Hobart’s star students: St Mary’s College graduates who have excelled after school
St Mary’s College, a predominantly girls school on the outskirts of the city, was founded more than 150 years ago and has produced a wide range of accomplished students.
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WE continue our series celebrating some of Hobart’s outstanding living high achievers.
We asked the city’s major schools and colleges to share their lists of outstanding alumni with us.
We invited them to submit between 10 and 50 of their most celebrated former students — names which they are proud to claim as their own.
Today’s featured school is St Mary’s College, a kindergarten to Year 12 school situated on the outskirts of the city which is predominantly a girls school, but accepts boys up to Grade 2. It was founded in 1868.
Here is the St Mary’s College list, ranked by senior Mercury editors in order of achievement.
Our series continues tomorrow with Calvin Christian School Southern Christian College.
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