Deaths
In the 2006-2007 school year student Josh Shelton died on crashing into a tree with his car one night shortly after obtaining his driving license on turning 16. There was a second student death during the 2008-2009 school year, when Kaitlyn Fitzgerald, a member of the 2009 graduating class, died of cancer. The student body created a volleyball series in her honor, named "Spike Leukemia," held annually every volleyball season. In the 2010-2011 school year there were five unrelated deaths: Seniors Nicholas "Doobie" Doub and Jessica Davis, Freshman Brooke Edwards, and two teachers (one suicide, and one heart attack). In the 2011-2012 school year a freshman drowned. At the start of the 2012-13 school year a recent graduate died of leukemia, and another died in a single-vehicle accident believed to have been due to sending text messages while driving.
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)