RETIRING SUPERINTENDENT THERESA AXFORD RECALLS 48 YEARS IN KEYS SCHOOLS

RETIRING SUPERINTENDENT THERESA AXFORD RECALLS 48 YEARS IN KEYS SCHOOLS

In 1976, a young school teacher from Philadelphia arrived in Key West, where she had accepted a job teaching English at a Catholic school then known as Mary Immaculate High School (today’s Basilica School). Theresa “Terri” Axford spent seven years teaching there and was promoted to principal before the Archdiocese of Miami closed the high school in 1986. At that time, Bookie Henriquez, then-superintendent of the county school district, hired Axf…