Timeline

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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)