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Tearing up the Ivy League Ewing’s Aririguzoh shines as big man for Princeton hoops By Rich Fisher Mitch Henderson is a Princeton University graduate who was taught by internationally renowned professors and played college basketball under Pete Carril, one of the most unique human beings ever to grace New Jersey. So it says a lot about Richmond Aririguzoh when the Tigers head coach says, “I’ve never been around anyone quite like him.” That could mean a lot of different things; but in this case, it’s all good. Henderson is so enamored with his 6-foot-9
senior center, that when a message was left for him to call back for an interview about Aririguzoh, he responded in less than two minutes. “You picked the right subject to talk about,” the coach said. The reasons are many. First and foremost, the Ewing product is one of the Ivy League’s top players. As a junior he earned second-team All-Ivy recognition after averaging 12.1 points and 6.4 rebounds per game. This season, through mid-January, he was averaging 14.4 points, 9.1 rebounds and a 61.7 field goal percentage. These numbers come on the heels of a freshman season during which he watched and learned as the Tigers won the Ivy League title, and a sophomore year in which he averaged
just 9.1 minutes per game and learned even more after the season ended. “We had a tough year; he and I sat down in my office, we had a very direct conversation,” Henderson said. “It was about being good at both school and basketball, and ‘Here’s where I think your priorities lie.’ Generally there’s pushback in those moments. It’s not an easy thing to hear that it’s on you now and we want you to take this step forward. Often, kids think ‘What about the other guys?’” Aririguzoh had not such thoughts. “Richmond processed it, understood that this is how he learns and he responded, full speed ahead,” Henderson continued. “There was no questionSee ARIRIGUZOH, Page 8
Women celebrate 100 years of voting By Michele AlPerin
Ewing High School’s Madison Scott dribbles the ball during a 53-6 win at Nottingham on Jan. 21, 2020. For more girls’ basketball coverage turn to Page 22. (Photo by Suzette J. Lucas.)
In early morning hours of Feb. 10, 1920, New Jersey became the 29th state to vote for ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women the right to vote. The struggle of the suffragists, who had fought so hard, ended with the amendment’s successful ratification on Aug. 18, 1920. On Feb. 14, 1920, during the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the expectation of their ultimate success prompted Carrie Chapman Catt to found the League of Women Voters; its role would be to prepare the 20 million new women voters to
carry out their new responsibilities and use their new power to shape public policy. The Ewing Township Historic Preservation Society will join with the Lawrence League of Women Voters on Sunday, Feb. 9 to host a program marking 100 years since Lillian Feickert, president of the N.J. Woman Suffrage Association, packed the New Jersey Assembly chambers to witness the 34-24 roll call vote in favor of ratification. The program will feature Carol Simon Levin, a professional storyteller and independent historian, who will portray Feickert as she shares stories of New Jersey’s fight for women’s suffrage: for example, about Lucy Stone and Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s staging of tax and vot-
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ing protests; about Alice Paul’s push for a federal amendment; and Florence Spearing Randolph’s bringing black women into the movement. The free program will take place at 2 p.m. at the Ewing Presbyterian Church’s education building at 100 Scotch Road. For more information, contact (609) 883-2455 or info@ethps.org. “When we heard it was the centennial of women’s suffrage, we thought we should tell the story of the women and men who fought so hard for women’s right to vote,” said Mary Anne Midura, vice president of the Ewing Township Historic Preservation Society’s board of trustees. The Society was looking to fill See SUFFRAGE, Page 6
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