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Yes, it’s soccer season at RFH.
The calendar is flush with practice and games.
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Retro RFH Graduation Traditions
RFH graduation in the 1970s Photo/George Day 
RFH graduation ’79
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Graduation time has come and gone for RFHers.
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 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 last year, in pandemic times, the venue was outside, masked and virtual. Now it’s back to Monmouth again.
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Retro RFH: Masked & Living to Ride
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The sun has made an appearance or three lately, snow is being sopped up by fertile soil and people are getting ready to make a break for it and ride out of bleak pandemic times and into the sunset. Free.
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Retro RFH Spring Fever Drive
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A pandemic cheer reprise to warm hearts as the thaw ensues and spring fever hits …
The snow is melting. The weather is warming up. People are shedding coats for sweaters and getting out and about a little more each day.
The thaw has started. Call it classic spring fever. And it’s a more feverish fever than ever with COVID fatigue in full swing and vaccinations on the rise. Thoughts of sunny, warm, close spring-is-in-the-air antics are racing through minds, especially those of high schoolers.
Retro RFH Kids’ Snow Time
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A reprise, because, in this weather, there’s no business like snow business …
Snow days due to the recent pandemic time snow-in bring back memories of winters way past. RFHers of yesteryear always found some simple fun pretty fast when the school bell didn’t ring and the fire horn signaled no school.
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Happy Retro RFH Halloween!
Our annual Halloween reprise!
Halloween is here.
So, the Retro Pic of the (George) Day is, well, several pics in a slideshow of none other than those fabulously fun RFH students of the Class of ’78!
So, here’s to the retro spirit of haunting from a classic RFH gaggle of ghouls!
Can you guess which is your RFH Retro publisher/founding editor?
And, thanks to the fabulous George Day for these spectacular shots!
Retro Rumson Eighth Graders’ Memorial Day
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Monday marked the first Memorial Day of the virtual kind. The day, usually kicked off by parades in Rumson and Fair Haven and solemn services at Victory and Memorial parks, respectively, brings people in communities together. Groups, standing shoulder-to-shoulder, honoring those who sacrificed their lives in service to the country, is the usual visual. Not Monday.
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Retro RFH Girl Playing the Boys’ Baseball Field
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Photos/Nancy Whelchel
Yes, it’s all about the high school baseball season being benched right now over the COVID-19 pandemic.
It’s game-changing news. Who knows if things will ever be the same on the high school baseball field. And back in the 1970s, the idea of RFH girls breaking into sports that were traditionally boys’ turf was taboo. Then came another game changer — a girl who wanted to be one of the boys on the field. That was Nancy Whelchel of the RFH Class of ’78.
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Retro RFH Dugout Dudes
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You may recognize at least one of these RFH boys from the baseball practice pile-up prank in our recent Retro Pic of the Day. Call it playing ball peppered with a little spring fever.
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Retro RFH Biker Boys’ Ride
The way that chill has been lingering in the air in the Rumson-Fair Haven area, you may have forgotten for a cold snap moment that it really is spring. Ride it out. That’s usually the advice of warm spring day welcomers.
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Retro RFH Spring Catch Boys
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Bases are loaded and spring has officially sprung. And there’s nothing like heeding to a little spring fever on the ball field. The season’s right, after all.
No time like, well, 40 or so years ago for a little impromptu game under the bright sun with some RFH pals who knew what playing the RFH field meant.
Retro RFH Beached Surfers
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With the sad loss of yet another RFH grad who loved nothing more than catching a wave and good times with great friends, we are reminded that there’s nothing like seizing a surfing moment — even if it’s on sand.
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