With the advent of the football season comes memories of old days when the RFH Band played on with more members, but many may not recall that the football team was small.
Band was big in the 1970s. But, going back more than half a century, like back to the 1930s, when RFH was Rumson High School, the football team appeared small. There was no regional. And the population was, well, small. There were sprawling estates, farms (with a lot of asparagus growing wild) and berries aplenty for picking.
Rumson native Mary Stanley Santry, a graduate of what was then Rumson High School, more recently of Little Silver, passed away on Sept. 3. She was 95.
Longtime Little Silver and Shrewsbury resident and Rumson High School graduate, Virginia “Ginny” Toscano, passed away peacefully on Jan. 28. She was 96.
Longtime Navesink resident, Olive Pomphrey Newman, passed away peacefully on May 31. She was 97.
Rumson-raised Rumson High School 1952 graduate and longtime former Oceanport resident, Lillian Kathrine Shea Briskey, passed away peacefully on April 29 in Lake Bluff, IL. She was 88.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Rumson-Raised Rumson High School ’52 Grad, Lillian Shea Briskey, 88Longtime Rumsonite Louise S. Whitfield, also of Boynton Beach, FL, passed away Sunday, April 2, her son Ron at her side. She was 93.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Rumsonite, Rumson High ’46 Grad, Louise Whitfield, 93Longtime Rumsonite Robert J. Dwyer, formerly of Rowland, PA, passed away on Jan. 29. He was 85.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Rumsonite, Rumson High ’56 Grad, Bob Dwyer, 85Rumson High School (now RFH) graduate William “Bill” Burritt Litts, of Ocean Township, passed away peacefully at home on Aug. 22. He was 91.
Continue reading In Memoriam: 1940s Rumson High Grad, Bill Burritt Litts, 91Fair Haven-raised Lillian “Jane” Bradshaw Hendricks has passed away at 95.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Fair Haven-Raised Jane Bradshaw Hendricks, 95Former longtime Rumsonite, Carolyn “Carol” R. Raleigh Halligan, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Dec. 29, surrounded by family. She was 91.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Former Longtime Rumsonite, Carol Halligan, 91In case you haven’t seen this one before and in honor of football season … a reprise …
Do we have a cheer for RFH football? Yes, football season has kicked into high gear at RFH, so let’s take a moment to tackle this handsome team of players of an unknown year as well as the issue of name and uniform style.
Is it all in a name or uniform? Certainly not. It’s all about the game and how it’s played, of course. But, there are some quirks worth taking the ball and running with for a bit. No harm, no fumble. Just fun.
Continue reading Retro RFH Football Stripes Earned
Another RFH class, another graduation … The RFH Class of 2019 has graduated.
Continue reading RFH Graduation Moments of the Past
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