Retro RFH Graduation Traditions

Our annual RFH graduation reprise in honor of the RFH Class of 2025 … Congrats!

RFH graduation ’79 Photo/George Day

RFHers are doing the graduation walk tonight. And it’s a walk that has veered off onto different paths over the years — but always to Pomp & Circumstance.

Wow. So much has changed, yet stayed the same. The venue has gone from the RFH Borden Stadium to the front lawn to the Borden Stadium (when the stadium was being renovated) and the football field again to the RFH auditorium and mixed up and around over the years. Now it’s at the Monmouth University. And in pandemic times, the venue was outside, masked and virtual. And, again, back to Monmouth. 

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Retro RFH Guys’ Summer Dive

Class of ’76 seniors dive into summer
Photo/RFH Yearbook 1976

The sun has been brutal in its summer sneak peaks these days. So, daydreaming about a cool summer time when a dive into the ocean in Sea Bright was all you needed comes a lot easier than that ball of fire and that imminent need to chill.

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In Memoriam: Fair Haven- and Rumson-Raised RFH ’78 Grad, Pattie Leutz Lyons, 66

Patricia A. "Pattie" Lyons

Fair Haven and Rumson-raised Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Class of 1978 graduate, avid volunteer, rugby enthusiast, wife, mom and “friend to all,” Pattie Leutz Lyons, “passed from this life peacefully on June 14 at home and surrounded by the family she loved with all her being.” She was 66.

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Retro Fair Haven Day with Iconic Fair Havenites

It’s time for the new Fair Haven Day tradition for the 14th time, well, 13th, if you discount the pandemic year. An in its 14th year, Fair Haven Day will celebrate America’s 250 in tandem at the usual place, Fair Haven Fields, on Saturday.

Fair Haven Day was borne out of the 2012 Fair Haven Centennial Celebration. So, there’s lots to celebrate, including those Fair Havenites who are now gone, but helped make the borough the community it is and strives to continue to be. This is how they’re doing it this year …

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