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FAST FACTS...
57% of NJ high school students HAVE NOT
consumed alcohol in the past 30 days, according to
the New Jersey DOE’s Student Health Survey.
A Critical Eye
Students in English 11 embarked on a project
to explore critical review. Ridgewood juniors in
Lynn Moore’s, Colleen Contreras’, and Cynthia
DeTora’s classes collaborated with librarians,
Diana Capetola and Rose Griffith, to help stu-
dents select non-fiction books.
Students were then instructed on where to find
critical reviews for their selections. Categories
included writers' lives, scientists, leaders, crime
and criminals.
RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ∙ 627 East Ridgewood Avenue ∙ Ridgewood,
NJ 07450 ∙ 201-670-2800
1/10/2014 A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE
Alumni Artists
On Wednesday, January 8, the Ridgewood High
School Art Department held its Ninth Annual
Alumni Show Reception. It featured art from
former RHS students.
The Alumni Art Show is open to all former stu-
dents and parents of current students. The ex-
hibit may be viewed in the Carroll Art Gallery,
Room 137, until after school today.
Midterm Schedule
Due to the way the calendar fell this year, mid-
terms and finals have not been evenly split by
the weekends that fall between the two, four
days of exams.
Unfortunately, to run the schedule any other
way, would not have worked with the days pre-
ceding the quarter's end. To alter the schedule
to account for a more even split on exam days
would have reduced the number of teaching
and learning days that students received prior
to midterms.
Chris McCullough and Kellie Conforth pose with
alumni artists whose work is currently being dis-
played in the Ridgewood High School Art Gallery.
Upcoming
January 10 to 14:
Freshmen Meet with
their Counselors
January 11:
RAHP Info Session for
Freshmen; 9:30 am,
Campus Center
January 13:
Board of Ed Meeting;
7:30 pm; Ed Center
January 15:
Grade 8 Parent
Meeting; 7:30 pm;
Campus Center
January 16:
Maroon & White Art
Show; 3:15 pm;
Campus Center
January 16:
RAHP Info Sessions for
Freshmen; 3:15 pm;
Room 296
January 16:
Project Graduation
Meeting; 7:30 pm;
Cafeteria
January 16:
8th Grade Music
Orientation; 3:15 pm
Campus Center
New Players Company
In Concert
January 16 @ 6:00 pm
January 17 @ 6:00 pm
January 18 @ 6:00 pm
January 19 @ 5:00 pm
Students select Non-Fiction books from the library in
anticipation of a project focusing on critical review.
Ridgewood High School junior,
Amanda de Vera, displays a
sheep organ during Dr. Carolyn
Rosenfeld’s annual Sheep Brain
Dissection, held this year on De-
cember 19, after school. The
dissection offers students a
unique opportunity to physically
explore a mammalian brain.
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RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ∙ 627 East Ridgewood Avenue ∙ Ridgewood,
NJ 07450 ∙ 201-670-2800
RHS POLICY CORNER: Parent Notifying School of Student
Absence
The parent or guardian must contact the attendance office
(201-670-
2800 or [email protected]) by 2:00 p.m. on the day
of
a student’s absence from any class or classes. Students who do
not
follow this procedure will receive an unexcused absence (cut) in
each
class missed and may be assigned an afterschool detention for
each
class missed.
Students who are missing any class for a medical or dental
appoint-
ment must provide a note from the medical/dental office to
the
attendance office on his/her return to school. Students who are
ill
during the school day must report to the School Nurse. The
School
Nurse will then contact the parent/guardian.
Participants in the Ridgewood High School Teen LEADS program
listen intently as County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli discusses
his view of leadership.
The Ridgewood Teen LEADS program participated in its second site
visit this Tuesday for Law and Public Safety Day. Students spent
the day visiting both the Public Safety Institute in Mah-wah and
the Bergen County Jail in Hackensack and listening to speakers,
including the Bergen County Prosecutor. Highlights of the trip
included walking through a fire-fighter training facility while it
was ablaze and touring the jail amongst active inmates. The day was
exciting and eye-opening for all who participated.
The Teen LEADS program is modeled on the successful adult
program, Bergen LEADS, which strives to teach leadership and
community responsibility. This is the first year of the Teen LEADS
program at Ridgewood High School.
Club Highlight: Teen LEADS
Chris Koontz poses with his gingerbread version of the
Brandenburg Gate. Students in Frau Ruth Parks’ German
classes used graham crackers and cake frosting to create
buildings ranging from a drawbridges to giant towers.
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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 Top Musicians at
Ridgewood.
The Ridgewood High School Music Department is proud to an-
nounce that eighteen RHS musicians were selected to perform
in
the 2014 North Jersey Region honors music ensembles.
Congrat-
ulations to all those students who qualified.
Region Wind Ensemble
Stephanie Pizza, 10, principal piccolo
Yeonsuk Choi, 11, clarinet
Daniel Kim, 11, principal alto saxophone
Region Symphonic Band
Halina Maas, 10, bassoon
Han Gyul (Leo) Kwon, 11, clarinet
Helen Cho, 10, clarinet
Shoko Nagami, 11, alto saxophone
Region Orchestra
Young Ye Roh, 9, violin Paul Park, 10, violin
Katie Lim, 11, violin Seung Ho (Steven) Lee, 11, violin
Rachel Choi, 10, violin Jack Bird, 10, violin
Shannon Chen, 9, violin Ashley Toner, 10, viola
Jamie Lim, 9, cello Jimmy Conboy, 10, bass
Jack Zanone, 10, bass
Students in Lillian Labowski’s class use physics and
computer simulations to design rollercoasters.
Students in English 9 use their smart phones to
research allusions in Romeo and Juliet.
Laura Fleming gets
her fingerprints
taken by a student
in Dr. Karen Wal-
ters’ forensic class.
Students learned
fingerprinting tech-
niques and how
such procedures
are implemented
in criminal justice.
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