BY MATTHEW SCHNEIDER
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
RIDGEWOOD – For the first time since 2008, awards will be given to former students by the Ridgewood Alumni Association.
The Distinguished Alumni Award Dinner, the first of its kind, will be honoring a few notable former pupils on the evening of Thursday, March 10. The honorees will be inducted into the Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame, which was started “a couple a years ago” according to Ridgewood High School Principal Tom Gorman. It is to be run in a similar way to the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame, he added.
“Every other year, the athletic hall of fame inducts athletes,” he said, noting that a panel of judges makes the selections. “In the off-year, we will have this distinguished alumni event.”
The Alumni Association is responsible for deciding what makes a RHS graduate distinguished, according to Siobhan Winograd, a board officer and the group’s secretary.
“We came up with what is distinguished,” she said. “We have a definition. We sent it out there and had people write in [their definitions].”
“Once the alumni association … was able to connect with so many alumni via the website, we had an open enrollment and had a separate committee that decided to induct five people this year,” Winograd said. “We have a working list. People have gone on the website and told us their person’s story.”
https://www.northjersey.com/news/education/distinguished-alumni-earn-spots-in-hall-of-fame-1.1522484
We nominate James!
Who’s “we” 11:38?
This is in addition to the other awards? Are there really that many athletes and alum to honor?
Lots are just waiting for the call. Every lug that bounced or threw a ball thinks he is qualified.
The royal “we”, maybe? Sheesh, you’d think Blog Host James could get some appreciation…:-)
I know a lot of grads but none that I would call distinguished. Once you start these awards you have to find people to honor every year. Kind of makes the award not so special.
Complete nonsense…don’t you people have anything better to do?
Help out at social services?
Volunteer at the hospital?
Serve it up at Eva’s kitchen?
Keep your trophy…seriously, keep it.