Torchbearers: Carey Centenary History Book 2024

Books are now available for distribution.  They will be available for collection from the school (Kew Main Reception) or can be posted - please select correct option when ordering. If you select the postage option please provide mailing address.                                    

Carey Baptist Grammar School’s torchbearers required a bold and earnest determination to create and maintain an educational community that is connected by faith, innovation, resilience and a welcoming embrace. Entrepreneurial endeavour and financial struggle underpinned Carey’s early development, supported always by its wide web of connections among the Baptist community of Kew and surrounding suburbs.  Expansion to Bulleen, Donvale and Toonallook, and commitment to coeducation and internationalism transformed the school. Its community continued to believe in itself and drew on a tight-knit intimacy born of a small school, as well as on its treasured values of service and care for every person which have endured despite its size, now, as one of Melbourne’s largest schools. Richly illustrated and meticulously researched, this book tells the story of those torchbearers during Carey Baptist Grammar School’s first century.

Written by professional historian Helen Penrose. With 30 years’ experience, her diverse list of published commissioned histories includes several major independent schools.

Published by HistorySmiths, the book is a beautifully presented publication of 460 pages, including over 500 illustrations and historical documents with an extensive index, and reference lists including staff from 1923–2021.

For further information, please email erin.boyd@carey.com.au

Book size: 301mm(h)x252mm(w) with 42mm spine. Weight is 3.2kg.

Please note: Current Carey families have received a complimentary copy upon release. Current Staff have received an electronic version.