RHS Athletic Advisory Board

The article below is a report on the state of athletics and physical training in 1915.

This article appeared in the “YEAR BOOK OF THE SCHOOLS from November , 1915. It was published by the Board of Education in Ridgewood, New Jersey to give a report on the state of the Ridgewood Public schools to date. It recognizes the importance of participation in regular physical activity through a school-based curriculum in physical training and in organized programs of interscholastic athletics. This is the beginning of our tradition of excellence in providing a “sound mind in a sound body” as professed by the Greek Philosopher Thales and the Roman poet Juvenal.

Today this same philosophy transcends our nationally recognized programs in health and wellness opportunities for all RHS students as well as one of the finest educationally based interscholastic athletic programs in the state, offering equal opportunities to both our male, female, and non-binary student population. A true example of the rich blend of the academic with the physical for a well-balanced wholistic approach to education. —Jeff Yearing, RHS 1966

Arrow 1943