In a very competitive environment to gain entrance to the country’s top colleges as well as preparation for an ever challenging global environment, students often look for ways to distinguish themselves among their peers. Seven of Red Bank Regional’s (RB) recent graduates have accomplished that distinction by earning the prestigious International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB). They include: Summer Smith, Sophia Pouso, Ashley Lloyd, Claire Lynch, Grace Noglows, Quinn Moore, and Brady Lynch.
At its June 19 board meeting, Red Bank Regional High School (RBR) commended its students that reached the venerated level of Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts highest honor. They were (from Little Silver Troop 126) Gianni Perfetto, Marc Brewer, Brendan Loftus, (Red Bank Troop 67) Craig Scharmann and Erik Olsen. All five boys are from Little Silver.
At its June 19 meeting, the Red Bank Regional (RBR) Board of Education announced that its old friend and colleague Julius Clark of Toms River will be its new principal. He will be replacing long-time employee and administrator, Risa Clay, who officially leaves the district in October and is currently on medical leave. Julius Clark began his educational career in Red Bank school district just after graduating from the College of New Jersey in 2005. He taught math in the sixth and eighth grades. Mr. Clark was named Red Bank’s 2014 Teacher of Year ...
On June 5, the Red Bank Regional SOURCE held its 19th annual awards reception and distributed over $75,000 in scholarship money to help students realize their dream of college. The SOURCE is RBR’s School Based Youth Services Program that provides RBR’s students with mental health counseling as well as other services for the purpose of removing all obstacles that impede academic success. The Source is funded by the Department of Children and Families, Division of Community Partnerships & Prevention, ...
Every year, the graduating studio art majors of Red Bank Regional’s (RBR) Visual & Performing Arts Academy create a final work together and bequeath it to RBR, their legacy to adorn their school walls. Their teacher Claudia O’Connor, who uses the exercise to simulate a professional job for a business client, assigns the project. Over the years the clients have been various departments of the school and their academies, including the media center. The objective is for the students to visually represent the idea their client envisions regarding the essence of that department or academy.
Thirteen students from Red Bank Regional’s (RBR) Barbara Beckett’s art class had their art selected as ads for the Monmouth Day Care Center (MDCC) Art Journal in this their 50th birthday celebration year. RBR freshman Susanne Lopez, Red Bank, was the grand prize winner for the high school level with her ad created for Hemphill Associates. The other twelve RBR winners included: Anjali Narang, Little Silver; Penelope Buchanan, Little Silver; Ava Forbes, Little Silver; Remi Ryan, Red Bank; Ellie Colella, Shrewsbury; Felipe Solar Flores, Red Bank; Cecilia Conte, Little Silver; ...
Red Bank Regional (RBR) Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) Creative Writing majors recently learned that they earned nearly two dozen regional and two national awards in the prestigious 2019 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards sponsored by the nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. Students from around the world received awards from over 340,000 submitted works. Nicholette Glenn – and Alexandra Lewis were the National winners each earning a Silver Medal. The students who won national and regional awards are pictured above. Their names and awards follow: Scholastic Writing Regional Awards (pictured): • Grace Davidson, Shrewsbury, two Honorable Mentions ...
The statistics are sobering. The growing crisis of suicide affects all age groups and communities. Over 800,000 people die of suicide every year in the world. The age group with the highest suicide rate is 45 to 65 year olds. In the vulnerable teen community, suicide is the second cause of death for American children ages 10 – 14 and 18 to 24. Acknowledging the magnitude of the problem and its sensitivity, in early May, the SOURCE, Red Bank Regional’s (RBR) school-based counseling program, hosted an intimate, frank conversation for its parental community on the subject. In the casual and welcoming environment of a parent’s home, SOURCE Director Suzanne Keller, along with guest speakers Mary Fowler and Phyllis Alongi from the Upstream Suicide Prevention (through the RWJBH Institute for Prevention and Recovery) spoke to RBR parents about suicide, its signs, how to listen, respond and how to help. Upstream Suicide Prevention is a county-funded grant program.
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