Three new Catholic school sites opening in 2010 blessed

- photo supplied Msgr. Fee Otterson proudly digs into the ground of his namesake school.

Special to the WCR
Edmonton

The sites of three new Catholic schools that will open in September 2010 were blessed earlier this month.

Construction is now beginning on Sister Annata Brockman Elementary/Junior High, Monsignor William Irwin Elementary School and Monsignor Fee Otterson Elementary/Junior High schools.

Brockman in the Hamptons

Sister Annata Brockman School is being built in the Hamptons at Hemingway Road and Hardy Point.

Sr. Annata Brockman

“As long as I’m alive I will take a real interest in this school just like I promised,” said Brockman, who served as a teacher and administrator for Edmonton Catholic Schools for 21 years. “And if I’m no longer alive on this earth I’ll look after them from above.”

Brockman was the last religious principal in the school district.

Monsignor William Irwin School is located in Terwillegar Towne, east of Taylor Green and Tompkins Way. Irwin, who died in 2004, was the founder and chief executive officer of Catholic Social Services. He built CSS into Canada’s largest multi-function social service agency.

The third school, Monsignor Fee Otterson Elementary/Junior High schools, is being built in Rutherford at 114th Street and 14th Avenue SW.

Otterson, a native of Edmonton and a priest for 60 years, was a teacher and administrator with Edmonton Catholic Schools for more than 30 years.

“I hope this school will be a source of faith, a place of learning; children learning to love others and love themselves and love God and I hope it’s a place of play where children will be happy,” Otterson said.

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