Old school: Murray Girls delivered Taita’s first female graduate

Murray Girls produced the first graduate female in Taita. Photo: Renson Mnyamwezi

Miss Marjorie Murray, a missionary, established Murray Girls High School as a girls’ primary boarding school at the Coast in 1941 with one of the earliest African teachers being father of former Mwatate MP Maj (rtd) Marsden Madoka.

The Church Missionary Society (CMS) would later develop it as a co-education institution in 1960 before converting it into a full girls’ secondary school the following year with Rev V. Verbi, a white missionary in-charge of CMS, donating the 38 acres where it sits along the Mwatate-Wundanyi road.