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Monthly Archives: May 2025
RFH Student-Athletes Sign On to Colleges with Letters of Intent
It’s official. They’ve signed. They’re committed.
Seventeen Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) student-athletes made their college choices official on Wednesday, May 7, by signing Letters of Intent, pledging to continue their athletic and academic careers in colleges.
In Memoriam: Fair Haven-Raised RFH ’70 Grad, Carpenter, Musician, David Mernick, 72
Fair Haven-raised Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) 1970 graduate, David Mernick, “a loving, generous husband and father,” passed away on Friday, May 9, “leaving his family and friends forever missing his joy of life and kindness to all who knew him.” He was 72.
Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel, Construction Advisory
Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement activity is on its status quo construction hours schedule, from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., through Sunday, May 18, weather permitting. The precise construction that is scheduled is listed below. Shrewsbury River travel advisory information is also included.
Retro RFH Mathematical Teaching Moments
Photo/RFH Yearbook
It all adds up. Good teachers plus intriguing personalities equals motivated, successful students. And, no matter how you put the equation together at RFH, there was no zero involved when it came to high school math teachers.
Scene Around: Celebrating a Rumson-Fair Haven Area Icon’s Family-Style 90 Years
An area icon turns 90 today. That’s 32,874 days. It’s 47,338,560 minutes (and counting). That’s a lot of time on this planet. And it’s been time spent with family — family at home and in the community. Call it a youth elixir. Family time.
Retro Rumson Artsy Elementary Teacher Appreciation
It’s elementary — teacher appreciation. And there’s an art to elementary teaching — or teaching art to elementary school kids.
Scene Around: Rumson Cops Dispatch Teaching Moment
Calling all potential police dispatchers. That’s a 10-4 in Rumson. And a couple of officers schooled some vocational school students on the need and the criteria today.
Retro RFH English Teacher Appreciation
Photo/RFH yearbook
What would Teacher Appreciation Day be without a little ode to those who unwittingly set a writer on her twisted path to write — about them?
They are the English teachers at RFH. Back in the 1970s, they comprised quite the crew of educators. They taught us how to communicate more effectively. They chided us for using improper grammar. They expected better when they knew we were capable of the best. They glommed onto the small details that mattered in stringing a better sentence together with the peskiness of a dangling participle.
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In Memoriam: Rumson-Raised RFH Grad, Longtime Red Bank Resident, F.J. Clifford Jr., 70
Rumson-raised Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) graduate Franklin Joseph “F.J.” Clifford, Jr., a longtime Red Bank resident, passed away on May 3. He was 70.
Retro RFH Science of Teaching
Photo/RFH Yearbook
A reprise from 2022, because it’s Teacher Appreciation Week and not enough people read it the first time …
Science! It was truly poetry in motion at RFH, just like the 1980s song by Thomas Dolby. And, no, no teacher blinded anyone with science at RFH, more like made the students see the subject — and more clearly.
Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel, Construction Advisory
Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement activity is on its status quo construction hours schedule, from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with expanded work days through Sunday, May 11, weather permitting. The precise construction that is scheduled is listed below. Shrewsbury River travel advisory information is also included.
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