Sometimes those ’70s RFH graduation memories are not all a blur. They’re crystal clear. In focus. Like this Pomp and Circumstance walk snapshot back in time. It’s been almost a week since the RFH Class of 2026 did their graduation walk. So, we’re taking you back to a walk of the dinosaur kind — that of the RFH Class of ’78.
Continue reading Getting the Clear Retro RFH Graduation Picture
In honor of RFH graduation … Reprise of a classic originally posted in June of 2022 …
That’s the sight of the girls working on the Daisy Chain gang! When it comes to RFH graduation traditions gone, the Daisy Chain is a classic, well-remembered one. So are the links in the chain — the girls, not so much the flowers.
Reunited and it feels so good. Sure does.
The following was originally posted in May of 2017. It is being re-run in honor of graduation, time honored traditions of the past, and this RFH Daisy Chain girl of ’78, who passed away in February of 2018 — Daryl Cooper Ley.
In high school social circles, it was considered a popularity status symbol to be chosen for the chain. Daryl wasn’t all too thrilled about it at the time. It had confirmed what only her closest friends knew — that she was cool. It was often repeated to her. “I didn’t think so,” was always her answer. Sorry, Dar. We win. Got the last word. You were. RIP, Dar. You are remembered … in our hearts, souls and print, like it or not! Love you forever more. Oh, she would kill me …
It was considered a privilege and honor. They were chosen from the junior class at RFH to serve as the debutante-like ushers for the graduating class. All dressed in white and supposedly gracefully toting a chain of daisies, the Daisy Chain girls were a fixture of high school finery at graduations in the 1970s.
The origins of the somewhat upper-crust tradition date back to the 1900s, but this Retro Pic of the Day was snapped in 1978.
Continue reading Retro RFH Graduation: The Daisy Chain GirlOur annual RFH graduation reprise in honor of the RFH Class of 2025 … Congrats!
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.
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.
Continue reading Retro RFH Guys’ Summer DiveThere’s nothing like a best buddy — or a few best buds. There was also nothing like the combination of best friends and the iconic bridge that was a leftover statue or cement billboard of sorts from the McCarter estate in Rumson.
So, to pay tribute to both buds and the bridge, the Retro Pic of the Day offers a glimpse of both in milestone moments of friends paying homage to one another by painting the bridge way back in time.
Continue reading Retro RFH Buds and Bridge Messaging
You could say this bunch of RFH boys was on track for success … and some fun along the way. Note: The poser with running shoes for eyes. The shoes have eyes? Or the eyes have shoes? Which came first?
The RFH Senior Prom was Friday and people are still talking about it and its stylings — or writing about it on social media.
The photos of prom ways of 2024 gave fossils of RFH yesteryear proms something to talk about — in their vintage minds, anyway.
Fair Haven-raised Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) graduate and former borough policeman and fireman, Mike Raleigh, passed away after a battle with cancer on May 11 in Stuart, FL, where he had been more recently living. He was 72.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Fair Haven-Raised RFH ’72 Grad, Former Policeman, Fireman, Mike Raleigh, 72
Let the sun shine! Bring it back! There have been some sun shiny spring days lately; but, today is an exception. The sun will return by Friday, though, because spring has really sprung. And back in the 1970s at RFH, busting out of the hallowed halls was the thing to do when the fiery orb reared its rays in the sky.
Well, it was junior prom night for RFHers last week. 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.
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