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LEFT PAGE : 1884 PLANS OF ‘ MILDURA ’ ( LATER ’ URANGELINE ’) AND PHOTO OF CAREY ’ S FOUNDATION STUDENTS AND STAFF – BOTH COURTESY OF THE CAREY ARCHIVES .
ABOVE : 1 . DAVID BUXTON . 2 . HAROLD STEELE . 3 . HOWARD BUXTON . 4 . STANLEY DOERY . 5 . STAN STEWARDSON . 6 . WILLIAM HOLDSWORTH . 7 . HOWARD JENKIN . 8 . COLIN SPICER . 9 . ALAN BARBER .
Carey ’ s Council , but his son , Dr William Harold James Moore ( born 31.12.1893 , SC 1905-12 , died 22.8.1975 ), was on Carey ’ s Council ( 1929-65 ) and was its Chairman ( 1939-52 ), one of the longest periods of service on Carey ' s Council . Holdsworth ’ s son William Goldthorpe Holdsworth ( born 18.10.1911 , SC 1917-22 , died 19.1.2009 ) left Scotch to become a foundation Carey boy ( 1923-27 ) and was Carey ’ s first old boy to become a medical practitioner .
Also on the inaugural Council was Abia Neville , father of David William Neville ( born 6.3.1900 , SC 1917 , died 4.3.1989 ) who – like many before him – was born too early for a Baptist secondary school education . Another was Alfred Albert Milton Spicer , the father of Colin Albert John Spicer ( born 27.4.1910 , SC 1921-22 , died 19.6.1979 ), who left Scotch to become a foundation Carey boy ( 1923-26 ). He began alongside a non-Scotch brother and cousins .
Carey ’ s foundational leadership came from Principal Harold George Steele ( born 25.1.1884 , died 7.8.1967 ). In Carey ’ s House system , Steele House is named for him . A Baptist , Steele attended Scotch under Alexander Morrison from 1900 to 1902 , and led Carey until retiring in 1944 . Helen Penrose ’ s centenary history of Carey records that he was appointed by the Baptist Church to ‘ inculcate a high moral tone and impose strict discipline , and encourage gentlemanly conduct and religious observance ’. Under Steele , who saw his fledgling school through the Great Depression and most of World War II , ‘ Carey became a wholesome , familyoriented , caring school ...’. It was the youngest of the five new schools invited in 1957 to join the Associated Public Schools .
An 1884 mansion was purchased in 1922 as Carey ’ s first building . Originally named ‘ Mildura ’, it was built for solicitor James Cooper Stewart , and it was from there that his son Frederick William Stewart ( born 23.4.1872 , SC 1883-86 , killed 15.6.1916 in France in World War I ) went to Scotch in East Melbourne . In 1899 , it was bought by Thomas and Sarah Rand , who renamed it ‘ Urangeline ’, and from it their son Robert Reginald Rand ( born 28.7.1902 , SC 1915-19 , died 15.6.1944 ) travelled to Scotch .
When Carey began on 13 February 1923 , it was well stocked with past – and future – Scotch boys . Apart from Holdsworth and Spicer , Stanley Gordon Doery , Howard James Jenkin , Stanley James Stewardson , Alan Lorraine Barber , Benjamin Howard Buxton and David Montgomery Buxton were there that day , with Stewardson and the Buxtons later attending Scotch . Frank Ernest Heymanson began in June 1923 and the following year joined Scotch .
It naturally took Carey time to establish its reputation , and for many years it was used by families as a prep school for Scotch boys . At least 323 have moved from Carey to Scotch , with at least 47 going the other way . Some brothers have attended Scotch , and the others , Carey . Among Old Boys who have taught at Carey are the Rev . Bill Pugh ( SC 1947-51 ), who was a chaplain during his 20 years there . Despite competition between the schools , and – at times – strong rivalries in basketball and rowing , the two schools will continue to have inextricable links .
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