The Spirit of Isabel Kellum
 
The Scholarship Fund was established to honor and perpetuate the work of Isabel Kellum who devoted her life to the education of young people. Isabel was the mother of six children.  Born in Louisiana, she spent her adult life as a resident of Berkeley.  She inspired young people in many years of dedicated teaching at the St. Columba Parish School, and service as Junior Daughter Counselor with the Ladies of Saint Peter Claver.  In 1979, the year Isabel retired from teaching, the scholarship fund was created. Saint Columba Parish continued the work after her death on January 2, 1988. 
 
Her granddaughter, Celeste Stanley, is a parishioner with two children of her own. Celeste remembers the fun, warm, loving home her grandparents kept, inviting the parish priests in on Sunday afternoons. Her grandmother was a teacher at home, quizzing Celeste on her grammar. Isabel enabled generations of Saint Columba students to achieve what they did not dream was possible.  The Committee deeply appreciates the efforts of our community to support the scholarship fund and the work to which Isabel Kellum devoted her life.