San Jose State’s ambition to honor its “Speed City” legacy with a new track and field facility at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds got a major boost thanks to $9 million of stat…
San Jose State’s ambition to honor its “Speed City” legacy with a new track and field facility at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds got a major boost thanks to $9 million of state funding secured by Assemblyman Ash Kalra. And the university celebrated the good fortune Thursday along with the 54th anniversary of the Olympic victory and Black Power protest by SJSU alums Tommie Smith and John Carlos.
San Jose State earned the Speed City nickname during the 1950s and ’60s as Coach Bud Winter developed a world-class track and field program. And while the Smith/Carlos protest in Mexico City on Oct. 16, 1968 is now championed at San Jose State, it took decades for the two activist athletes to be embraced by the school — most famously with the fiberglass mosaic installation by artist Rigo 23 in 2005.
“This is a community/university/state/county project,” he said. “I love that about it because those young kids who watch this thing go up can go in there and use it. They have as much legitimate right there as a Smith a Carlos or an Edwards or a Jeff Konya or the president has there. And I love that about it.”While they share outgoing personalities, the backgrounds of Toeniskoetter Development founder Chuck Toeniskoetter and Hunger at Home CEO Ewell Sterner don’t have that much in common.
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