Serra Catholic officials: Kalkbrenner was ‘the beating heart of her class’

By Justin Vellucci

Trib Total Media

The morning unfolded in chaos. When Serra Catholic High School Principal Bob Childs heard that a school van carrying four of his students to the McKeesport school had crashed around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, he immediately went to the scene. By the time he arrived near Mansfield Bridge in Dravosburg, paramedics had pronounced Serra Catholic sophomore Samantha Lee Kalkbrenner dead. Three other students, whose names have not been released, were on their way to UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.

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