It is easy to talk about Ron...he was sooo full of life. For example, this (one) morning rising over WIEL station was a big red rubber ball of a summer morning sun. I recall Ron Boone talking about such a red morning sun ball on the radio as he gave the morning weather report, so I called him. A neat thing about Ron was knowing he would be at the station (he always was) when you called.  I asked if Ron knew about the rock n roll song Red Rubber Ball (written by Paul Simon?) and Ron knew the song but couldn’t remember the group’s name than sang it. And I said it was a British rock group called The Cyrkle (pronounced like circle) and he thought I said, the Circus. I said ,'no ,The Cyrkle'. And he again said, 'The Circus?' And I said, 'Ron, not a place with lions and tigers and clowns...Cyrkle...round...like a ring.' And he said, 'okay, like a circus ring'...it was a funny moment of non-sense.

      Now that song reminds me of Ron. Just because it made us laugh at the start of another busy work day. I was listening to him give the weather report and called to say, 'hi'. And we laughed about Red Rubber Ball. Then Ron asked me two or three “newsy “questions about my work at the college and a book talk I was giving later that week.