For Many Ridge High Seniors, It's Been a Long Road Together

It may be unusual in a world where so many people are moving around all the time, but a good many of the Ridge High School seniors who gathered before Ridge's Homecoming Game last Friday had started kindergarten in local schools.

The annual catered tailgating party for the graduating class, held in the front of Ridge before Friday's game against Plainfield, had a bit of the feel of a family affair. And no wonder — many of the students likely could hardly remember a time when they hadn't been together in the same town.

Lissy Laham, one of the students who had begun kindergarten in Bernards Township, said that celebrating a senior milestone with the Class of 2014 was "bittersweet."

"I am pretty excited about senior year, but it's sad to leave my friends," said Shaye McCoy, who also has been in Bernards Schools since the very beginning. 

Bernards Township has four elementary schools — Mount Prospect, Oak Street, Liberty Corner and Cedar Hill, as well as local private schools where some of the students in the Class of 2014 attended their kindergarten year.

The seniors played games, chatted and snapped pictures of each other — including group selfies — as they enjoyed a dinner spread that is part of 
Project Graduation. Project Graduation is a year-long series of activities which provides drug and alcohol-free events and promotes class cohesiveness for Ridge High School seniors is one of the programs provided by the Bernards Township Municipal Alliance Against Substance Abuse.

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