Celtic Newsletter Spring 2017

Saying goodbye From student to parent to teacher, Catherine Ann Doherty Campbell has been part of Roanoke Catholic for nearly 60 years

The year that little Catherine Ann “Kate” Doherty Campbell first stepped foot inside Roanoke Catholic School, the average cost of a new home was $12,750.

1958 marked the beginning of Campbell’s journey at Roanoke Catholic – a wide-eyed first grader (no preschool or Kindergarten back then) whose father worked two jobs, and sold his wife’s homemade

dishtowels on the side, in order to afford the tuition for her and her two brothers. For the next 60 years, Campbell symbolized that passion for Roanoke Catholic: first as student, then parent, teacher – even match-maker. This year she retired. “On our first workday this year, a dear friend came with a paper chain with 180 colorful links,” Campbell says. “So everyday I selected a student to announce to the class a blessing that they

Cincinnati’s baseball team was officially the Redlegs out of fear that fans would associate their former name, the “Reds,” with communism. And a junior high schooler was receiving a B- on a class assignment which had students design a new 50-star U.S. flag (his grade was later changed to an A when his design was adopted by Congress).

Kate Campbell in 1st grade