Hillsdale High School community comes together for Dedication Walk
- July 8, 2010
A jogger runs on the Hillsdale High School track past the new Dedication Walk, which will act as a new entryway to the stadium later this year.
Four blue benches, each flanked on either side by a flagpole, line a new walkway on the southwest end of the Hillsdale High School football field.
Bricks with engraved messages and knights line the walkway along with 16 young trees. It’s part of the Dedication Walk, a final step in the new stadium. Finishing what may seem like a small portion of the field took a major community effort with volunteers coming together. Collaborative efforts from the community meant the landscaped project could be completed as originally envisioned at substantially less. Savings are going back into the school allowing for the purchase of new netbooks.
“It’s very impressive to see this school community and the greater community rally together to complete a project like this,” said Dave Pine, president of the San Mateo Union High School Board of Trustees. “That community effort is a great way to honor one of Hillsdale’s greatest faculty members.”
Bricks were sold a couple years ago when the school was raising funds for the all-weather field as part of the updated stadium. The effort was in honor of one of Hillsdale High School’s most memorable faculty members — Richard Mazzoncini, affectionately known as Coach Mazz.
Mazzoncini played football for Aragon High School and went on to play football at California State University, Hayward — now known as California State University, East Bay. He started his teaching career at Ralston Middle School in Belmont. Soon after, Mazzoncini was hired as the assistant varsity football coach and frosh-soph baseball coach at Carlmont.