Top o’ the Irish afternoon to ya! On this St. Patrick’s Day, we are delving back into a couple of Irish connections in the area.
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Retro RFH St. Patrick’s Day Parading
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.
RFH Tower Players Bring ‘Evil Dead’ Musical to Life on Stage
The Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Tower Players are bringing cult classic Evil Dead: The Musical, High School Version to life on stage.
Retro RFH Dank Day Riders in the Commons
Photo/George Day
The sun has made an appearance or two lately, even though there are still a few snow piles standing, but it’s now back to rain, thunder and, yes, dank days. And people, like cooped-up RFH students are likely stir crazy and ready to make a break for it and ride out of bleak winter blues and into warm sunsets. Incognito or not.
Retro RFH Slam Dunk of a Cheer
Photo/RFH yearbook screenshot
A double-dose special basketball court cheer reprise, because the RFH champs are at it again … and this is a real slam dunk!
Yes, it’s basketball season at RFH. And on March 6, the RFH Boys Basketball team became the state Central Group II Sectional champs. Now, that win earned some major cheers. But, have you ever seen a lovelier bunch of cheerleaders as the guys in this classic?
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Retro Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parading
Drum roll, bagpipes and march … in time-step with a now 13-year Rumson tradition — the borough’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
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The R-FH Area Weekend: St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Hibernian Party
The weekend, or Sunday, to be exact, promises to be a luck of the Irish kind of time. Call it Slainte Sunday.
Prosecutor: Fatal Three-Vehicle Accident Under Investigation
A Thursday afternoon fatal three-vehicle accident is under investigation, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Friday.
Retro RFH Dismal Day Class Clowning
Photo/George Day
There’s one in every class — a class clown. And when the school days are chilly and dismal and students’ silly energies are pent up indoors, clowning around becomes an art form.
At RFH back in the 1970s, the art was taken to an extreme one fine, dull day. Not that we’re encouraging any antsy RFH students who may be a little bored and have the itch to engage in some mischievous antics …
Retro RFH Boys of Cool Lounge Daze
Photo/George Day
When the stinging wintry chill still pierces the air and rainy, dank days continue in the week’s forecast, the time is right for a Retro Pic of the Day reprise classic to take you back to Senior Commons lounging days with a little backgammon on the side … or something.
What’s an RFH student to do when the studying mood hasn’t struck and the weather stinks? Hang out in the Senior Commons and play backgammon, of course. Or something like that.
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In Memoriam: Longtime Rumsonite, Real Estate Agent, Ann Doran, 95
“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our mom,” longtime Rumson resident, real estate agent, wife, grandmother and great-grandmother as well, Ann Doran, on Feb. 21. Just eight days shy of her 96th birthday, Ann was 95.
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Retro St. Patrick’s Scout Chorus Line
Photo/Jack Croft via Mary Croft
Shamrock-topped scout chorus line? Not quite, but close. It is that time of the year when those St. Pat’s Day festivities begin, after all.
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