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In 1986, Mary Cato joined St. Bernadette on secondment from the Accra Technical Training Centre. She had just been interviewed to be promoted to Assistant Director of Education as a teacher of 23 years standing with the Ghana Education Service (GES) and had intended to stay only one year at St. Bernadette but she would stay for 25 years instead and in that time, became a strong tower of development in the school through her distinguished service.
On the occasion of her 80th birthday marked on December 4, 2020, the article tells some of her story with extracts from her forthcoming memoir, Mary Cato: Life and Service.