Upcoming Events:

February 5: Board of Ed Meeting; 7:30PM; Ed Center February 7: Student Sleep-In; Classes

begin 8:45AM

February 7-10: Jamboree Performance;

7:30PM; BF Middle School

February 8: Maroon & White Recital

and Art Exhibit; 3:45PM;

RHS Learning Commons

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A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE

February 2, 2018

RHS ALPS Trip The RHS ALPS club, led by RHS teachers Ron Knott and Brian Quirk, took a trip this past weekend to the Adirondacks for some cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. The ALPS club which stands for Adventure Leadership Peer Support is a nationally recognized program that started in 1990. The pro-gram involves four grade levels in multi-day outdoor adven-ture-based activities.

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Please continue to check the RHS Athletics Calendar for a complete listing of all scheduled

events.

RHS Athletics Calendar

RHS Instagram Please make sure you follow RHS on Instagram. Check out the latest post by Rooney Maroon and Coach Mike Troy before the RHS Varsity Boys game against Ramapo this past Tuesday.

Click on the Instagram logo to see Rooney Maroon get the team ready!

RHS Boys Bowling Squad Makes History

The RHS Boys Bowling team made history this year by placing 2nd overall in the Bergen County Tournament on January 13. Never in the prior 45 years of com-petition in the Bergen County tournament has Ridgewood placed in the top three. During the morning qualifiers, RHS sat in first after Game 1. Although RHS slipped to second by Game 2, it held the position through the morning's qualifi-ers and into the afernoon's finals, holding off Demarest (5,741 RHS total wood to 5,666 for Demarest). The RHS Bowling team is coached by Dick Bennett and pictured below from left to right: Brian Skettini (sophomore), Matt Myers (senior), Anthony Mayor-Aschhoff (senior), Jayden Fraiman (sophomore), Peter Yoo (senior), and Julian Umali (junior). Way to go Wood!

The RHS Alumni Association is thrilled to provide the

following RHS Brick Storytelling Video. Please take a look

and consider purchasing a brick in your child’s name as

students walk out for graduation this year.

RHS Alumni Association - Brick Storytelling

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RHS Highlights

Mr. Wohner’s Interactive Design students built a full size coin operated video game machine for their semester long project.

QUOTE TO REMEMBER...

“Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved

one yet.” Maya Angelou

February 2, 2018 ~ Page 2

RHS First Aid Seniors recently completed their

First Aid & CPR classes with Ms.

Ross, Ms. Schmidt, Mr. Giannanto-

nio & Mr. Kay. Valuable skills are

taught in the class including how to

perform compression's, breaths

using an AED on a person who may

be suffering from a heart attack or cardiac arrest, bandaging an open wound/

making a makeshift tourniquet, splinting a broken bone and using an epi-pen on a

person who is showing signs of anaphylaxis from an allergic reaction.

A total of 119 students this quarter decided to receive a 2 year certification

through the American Heart Association thanks to Hackensack University Medical

Center. We have seen how useful this certification is for students who require it

for employment in the short term and moving forward into college.

The RHS Class of 2020 celebrated the halfway point

of their RHS careers with a semi-formal hosted at the

Palisadium in Cliffside Park on January 20. The event

was well-attended by a class that shows tremendous

school spirit!

RHS Fencing

Seven members of the RHS Fencing Team competed at the Individual State Qualifiers

("NJSIAA District Fencing Championships”) at North Hunterdon High School. Three of us

(Jack Price, Alec VanSickle, and I) qualified for the State Championships ("2018 NJSIAA/

Bollinger Individual State Fencing Championships”) that are to take place on Sunday, March

4th.

Pictured below (left to right) are: Alec Van Sickle (sabre), Cameron Doyle (sabre), Patrick

Lintner (epee), Anika Tsapatsaris (sabre), Jack Price (sabre), Waez Umer (foil), CJ Lee (epee),

and fencing coach Maks Zaitsev.

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