Early Life
Carey was born in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan on March 15, 1928. His parents were Joseph P. Carey, a geography professor at Central Michigan University and Ida B. Carey. He graduated from Mt. Pleasant High School in 1946, attended Central Michigan from 1946 to 1948 and then Michigan State University from 1948 to 1950, graduating with a B.A. with a major in Speech, Radio and Dramatics. His broadcast career was interrupted in 1950 with the outbreak of the Korean War. Carey was drafted in October 1950 and served in the Fourth Infantry Division, the first NATO division. He was a squad leader staff sergeant in a weapons platoon.
Carey told WJRW radio in Grand Rapids that he attended College Elementary School in Mount Pleasant, MI. "We had student teachers, and it was a place where teachers learned to teach. They did a lot of testing, and they'd give us surveys often...tests about what you wanted to with your life, that sort of thing. They'd give you three possibilities, and my first two always were either sports writer or sportscaster, or sports announcer. And the third was cartographer, because my dad was a geography professor. I was a sports writer for a while with the Isabella County Times-News, and then I tranferred to Michigan State, because I realized I could say it a lot easier than I could write it. So, I wanted to get into broadcasting.
"But when I was in 6th grade, I used to practice doing play-by-play with a spinner and with dice, and I'd mimmick announcers like Ted Huising,who was an outstanding sportscaster back in the 1930s. I lived a dream."
Carey's father taught at CMU for nearly 30 years. "And my brother later was a vice president at Central. They all have bachelor's degrees. And my two sisters and my brother." One of the residence halls (Carey Hall) at CMU was named after his father.
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