A reprise from Feb. 5, 2016 in honor of Juneteenth …
The Fair Haven Fisk AME Chapel is steeped in tradition — Fair Haven tradition and roots that many do not realize jut very deep into the community.
Many of the founding families of Fair Haven have roots that are deeply entrenched in the church. A lot of the names and faces are traceable back to the early days of the church, back in the mid-1800s.
Continue reading Retro Fair Haven Fisk AME Chapel Folks
School’s out and graduation’s near — very near. And the heat is always on to seek out a good time among class friends. So, there’s nothing quite like a final class trip to — with class clowns, friends, foes and teachers. Yes, teachers — sun bathing and all.
This particular trip was taken in 1974 to a dude ranch somewhere with Fair Haven’s Knollwood School soon-to-be grads and teachers. Where? None of the old folks in the pictures can remember. Hey, some of us don’t even remember the trip.
Continue reading Retro Knollwood Grads’ Class Trippin’
Just when you think you’ve moved past an RFH gym suit PTSD trigger, another rears its horrid head.
Continue reading Retro RFH Softball Gals’ Gym Suit Guffaw
Batters are up for RFH Boys Baseball season. Games are in full swing. Call the popularity of the game a home run hit.
Continue reading Retro RFH Baseball Boys Playing the FieldReprise! We’ve said it every year; and we’re saying it again this year …
Happy Mother’s Day to Rumson-Fair Haven area moms of the past and present!
You put the coffee on. You called for us when dinner was ready. You held on tight when we needed a hug. You wiped our dirty little faces, sopped up tears and runny noses. You were there, front and center, at many a school open house, game, play, concert and, yes, principal’s office visit.
You welcomed the neighborhood kids as if they were your own. You wrote all those notes to get us out of gym class (because some of us were clods). You shook your heads in disbelief over our antics and yelled our full names like a loving banshee when you were mad. You had our backs. You were just plain there — the unshifting foundation of a community through the years, building a legacy.
Thank you. We remember those who are gone and salute those who carry on …
— Elaine Van Develde
Photos/courtesy of Facebook friends
A must of a reprise from 2020 in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week …
There’s nothing like some fine elementary school teaching moments … at the beach … with ice cream … and cool teachers sporting cat-eye sunglasses and pedal pushers.
Continue reading Retro Appreciated RumsonTeachers’ Beach Tripping
Another Saturday night and he’s got his buddies. And some sunshine. That’s how the RFH ball, or prom, or just plain dressed-up night or day out rolled back in the 1970s.
Continue reading Retro RFH Date NightThe way that spring has sprung into summer days and back these days could give a spring fevered kind of person whiplash. But, hey, if the weather fits, you just have to ride it out. And enjoy the ride.
Spring is in the air and all good RFHers are thinking about the game — the baseball game. The sun is out, the birds are chirping and bats are swinging — baseball bats, that is.
Continue reading Retro RFH Baseball Home Base Slider
Reprise! Just because it’s that time of the year to play ball! And girls played ball, too! We take you back to a game of some sort on the field with the girls, except Nancy Welchel, of course. She was the only girl who played on the boys’ team. We’re pretty sure she pitched in on the field for the girls, too!
Baseball season is upon us. We’ve taken you out to the RFH boys ball game. Now we’re taking you to the girls’ version of playing the field.
This may not be an official RFH game, by virtue of the lack of uniforms, not to mention lack of girls on the team in those days, but it’s all about the girls this time … and having fun playing the field … and a little ball.
Continue reading Retro RFH Girls’ Ball GameIt’s what the holiday is all about. Take a look at our glimpse into how Easter was spent in the Rumson-Fair Haven area in yesteryears far back and more recent.
We, at Rumson-Fair Haven Retrospect, hope you all had a happy holiday.
— Elaine Van Develde
Photos in slideshow, courtesy of Facebook friends.
Sit down. We’re really not trying to rock the boat; but, it was half a century — yes, that’s 50 years — ago when the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) spring musical production of Guys and Dolls opened.
Continue reading Old News: Stagestruck RFH ‘Guys and Dolls’ of ’73
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