These pandemic crisis days, everyone could use a team comprised of a doc with a mask and gloves, a cheerleader, a clergy member, a hunter and Marx brother, right?
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Retro RFH Troops Rallying
Photo/George Day
Sometimes it’s just time to call in the troops. For a break. For a laugh. For a reminder of some vigilant banding together laced with fun. Times are tough right now with COVID-19 and its implications, social distancing, virtual school, stress of the unknown and known and fear … growing and waning.
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Retro RFH Food for Food Fight
Juniors of the RFH Class of ’79 lounge in the Junior Lounge
Photo/George Day
Rainy days and Wednesdays getting you down? Nothing like compounding the rainy day doldrums. Well, if the mood fits … reminisce about the old days as a Junior Lounge lizard at RFH.
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Retro RFH Rainy Day Lounging
Since rainy days and Tuesdays sometimes get you down, it’s the perfect time to look back again on some upbeat lazy days of lounging at RFH as a junior. So, we reprise this Retro Pic of the Day originally posted in 2018 on, you guessed it, a rainy day …
Lounging in the RFH Junior Lounge circa late 1970s.
Photo/George Day
Out came the sun on Monday. Then came the dank, drizzly rain on Tuesday. Everyone feels it. Even high schoolers. And everyone knows that usually with that dreary weather comes a little bit of an antsy, lackadaisical mood — especially for students cooped up in a high school all day. Yes, when it rains, it tends to pour mischief in the high school halls. Call it a little shut-in sickness.
But, back in the day, there was a remedy for what ailed RFH students when lazy, hazy days drenched with dismal weather set in. That remedy was the artfully 70s-style painted brick-and-pillar Junior Lounge.
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Retro RFH Presidents’ Day
Ward Tietz, RFH Class of 1978 president, is brought on stage for the finale of the Freshman Follies. Photo/George Day
Call it an RFH Presidents Day tribute. There have been many — high school class presidents. And each RFH class has had its way of voting for and honoring its presidents.
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Focus: Retro Favs of 2019
Once upon a time, the time-in-a-bottle concept was encapsulated on film. Black-and-white film. Dog-eared, creased, faded photos of moments captured.
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Retro RFH Singers’ Song
RFH Freshman Chorus in 1976. Photo/RFH yearbook 
RFH Tower Singers entertain at the annual winter concert circa 1976. Photo/RFH yearbook 
The RFH Tower Madrigals entertain at the annual Winter Concert circa 1976.
It’s that time of the year when the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School Tower Singers sing — in concert. The Tower Singers are singing this year, of course. There will be the usual high school winter concert. But, their first gig this year will be in touring fashion to the town next door, Red Bank, on Saturday at 12:15 p.m. at Garmany.
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Retro RFH Politics
Photo/RFH Yearbook
It’s the eve of elections.
Political season has been in full swing; and things in Fair Haven’s Borough Council campaigning have been quite cordial. In fact, the four candidates debated in a very diplomatic, respectful way. And three have answered questionnaires with excellent, well-thought-out answers to some very detailed questions about Fair Haven and critical issues. Some bi-partisan kudos and pats on the back we also given in the process.
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These candidates have taken the silly out of silly season and given residents cause to believe that all is fair in this political haven.
But, let’s take the focus off local politics of today for the evening and step back in time to the 1970s and politics as it was with RFH students and teachers.
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Retro RFH Ghostly Gaggle
Photo/George Day
A Halloween reprise to honor the season of the ghost …
Scary season has set in. People in the Rumson-Fair Haven area aren’t just out raking leaves, either. They’re haunting up their homes, crafting costumes and getting into the spirit. So, why not add a little extra retro spooking from RFH students of the past?
BOO … who or what? It was all in the haunt for RFHers back in the 1970s. They started getting the Halloween party going early on and ended up with a pretty festive feast of ghouls on the grounds of the high school and, yes, beyond.
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Photo/George Day
Some moments are meant for just lounging … like the persistent foul fall weather of the past few days. There was a place for that for juniors at RFH back in the day.
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Retro RFH Girl’s Soccer
Photo/RFH 1976 Yearbook
A reprise in honor of girls’ soccer season at RFH …
Yes, soccer season has kicked in. And there are and have been girls teams at RFH since 1984. But, that was not always the case …
When Rumson-Fair Haven Retrospect shared a photo of the boys’ team from back in the late 1970s, RFH grads challenged all to remember who the first girl was to play on the boys’ team.
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Retro Rumson Class Picture Time
Didn’t you get the memo? It’s that time of the school year when kids strike a usually awkward, but priceless pose for class pictures.
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