Pubdate: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 Source: Cincinnati Enquirer (OH) Copyright: 2004 The Cincinnati Enquirer Contact: http://enquirer.com/today/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/86 Author: Allen Howard Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/dare.htm (D.A.R.E.) DARE TEACHER RECEIVES AWARD Good Things Happening 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. - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake