they didn’t stop this one!!!!

…….Maybe we should ban bridges and other high places
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http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070323/NEWS01/303230039/1056/COL02

Principal kills herself

UNION TWP. ? Eileen M. Murphy, who has been principal at the West Clermont School District?s Summerside Elementary School for 10 years, jumped to her death Thursday afternoon from a bridge more than 200 feet high over the Little Miami River in Turtlecreek Township, authorities said.

Her apparent suicide shocked and saddened those connected with West Clermont Schools. Summerside Elementary School was closed today. A crisis team met with the school?s staff early this morning.

Turtlecreek Township EMS recovered the 55-year-old woman?s body about three-quarters of a mile downstream from the Jeremiah-Morrow Bridge.

She jumped from that bridge at 4:42 p.m. Thursday after abandoning her car in the right lane of northbound Interstate 71, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

?Ms. Murphy?s death is a huge loss to the West Clermont community,? Dr. Gary Brooks, district superintendent, said in a statement today. ?She was an outstanding leader and beloved by her staff, colleagues, parents and students.?

Brooks said Murphy had been planning to retire in two years.

?Although the circumstances of her death were tragic,? he wrote in a letter sent today to parents of Summerside students, ?we are focusing on the positives of Ms. Murphy?s life.?

Murphy served as assistant principal at Amelia Middle School before becoming the Summerside principal.

Before that, she was a speech therapist in the Milford School District and a supervisor at the Clermont County Educational Service Center.

Summerside Elementary School will reopen Monday. A crisis team will be available at the school to students, parents and staff throughout next week.

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