It’s National Police Week. And it started on Monday with the end of a long ride for those who died in the Police Unity Tour 2025.
Scene Around: A Rumson Officer and a Ride for Those Who Died
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Retro RFH Teacher-Administrator Cool at School Moment
Assistant Superintendent Donald Trotter
Photo/George Day
A reprise, originally posted in 2015, because a new RFH superintendent has reported to the office …
RFH has a new superintendent. He’s reported to the office and has walked those hallowed halls of good ol’ RFH.
And with thoughts of welcoming the new, the old and that teacher-administrator rapport comes to mind. Back in the day, or the ’70s at least, there were those administrators who weren’t just a Charlie Brown teacher’s voice cawing over the ol’ daydreaming student’s non-thought process. Some, or one in particular, are remembered as a real education innovators.
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.
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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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.
Retro Happy Road Trippin’ RFH Campers
Photo/George Day
Road trip, happy campers! Yes, when the spring air hits, a fever spikes to pack it in and get away by going back in time with old buddies.
Retro RFH Baseball Guys & Ghouls
Forget “Play ball!” It’s more like “Where’s the ball?
Aaaaand swing! Call it “playing the field incognito” — or something.
Yes, we’ve explored old times, uniforms and players on the RFH baseball field and in the dugout.
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Retro RFH Boys’ Jump for Home Plate
Photo/George Day
Play ball!
That’s just what these RFH boys of the 1970s did, and with frequency. There was no major organization or uniforms involved in their free time ball games. It was just a few RFH guys, a ball, some mitts, bats, topsiders and Adidas instead of cleats, some groovin’ 70s clothes and a lot of fun.
Scene Around: Clamming Up Among RFH Buds
Clam diggity! Call it mollusk mayhem. So, three RFH guys go clamming in Rumson …
Retro Little League Home Run
Photo/Peter Mauger
In thinking about the game these days — baseball game, that is — it’s only fitting that we take a gander back at little league in Fair Haven back in the late 60s.
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