Cheers to the great ’80s! Yes, there’s nothing much better than a gaggle of RFH girlfriends and a little pre-party, or after-party, TGIF festivity.
Continue reading Retro RFH Girls’ Great ’80s TGIF 
There’s nothing more groovy than six cool RFH girls chillin’ on a couch in the 70s.
Continue reading Retro RFH Cool Girls’ Chill 
The year was 1974 and the top hits were The Way We Were and Seasons in the Sun. Ironic …
And back in that year, the seniors at RFH had plenty of joy and fun and some seasons out of the sun. That was OK, though, because they had they had the Senior Commons for those chilly, wintry dank days. It was just the way they were — literally sinking into the groove, known as the groovy floor, in the lounge.
Continue reading Retro RFH Senior Lounge Groovin’ 
Once upon a time, when the cold snap started, so did the antics in the library at RFH. And there to keep everyone in line and keep up one step, or a chair, ahead of the antsy foul-weather pranksters were those library aides.
Continue reading Retro RFH Library Chillin’ 
A winter version reprise, by popular demand in the comments about where RFH students went on “frees,” from July 30, 2022 … This was a “free period” hot spot …
It’s all about being cool these winter days. It was in the 70s for RFHers, too.
Continue reading Retro RFHers’ Cool Campus Hangout 
When chilly days and Mondays got RFH juniors a little down, they just copped a squat with a pop in the Junior Lounge.
Continue reading Retro RFH Junior ‘Pop’ Lounging 
The following is a reprise of our Old News column, originally posted on Jan. 30, 2024, about the Fair Haven Fire Department’s Spaghetti Dinner, because tonight’s the night for the longtime annual tradition. Mangia!
People have been filling their gullets with a heaping helping of spaghetti and meatballs at the Fair Haven Fire Department’s annual spaghettini dinner for several decades. And tonight will be no exception.
Continue reading Old News: Stirring the Pot at the Spaghetti Dinner 
Call him smokin’ cold Frosty. He’s that apparently armless blob of snow day snow at the hands of four Fair Haven miscreants of the 1960s.
Continue reading Retro Smokin’ Cold Fair Haven Snowman Daze 
To go along with the second snowfall and snow day by default for R-FH area schools on MLK Day … A snowy reprise and musing about snow days at RFH …
Well, they’re calling it a snow day. It seems like these days it doesn’t take much of the fluffy white stuff to blow the snow day whistle — broadcast it on social media is more like it nowadays.
Continue reading Retro RFH Snow Day Drive 
The time was always right for a toga party among RFH friends back in the 70s and 80s.
Continue reading Retro RFH TGIF Toga Gals … and Guy 
Yes, we are in the throes of winter and its big chill. After some snow and freeze, the sun came out today and made the cold sting just a little brighter.
With that first little bit of white stuff in a flurry around the Rumson-Fair Haven area, our minds might be transported in time to RFH days when there was a small group of enthusiasts that loved the snow and took to the slopes regularly — the now defunct RFH Ski Club.
Continue reading Retro RFH Ski Club Sloping 
Well, after a lot of warnings and prep, the week’s ones played host to the snowstorm that wasn’t. Oh, there was some snow and freeze, but it was no Blizzard of ’96 or ’78. Yes, back in the day, there were plenty of snowstorms that actually snowed Rumson-Fair Haven area folks in and left them to their own devices for resorting to fun in the freezing white stuff.
Continue reading Retro Fair Haven Snow Day Sirens 
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