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RBR Technology Teacher Jeremy Milonas wasnamed the NJ Air Force Association’s Teacher ofthe Year for his accomplishments in engagingstudents in science technology, engineering andmath (STEM).

Congratulations to EagleScouts: Andrew Noglows, Sam Gregg and JoeFerguson.

Megan Moranand GabbyScerbo per-formed in BIG atthe MonmouthUnivers i tyTheatre thispast summer. Twenty-fourVPA vocalmajors per-

formed in the Doris Lenz Festival. AlexaDeAnna, was chosen to participate in a mas-ter class with Dr Sean McCarther of

Westminster Choir College. Jade Glab, andDannielle Wolf, placed third and fourth in theirrespective divisions of Classical Voice.

Congratulations to our All State Opera vocalmajors: Dannielle Wolf, Jael Cross, SydneyGannon, Erin Ostrowski, Claire Taylor, JennaSmith, and Jackie Render.Our choral students made the prestigious AllShore Honor Chorus this year and will performin February at the regional function at RBR.They are: Devin Barry, Jack Faccone, BrianHealey, Dannielle Wolf, Lauren O'Brien,Mara Campolattaro, Ricci Bigelow, SheaGrant, Erin Ostrowski, Lea Fanizzi, AshaClarke, Alexa DeAnna, Maddie Stout, GiannaPallante, and Victoria White. RBR vocal majors who made the prestigious AllState Chorus Groups include: Dannielle Wolf,and Jade Glab, Mixed Chorus, and VictoriaWhite and Erin Ostrowski, Women’s Chorus.

Congratulations to OurStudents and Staff on all theirAmazing Accomplishments

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Adam Recktenwald joined the RBR administrativeteam this school year as its new administrator. He isresponsible for the Visual & Performing Arts Academy,the Academy of Finance as well Culinary Arts and EarlyChildhood Education. He replaces retired Supervisor of4-Year Academies Peter Grandinetti with supervision ofthe Academy of Information Technology and Academy ofEngineering shifting to Math and Science SupervisorSusan Zielinski.

Mr. Recktenwald spent the last nine years team-teaching Visual Arts in East Brunswick High School’sunique 12th grade cross-curricular Humanities program.Like Red Bank Regional, EBHS is also a NJ ModelSchool for the Arts. Adam began his teaching career asa middle school English teacher. In his spare time, he isan amateur illustrator, musician and writer.

RBR’s new supervisor hopes to help grow and fine-tune RBR’s already outstanding programs. Someadditions to the areas under his responsibility include anew Guitar major in the strings program (see related article on new guitar program) and an additional bakingcourse in the Culinary Arts. He is looking to strengthenthe community connections that RBR has within some ofthe programs such as in the Visual Arts and Academy ofFinance. He also hopes to focus on consolidating andincreasing electives in the Early Childhood Educationmajor to transform it into a true teacher preparatory program.

Adam is thrilled to be at RBR stating, “Administrationand my peers have been so supportive of my transition.The staff and students are extremely talented and thesmall teacher to student ratio as well as the dedication toeach individual student is so wonderful. We have peoplewho care so much about their programs both on a day-to-day basis and for the future.”

RBR Welcomes AdamRecktenwald to itsAdministrative Team

15 Years to 19 Years: Vanna Acuna, Mark Alter Myra Buffaloe, Gail Canning,Alan Choback, Steven DePolo, Cassandra Dorn, ScottFerris, Carl Grillo, Ann Hansen, Lynn Hansen, JenniferKanuga, Marlene Kessler, Margaret Kirk, Jeffrey Light,Dawn Lisko, Stacy Liss, Scott Martin, Marisol Mondaca,Dorianne Murray, Bradley olsen, Manuel Pabon,Teresa Shulman, Kathleen Smith, Michelle Spencer,Valerie Zitzman, Kristopher Zook

This year, incoming Visual & Performing Arts students can concentratetheir study in the guitar, a brand new major within the strings program.The new course has proved very popular with more than half of thestring majors choosing the instrument as a major. There are also 26 students in the guitar class elective. Strings teacher Jeffrey Boga states,“Students come to school with a rock background and receive moreclassical training which is necessary for them to pursue scholarships atmusic universities and to perform at professional events.”The guitar majors made their debut at RBR’s Hispanic Heritage programand have performed with five other schools in an inter-district string concert. They also performed at the Monmouth Mall for the holidays,other school events and will attend an orchestral festival in the spring atthe university of Delaware.

RBR Adds New Guitar Program to Visual & Performing Arts Academy

RBR HoNoRS ITS LoNG-SERVING STAFF

WE WELCoME ouRNEW STAFFPictured left to right are: Nathaniel Mendeita, ELL InstructionalAide, William Enny, Math, Kenneth Wernick, Special Education,Jessica Gonzalez, Math, Rueben Jackson, VPA, JillianEisenbraun, Science, Jack Provine, Physical Education, KevinBenny, Math. (Missing are: Thomas Robbins, Technology,Adame Recktenwald, Supervisor, John Aliaga, Social Studies,Lynn Geltzeiler, Instructional Aide, Amanda Monteforte,Guidance Support Staff, Maria Jose Martinez-Reid, ELLInstructional Aide)

20 Years to 24 Years: Denise Barrett, Barbara Beckett, Nancy Bellezza,Marilee Celestino, Risa Clay, Ernest D’Albero,Micheal DeCotis, Faith DeRoos, Suasan Eads,Christina Emrich, Mary Howley, Patricia Joiner,Debbie orrigo, Diane Rocco, Cheryl Washington

25 Years to 29 Years:Kathleen Blackwell, Donna Carotenuto,Joseph Cerbone, Mary Karlo, Sue Kelly,Patrick McCormack, Lynn McGowan,Erika Robinson

30 Years to 39 Years: Bernice Colton, Valerie Hughes, JohnQuinn 40 Years:

Frank (Dusty) Bublin

AOIT students Louis DiOrio, Tyler Birn andZachary Carrano took fourth place In NetworkDesign at the national FBLA contest held inChicago over the summer. Cris Sochacki, JoshEven and Logan Applegate also earnedentrance to this national competition.

Neil Villapiano earned a College BroadcastingJournalism Certification from HoftraUniversity’s Professional Development School.

Mara Campolattaro helped organize afather/daughter mission which fundraised forand built an aqueduct to bring water to animpoverished village in the DominicanRepublic.

Julia Nijnens, who made a commu-nity service trip to Africa over thesummer, was recognized as a GlobalLeadership Adventure Ambassador topromote volunteerism and mentorfuture teenage volunteers.Emma Craven, who has interned forthe teenage community-minded website www.DoSomething.com, hasperformed 16 campaigns for the

betterment of the community. Working with herfriends and fellow RBR students MorganGrant and Samantha LaRocca, the studentswon a contest through the website to deter dis-tracted driving among many other initiatives.Two of the girls recently attended the popularHalo Awards in NYC as guest of the companycelebrating teenager community service. RBR and our football fans collected over 1,000lbs of food at the Thanksgiving Day Game!

Five Red Bank Regional High School studentathletes recently signed to play college sports atthe schools they will be attending next year.

They are: Jon Pierce,(lacrosse) SusquehannaUniversity; Madison Wood,(girls’ lacrosse); FairleighDickinson University;Claudio LoBriaco, (base-ball) Swarthmore College;Lauren Sapone, (cross coun-try and track) Dartmouth, andNicholas Massa, (baseball)Manhattan College.

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To Our Athletes on their Amazing FallSeasonThe Buccaneer Football team had its best season in decades.They clinched their Division title with a historic win overRBC in October and the Thanksgiving Day defeat of LongBranch. They advanced to the state championship ending theseason with a 11-1 record.

Sadiq Palmer was named B-North Defensive Player of theYear; other players making All Division B North were: MattReardon, Sean Naiman, Rick Wild, Jack Navitsky, ChrisOutterbridge, Alim Godsey, Jack O’Connor; 1st Team All-Shore: Sadiq Palmer, Sean Naiman, Jack O’Connor; 2ndTeam All-Shore: Chris Outterbridge, Matt Reardon, 3rdTeam All-Shore: Jack NavitskyGirls Cross Country wontheir Division title for thethird year in a row, and wasranked as high as fourth in thestate and second in the ShoreConference. Also, for thethird year in a row, the teamwas the winner of thePrincipal’s Cup for earningthe highest combined GPA ofall other sport teams. StarLauren Sapone shined as the winner of two invitational runsand the Girls’ Monmouth County Championship.Girls Tennis won their Division with a record of 14-4. AbbyDecker and Anya Tewari reached the semi finals in theMonmouth County Tournament and qualified for the SinglesTournament.Boys Cross Country finished second in their division with a 7-1 record. Tyler Schwinn won the Freshmen Shore CoachesInvitational and was the first freshman finisher the MonmouthCountry Championship in the varsity race.

Boys Soccer advanced to the second roundof the NJSIAA State Championship.Jacob Curtis, was voted 1st Team AllConference All-State Group 3, ChrisFuentes, 2nd Team All-Division JakeLane, 2nd Team All-Division.Girls Soccer qualified for the NJSIAAState TournamentField Hockey had its best season in years

with seven wins and advanced to the second round of theNJSIAA State Tournament.

2015 Board of EducationJohn GarofaloPresident

Emily A. DohertyVice President

Christopher AlworthEugene KosterLisa Gilmour

Randy MendelsonFrank Neary, Jr.Patrick NobleMehmet Ors

Mr. Thomas PaganoInterim Superintendent of Schools

Christina M. GalvaoBoard Secretary/

Business AdministratorRisa ClayPrincipal

RBR Community NewsletterMarianne Kligman - Writer

Gail Van Winkle - Layout/Design

RBR is now on Facebook; go to the linkon our website www.rbrhs.org

Red Bank Regional High School Board of Education101 Ridge RoadLittle Silver, N J 07739www.rbrhs.org

BUC BACKER FOUNDATION TAKES ON NEW INITIATIVES

Ladies Day OutThe BuC Backer Foundation Ladies Day out isJanuary 31, 2016, Noon to 3:30 pm. The popularevent features fabulous chance auction gifts, athree-course lunch, champagne punch and themagnificent water views of the Navesink from thebalcony of the oyster Point Hotel, located at 146Bodman Pl, Red Bank. Tickets are $55 per person($50 for senior citizens and $25 for RBR staff). Visitthe BuC Backer website at http://www.bucbacker-foundation.com/ for more information.

Andrew Kroon MemorialFashion ShowThe Andrew Kroon Memorial Fashion Showtakes place on Sunday, February 21, 2016, atthe oyster Point Hotel in Red Bank. It featuresfabulous gift baskets, a 50-50 raffle, an accessories boutique and local shop fashionsmodeled by RBR students. For more information contact skeller@rbrhs.org.

Everyone entering our school campus this fall was greeted with an array of fallcolors and plants providing a much more welcoming environment thanks to our BUCBacker Foundation’s new beautification program. “We wanted the exterior to reflecthow wonderful this award-winning school is on the inside. We want the campus tobe a reflection of what RBR is about,” stated project designer and RBR BUC Backermember Dulce Feta-Daly, who spearheaded the program for the foundation. Additionally, this year, the foundation, under the leadership of its new

co-presidents Carmelina MacPherson and Patti Forsman have planned a series ofinformative talks open to the public on a wide-range of important topics. In October,BBF in conjunction with the SOURCE, sponsored this very powerful program forparents on the phenomenon of Teenage Suicide presented by the advocacy groupA.I.R.( Attitudes in Reverse) geared toward a parental audience. In November,Social Studies teacher Justin Biggs gave a presentation and demonstration onMindfullness. Mr. Biggs will be creating a Mindfullness program at RBR with theaid of a BUC Backer foundation grant he received last year.

RBR Placed on the College Board’s 6th Annual AP® DistrictHonor Roll for Significant Gains in Student Access and SuccessRBR is one of 425 school districts in the u.S. and Canada being honored by the College Boardwith placement on the 6th Annual AP® District Honor Roll for increasing access to AP coursework while simultaneously maintaining or increasing the percentage of students earning scoresof 3 or higher on AP Exams. Reaching these goals indicates that a district is successfully identifying motivated, academically prepared students who are ready for the opportunity of AP.To be included on the 6th Annual Honor Roll, RBR had to increase the number of students participating in AP while also increasing or maintaining the number of students earning AP Examscores of 3 or higher since 2013.

Save the Dates:

UPCOMING PROGRAMS FOR THE BALANCEOF THE YEAR INCLUDE:

FEBRUARY 9 - STUDENT HEALTH SERIESMARCH 8 - DRUGS/HEROIN LECTURE

APRIL 12 - RANDY LEVIN -COLLEGE SERIESMAY 10 - MINI JOB FAIR

CHECK THEIR WEBSITE FOR FURTHER INFORMATIONAT HTTP://WWW.BUCBACKERFOUNDATION.COM/