Mesa High School - Superstition Yearbook (Mesa, AZ)

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.-.flaw 8-Spirit and Tradition '9t.L . f tt 1 QM The Spirit of Carry on ln 1932 there was a Senior at Mesa High who's name was Zedo lshikawa. Zedo was loved by all who knew him. He was born May 31, l9l5 and was the only boy in a fami- ly of seven. Zedo was the quarter- back ofthe Varsity football squad. It was the night before the game against Gilbert High, the first foot- ball game of the 1932 season. Zedo took a gun to fire into the air to scare some dogs away who were fighting in the yard. When Zedo saw that by firing the gun he wouldn't be able to separate the dogs, he tried to pull them apart by pushing the butt of the gun between them. In doing so, he fell backwards and the gun lodged into the ground, discharging into his chest. Hearing the shot, Zedo's father rushed outside to find his only son lying on the ground in great pain. With labored effort, it was then that Zedo whispered to those gathered around him to tell Coach Steve Coutchie to go ahead and play the game and to tell the boys on his team to Carry On. The lshikawa family held an elab- orate funeral and placed a magnifi- cent headstone on his grave. During the Second World War, the public's feelings were against the Japanese people and some so-called patriots vandalized Zedo's tombstone. The family took the stone down and re- paired what damage the vandals did. Zedo's dying words, Carry On! became our school motto. Even though scoreboards, gyms, football fields, and the school itself have been modernized or replaced, the story of Zedo lshikawa is carried on to new generations of Mesa High stu- dents. His memory still lives in the an- nual lshikawa award, which is given to the outstanding male athlete of the school year. The words Carry On! are painted in slogans, spelled out in purple and gold mosaics, and in the neon letters of our athletic scoreboards. In later years, spines will still tingle as they do today when the marching band brings a whole stadium of people to their feet,join- ing in the words ofour Alma Mater, written by Clarence E. Southern and music by Harry B. Hereldson.