Sister Helen St. Paul Herberich, OSF, a former principal of the old Towson Catholic High School who earlier had taught at Catholic High School and the Shrine of the Little Flower, died Sunday of heart failure at Assisi House in Aston, Pa.
She was 95.
Helen Christine Herberich was born and raised in Philadelphia and was a graduate of John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls' High School. She received a bachelor's degree in biology from the Catholic University of America and master's degree in biology from Villanova University.
Sister Helen entered the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia in 1941 and professed her vows in 1944.
During her 22 years in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, she began teaching in 1957 at the Shrine of the Little Flower, and later at Catholic High School.
From 1972 to 1974, she was principal of the old Towson Catholic High School, which closed in 2009.
She also served on various committees that helped develop the science curriculum and criteria for Catholic elementary schools.
She was co-author of the Science and Life Series published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. She was also selected as an experimental teacher in a program for the Harvard Project in Physics.
After leaving Baltimore in 1974, she taught at the Padua Academy in Wilmington, Del., and held teaching assignments at West Catholic High School in Philadelphia and at Lansdale (Pa.) Catholic High School.
In 1986, Sister Helen worked as administrator of Our Lady of Angels Convent, the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia motherhouse in Aston. She later volunteered as assistant administrator at Assisi House, the congregation's retirement residence, where she also served as a pastoral associate.
Since 2006, she was a resident of Assisi House and was active in its prayer ministry.
A Mass of Christian burial was offered Friday at Assisi House.
She is survived by several cousins.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen