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The Cynic Tackles Everyday Life

September 30, 2023September 30, 2023 Gretchen Reed

Perfect Timing Contractors finish building your new garage and leave only one nail behind, which you run over squarely with your front tire. The best guarantee of a 50mph blizzard is the day after you put inflatable snowmen outside. The likeliest days for your hot water tank to fail are Thanksgiving and Christmas. Toilets know to fail the day you are babysitting for eight grandchildren. Home computers delight in failing on April 14 just as you try to file your taxes. Sundays, Christmas, Superbowl day and New Year’s Day increase…

Spinning Spaghetti Sauce Cans and Other Kitchen Anomalies

September 28, 2023September 30, 2023 Gretchen Reed

The electric can opener in my kitchen is such an indispensable small appliance that it never occurred to me the potential it could have for making a huge mess. Enter: The Spinning Sauce Can Incident. For years I had struggled with the difficulty of opening spaghetti sauce jars and tried every brand before deciding that the Ragu, Prego and all other sauce makers had sincere grudges against old people with arthritic hands. What a victory it was to look higher on the grocery store shelf and discover Hunt’s sauce in…

30+ Years of Riverside Alumni Band Tradition

September 28, 2023October 1, 2023 Frank Vaccariello

While the memories are getting fuzzy, it was around 1990 or 1991 when two Riverside graduates met at a kitchen table in an apartment on Newell Street to discuss the idea of forming the Riverside High School Alumni Band. That kitchen belonged to future RHS Hall of Fame inductee Mike Vaccariello (RHS ‘83), whose idea has now stretched to over 30 years of graduates coming back each homecoming game to join the Riverside Regiment. Mike had attended a Harvey vs. Riverside game at Painesville Recreation Field and noticed that the…

Share Your Riverside History With Us!

September 15, 2023September 30, 2023 Staff

The Association has started a collection of historical photos from various alumni, documenting our shared experiences while in the Riverside system. This photo is the first of four of the playbill from the Class of 1968 Senior Class Play, “Funny Girl.” See the entire playbill at the link below. Look at the various items we already have: Graduation Videos Early Print Logs 1959 Photos of the Elementary Schools 1954-1959 Photos of Riverside and John R. Williams Junior High The 1968 Collection: 1967-1968 Riverside Handbook Riverside Prom Etiquette 1968 1968 Class…

Beaver Bulletin Board Fall 2023

September 29, 2023September 30, 2023 Staff

In Memory: Listed by last name, year of graduation from Riverside, and date of death. The obituary link is provided if available. Earnesty, Connie Lynn: 1978, 2023. Obituary Gray Whiting, Karen: 1961, 2023. Obituary Keesler, Darla Rae: 1967, 2023. Obituary Quella, Christian: 1966, 2023. Obituary Sebian, Dennis: 1964, 2008. Obituary

Beaver Bulletin Board Summer 2023

July 1, 2023September 15, 2023 Staff

In Memory: Listed by last name, year of graduation from Riverside, and date of death. The obituary link is provided if available. Bittner, Mary “Betty” Elizabeth (Hostrander): RHS Nurse, 2023 Obituary Burnett Rogers, Peggy Joan: 1969, 2023 Obituary Derrick, Kelly: 1980, 2022 Obituary Dorrell, Ross: 1980, 2023 Obituary Eckert, Mike: 1980, 1979, 2022 Obituary Gano Kalman, Jean L: 1956, 2023 Obituary Geiger, John: 1982, 2023 Obituary Geyer Schroder, Sue: 1979, 2021. Grisdale, Gary Robert: 1980, 2022 Obituary Haffa, Judith: 1980, 2023 Obituary Heth, James Dale: 1966, 2018 Obituary Ingwer, Jr.,…

The 2023 RAA Golf Outing at PCC

July 1, 2023September 30, 2023 Staff

The Riverside Alumni Association held its 2023 Golf Outing on June 11 at the Painesville Country Club. The outing honored Don Pomfrey, ’54 RHS graduate and association trustee for many years. The day was a bit overcast but the rain held off enough for all 10 teams to clear the course. Lunch was plenty, dinner was BBQ and good! And the RAA raised the funds for scholarships and other activities. Here are some photos of the day! Thank you to the golfing teams who came out to play: Thank you…

2023 RAA Scholarship Awards

July 1, 2023September 30, 2023 Staff

Riverside Alumni Association scholarship recipient Jenna Leonard is the daughter of Tim and Julie Leonard. Jenna plans to continue her education at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. An honor student at Riverside, she was awarded an honors diploma and was a 2-year member of the National Honor Society. Jenna has received honors awards throughout high school, each semester. She was a four-year member of the swim team. Her event of choice was the butterfly, where she placed in several swim meets. She was part of the 200 free relay team,…

The Crooked Home in Leroy

July 1, 2023July 1, 2023 Gretchen Reed

When my husband Chuck and I married in 1966, we were both highly motivated to tackle the rejuvenation of some old home and turn it into a lovely dwelling. It didn’t take long to find what we wanted: a Century Home of 103 years on Madison Avenue in Painesville Township. The location seemed ideal for both of us since he was employed by Avery Dennison in Painesville, and two years later I would leave my teaching position at Mentor High School and begin at Riverside. The home was in need…

POW/MIA Chairs Honor Our Lost Veterans

July 1, 2023October 1, 2023 Staff

Two chairs meant to express gratitude toward veterans who did not make it back home have been added to the Riverside Veterans Wall of Honor display. The organizations that made the chair dedication possible are Rolling Thunder and American Legion Post 336 of Painesville. The small committee of dedicated teachers, administrators and community liaison volunteers who founded the wall in 2018 intended it to be in perpetuity and committed to expansion. Fundraisers were held to create the Wall of Honor near the RHS stadium, establish a kiosk in the high…