Our Teachers
A long over due collection of tribute pages to the individuals who accepted the challenge of educating us.
Mr. Kenneth Humiston
Mr Humiston was my Math teacher senior year at RHS. His deadpan humor made the lessons easier to understand and remember. He was also a well-known soccer and basketball referee. Here’s part of the obituary. I substituted a picture of him from our Class of 1977 yearbook. It’s better to remember him in his prime, especially since I hardly recognized his more recent photo. Forty years away from his classroom will do that.
Kenneth W. Humiston, 87, of Saratoga Springs and Chateaugay, New York and formerly of Oradell, New Jersey, died peacefully at home October 2, 2017.
Born in Chateaugay, New York, he was the son of the late Kathleen (Harvey) and Clarence Humiston.
He graduated from Plattsburgh State University and received his Masters Degree from Pennsylvania State University. He taught mathematics for 35 years at Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, New Jersey. During those years he officiated soccer, basketball, baseball, and softball. He was past president of the Bergen County Soccer Officials Association and past president of the Bergen County Umpires Association. He was a member of the International Association of Approved Basketball Officials.
He proudly served for two years in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Toul, France.
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