This website gives access to an essay published in May, 2013. The essay reflects on Roger Kay's re-founding of what are now the Bury Grammar Schools, but which in 1726, the date of Kay's re-founding, would have been only a school for boys. The first founding of a grammar school in Bury occurred in or about 1570. Publication of the essay is a celebration of the 350th anniversary of Roger Kay's birth year.
The essay is: "Remembering Roger Kay, Again: Endowment and Constitution in the Past, Present and Future of the Bury Grammar Schools." The file opens from this link with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Publication is the prelude to the launching of an ambitious initiative to re-connect the Schools to their globally distributed alumni/ae, Old Clavians, too many of whom have lost a connection to the Schools that they value but would be willing to support if approached. Their name derives from the School motto, "Sanctas Clavis Fores Aperit."
Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith ('62), Davis, California. May, 2013.
contact@rememberingrogerkay.com
The essay is: "Remembering Roger Kay, Again: Endowment and Constitution in the Past, Present and Future of the Bury Grammar Schools." The file opens from this link with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Publication is the prelude to the launching of an ambitious initiative to re-connect the Schools to their globally distributed alumni/ae, Old Clavians, too many of whom have lost a connection to the Schools that they value but would be willing to support if approached. Their name derives from the School motto, "Sanctas Clavis Fores Aperit."
Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith ('62), Davis, California. May, 2013.
contact@rememberingrogerkay.com