Ohhhh, it’s still a quarter past Hunt time of the year and visions of Hippie Hill have been dancing in people’s heads. But, some visions are quite different than others.
Continue reading Retro Hip, Hip, Hippie Hill Hunt Hooray!
Back by popular demand … A reprise of this fall day of skateboarding in the 1970s for some pandemic cheer.
You’ve seen them before … this crew of daring, not so diabolical RFH guys who had a little skateboarding club. Call these views the triple threats.
Continue reading Retro Falling for Three RFH Guys & a Skateboard
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A reprise as an ode to an old normal and return of those sunny fall days we’ve been having …
Everyone’s falling for the summery fall in the Rumson-Fair Haven area lately. It makes an RFH student want to escape the classroom with a spring fever-like fervor.
You’ve seen it before, but it warrants a reprise. With the recent death of aide Joan Blake RFHers all over are reminiscing about their time, or doing time, with those RFH aides. And every good RFH grad knows that they sometimes had to resort to techniques to tame us beasts that likely would get them in a heap of trouble, just like misbehaving students, if they were implemented nowadays. So, we revisit doing hard time in the library with those aides at RFH on a rainy day laden with those doldrums that they always seemed to chase away, even if it was with a chair …
Once upon a time, when the rain started, so did the antics in the library at RFH. And there to keep everyone in line and keep up one step, or a char, ahead of the antsy foul weather pranksters were those library aides.
Continue reading Retro RFH Aides’ Time Out
When you’ve grown up in a small town, your memories often revolve around the comforting kind of feeling that anyone else’s mother, no matter their child-rearing differences or life circumstances, is a surrogate of your very own. That’s just how it is. The neighborhood concept.
Continue reading Remembering Joan Blake: Ode to the Fair Haven Mom, Schools’ Aide“My peace-and-quiet maker. My trusted secret keeper. My adventure sharer.
Judy Goddard
My Navesink.”
Judy Russell Goddard is in love. And the native Fair Havenite has a story to show and tell all about her lifetime love affair.
Continue reading Living the Dream: A Native Fair Havenite’s Navesink Love StoryFormer Rumsonite and Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Class of 1968 graduate, Episcopal priest, the Rev. Geoffrey Collis, passed away on Oct. 2.
Continue reading In Memoriam: RFH ’68 Grad, Episcopal Priest, Rev. Geoffrey Collis
Well, the RFH Bulldogs won their first game on Friday night by a landslide. So, we’re going back again to 1951 with a look at the team, those uniforms and some personal insight from one of the players himself, Chuck Seymour, a 1951 then Rumson High School graduate.
Continue reading Retro 1951 Rumson High Football Kicks
The pandemic didn’t stop the show. The Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Marching Band and Color Guard marched, twirled and played on at Friday night’s first RFH Football game. And the show was winning, by all accounts, just like the team.
Continue reading Scene Around: RFH Marching Band, Color Guard Show Goes On
Well, RFH Football season of the COVID kind is starting on Friday night. And, what’s a game without a few field shows like the marching band, cheerleaders and, say, twirling. Yes twirling — in the RFH Color Guard.
Continue reading Retro RFH Twirling Show Time — 50s StyleThe Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) football season is set to kick off on Friday night, but not without new pandemic spectator safety parameters in play.
Continue reading A COVID Kind of RFH Football Season Kick-off
You could say that some RFH friends and fans really get a kick out of soccer. And, it’s a special kind of kick this season — the kind that boots a little cheer into pandemic times.
The whistle was blown and they let the games begin last week. And on Thursday there are both boys’ and girls’ team games to be played in addition to a full season.
Continue reading Retro RFH Soccer Kicks: From Snapshots to Livestream
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