Tag Archives: Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School

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Retro RFH Boys’ Ball Play

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RFH boys play ball in the 1970s
Photo/George Day

Play ball!

That’s just what these RFH boys of the 1970s did, and with frequency. There was no major organization or uniforms involved in their free time ball games. It was just a few RFH guys, a ball, some mitts, bats, topsiders and Adidas instead of cleats, some groovin’ 70s clothes and a lot of fun.

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Retro RFH Track Field Toss-Up

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Throwing discus on the field of RFH Track & Field circa 1970s
Photo/George Day

Look … up in the sky … It’s a bird. It’s a flying saucer. It’s a shot put. It’s a discus. And it’s RFH’s Tom Campbell giving it a good airborne throw on the RFH field of RFH Boys Track & Field of the late 1970s.

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Retro RFH Scientific Teaching Moments

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RFH science teachers of the 1970s
Photo/RFH Yearbook

Science! It was truly poetry in motion at RFH, just like the 1980s song by Thomas Dolby. And, no, no teacher blinded anyone with science at RFH, more like made the students see the subject — and more clearly.

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Retro RFH Mathematical Teaching Moments

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RFH math teachers of the 1970s
Photo/RFH Yearbook

It all adds up. Good teachers plus intriguing personalities equals motivated, successful students. And, no matter how you put the equation together at RFH, there was no zero involved when it came to high school math teachers.

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Retro RFH Classroom: Dank Day Doldrum Break

RFH dismal days in the classroom
Photo/George Day

Head up, head down and turn around! Anything to alleviate the doldrums in class in the 1970s at RFH.

Oh, to be in class at RFH and daydreaming of the sun and some fun outside the classroom on a dismal, dank day kind of like today.

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Scene Around: RFH Tower Singers Belt Out ‘Best’ Honor

RFH Tower Singers
Photo/Katherine Singleton, RFH

They hit that high note. The Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Tower Singers have sung their way to the states.

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Retro RFH St. Patrick’s Day Parading

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RFH Band marches in St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Belmar in 1993
Photo/Kathy Robbins

There’s nothing quite like celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, Irish or not, with a couple of bulldogs leading your alma mater’s marching band. That’s how RFH did it back in 1993.

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