Monday, January 7, 2013
Bill and His Wife, Marilyn, Were Super Fans of OA Athletics
This past Friday night, at the Oliver Ames High School home boys' basketball game, there was a moment of silence and a tribute held for a very special man. That man was William "Bill" Mowatt, the number one OA Tiger fan of all time. Bill Mowatt loved OA and he loved Easton, and he gave tremendously of himself to both institutions. Mowatt, who lived in Easton since childhood, passed away two Saturdays ago at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He was 71 years old and had been battling lymphoma for 11 years. “He fought lymphoma well, and so many times he bounced back and refused to let it beat him,” said his wife of 45 years, Marilyn. “I think though that he finally just got so tired following the chemo and all the …
Monday, October 15, 2012
Ron Buba: An Easton and Oliver Ames guy through and through
One of the Easton and Oliver Ames High School people who would contact me through the comments section at the end of the “Muscato's Musings” columns was Ronald "Ron" Buba, OA '59. From my count, Ron commented on seven of my columns. Ron, who had been living in Texas for 45 years, stayed in touch with his Easton and OA buddies. One time, while doing research for something I was writing, I called Ron in Texas and we chatted. It was fun. Ron – the only child of Stanley and Alice Buba – was the starting guard on the 1958-59 OA hoops team that won the Class C Tech Tourney Championship at Boston Garden. In fact, I last saw Ron in Nov. 2009 when he was at Stonehill College for the induction of that team in the OAHS Athletic Hall of Fame. In…
Monday, May 14, 2012
"There really could be something going on here." A Parallel to the 1968-69 Celtics?
One of my Facebook buddies is Erik Anderson, a fellow child of Easton and Oliver Ames High School grad. Erik, a few years younger than me, grew up on Seaver Street and now lives in North Carolina with his wife and children. Erik played hoops at OA, and also did some high school basketball coaching. He loves his roundball. Erik was what you call a basketball gym and playground rat, frequently looking and scouting for a game, a chance to play, for that opportunity to get in a "run" on the court. Actually, he is now into his mid 40s, and he still plays spirited and aggressive pickup basketball, including against kids a couple decades or more younger than him. After Saturday night’s Celts comeback win over the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 1 …
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Sam Jones Has A History With Easton
My childhood friend was in Boston over the past few days. Many years ago, during summers of the 1970s, when we were kids, we spent many weeks together at Stonehill College at boys’ and girls’ basketball camps. My friend’s name is Wally Ray; he is a distant cousin of NBA Hall of Famer and Boston Celtics great, Sam Jones, who was the co-director of some of those hoops camps at Stonehill all those years ago. My dad was another co-director of those camps. Many Easton kids, Baby Boomers, have fond recollections of Sam Jones and the camps at Stonehill College. I was fortunate to be able to see Wally and Sam yesterday and sit and talk with them. I have written about Sam in this space before; that column can be found here: Sam Jones Wally is …
Don Cabral
6:34 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Ross, Thanks for this Great tribute of our Great Friend. Ron & i were lifelong friends from O.A.H.S class of "59". I am still having a hard time grasping that he is no longer with us. Have been upset since i got the news from our friend Roger Sweet. Ron & i had just been talking on the phone not long before this. & He was as full of life & humor as always.. Ron was a Great teammate of mine at O.A… more ›