Celebrating Girls Athletics at RHS

It is 1922 and a premonition of things to come appears in the fall edition of the RHS Arrow Quarterly. Marion Delamater, class of 1924, writes an editorial about the lack of opportunity for girls to participate in varsity athletics at RHS! Women received the right to vote two years earlier when the 19th Amendment to the constitution was ratified August 18, 1920 guaranteeing a women's right to vote! Fifty years later, in 1972, Title IX legislation was passed, which allowed female athletics to expand protecting the rights of people from discrimination based on gender in educational institutions, programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. 56 RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL YOU’VE COME A LONG WAY! It is 1922 and a premonition of things to come appears in the fall edition of the RHS Arrow Quarterly. Marion Delamater, class of 1924, writes an editorial about the lack of opportunity for girls to participate in varsity athletics at RHS! Women received the right to vote two years earlier when the 19th Amendment to the constitution was ratified August 18, 1920 guaranteeing a women’s right to vote! Fifty years later, in 1972, Title IX legislation was passed, which allowed female athletics to expand protecting the rights of people from discrimination based