DARE TEACHER RECEIVES AWARD

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For developing a special game for students to review Drug Abuse
Resistance Education lessons and for including DARE in the fifth-grade
science and health curriculum, Margaret Murph has won the
organization's 2004 Educator of the Year award.

Murph, a teacher at Heritage Hill Elementary School in the Princeton
City School District, received the award July 29 at the DARE
Association of Ohio's awards banquet in Akron.

She was nominated by Springdale DARE officer Jeff Witte.

"The nomination was also based on her classroom management and her
longtime service at Heritage Hill as a staff mentor, student council
adviser and homework club coordinator," Witte said.

Murph has been an educator for 31 years. She was joined at the
ceremony by husband, Ron; Witte; and Steve Zinser, former principal of
Heritage Hill, and his wife, Connie.