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A decade after Episcopal School tragedy, Dale Regan's legacy lives on

In this 2010 photo, Dale Regan, head of school at Episcopal School, is pictured under an oak in front of a new $4 million suite of classroom buildings.
Jon M. Fletcher
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Florida Times-Union
In this 2010 photo, Dale Regan, head of school at Episcopal School, is pictured under an oak in front of a new $4 million suite of classroom buildings.

Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of the day Dale Regan died — the day a fired teacher returned to the Episcopal School of Jacksonville, armed with an assault rifle, and killed the head of school, then himself.

It’s an anniversary that creates challenges.

It’s not a day anyone wants to relive. And yet the school and the family want to remember Regan, who had been head of Episcopal — she much preferred that title to “headmistress” — since 2006. In all, she spent 34 years at the school on the banks of the St. Johns River.

Read the rest of this story at WJCT News partner The Florida Times-Union.