Alumni

It’s been decades since I was a student at Ramsey High School. The school has not changed much over the years. I can still locate my senior locker, find my history class that I had with Mr. Ponchak junior year, and the number of steps to the third floor is still too many.

There have been noticeable improvements to the school such as the improved athletic fields. We had a grass field and cinder track and only one field back in my day!

I was a member of the high school band for three years. Band camp was two weeks before the start of school at a sleep away camp in those days. It was a great bonding experience for an incoming freshman to meet and know over 100 students before your first day of high school. While in the band, I marched in the old Giants Stadium as the halftime show of a Giants game. We had band competitions locally and also travelled to Ottawa, Toronto, and Boston.

Senior year I became editor in chief of the Nugget yearbook. We did not have the benefit of computer editing. We were tasked with taking photos, printing, cropping and pasting them onto yearbook template pages. It was a time consuming task. Our time spent by the yearbook staff in our small room on the second floor was a memory I’ll never forget. It was quite a sense of accomplishment to hand out the yearbooks to classmates at the end of the year. Spring break senior year, I was fortunate to be able to travel throughout Spain with Senora Martin and fellow Spanish language classmates. The trip involved visiting museums, cities, and historic sights we had learned about in class.

Ramsey High School prepared me well academically for the rigors of college. I attended Skidmore College graduating was a Biology-Chemistry major. After college, I moved from bucolic Saratoga Springs, NY to Philadelphia, PA to attend the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. Within three years of graduation, I was practicing dentistry in Ramsey, and I’m still here.

It was never my intention to return to Ramsey to work and raise my family. Sometimes life has other plans for us. I cannot be happier or prouder to be able to say I’ve grown up in Ramsey and graduated from RHS. Many of my high school classmates have also returned to raise their families here. It’s surreal to include my own children as RHS students and graduates. (Sean Jablon ‘18 and Kate Jablon ‘20). My 17 year- old self would never have imagined what the future held.

Dr. Laura Ann Randolph

Ramsey High School

Class of 1982