The Semiahmoo High School Alumni Association was founded in the late 1980s to ensure the preservation of heritage of the first Semiahmoo High School in White Rock, B.C. upon its move to a new facility. The declared objective of the association is to provide financial assistance to the students of Semiahmoo High School, to foster the "tradition of excellence" established by students and staff of the school, to support the educational role of the school in the community, and to serve as advocate for the educational goals and aspirations of students and alumni. The Alumni Association is a volunteer organization, and draws its members from alumni and alumnae of the school.

The organization of school and class reunions falls into the mandate of the association as well, and to this end members assist in identification and contacting alumni, and in collecting materials for exhibit purposes from the school's administration as well as from former students, and student bodies.

The wing is the first logo on record for Semiahmoo High School and was designed by Claire Henry for the first annual in 1941.		The red & white Torch logo (left) was used at the Surrey High School before Semi opened and was the basis for the Torch logo (right) used on Semi's first newsletters.
	The Alumni Association are still looking for more of the totem images to complete our collection. This detailed Totem (left) was used in the Sixties and Seventies.		In 1980 this more stylized Totem was designed by Art Teacher Wally Sandvoss.
This 1991 Totem combined the 1980's design with a much larger book as a background and was designed for the move to the current Semiahmoo Secondary School location on 148 street.		To commemorate 60 years of Semiahmoo this logo from 2000 combines the original wing design with the Totem logo.

This stylish red & blue Totem was around for a few years before giving way to an even more detailed design.

The current Semiahmoo logo features the school name and slogan around a red & blue Totem that faces straight forward.

The Alumni Association's logo combines the style of the current school logo with the head-turned Totem image.

History of the School
Semiahmoo was officially opened on November 29, 1940 with 283 students. It was a three storey wood frame building and it contained 14 classrooms, a library, an Industrial Education shop, and a gym. The gym was 50’ by 80’ and had a large stage at the south end.

Semiahmoo is named after the First Nations People who inhabited the area around Semiahmoo Bay prior to the arrival of Europeans. Until the fall of 1940, students from both White Rock and Surrey traveled to attend school in Cloverdale at Surrey High School or across the border to Blaine High School. As the school population continued to grow, Surrey High School became very crowded. Petitions began to circulate locally to request a new high school. By 1940 students were temporarily housed in the basement of the White Rock Public School, and in the old Campbell River Saw Mill Office, until the school was finished.

Mr. Harley Abbott was the school’s first principal. The school began as a grade 7 to 12 school, but by the early 1950s included grade 13. By 1945, the rapid growth in school population forced some of the grade sevens to remain in the neighbouring elementary schools.

By 1951, overcrowding had become a problem. By 1953 enrolment had climbed to 410 in a school designed to accommodate 330. In the 1958 a new six room Science wing was constructed on the east end of the school to meet the needs of the new experimental based sciences. In the 1960s an additional six room academic wing was built on the west side of the old building along with a new Industrial Education wing and a Band Room.

With the opening of White Rock Junior High in 1958 the grades 8 to 10 attended there and Semiahmoo became a grade 11 to 13 school. The grade 13 class, which had begun in the early 1950s, ended in the June of 1969 as Douglas College had opened.

Semiahmoo officially merged with White Rock Junior in 1989 in a reconstructed and enlarged secondary school at the White Rock Junior site. The old Semiahmoo became part of the White Rock Elementary School that had expanded rapidly with the growth of French Immersion and a Fine Arts Program. The Old Semiahmoo was torn down in 2004.