April 22, 2022

Around the Building

Pickleball Madness!

The Pickleball Madness Tournament concluded after 4 weeks of single elimination play. The tournament was set up to raise funds for the senior class' end-of-year festivities and involved 46 doubles teams. The finalists, pictured here with tournament vice president Mr Gallucci, were Andrew Gioia, Rohan Jha, Ian Lah & Andreas Pelekis. After an epic back and forth match, Lah & Pelekis edged it two sets to one to be crowned the Inaugural RHS Pickleball Champions!

Maroon & White Dance Recital

Dylana McGinley, Catherine Blau, Meghan McGorty, Alana Tagliabue, and Katie Weispfenning performed during the Maroon and White Recital on April 7th and were absolutely wonderful! There was a mixture of Irish step dancing, as well as classical ballet and pointe.

In the Classroom

Studio Art Classes Visit Galleries

Twenty students in Mrs. Maxwell’s Studio Art AP I & II classes attended a trip to multiple art galleries in Chelsea, NY on April 6th.

Students saw a wide variety of works and enjoyed lunch at Chelsea Market.

Manie Musicale de mars 2022

Middle school and high school French students recently participated in the “Manie Musicale de Mars” - an annual “March Madness”-style competition for music (since 2017). Sixteen contemporary songs from around the francophone world (French-speaking) were voted on by students from all 50 states and 17 other countries. This year 3,395 schools participated! For more info and to check out the playlist, visit https://www.maniemusicale.info/.

At RHS, Mme Polk’s students were highly engaged throughout the competition. Prizes were awarded to:

EM (grade 12) - Grand Prize: 1st place

Kevin Park (grade 11) - Best in Per. 1

Grace Diaz (grade 10) - Best in Per. 6

SK (grade 10) - Best in Per. 7 (tie)

EM (grade 9) - Best in Per. 7 (tie)

Ariella Bulkin (grade 11) - Best in Per. 8

Ethan Ten-Ami (grade 10) - ""Licorne"" (unicorn) - 93rd place

Nineteenth-Century Talk Show

Ms. Musso's American Experience course participated in a Talk Show as they role-played as 19th century social reformers.

Theater Improv in English Class

Mrs. D’Elia’s English 10 students participated in improv with presenters from Reflections, a volunteer teen theater program that performs scenes on timely teen issues. Offered through the Bergen County Department of Human Services, Division of Family Guidance, this interactive workshop taught students to respond in the moment, as well as other positive communication skills. Reflections is a school year program and its summer spinoff is called RISE (Reflections InterACTive Summer Experience).

Club Happenings

Alumni visit to InvenTeam and Applied Engineering Club

Team members enthusiastically welcomed Patrick De Meulder, Matthew De Meulder, and Kateryna Morhun, RHS'21, to share their college experiences. Their insightful advice and encouraging words were well received and appreciated.

Pictured: Elliott Ewell, Clare Walicki, Emmet Kunzel, Tate Cunningham, David Sklar, Hailey Haglid, Shriya Dani, Justin Wang, Theodore Stephens, Emily Truszkowski

RHS Green Club at the Ridgewood Earth Day Festival

The RHS Green Club helped to run the Ridgewood Earth Day Festival over Spring Break. Club members helped to publicize how easy it is to be environmentally-friendly, such as starting to compost from food scraps and switching to more sustainable products. The club collaborated with Green Ridgewood to run a Kahoot in which the winners took home electric leaf blowers, which are much quieter and don't require fossil fuel combustion!

Pictured: Catherine Fleming, Sofia Morino, Mr. Liu, and Maya Grant

Come by Room 391 during lunch on Wednesdays to get involved in projects to promote sustainability at RHS!

With the weather warming up, we will be spending more time in the school garden and resuming local clean-up efforts.

Maroon Athletics

Click here for the Maroon Athletics Calendar. Get detailed schedules and last-minute changes.

Ridgewood Crew Succeeds Despite Challenging Conditions

The Ridgewood Crew team participated in the fourth of the 2022 Manny Flick /Horvat Series of rowing races before the annual regatta season begins. With the heavy rainfall this week, the Schuylkill River rose to near flooding. This combined with windy, dangerous conditions on race day drove the Philadelphia Scholastic Rowing Association to eliminate some of the events scheduled for the 4th Manny Flick. All novice and freshmen events were canceled for safety along with JV singles and doubles. Ridgewood Crew sent 6 boats and 16 athletes.

Results included…

1st Place, Girls Varsity 1x Flight 1: L.Riedel 5:41.42

2nd Place, Girls Varsity 1x Flight 2: E. Carroll 6:22.91

6th Place, Girls JV 4x Flight 1: S.Ali, S.Kliesch, C.McDonough, A.Mevissen 5:17.01

1st Place, Boys JV 4x Flight 1: A.Jones, F.Kamel, N.Harris, S.Boogaert 4:40.59

3rd Place, Boys Ltwt 4x Flight: M.Lyakerman, C.Sullivan, H.Rivera, J.Papin 5:38.12

4th Place, Boys Varsity 2x Flight 1: I.Darby, W.Conde 5:35.68