Tag Archives: Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School

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Retro RFH Rite of Passage: Close Donovan’s Encounters

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RFHers’ close reunion encounters at Donovan’s
Photos/Lisa Mazurek D’Amato

Close encounters at an iconic RFH alum hang-out may be a thing of the past these days, but old memories of Donovan’s Reef times die hard. So do close RFH classmate relationships.

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RFH Junior Accepted to Prestigious Rutgers NJ Governor’s Summer Program

Rumson Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) junior Evelyn (Evie) Manelski has been accepted into the New Jersey Governor’s School of Engineering and Technology at Rutgers University this summer.  

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Retro RFH Gym Teacher Appreciation: Pat Robinson, a Near-Centenarian

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RFH gym teachers of the 1970s
Photo/RFH yearbook
Pat Robinson as a WAVE and RFH teacher
Photos/family and RFH yearbook

It’s Teacher Appreciation Week. And, ironically, May 4, the start of the week, marked the posthumous 100th birthday of a former longtime RFH gym teacher and field hockey coach — icon Pat Robinson, who passed away just shy of her centenarian milestone.

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RFH Student-Athletes Sign Letters of Intent In Socially Distant Way

RFH student-athletes sign letters of intent
Photos/RFH

Three more Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) student-athletes have made their college choices and sports commitments official recently by signing Letters of Intent.

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RFH Track Star Runs with COVID-19 Healthcare Hero Fundraiser

RFH’s Bobby Hoye raised funds for frontline healthcare workers on Sunday
Photos/RFH

Rumson Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) senior Bobby Hoye saw a chance to help in the COVID-19 pandemic crisis and he ran with it — literally.

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Retro RFH Girl Playing the Boys’ Baseball Field

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RFH Class of '78 alumni Nancy Whelchel was the first girl to play on the boys' baseball team. Photo/George Day
RFH Class of ’78 alumni Nancy Whelchel was the first girl to play on the boys’ baseball team.
Photo/George Day
Nancy Whelchel, first girl on the RFH Boys Baseball team
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 View From the Baseball Sidelines

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  • The old days of baseball Photo/George Day
  • Baseball at RFH in the 1970s Photo/George Day

Well, it’s pretty clear that the COVID-19 pandemic has struck out baseball at RFH and everywhere else this season.

Waiting for their time at bat to knock it out of the park, dugout time can prove quite pensive. Sitting it out. Coming off the field victorious or slammed. Whatever the reason for the time in the dugout, it was still time spent with the team.

These days, though, even being benched is a solitary event. So, as the RFH baseball players of today sit out the game separated, quarantined during an unprecedented time that they’ll no doubt get together and talk about at their reunions, we offer a look back to RFH baseball of the 1970s and another view from the dugout of a team deep in thought.

Looks like one of these players is bothered by something. Can anyone guess what? Who are these guys?

Thanks, once again, to the fabulous George Day for this look back in RFH time!