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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.

Kathreen (Kathie) Amelia Nash was born July 24, 1928 on the family farm four miles northwest of Huxley, Alberta. to parents Bernard and Letty Mildred Nash (nee Crocker). In 1943, when Kathie was 15, her father moved the family to the Fraser Valley, where he had been raised, and where his parents, John Angas and Alice Nash, lived in Fort Langley. After staying for a few months in Fort Langley, the family moved to a small acreage in Aldergrove, and Kathie attended Langley High School. In the fall of 1946 she enrolled in "Nursery Aides" training at the Infants Hospital on Haro Street. In January of 1949 Kathie married Ed (Harry Edward) Peterson, the brother of her roommate, Evelyn, and moved to Silverdale. The couple had three daughters, Christine (b. 1951), Patricia (b. 1953) and Avril (b. 1954). In 1956 the couple bought a house on four acres in Mission under the Veteran's Land Act. In 1974 Kathie and Ed separated, and Kathie began taking classes in the Early Childhood Education program at Fraser Valley College. She later directed the practicums of other students and taught classes for the program, eventually completing her Bachelor of Arts degree and moving to Abbotsford in 1981. She retired in 1991.
Term Source: Nash: A Heritage" by Kathreen Nash.

Teacher at Langley High School.