by Ken Kerbs, Glen Echo Staff 1975-1978
• April 28, 2023
For a college class I’m taking in education, I had to watch a film about a successful Broadway singer, William Martinez, whose life was changed by his 8th grade music teacher. It brought back a lot of...
Glen Rock resident and high school alumnus Jack Mattsson (‘15) passed away on Oct. 15 after his battle with cancer.
Jack was 20 years old when he passed due to osteosarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer...
by Olivia Traphagen, Social Media Head Manager
• September 29, 2016
The Glen Rock Hall of Fame is adding 13 athletes and three coaches, honoring the special qualities that they brought to Glen Rock High School.
Sponsored by the Glen Rock Booster Club, the event will...
CRUD, a local punk band consisting of myself and former Glen Rock High School students Sean Kennedy, Bradley Passarelli, and Jared “Cookie” Zahn, took to basements and garages by storm last year and...
Sweeping the sand, the metal detector began to ping. It pinged once and then twice.
A 1967 Glen Rock high school class ring was found this year, buried in sand. But it was not uncovered in Glen Rock,...
Glen Rock High School graduate (’88,) Danny Goldsmith, wasn’t sure what the future would bring for him after high school.
In January 1988, right after being accepted to the University of Maryland,...
by Erica Melz and Trevor LaVine, Staff Writer and Print Editor in Chief
• January 16, 2014
Contrary to popular belief, GRHS teachers were once, in fact, students just like us. Some of them even went to this very school! Two such teachers are Mr. Kurz and Mr. Escolante, both students and later...
Nearly 2.7 square miles, Glen Rock is only a faint iota on the east coast, completely unknown to most outside of Bergen County -- yet what is it about this minute town that brings hundreds back to raise...
by Victoria Messikian, Alumni Editor
• October 23, 2013
The first step may have been designing guitar-shaped purses ── but Glen Rock High School Alumni Liz (Shaw) Kirkhus sky-rocketed her fashion career through concepts such as this, becoming an entrepreneur...
After graduating Glen Rock High School in 1976, Katharine Squires (known as Kathy Seaton during her GRHS days) thought she would be an art teacher someday. After High School, she went to Rutgers University's...
