“Happiness lies not in doing what you like to do, but in liking what you have to do.”
That was the motto of longtime RFH metal shop teacher, Bob Carter, in his happy life that was “lived with passion,” his daughter Alison said. And for a bunch of RFH teens who had to go to school, Bob Carter gave them a creative, hands-on something to like a lot while drudging through the sometime doldrums in the “have-to-do” academics of RFH.
Another closing, another bow for the year …
“Rumson Bulldogs put it in gear,” the ’78 RFH Yearbook caption for the photo said.
Well, about half a century later, the RFH Girls Track team put it in high gear and crossed the finish line into the NJSIAA state championship.
They made a run for it and won. The Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Girls Outdoor Track and Field team has been named New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) winner.
It’s a science that Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) junior Henry Gaus has mastered.
The RFH Class of 2026 academic standout has been selected as a New Jersey Governor’s School scholar for the 42nd Governor’s School of New Jersey in the Sciences.
It’s an ’80s pastel parade of RFH prom queens. There’s no other way to put it.
The search is over. A new superintendent has been called to the office at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH).
It’s official. They’ve signed. They’re committed.
Seventeen Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) student-athletes made their college choices official on Wednesday, May 7, by signing Letters of Intent, pledging to continue their athletic and academic careers in colleges.
Fair Haven-raised Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) 1970 graduate, David Mernick, “a loving, generous husband and father,” passed away on Friday, May 9, “leaving his family and friends forever missing his joy of life and kindness to all who knew him.” He was 72.
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.
Rumson-raised Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) graduate Franklin Joseph “F.J.” Clifford, Jr., a longtime Red Bank resident, passed away on May 3. He was 70.
A reprise from 2022, because it’s Teacher Appreciation Week and not enough people read it the first time …
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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