FAST FACTS...

At the Senior Awards Ceremony at Ridgewood High

School, 188 seniors received 387 awards based

upon 147 categories.

Upcoming

June 15 to 20:

Final Exams

June 18:

Father’s Day

June 21:

Graduation

June 22:

Teacher Professional

Development

RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ∙ 627 East Ridgewood Avenue ∙ Ridgewood, NJ 07450 ∙ 201-670-2800

6/16/2017 A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE

Record numbers of RHS French students took the National French Exam. 28 RHS

students ranked among the top percentiles in their respective levels. Of the 148

RHS students who took the test, 52 received Honorable Mention certificates. This

was also the first year that RHS had a Platinum medal winner.

Ridgewood Library ESL

If you are entering

grades 9-12 this fall, you

are eligible to volunteer

as an ESL tutor at the

Ridgewood Library.

Apply online at the

Teen Volunteer

Opportunities page. For

more information visit:

RidgewoodLibrary.org

Parents and senior students attend the 2017 Senior

Awards ceremony.

RHS Interact presidents, Hayley Chelak and

Christian Seremetis, receive the Walter W. Head

award from the AM Rotary for their service.

Students work to prep the Ridgewood High School

Garden and to plant vegetables to be harvested

during the summer program.

Members of the RHS Biology, Chemistry and Physics

teams celebrate the end of the New Jersey Science

League competition season with a pizza party .

Ridgewood students perform on the Little Theater

stage during the annual Spring Dance Concert.

RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ∙ 627 East Ridgewood Avenue ∙ Ridgewood, NJ 07450 ∙ 201-670-2800

RHS High Times News Corner

“With the initiative of the Gay Straight Alliance (GSA), Ridgewood

High School raised the rainbow of the pride flag to meet the stars and

stripes of the American flag on June 13th…”

To read the full piece about the pride flag currently flying over RHS or

other similar student articles, visit: www.rhshightimes.com

Lillian Labowsky’s physics classes did an energy project to

conclude a year of learning. In this project, each researched

one alternative/renewable energy and built on their

knowledge to come up with a million dollar proposal for

RHS. The winning ideas were: Piezoelectric Tiles in Hallway,

and Solar/Energy Efficient Windows.

Students in Spanish levels III, IV, and V participated in the National

Spanish Exam. Approximately 163,000 students across the nation and

4,500 in New Jersey participated. Thirty-three students at Ridgewood

High School achieved either Gold, Silver, or Bronze national status.

Brianna Patek received first place in the state for Classroom

Experience, and Maria Esteve received first place in the state for Out-

side Experience, for the Level V exam. Anika Tsapatsaris and Lena

Yannella achieved second and third respectively for Level IV Class-

room Experience.

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A Window Into Ridgewood High School

QUOTE TO REMEMBER...

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so

cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case,

you fail by default.” -JK Rowling

Dr. Thomas Gorman, Kumail Raza, Laura Moore, and Jeff Nyhuis pose

together after Kumail won the Rensselaer Medal and Scholarship

Award for his outstanding academic achievement in math and science.

The faculty of Ridgewood High School participates

in monochromatic day, by dressing themselves in

single colors.

Students in Nancy Reilly’s science class show off

their egg cradles for their egg drop physics project.

Dr. Thomas Gorman, Kathryn Kearney, Mary Lane, Laura Moore, and

Jeff Nyhuis pose together after Kathryn won scholarships from the 200

Club of Bergen County and the Seeing Eye Puppy Raising Program.

Mary won a scholarship award from the Kinnelon Education

Association.

Students in Peter Kay’s class compete in badminton,

with an epic final between juniors Parker Fraiman/

Kumail Raza v Matt Tai/Ben Jordan.