by the Catholic Diocese of Port Harcourt as a Girls Secondary Commercial School on its temporary site at Harbour Road with Rev Sr. Maria De Lourdes as the Pioneer Principal. Rev. Sr. Theresa Ozonma (Nee Okafor) and Rev. Sr. Regis Ojiegbe became Principals of the school at different times before the civil war. The school moved to its permanent site, No. 20 Nembe Street, Borikiri, Port Harcourt before the out-break of the civil war in 1967.