Time Warp, anyone? These days of confinement and fear, why not take a jump to the left and back and revisit a true party time reenactment of the era — the cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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Retro RFH Team ‘Help Is On the Way’
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?
Continue reading Retro RFH Team ‘Help Is On the Way’Retro RFH Cheerleader of Charity & Crew Cooking up Some Cheer
Photos/George Day
Everyone needs a little cheer these pandemic days, right? Area restaurateurs have been cooking up some special comfort food and charity to soothe souls and fill bellies amid the COVID-19 crisis. We heard recently how Chris Wood, known as Woody, owner of Woody’s Ocean Grill in Sea Bright, offered his restaurant’s menu on pay-what-you-can basis.
Continue reading Retro RFH Cheerleader of Charity & Crew Cooking up Some CheerRetro 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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Photo/RFH Yearbook, courtesy of Nerphrita Norris
The RFH Girls Basketball team culminated its season as top seed in NJSIAA Central Jersey, Group II. And while the team lost to second-seeded Manasquan recently, the girls team has always been considered champion material.
Continue reading Retro RFH Girls Basketball Slam DunkRetro RFH Tower Players’ Tech Week
Photos/George Day
Another RFH Tower Players show opening, another tech week. So it goes in the theater world, high school or not. This opening is for the musical Footloose and, yes, it goes like that. This week is tech week. And while tech week has always been run during the week of the show, there are lots of techie differences from decades ago to now.
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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.
Continue reading Retro RFH Food for Food FightRetro 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 …
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.
Continue reading Retro RFH Rainy Day LoungingRetro RFH Class President’s Play
Photo/George Day
Speaking of presidents and their day, week, year or moment … There’s nothing quite as high school class presidential as a pack leader inspiring some hijinks. And here he is … RFH Class of ’78 President Greg Nowell.
Continue reading Retro RFH Class President’s PlayRetro RFH Presidents’ 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.
Continue reading Retro RFH Presidents’ DayFocus: 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.
Continue reading Focus: Retro Favs of 2019Retro RFH Cool Dude Polar Bear Clubbing
Photo/RFH Yearbook screenshot
Many R-FH area daredevils participated in the annual Polar Bear Plunge in Asbury Park this year to ring in the roaring 2020s with a dive and a chill.
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