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Retro RFH Presidential Spirit of ’76

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Spirit of ’76 captured by the RFH Class of ’76
Photos/RFH Yearbook

Well, with the 2024 presidential election kicking off the week, it seemed only appropriate to continue in that theme with retro RFH photos — class presidents, their teams and even the top administrator.

Why not? If the day fits … And, lest we forget that back in the 1970s, there was a bicentennial for the U.S.A. going on. And there was much making of the year in the theme of RFH festivities and the yearbook.

The RFH Class of ’76, in fact, reprised its own ode to our first president, George Washington, with a mock crossing of, shall we say, McCarter Pond?

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Retro RFH Witchy Women’s Halloween Ride

Witchy RFH women on Halloween of 1977 Bonnie Werner and Sue Brower Photo/George Day
Witchy RFH women on Halloween of 1977 Bonnie Werner and Sue Brower
Photo/George Day

A most necessary reprise …

They were headed every witch way on this Halloween in the late 1970s.

That would be Sue Brower and Bonnie Werner of the RFH Class of ’78.

So the double-dose Retro Pic(s) of the (George) Day feature them at their Halloween best.

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Retro RFH Homecoming Dancing & Courting

Homecoming at RFH scored big with a week’s long celebration culminating in a win for the Bulldogs on Friday night.

Yes, there was a lot of celebrating, but there was no dancing. Well, there was no official RFH dance hosting alumni coming home and seniors on the night before Thanksgiving like decades ago. And the event? Well, it’s all about October. Has been for some time..

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An RFH Homecoming and Tower Clock Fundraiser

It’s that time. Time for Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School’s homecoming game and festivities. It’s also prime time for raising funds to turn back time to the days when the signature RFH Tower clock worked.

That time, for all that tradition, albeit altered a lot over the years, is tonight.

After a week of what has been dubbed “spirit days” and “battle of the classes,” there was a homecoming festival on Thursday at the Dawg House replete with rides, dunk tank, treats and the battle of the classes events with prizes. This newer tradition started in 2012, doing away with the usual homecoming dance at RFH and earlier tossing aside the Thanksgiving Day game against Red Bank Catholic tradition before dinner on Turkey Day.

Staff, in 2012, said no one was showing for the dance and it was too cold and inconvenient to have the homecoming game on Thanksgiving. Though, decades ago, Borden Stadium or RBC was packed with alum and present students at these games. The dance? It was always a draw for RFH alum coming home from college for the first time and present seniors.

But we digress … The homecoming culmination tonight is the game and the final halftime homecoming court festivities. There’s also that RFH Tower clock fundraiser.

Here’s how it will play out …

Each class decorated its own homecoming float with a theme of choice. The floats will be paraded, chauffeuring the homecoming court, at tonight’s homecoming game, which is set for a 7 p.m. start against Donovan Catholic High School. Floats will be voted on by audience members for best design.

And in the middle of it all, the RFH PTO will be raising funds to have that RFH Tower clock, on which time has stopped for decades, wind up and tell time once again.

Tonight, people can pose with the classic DeLorean Time Machine from 5 to 9 p.m. in the RFH Football Lot.

Here’s more about the fundraiser, courtesy of the PTO …

Click to access RFH_Clock_Tower.pdf

Time for a touchdown of a homecoming! Go Bulldogs!

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Retro RFH Band Woodwind Play Time

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RFH Band’s Woodwind Section of 1980
Photo/RFH Yearbook

The RFH Band has played on … and on … and on for decades. And with the RFH Marching Band’s latest triumph as a Tournament of Bands champ, it was only fitting that a retro tribute to the band be played.

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Obituaries

In Memoriam: Fair Haven-Raised RFH ’74 Grad, Paula Morton, 68

Fair Haven-raised Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Class of 1974 graduate Paula Morton, more recently of Tinton Falls, passed away at home on Sunday, Aug. 18th, after a courageously-fought battle against lung cancer.  She was 68.

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