The Maroon Award
On January 26, six students received the
Maroon Award at a breakfast ceremony. The
Maroon Award was created to recognize
students who do the little things right when no
one is looking and help make Ridgewood High
School a better place.
The six award recipients for 2016 are Jack
Simpson, Maggie Rapaport, Kathryn Kearney,
Olivia Sullivan, Thomas Carmona, and Aiden
Gibney.
Students are nominated for this award by
teachers who know them best and observe the
little things that they do everyday to help out
the school community or their fellow students.
FAST FACTS...
In 5 years, there will be 220 more students attend-
ing Ridgewood High School compared to the num-
ber attending in 2012.
Upcoming
February 6:
ACTS @ RHS
February 8 to 10:
RHS Bands Clinic Tour;
8:00 am
February 9 to 26:
Students Request
Classes on Skyward
February 9:
HSA Meeting; 7:30 pm;
Library
February 10:
Teacher Enrichment
STUDENT SLEEP-IN
February 11:
11th Grade Parent
Meeting; 7:30 pm;
Campus Center
RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ∙ 627 East Ridgewood Avenue ∙ Ridgewood, NJ 07450 ∙ 201-670-2800
2/05/2016 A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE
Cambodia Club Needs Donations
The Ridgewood Cambodia Club is preparing for
their annual trip and are collecting items:
Toothpaste and toothbrushes; mosquito repel-
lent; hand sanitizer products; soccer gear
(cleats, jerseys, adult-size goalie gloves, shin
guards, soccer balls, and volleyballs); and topi-
cal analgesic balms.
Please dropping off any of the above needed
items at: Orchard, GWMS, BFMS or RHS before
February 8.
RIDGEWOOD A CAPELLA
The Maroon Men and the
AcaBellas recently compet-
ed in the International
Competition of High
School A Cappella.
In the Mid-Atlantic Quar-
terfinals, the groups won
the following titles:
1st Place-
The RHS Maroon Men
3rd Place -
The RHS AcaBellas
Outstanding Percussion -
Aaqib Hassan
Maroon Men
Congratulations to Mr.
Bourque and all his talent-
ed students.
Maroon Award winners pose with the staff that
nominated them. Jack Simpson with Karen Aroman-
do, Maggie Rapaport with John Luckenbill, Kathryn
Kearney with Liz O’Brien, Olivia Sullivan with Laura
Moore, and Thomas Carmona with Nancy Reilly).
(Not pictured is Aiden Gibney.)
The Ridgewood Cambodia Club supports the Ridge-
wood Village School in Cambodia. On their next visit,
they will also be visiting A New Day Cambodia school.
This past week students showed off their skills in the
AHLISA Talent Show, including singing and playing
instruments.
RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ∙ 627 East Ridgewood Avenue ∙ Ridgewood, NJ 07450 ∙ 201-670-2800
COURSES AT RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL
Music Rewind: SEMESTER 9-12; This class is a retrospective course
covering a broad range of musical history and musical terminology.
Students will work backwards through time searching for connec-
tions and themes within music and understanding how these
artists were influenced by each other.
3D Design: SEMESTER 9-12; A semester course where a variety of
materials are manipulated and explored for their expressive quali-
ties. Both independent and collaborative projects are developed
and include relief, in-the-round, and installation sculptures.
Dance I: SEMESTER 9-12; This is a
performance based class for stu-
dents with a variety of skill levels.
Students are expected to partici-
pate in daily warm-up exercises,
show attitude and energy appro-
priate for artful dance.
Support RHS DECA by purchasing some Omaha Steak be-
tween Jan 22nd to March 26th. See more at:
http://www.steaksforgood.com/ridgewood.
If you attend the local store, mention Ridgewood DECA!
RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ∙ 627 East Ridgewood Avenue ∙ Ridgewood, NJ 07450 ∙ 201-670-2800
RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL
Website: http://rhs.school.ridgewood.k12.nj.us/
A Window Into Ridgewood High School Global Learning Needs Host Families for Students
Ridgewood High School will be hosting nearly 100 international
visitors in June and we are looking for families interested in
hosting students and staff from Australia, the Czech Republic,
Germany, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, and Sweden.
This year, Ridgewood High School is serving as the host country
for the annual Global Learning Conference, held from June 9
through June 19, 2016, and this is where we will need your
help. A host family will be assigned visitors based on gender and
age.
If you are interested, please contact Mr. McDonald at gmcdon-
[email protected] or at 201-670-2800 ext. 20506 or Mr.
Adam Brunner at [email protected] or at 201-670-
2800 ext. 20583.
QUOTE TO REMEMBER...
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simple.”
-Albert Einstein
Students show off their violin skills in the Little The-
ater for the AHLISA Talent Show.
A student in Anjali Shah’s physics and art class
shows off his Rube Goldberg machine, an elaborate
contraption created to perform a simple task.
Students work on their Chromebooks in one of the
conference rooms in the Ridgewood High School
Learning Commons.
The staff at Ridgewood High School honored long time RPS secretary,
Patricia Ferreri on the occasion of her retirement from Ridgewood
High School. She worked at RHS for the last several years as the secre-
tary to Dr. Thomas Gorman, and retired at the end of January. Cookies
and cake were served for all to say goodbye.