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Retro Spring Chillin’ RFH Style

RFH students of the 1970s take some free time outside in the nice weather. Photo/George Day
RFH students of the 1970s take some free time outside in the nice weather.
Photo/George Day

A reprise of a very popular Retro Pic of the (George) Day that pays homage to spring — RFH style … Now where were these RFHers? Word has it that they were far off campus … 

Spring has truly sprung. In fact it’s bloomin’ bouncing into seasonal warmth lately, save for a few bad days.

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Retro Fair Haven Easter Peep Hunters

Easter egg hunt with RFH grads from Class of 2006 Photo/Elaine Van Develde
Easter egg hunt with RFH grads from Class of 2006
Photo/Elaine Van Develde

Some bunny’s full of Peeps! Not a peep about any golden egg, either!

Well, it’s that “eggcellent” season for the classic Easter egg hunt. There have been many over the years and recently  in the R-FH area. And there are bound to be more today, Easter, in many a back yard.

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Old News: The Truth About Being the Easter Bunny

Ahhhhh, the Easter Bunny … the tradition, the joy, the mystery, and, yes, the horror.

There’s a lot more to the symbolically giant fluffy rodent with cartoon eyes in a fixed freaky stare and a head the size of one of the small children he visits on Easter. For instance, his head pops off. It’s also a sweaty death trap. Those are facts, people. I know. I was the Easter Bunny quite a few times.

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Retro RFH Spring Fever Frolicking

A day of spring boxing in the parking lot at RFH in the 1970s Photo/George Day
A day of spring boxing in the parking lot at RFH in the 1970s
Photo/George Day

A reprise in honor of the fight for a break from the chill in the winter air and some real spring fever, close encounters and emergence from omicron winter isolation …

Yes, spring fever is spreading rapidly as we all anxiously await a reprise of more sunshine and blooming of warmer days. Apparently, this retro RFH spring frolicking in the high school parking lot was about more than a little spring fever in the 1970s.

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Retro RFH Tower Players’ ‘My Fair Lady’ ’80s Play Time

RFH’s “My Fair Lady”
Photo/Facebook screenshot

The RFH Tower Players have played hard, as usual, and the troupe opened its spring musical Evil Dead on Friday night. The spring musical at the high school is long standing tradition — and one that has come with much accolades for fine artistic work.

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Retro Forrestdale Basketball Slam Dunk

A 1970s RFH basketball moment Photo/George Day
A 1970s RFH basketball moment
Photo/George Day

It’s basketball season these school days, and a particularly winning one at RFH. So, we’re bringing this up again …

It’s no secret that RFH has had some slam dunk success with the sport. So has Rumson’s Forrestdale School. 

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Retro RFH NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade March

RFH Marching Band and Twirlers in NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade circa 1984
Photo/Kitty Beeman

Our annual St. Patrick’s Day memory reprise, just because … it’s a classic scene that must be revisited …

In the Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parade’s aftermath, we’re looking back at the luck of the Irish and not-so-Irish at RFH and another parade — the big one. We are remembering a time when the RFH Marching Band, Twirlers and Drill Team not only marched in area St. Patrick’s Day parades, but made it to the big one in New York City. Call it an Irish step dance of sorts — the marching and entertaining sorts.

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Retro RFH St. Patrick’s Day Parading

RFH Band marches in St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Belmar in 1993
Photo/Kathy Robbins

The Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parade passed by last Sunday. And we’re thinking that there’s nothing quite like celebrating tomorrow’s St. Patrick’s Day, Irish or not, with a couple of bulldogs leading your alma mater’s marching band. That’s how RFH did it back in 1993.

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