Word: mathieson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hours after the burial of Jeffrey Hunter, 16, four of his classmates at Ridgewood High School sat talking about the death. Why had Hunter hanged himself? Suddenly, Christopher Mathieson, also 16, rose, said he had something to do and sped home on his moped. Sensing trouble, the other students ran to Mathieson's house. They found him hanging in a stairway closet...
Actually, the deaths could have happened almost anywhere in the U.S., where the rate of suicides among teen-agers has been rising in recent years. But what distinguishes Ridgewood is the community's spirited reaction to its tragedy. Immediately after the news of Mathieson's death, school officials worked through the night to map a strategy for dealing with the crisis. School Superintendent Samuel Stewart realized that he had two options: he could react dramatically to the community's grief by canceling classes, holding a school assembly or undertaking some other large new program, or he could...
Officials are attempting a "psychological autopsy" of the two dead youths, since, on the surface, there seems no satisfying explanation for the suicides. Mathieson was a moody loner, some of whose troubles were known to school counselors. Hunter's suicide was more baffling: a gregarious athlete, he seemed to be happy and functioning well. Though they knew each other, the boys were not close friends...
Mead had a slightly tougher time of it at number five, but the plot's outcome was the same. Mead dropped two close opening games to Eli Andy Mathieson, 14-16, 17-18, but he came back to win the last three games--15-6, 15-4, 15-3--and the match...