Community Pioneers to Be Honored at Nisei Week
The Nisei Week Foundation is pleased to announce the 2011 Nisei Week Pioneers, who will be recognized during the 71st annual Nisei Week Japanese Festival (Aug. 13-21) in Little Tokyo. The five pioneers represent some of the most active and dedicated leaders of the greater Los Angeles Japanese American community. They will be honored at a special 2011 Pioneers Luncheon to be held at the Kyoto Grand Hotel & Gardens (120 S. Los Angeles St., Los Angeles) on Wednesday, Aug. 17 at 12 noon. Tickets are $45 per person or $450 per table of 10 and can be obtained by calling the Nisei Week office at (213) 687-7193.
The 2011 Nisei Week pioneers are:
• Kazuo Ikeda, nominated by the Central Coast Service Club
Kazuo Ikeda was born in June 1918 and grew up in Oceano, Calif., where he graduated from Arroyo Grande High School. He attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and after two years left school to farm full-time with his parents, Juzo and Sei. During WWII he and his family were interned at Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona. After the war Ikeda continued farming with his brothers, Seirin and Saburo, as Ikeda Brothers in Oceano and Arroyo Grande and the Pismo Oceano Vegetable Exchange (POVE), an agricultural co-op founded in 1928 and reopened in 1945. It now consists of five Japanese farm families. Ikeda is proud of the farming tradition being carried forward by the Sansei and Yonsei of the Ikeda family. The farm produces nappa, bok choy, lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, shanghai, spinach, and numerous other crops.
Ikeda has loved sports all his life. His father learned the game of baseball and English by following baseball every day in the San Francisco Chronicle . At 13, Ikeda was a starting catcher of the local Japanese team. There seemed to be a Japanese team in every town and the game was a very important social and cultural event. Ikeda went on to play four years of varsity ball in high school and lettered at Cal Poly. Even in the internment camp, baseball was their diversion.
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Kazuo Ikeda was born in June 1918 and grew up in Oceano, Calif., where he graduated from Arroyo Grande High School. He attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and after two years left school to farm full-time with his parents, Juzo and Sei.
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