RFHers striking a casual pre-prom pose in 1975 Photo/Kathy Richardson Golden
A reprise originally posted in June of 2019 just because … it’s prom time!
It’s RFH Junior Prom season. And we know that some prom traditions have been upheld through generations while others have not — and sometimes that’s a good thing, depending on the trend.
One thing’s for sure, though, and that’s the prom fact that all good prom-goers gather before they set out for their quality prom time.
The scene in the Rumson-Fair Haven area on Friday was flush with a little TGIF and a lot of senior prom.
Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) seniors stepped out and into classic prom times 2024 with traditional pre-prom gatherings and festivities.
RFHers of the 1970s out on the town Photo/courtesy of David Marx
Another Saturday night and he’s got his buddies. And some sunshine. That’s how the RFH ball, or prom, or just plain dressed-up night or day out rolled back in the 1970s.
There’s nothing quite like a dapper boys’ line-up on junior prom night.
Saturday night was the night for the stylin’ cool freeze frame of that classic pre-prom moment for Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) juniors. The moment? It was one taken at Rumson Country Club’s Riverhouse. In keeping with prom picture and celebratory precursors to the main event, different groups of friends, dates and even snap-happy, sentimental parents gather at different spots to be posers and get set to prom the night away.
RFH pre-prom photos of several eras Top left photo, 1975 RFH prom/courtesy of Kathy Golden Top right photos, 2005 RFH prom & 1977/Elaine Van Develde Bottom photo, 2012/contribution of RFH parent
The pandemic has hijacked another high school tradition — prom. It would have been a big happening right about this time of the spring, and there would have been all sorts of prep — zoomed-in close encounter photos of friends and couples bonding, corsage and boutenir pinnings … those pre-prom poses. Time capsule moments of the bomb variety — as in disaster or picture perfection. TikTok? Hmmmmm … Not always.
Well, Thursday night was prom night for RFHers. And, to take a look at the social media photos floating around out there is to know that the times sure have changed, starting with the prom look. The dresses. The hair. The after-prom events.
Prom proposal for a birthday girl at Victory Park in Rumson on Sunday. Photo/Maeve Bradley
It’s a place where many a Rumsonite has spent many a simple, reflective or milestone moment and racked up many a vivid memory, from childhood through adulthood — the Navesink riverfront Victory Park.
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