Celebrating life and times with old RFH friends circa late 1970s Photo/courtesy of Doug Borden
Should auld acquaintance be forgot? The words of the 18th century Scottish ballad gone New Year’s Eve classic really means, “Should we forget old friends?” Of course not.
RFH Tower Singers in Winter Concert 2022 Photo/RFH PAS
Well, the RFH Winter Concert this week was a smashing success. Songs were sung by the Tower Singers, the instrumental groups played on and color guard twirled. And, the show had a special guest — The Grinch, a/k/a Evan Callas with, of course, the Tower Singers.
Let’s hear it for the … RFH spirit? Something like that.
Considering the close call with Group II State Championship over the weekend for RFH Football, it seemed called for, or cheered for, to revisit a cheer of a different kind — the staged kind, courtesy of the guys.
RFH Tower Singers breaking from caroling on Saturday Photo/RFH PAS
They were unmasked, on key and merrily singing their way into the holiday season.
Donning school signature purple and season-appropriate Santa hats, the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Tower Singers caroled their way from Rumson to Red Bank, with four stopping points along the way and high-pitch Christmas spirit to spread.
Longtime Fair Havenite and former Rumson Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) aide, Kathleen Murphy Brounley, passed away “peacefully in her sleep” on Oct. 14. She was 81.
Fifteen Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) student-athletes have made their college choices official by signing Letters of Intent pledging athletic and academic commitment.
Jenny and Nick Costello celebrate the RFH Varsity Football state championship winning moment Photo/courtesy of Jenny Costello
It’s double the RFH pride when the Bulldogs win the varsity state football championship, you’re a player and your cheering section is headed by your RFH grad mom.
Of course, moms are number one fans; but, the RFH connection between this mother and son just makes this on-the-field capture all the more Bulldog meaningful. That’s because the moment is one between 1993 grad Jenny Jones Costello and son Nick, an RFH senior and linebacker for the team.
Yes, by now, most know that the RFH Varsity Football team won the state championship with Friday night’s playoff win against Hazlet’s Raritan High School 34-27, making them the NJSIAA South Jersey Group 2 champions.
Those winning two-generation RFH smiles say it all.
Rumson-raised Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Class of 1989 graduate Karen Anderson Bogue passed away at home on Thursday, Nov. 3. She was 51.
Born May 5, 1971, to James and Priscilla Anderson, Karen was of nine children raised in Rumson.
Karen Anderson Bogue Photo/family via John E. Day Funeral Home
An RFH graduate, “Karen will be remembered by all who knew her in her high school as a gifted athlete, excelling in the sports of basketball and soccer. She was honored to be inducted into the RFH Athletic Hall of Fame in 2012 … Karen will be remembered as a valued friend to all who knew and cared for her.”
Karen spent much of her life in Middletown, where she raised her two children, Chase Buczny and Christopher Repmann, and was an active member of the community. “She had a successful business career but always took time to focus on her children’s interests,” family said in her obituary. “Her son Christopher’s success as a successful athlete remains the product of her passion and stewardship.
Karen is predeceased by her parents, James and Priscilla Anderson (2021) and her brother John (Buff) Anderson, most recently.
She is survived by: her children; seven siblings, Jim, Kevin, Cathy, Rob, Sue, Dave and Jennifer; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
A memorial gathering is slated for Friday, Nov. 11 from 5 to 7 p.m. at John E. Day Funeral Home, Red Bank.
— Edited obituary prepared by family via John E. Day Funeral Home
RFH Tower Players rehearse The Canterville Ghost Photo/RFH
Call it a spirited play time.
The Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Tower Players are staging their fall production of The Canterville Ghost, set for Nov. 18 to 20 on the RFH stage.
RFHers of the 1980s at the Hunt Photo/Jill Sorrentino
A hunting they did go … RFHers in the 1980s, that is.
Where there was a Hunt, there was a way to party back in the day when the infamous Hunt came to the Haskell estate in Middletown. Yes, there’s still a Hunt, but it’s not this one — the one that became a decades-long rite of passage for RFH students and grads, among many others.
Rumson-raised Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) 1984 graduate, John “Buff” Anderson, most recently of Atlantic Highlands, passed away Sunday, Oct. 9. He was 57.
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