Bursary student and BGS Old Boy Toby Buckley '17 took a unique path to Brisbane Grammar School. It started with a letter to Headmaster Anthony Micallef in 2015, penned himself, without his parents' knowledge, when partway through Year 10 at a small beach-side school in NSW.
Buckley was offered a bursary to attend BGS and lived as a boarder in Harlin House, where he completed Years 11 and 12. Graduating with a perfect 99.95 ATAR and runner up to Dux, he was awarded a BGS Foundation Day scholarship to attend The University of Queensland, starting a Bachelor of Biomedical Science with provisional entry into medicine. Long term he said he hoped to work with not for profit organisations to provide medical aid to third world countries, and to give back to BGS and Harlin House through the 2017 Year Group Bursary.
"Without the BGS bursary I would have struggled to pursue a tertiary education," he said. "It changed the course of my life and has allowed me to meet many incredible people from all walks of life."
Source: Grammar News Winter 2018. Read the original edition