This morning Ezra received an award for being a "PE Champion," his brother Milo accepted the award in his honor. The award was presented by Superintendent of Seattle Public Schools, Maria Goodloe Johnson. Our elementary school had about a dozen kids riding on unicycles around Husky stadium in Ezra's honor for the "walk of champions." Then about 40 McGilvra school supporters joined with others from Seattle Public Schools for the Boardwalk 5K - an event that earns money for the health and fitness programs in our Seattle Public Schools. Our team was led by our own PE teacher, Ms. Mass, who proudly wore a photo of Ezra unicycling pinned to her back and several others carrying signs with photos of Ezra unicycling. Photo above from soccer 2006, Ezra at right, Milo at left.
Ms. Mass has also taught an after school unicycling class this semester, dedicated to Ezra. The class made use of 3 PINK unicycles donated to McGilvra School, by Izilla Toys in honor of Ezra. When I visited the class one day, one girl came up to me and told me that Ezra inspired her to be a better unicyclist. How sweet is that! Thank you Ms. M for keeping Ezra's memory alive and honoring his achievements. The unicycling photo above is Milo on the "giraffe," this is something that Ezra had been training to do, and although he had finished all the prerequisites set by Ms. M, he hadn't had the chance to try it before his death. Milo finished his prerequisites during this afternoon unicycling class and this is him, proudly showing off his new skill. Congrats Milo. Thank you Jude for the beautiful Pink unicycles, Ezra would have loved them and Milo has enjoyed riding them at school, as well as today at the Boardwalk 5K event today. 