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Object Description

Object ID

2008.020.021

Title

Langley High School's 1950 graduating class.

Date

1950.

Description

Langley High School Graduation, 1950. Front row (l to r): Anna Kaskas, Dorothy Murphy, Evelyn Goertz, Gladys Butler, Betty Isaak, Eunice Olson, Lily Sater, Margaret Kidoo, Gay Skelton, Kay Joughlin, Ina Fisk, Isabel Clarke, Lorna Gunderson, Marie Shuttleworth, Marjorie McMillan, Noyra Baker, Grace Foley, Vivian Stromsten, Beryl Goodman, Muench, Evelyn Bryan, Janet Hood, Helen Devine. Second row (l to r): Vera Janz, Karine Halversen, Rosalie Fletcher, Viola Preston, Caroline Lang, Hedy Deglan, Margaret Foster, Clara Friesen, Eileen Malic, Joan Koscuik, Verna Fast, Isla Loucks, Irene Dyck, Leona Jenks, Lila Isaac, Patsy McClughan, Verna Bloedow, Lucile Worden, Grace Seath. Third row (l to r): Bob ?, Ken Pike, ?, Dick Brent, Bob Ostergard, Norman Anderson, David Middleton, Bob Gruno, Bernie Techlenborg, Lawrence Hope, George Morley, Bob Mountain, Ernie Bird, John Reidweg, Don Rees, Harold Gillis, George Schwab. Fourth row (l to r): Steve Moleski, ?, Arthur Dodd, Charlie Gandy, ?, Ken Halliday, Don McGregor, Ted Smaback, ?, Hans Froese, Denny Ross, Ford Binson.

People/Subject

Dodd, Art

Langley Jr. Chamber President for a time.

Fletcher, Rosalea

In grade 11 at Langley High School in 1949.

Hope, Laurence (Larry)

Larry Hope is the son of Alex and Mabel Hope.

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.

Mountain, Bob

Olson, Eunice

school portraits

Smaback, Ted

Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-367/1136)

Stromsten, Vivian

In grade 11 at Langley High School in 1949.

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