ARCHIVES
MR PAUL MISHURA SCHOOL ARCHIVIST
THE SCOTCH FAMILY ’ S ROLE IN CAREY BAPTIST GRAMMAR SCHOOL ’ S CREATION AND FIRST CENTURY
OLD CONNECTIONS INEXORABLY LINK SCOTCH AND CAREY HAROLD GEORGE STEELE
( SC 1900-02 )
Scotch ’ s connection with Carey preceded Carey itself . Before 1923 , there was no Baptist secondary school , and at least 199 Baptist boys had attended Scotch ( even more have attended since 1923 ). In 1919 the Baptist Union of Victoria ( BUV ) created the Baptist Secondary Schools Committee to investigate establishing the first Baptist secondary school .
On that four-member committee was Frank Emerson Thomas ( born 13.11.1886 , died 30.4.1920 ), who preached at the West
Hawthorn Baptist Church . He was also a Maths teacher at Scotch from 1916 until his death after an operation .
Joining the 17-member committee in 1920 was Herbert Sumner Martin ( born 31.1.1857 , SC 1870-72 , died 21 May 1940 ), a solicitor and honorary legal advisor to the BUV who left Carey a bequest . Others included Scotch parents William ‘ Jerry ’ Moore and William Henry Holdsworth ( also later an inaugural Carey Council member ). Moore became the inaugural President of
96 Great Scot Issue 169 – September 2023