Memorial services lieid for Celia Doughtery

Memorial services were held Monday for longtime teacher, principal and school board member Celia Doughtery. She died 25 at her home after a long battle with cancer. She was 59. Dougherty began her career as a classroom teacher and the classroom remained the love of her life throughout her career in education. She held positions as department head, resource teacher, vice principal, principal, and school board member. Her speciality was language development and reading. Her fellow teachers remember that she was the only one whom they had seen teach high school age children how to read when no one had succeeded with them' before. Students at Santiago Junior High and El Modena High School where she was vice principal could always count on her to listen carefully to their problems and guide them as they explored together positive solutions to their problems. At the time of her death, she was principal of Taft School, the largest elementary school in the Orange Unified School District. Teachers praised her focus on the core curriculum, her insisten cethat every child be seen as capable of learning. She also focused on helping teachers develop full potential through a continuous program of staff development. Colleagues: in the Anaheim City School District Board of Education could count on her to give attention to lowering class sizes, programs to improve student achievements and employee morale. Betty Patterson, a colleague on the board, said Celia always felt "a person's work should make a difference. Well, in Celia's case she succeeded. She did make a difference here." Dougherty was the recipient of an array of awards and positions of responsibility. Included among these were the Right to Read coordinator; PTA. Advisory Council; California Textbook Evaluation Committee; Coordinator Reading Olympics; lifetime member of the. local, state and National Reading Association; Who's Who in the West; Reading Education Guild; Outstanding Leader in Education; Masonic Lod