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Object ID

2018.018.001

Title

Langley High School Class of 1946-1947.

Date

1947.

Description

Black and white photo of the graduating class of Langley High School, 1946-1947; 52 students in total; small photo of Langley High school in the centre. Names of the students from the top left to bottom right read: First Row: Gloria Fox, Ronald Harvard, Isabel Burkholder, Georgina Rutlidge, Victor Hackery, Elsie Bradock, Dick Brown, Ruby Craig, Jack Muench, Nancy Trappit. Second Row: Jean Davis, Donald Campbell, Jean Berry, Jack Powell, Nada Lenson, George Twelves, Selma Jorgenson, Helen Reid. Third Row: Jack Springford, Audry Turner, Ruth Steves, Rege Welb, Don Faulkner, Betty Latimer. Fourth Row: Marian Krause, Eva Mattson, Seward Easingwood, Lorna Schriber, Allen Gray, Pat Goerge, Iris Weibe, Iris Davis. Fifth Row: Don Ross, Elizabeth Brown, Lou Soppit, June Lawrence, Dave Latimer, Barry Lee, Eileen Dew, Molly Bolton, Larry Durkson, Elmer Newman. Sixth Row: Doreen Mooney, Irene Grakul, Lloyd Ekholm, Douglas Routley, Lois McCarther, Vera Goddard, Roy Matts, Irene Peterson, Edwin Rennie, Betty Benman.

People/Subject

Langley High School

In 1909 the first high school class was organized and held in rented quarters in Murrayville. From 1911-18, classes were held in Belmont Superior School (later Murrayville Elementary), but the school became overcrowded with elementary and high school students. The school board approached the Municipal Council, but their request for a new schol was turned down twice. The board resigned, but the next board was more successful and local contractor Owen Hughes was hired on a low bid of $11,900. The School Board temporarily found room for the overflow pupils from Murrayville in the downstairs portion of Milner Hall and by renting the Sharon Presbyterian Church Hall. In 1922, Langley High School moved from Murrayville to Milner School, where it remained until Langley High School was built on Yale Road in 1924. Langley High School opened in 1924 with two classrooms and one science room. It taught grades 9 to 12. Additional rooms were built in 1934. In roughly 1947 the new school on the current property (2005) was built, and it included Grades 11 and 12. In 1948, the old building on Fraser Highway became Langley Central Elementary, and the high school students moved to the current location (2006) at Langley SECONDARY School. In 1985 the school went from Grades 8-12.
See Also: Langley Secondary School
Term Source: History of Langley Schools" by Harry McTaggart, Maureen Pepin, and Norman Sherrit.

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