher and his administrative competence and for his outreach activities in the nearby community of Potsdam.
Two women of distinction at Munro; Mrs. Merle Roper and Mrs. Judith ‘Judy’ Harle, were also honoured; not just for the support they gave to their husbands as Headmaster and Deputy Headmaster respectively, but for their own work as educators and mentors for the boys at the institution.
The Munro College Hall of Fame was recently established by the Munro College Old Boys Association under the leadership of its new president, Senator Arthur Williams.
12:40 pm, Mon October 15, 2012
(From left to right) Dr. Keith Peart, Richard Roper and wife Merle Roper, Professor Owen Morgan. Photo courtesy of Collin Reid
Munro College, the 156 year old high school for boys in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, on Sunday inaugurated its Hall of Fame by inducting the first four members.
Those inducted were Richard B. Roper, a former Headmaster, Roper’s former deputy, the late Stephen Harle and two old boys; Lindy Delaphena and John O. ‘Jackie’ Minott.
Among the four inductees, Lloyd Lindberg “Lindy” Delapenha is best known internationally because of his prowess as a professional footballer in England in the late 1940s and 1950s, playing for Portsmouth, Mansfield Town and Middlesbrough.
Life as a football pro in England was preceded by a dazzling array of achievements in schoolboy sports at Munro where he excelled, not just in football, but in every other sporting discipline in which he participated.
After life as a professional footballer in England, Delapenha returned to Jamaica where he had a very successful career in sports journalism and administration at the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation before retiring in 1997.
John Oliver ‘Jackie’ Minott attended Munro in the 1940s and early 1950s.
He’s Chairman of Jamaica Standard Products which manufactures High Mountain Coffee among other products.
He is a past Chairman of the Munro and Dickenson Trust which established Munro College in 1856 and its sister institution, Hampton School for girls in 1858.
Minott founded the High Mountain Coffee 10K Road Race in 1983 and this is now a fixture on the national sporting calendar with a growing reputation.
Richard Roper, appointed Headmaster of Munro at only 28 years of age in 1955, served the school in that capacity with distinction until his retirement at the end of 1982. According to the citation read at his induction, he saw the institution through many social and administrative changes, leaving it with an enhanced academic record and a reputation for molding “educated gentlemen”.
Stephen ‘Staggy’ Harle; Roper’s deputy for most of his time as Headmaster, was a legend among the boys for his excellence as a chemistry teacher and his administrative competence and for his outreach activities in the nearby community of Potsdam.
Two women of distinction at Munro; Mrs. Merle Roper and Mrs. Judith ‘Judy’ Harle, were also honoured; not just for the support they gave to their husbands as Headmaster and Deputy Headmaster respectively, but for their own work as educators and mentors for the boys at the institution.
The Munro College Hall of Fame was recently established by the Munro College Old Boys Association under the leadership of its new president, Senator Arthur Williams.
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