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:
“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)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)