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EV ■HliTBRY Once upon o time, almost o century ago. in 1885, settlers built a one-room schoolhouse on the remote farmland west of Minneapolis. This schoolhouse. stonding on the spot where Meadow-brook Elementary School now stands, was the humble beginning of our school district. The years passed, and the orea of Golden Valley developed. The tiny school expanded to four rooms in 1922. During the sparse years of the depression, though the school's teachers finally became accredited, the principal had to be dropped due to his lack of high school credits. Dy the time World War II ended, the (continued on poge 7) S
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G.V. HISTORY school, Meodowbrook District 89. provided for grodes 1-8. but wos Informed by the state's educational system thot It hod to supply Its students with o secon-dary education in addition to on elementary one. Other sections of Golden Valley conglomerated with Robblns-dale or Hopkins, but the Meodowbrook oreo held out. Ignoring the store, sending Its students to Jefferson and proudly taking the name: Independent School District 275. Yet. by 1955, a survey by the Unlver-sity of Minnesota Field Studies felt it would be eosier for the Meodowbrook district to merge with another. Yes. even In the 50’s. before anyone from the Class of '80 was born, the merger battle was fought. That time, though unsuspecting that their decision wouldn't lost, the anti-merger people won out 713 to 101. Still, there wos the high school problem. The district voted to appropriate Sl.250,000 to build Meo-dowbrook High School. In 1956 ground wos broken with great optimism for the new building, and they changed the name to Golden Valley High School. There were a few delays, but by Feb. 9, 1958, the high school wos completed and hod its formol dedication. Thus, our high school was born. The high school's first faculty wos small. The first graduating class, the Closs of '59, numbered only In the thirties. but os the yeors progressed, the school population grew. Eventually the faculty wos enlarged, the new additions now familiar faces. o.Jeon DeVilllers 6 Judd Nelson (1963). b.Tom Stevens b Undo Halverson. (1967). c.Sondy Storblrd (1976). d.Connie Swonson (1966). e.Rondy Kurtz (1978). f.Noncy Stott 6 Morgan Nelson (1962). 7
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