A HISTORY of the former Kerang College was launched at the Sir John Gorton Library in Kerang recently.

The publication, A Spirit of Excellence, was written by Tresco resident John Jobson, whose mother and two aunts attended the school.

"The college began when a determined lady arrived at Kerang in 1889 and began her private school in the Mechanics' Institute," Mr Jobson writes in his forward.

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