Significant Dates of St. Catherine High School
75th Anniversary
ISSA Urban U19 Netball Champions (2023)
ISSA Urban U19 Netball Champions (2022)
ISSA Walker Cup Champions (2021 Title)
April 19, 2020
Sr. Paschal dies (fourth principal)
ISSA Walker Cup Champions (School’s first major football title)
Mr. Kenneth Neale dies
Lascelles Williams Park dedicated
Sr. Carol Mallette dies (first acting principal)
Marlon Campbell appointed first male principal
November 6, 2008
- Sr. Ann Marie Warburton dies (third principal)
- Claudia Neale served as Principal 2008-2009
Mrs. Joan Tyser-Mills appointed principal
Mrs. Colleen Brown appointed principal
The Matthew Ashe Building dedicated
June 17, 1990
Fr. Ashe dies
Mrs. Christabel Fuller appointed principal
- Ms. Madge Anderson appointed first lay/ non Catholic principal
- Sixth-form programme started (may have been 1978...Marve’s group)
February 21, 1973
Sr. Clare dies (second principal)
Reverts to co-educational status
- February 19, 1972
Sr. Mercedes dies (co-founder and first principal) - Paschal Hall dedicated
Sr. Paschal Figueroa appointed principal as Sr. Stanislaus is transferred to Mt. St. Joseph
March 1960
Moves from Convent of Mercy, Brunswick Street to St. John’s Road through the efforts of Fr. Frances Jackmaugh SJ, pastor at St Joseph.
- Grant-aided status
- Sr. Pauline Mallett acts as principal during Sr. Stanislaus Warburton’s study leave
- Sr. Stanislaus Warburton appointed principal
- First graduation
Sr. Mercedes Doorly retires (age 67) and Sr. Clare Burns appointed principal
- School colour changed from red to blue in honour of Our Lady
- House systems begin (Avila, Goretti, Lourdes, Orleans)
- Moves from St. Catherine Elementary to Mercy Convent at Brunswick Street
- Becomes girls school
Monday, September 6, 1948
- St. Catherine High School Foundation Date
- Founded by Sr. M. Mercedes RSM and Fr. M. Ashe SJ
September 1947
Fr. Ashe is sent to Spanish Town to serve as pastor of St. Joseph Church
Fr. Ashe’s birthdate (Springfield, Massachusetts)
Sr. Mercedes establishes St. Anthony’s Academy in Port Antonio
Sr. Mercedes enters the Mercy community at Alpha
Annie Doorly (Sr. Mercedes) birthdate (Brown’s Town, St. Ann)