The school's archivist began collating information on its 125 years after completing a thesis on boarding schools in Victorian and Southern NSW.

"When I finished that around 2005, I wanted to record some of those stories," she said.

"Then when I was starting to write, and unfortunately in 2014, my husband had a stroke and was very sick - everything was put to one side.

"When he died in 2018, it was really a lifesaver for me, because I had something to keep my mind occupied.

"I never thought I'd finish it ... but I've loved doing it."

Faith and Learning has been dedicated to Noelle's husband Graham, a community stalwart who was also connected to Scots through his role at the Albury Wodonga Development Corporation.

"We came from Melbourne in 1975, and Graham was the marketing economist at the Corporation," she said.

"When the school was in dire straits, they called on the Development Corporation ... he actually helped with marketing."

That difficult period for Scots was soon after it had been created in an amalgamation of Albury Grammar and Woodstock Presbyterian Ladies College in 1972.

"When Alistair Todd came in 1978, they were able to sell [former school] Woodstock," Mrs Oke said.

"So all the money that came from the land helped the debt, and they started off with virtually a clean slate, and a very good principal.

"He has helped me with this book and has been very generous."

There is light and shade across the 300 pages, as any fair representation of history would have.

The Pipe Band symbolic of Scots was once at risk from being disbanded, when the 11 girls came to the rescue in the 1975 International Women's Year.

"Co-education was the biggest change," Mrs Oke said.

"The principal's wife, Joy, really got into things like drama and music, which pulled the girls into the school more, and encouraged the boys to be participants too."

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One of Mrs Oke's favourite pieces of history in the book is the story of the Gillespie Oval housing the newly raised 2/23rd Infantry Battalion at the beginning of World War II.

"The showgrounds had moved out of that area, to where it is now North Albury, and the old show grounds were right next door to the school," she said.

"So the Army commandeered the showgrounds, and put two lots of 400 men in there.

"At that stage, the school cadet corps had only really been in operation for one or two years.

"The stories I heard were they helped the trainee soldiers with their drill, helped them mount the first guard and loaned them rifles because they didn't have enough equipment."

Mrs Oke, who has worked as the school's development director, hopes to have captured the school's ethos in Faith and Learning, which can be purchased via the school's website.

"It looks outwards and has a very strong community service ethos," she said.

"Children are encouraged to have pride in their work."