| "To my extended family and friends, it has been a pleasure to call you that, family & friends. To team 157, "the AZTECHS", it has been a pleasure for 11 years being part of your team. To the teachers, mentors, but especially the kids. Kids you are super and I know you will all turn out to be great adults. I will always hold you close in my heart" -Debbie Provost |
| Since 1993 when Assabet joined Framingham High in our inaugural season with FIRST, the Provosts have been an integral part of our team. While Paul toiled away on the electronics, Debbie supported the team…and particularly the students…in a variety of ways. Decorated in her FIRST finery, Deb would have her children, and eventually grandchildren, lined up in rows at every competition, cheering for our students! Deb became the unofficial “TEAM MOM” as she began to bring food for the ‘troops’ on those long Saturdays. One year, she volunteered to embroider names on our wonderful AZTECHS 157 tote bags…for 45 people! In our most recent past, she and her niece, Holly, began to take over the Saturday meals, carting in Dutch ovens and crock pots full of stew, soup, lasagna, etc., each and every week, with pre-printed menus giving advance notice of the next week’s culinary delights! It was one of those Saturday mornings last year when Deb slipped and fell that the first indication of her illness appeared. In the following weeks when Deb learned she had brain cancer, her spirit was undaunted and her love for our students never waned. As usual, she was there with us in Hartford, and we all felt she would be one of the lucky ones to beat this. Our team dinner was after her surgery, but she came in her wheel chair and was surrounded all evening by her fan club, the FIRST team. It is with much regret and sadness that we have to announce that Deb lost her fight in August. We dedicate our season to her memory, and, as you will see by an excerpt from her last letter to her loved ones, that she will watch over us and cheer us on from a higher place this year. Here’s to you, Deb! May you rest in peace. |
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