Snowy days bring back memories of winters past and how RFHers of yesteryear found some simple fun pretty fast when the school bell didn’t ring.

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Snowy days bring back memories of winters past and how RFHers of yesteryear found some simple fun pretty fast when the school bell didn’t ring.
With all the usual buzz about the Super Bowl and its halftime still swirling all over social media, thoughts go back to a time at RFH when twirling made for a dazzling halftime show — on the basketball court. That’s one way to celebrate RFH Basketball season.
Cheers to the great ’80s! Yes, there’s nothing much better than a gaggle of RFH girlfriends and a little pre-party, or after-party, TGIF festivity.
There’s nothing more groovy than six cool RFH girls chillin’ on a couch in the 70s.
Basketball season is usually a slam dunk for RFH girls.
The year was 1974 and the top hits were The Way We Were and Seasons in the Sun. Ironic …
And back in that year, the seniors at RFH had plenty of joy and fun and some seasons out of the sun. That was OK, though, because they had they had the Senior Commons for those chilly, wintry dank days. It was just the way they were — literally sinking into the groove, known as the groovy floor, in the lounge.
Once upon a time, when the cold snap started, so did the antics in the library at RFH. And there to keep everyone in line and keep up one step, or a chair, ahead of the antsy foul-weather pranksters were those library aides.
A winter version reprise, by popular demand in the comments about where RFH students went on “frees,” from July 30, 2022 … This was a “free period” hot spot …
It’s all about being cool these winter days. It was in the 70s for RFHers, too.
When chilly days and Mondays got RFH juniors a little down, they just copped a squat with a pop in the Junior Lounge.
The following is a reprise of our Old News column, originally posted on Jan. 30, 2024, about the Fair Haven Fire Department’s Spaghetti Dinner, because tonight’s the night for the longtime annual tradition. Mangia!
People have been filling their gullets with a heaping helping of spaghetti and meatballs at the Fair Haven Fire Department’s annual spaghettini dinner for several decades. And tonight will be no exception.
Call him smokin’ cold Frosty. He’s that apparently armless blob of snow day snow at the hands of four Fair Haven miscreants of the 1960s.
To go along with the second snowfall and snow day by default for R-FH area schools on MLK Day … A snowy reprise and musing about snow days at RFH …
Well, they’re calling it a snow day. It seems like these days it doesn’t take much of the fluffy white stuff to blow the snow day whistle — broadcast it on social media is more like it nowadays.
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