17 August 2016

Sister Deirdre O’Loan, a former Catholic Junior College (CJC) principal and supervisor of the Convent of Holy Infant Jesus (CHIJ) schools in Singapore, passed away last Saturday morning (Aug 13) of pancreatic cancer. She was 83.

She had received the Public Service Star in 2014 for her contributions to education.

She had been a General Paper teacher with CJC since its founding in 1975 and headed its English department. In 1986, she was appointed vice-principal before she served as principal from 1988 to 1994.

As supervisor of the CHIJ schools since 1994, Sister Deirdre actively gave principals of the CHIJ schools a lot of support and direction to uphold the mission and motto of the schools.

Ms Vivienne Lim, chairman of the CHIJ Board of Management, said that Sister Deirdre was a well-loved educator who gave her life to nurturing and educating generations of girls and building up the 11 CHIJ schools here in Singapore.

Her funeral mass will be held at St Joseph Church on Upper Bukit Timah Road on Wednesday (Aug 17) at 10.15am.