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.
Continue reading Retro RFH Mathematical Teaching Moments
It’s all about writing what you know, as they say. So, since it’s Teacher Appreciation Week, we’re stepping back several decades to show some appreciation for RFH teachers we knew and some of their teaching moments, profound or not, that stuck with us.
Continue reading Retro RFH English Teaching MomentsRed Bank resident Susan “Suzy” M. Eagan Wynne passed away peacefully on April 24. She was 77.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Red Bank Resident, Area Hair Stylist, RBC ’63 Grad, Suzy Eagan Wynne, 77
If there’s any way to summon the spring sun, it’s with some 70s madras fashion. That’s the way they did the spring dance in Rumson in 1973.
Continue reading Retro Rumson Boys of Spring Dancing & Madras MayhemRumsonite Robert Hrasna passed away on April 20 following a heroic battle with skin cancer. He was 63.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Rumsonite Robert Hrasna, 63Seasons change, so we think. We’ve been summoning a full-on spring since the season’s long-awaited onset. Yet, there seem to have been more dank than sunny, soothing days.
Continue reading Focus: Summoning a Rumson Springtime
How could we have a Retro Pic of the (George) Day during baseball season without a photo of the unforgettable RFH coach, Hal Lorme?
Continue reading Retro RFH Baseball Coaching HitRumson-raised Sheila Carey Bryan passed away on March 29. She was 68.
“Her creativity was legendary. She worked primarily in interior design, where her hallmark was the ability to create interesting but highly functional interiors, always with whimsical elements. She hated pretense and would never allow a client to pursue a beautiful design that would not withstand the onslaught of kids, dogs, and normal life. A lifelong animal lover, she always had a menagerie of cats and dogs, and may be the only human being ever to teach a cat to fetch.”
Loved ones of Shiela Carey Bryan in her obituary
Born in Westerly, RI, in addition to growing up in Rumson, she lived in Montreal, Canada before attending Northeastern University and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
“She loved living in beautiful places including Sun Valley and Boise, Idaho for many years as well as Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Meadows of Dan, Virginia, and Nantucket, Massachusetts before relocating back to New Jersey where she was living at the time of her death,” family added in her obituary.
Sheila was preceded in death by her son, Jenner, and her parents Ray and Dennice Carey.
She is survived by: her sister, Lisa Carey and brother-in-law Matt Ewend; brother, Michael and sister-in-law Kristen Carey; nephews and nieces, Nash, Kelly, and Abby Carey-Ewend, Patrick and Adam Carey; and multiple wonderful friends from all the walks of her life.
Memorial services will be held privately. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to the Jenner Carey Bryan Award for Research in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC Arts and Sciences Foundation, 523 East Franklin St., Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (Please note that gift is for the Jenner Carey Bryan Award 104514), or online at http://give.unc.edu/donate?f=104514.
Rumson resident William “Bill” Zukowsky, formerly of Long Valley and Leland, NC, passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by family, on April 1 after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 82.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Rumsonite Bill Zukowsky, 82
It’s that time of the RFH school year when all good show folk band together as Tower Players get to work on producing the spring musical. This year playing means the players are back on the RFH stage performing in Mama Mia! It’s opening on Friday. And there’s always the past …
Continue reading Retro RFH Tower Players’ Play Time
Rumson is in mourning over the passing of retired Police Captain William “Bill” Brush.
Continue reading Rumson Mourns Retired Police Captain William ‘Bill’ Brush
There’s a new Rumson police officer in town.
Her name is Dawn Shields and she is officially the newest member of the Rumson Police Department, the department announced in a social media post. Shields is a Special Law Enforcement Officer Class II. Special II officers are auxiliary, part-time officers who have basically the same authorizations as a permanent officer in a department. They are authorized to carry a weapon and have the power to make arrests and other functions similar to those of a full-time officer.
She comes to Rumson after retirement from a 26-year career with the Red Bank Police Department, the post said. Shields, in her tenure as a Red Bank officer, was a “School Resource Officer and D.A.R.E/L.E.A.D. instructor,” it added.
She will be doing more of the same in Rumson schools.
“We are happy that Dawn can now share her knowledge and experience in Rumson while protecting our schools,” the post concluded. “Welcome S/O III Shields!!”
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