BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Sister Francette Keilocker was born December 18, 1936, in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. She attended parochial elementary and secondary schools in Pittsburgh before entering the Sisters of Charity, Greensburg,Pennsylvania, in 1954.
Her Bachelor of Arts in English was received from Seton Hill College in 1965 following ten years of teaching in parochial schools and studying for the professional degree. The teaching experience ranged through all the elementary grades but concentrated chiefly on the middle school years.
In 1963 she was assigned as principal of an inner city
primary school. Two years later she assumed the principalship of an elementary suburban school. This position she maintained for five years before becoming a faculty member of Seton Hill College in 1970. Here she supervised student teachers and taught courses in foundations and curriculum.
Her Master of Education degree was earned from Duquesne
University in 1970 in elementary education. Part of her master's degree included participation in an NDEA grant in linguistics and an Evaluative Criteria Workshop at Catholic University in Washington, D. C.
Since September, 1971, she has been enrolled in the Graduate School of the University of Florida. Here she has worked
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