History

ST TERESA'S GIRL'S HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL, DARJEELING 

DARJEELING WAS STILL A VERY SMALL TOWN IN 1926 WITH A SPARSE SCATTERING OF CATHOLIC FAMILIES AND NO EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES FOR THEIR CHILDREN. FATHER VAN TICKLEN S.J. SUGGESTED THAT A SCHOOL FOR GIRLS SHOULD BE STARTED. SO UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE NOVICE MISTRESS, MOTHER M.BAPTISTA ON THE FEAST OF ST TERESA OF LESIEUS, 3 OCT 1926, ST TERESA'S SCHOOL CAME INTO BEING. SEVEN LITTLE GIRLS WERE THE FIRST PUPILS. AMONG THEM WAS AGNES STEPHENS, WHO FOR MANY YEARS WAS PORTRESS IN LORETO CONVENT, DARJEELING. FROM A TINY GROUP OF SEVEN STUDENTS THE SCHOOL HAS REACHED A NUMBER OF SIXTEEN HUNDRED AND HAS STILL NOT WAVERED FROM THE ORGINAL GOAL, THAT OF MOULDING THE CHARACTER OF YOUNG NEPALI GIRLS AND SHAPING THEM INTO WOMEN OF SUBSTANCE. 

OVER THE YEARS, SISTERS OF THE LORETO COMMUNITY HAVE SERVED ST TERESA'S AND HAVE ALL LEFT THEIR MARK AND TAKEN THE INSTITUTION TO NEW HIGHTS.

1926 - MOTHER M. BAPTISTA MURPHY 

1931 - MOTHER FRANCIS TERESA D'SANTOS

1952 - MOTHER JOSEPH ANTONIO BURKE

1956 - MOTHER MONICA D'COSTA

1957 - MOTHER FRANCIS XAVIER MURRAY

1958 - SR. RASARIO O'DONNELL

1972 - SR. CHRISTINE GURUNG

1993 - SR. ANTOINETTE

1997 - SR. ELIZABETH CHATTERJEE

2012 - SR. DR. MARILLA D'SOUZA

2014 - SR. ANIMA KUJUR .