October 8, 2021
NBC TV Personality & Ridgewood High School Football Captain, Willie Geist, to host ‘1991 Championship Chalk Talk’
As part of RHS Alumni Association Homecoming Weekend, a Chalk Talk event hosted by RHS Alum Willie Geist will be held on
Saturday, October 9th at 4 PM at the RHS Stadium.
Can't make it to the event at the RHS Stadium?
View the livestream on Saturday at 4!
Congratulations to our tenured Maroons!
Pictured: Dave Bailey, Natalie Bray, Corrina Moss-Keller, Dan Kilday, Christal Ojea, Steven Gross, Patricia Galasso, & Mark Ferreri
RHS had multiple staff members receive tenure this fall.
A celebration was held at the Ed Center hosted by
Dr. Gorman.
In the Classroom
Quilts as Artifacts
Last Friday the AHLISA classes took a field trip to the Bergen County Quilt and Coverlet show held at the Old Paramus Church and Schoolhouse Museum. Students had the opportunity to examine and study locally made quilts dating from 1800 to 1970.
Peggy Norris, Chair of the show's organizing committee speaks with students before entering the exhibit.
Kat, Anika, Lotte, Violet, Lindsey, and Sam studying and sketching their favorite quilts.
Forensic Science
Photographing a Crime Scene
Students in Dr. Walters and Mrs. Stucke's Forensic Science Classes are working on documenting a crime scene. After setting up the scene, they had to photograph and write up the photolog explaining each picture.
African Violet Cloning
Students in Mrs. Joseph's Genetics & Biotechnology class used a sterile technique in lab, in an attempt to clone an African Violet plant.
Club Happenings
RHS Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam
RHS InvenTeam Students presented their Solar Aqua Tech invention at the faculty meeting on Monday, October 4th. The next day, the students met with representatives from the US Army to discuss how to scale their technology to military use. Last year, the RHS InvenTeam students qualified for the final round of the NJ STEAM Tank competition and will compete next week on October 12th.
Team members: Emily Truszkowski (Project Manager), Elliott Ewell (Project Manager), Clare Walicki, Teddy Stephens, Hailey Hagild, Shriya Dani, Justin Wang, David Sklar, Tate Cunningham, and Emmet Kunzle.
RHS Green Club's First Cleanup of the Year
The RHS Green Club went out to Habernickel Park for the first trash pickup of the year. Mr. Luo and 38 students volunteered their time and made the event a great success. Six students even went into the water to collect trash from the brook itself!
The next cleanup will be this Sunday at the Dunham Trail.
Project Interact
Pictured: Brynn Bohuny, Josefine Villemoes, Caterina Kirchhoff-Lajonchere, Ariana Wilk, Jack Schwanewede, Mrs Bosch, Mason Fraiman, Kaho Yamamoto and Ariana Wilk.
Project Interact Cleans Up Twinney Park
Project interact joined forces with Ridgewood AM Rotary to clean the path at
Twinney Park.
Project Interact Check Presentation Project Interact along with Principal Nyhuis presented a check to American Legion Post #53 Commander Bob Paoli. The Gold Star Mothers Memorial is planned to be installed by Memorial Day in Van Neste Square.
Maroon Athletics
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Ridgewood Volleyball Senior Night 2021
Ridgewood's varsity volleyball team was victorious over ten other teams last month to win the annual Mustang Invitational Tournament at Clifton HS. The team has landed the number 4 seed for the Bergen County Tournament, and will host Lyndhurst in the preliminary round at Ridgewood High School on Saturday, October 9th, at noon. Please join the volleyball team on Tuesday, October 12th when they host Holy Angels for the Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Day. JV will play at 4:15 and varsity will play at 5:30. There will be a bake sale and a serving contest to win Ridgewood swag with proceeds going to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Announcements
OPA Bulb Flyer 2021 download.pdf
Math Art Competition Flier McDonald download.pdf
The 2020 Ridgewood High School Athletic Hall Of Fame Induction Dinner Celebration
Saturday evening October 30, 2021 6:00 - 10:00 PM
The Brick House (Banquet Room) 179 Godwin Avenue, Wyckoff NJ
Please click here to purchase tickets, make a donation, or place an ad in the dinner booklet.
The closing date for purchase of reservations is October 22, 2021.
For further information about the Hall of Fame dinner, please contact Sally Thurston thurston@optonline.net