Gail,
As Lynn said, I’m in as well. Check will be sent soon. Should there be any scenes……….I’d be interested.
Love to all!!
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Hi, all,
I'm sorry I've been so absent from our conversations of late. The
pandemic was incredibly challenging for our family and then we've had a
bunch of (great) life events, but now I'm here!
I'm writing because I've just returned from the amazing final weekend at
Winedale completely inspired again by the play and work that the class
shared with us. I was out all day Saturday and Sunday, for *Two Noble
Kinsmen, Winter's Tale, Much Ado, *and then a second helping of *Kinsmen. *I've
been away for a bit and returning for this weekend was such a joy. The
student's engaged creatively and earnestly with the cruxes presented
by *Winter's
Tale*, the wit and clownery in *Much Ado*, and the erotic ambiguities and
wild riffing on Chaucer in *Kinsmen*. I was jealous of their ability to
energize a matinee audience soaking in that Texas heat, and deeply
appreciative of the engaging conversations we shared after their
performances. The whole team out at Winedale this summer is truly composed
of heroes' heroes.
As many of you know by now, James is facing his own personal battle at
Agincourt. Yet it's not merely his own. James is facing this battle
*with *Laurel
and the few, the happy few of the Winedale class of 2022. This summer was
about Winedale and the experience that the students' were meant to have,
and James's challenge was in one sense the same as always: to push and
guide them in that process of self-discovery in and through Shakespeare
(and Fletcher).
I know that James is fond of challenge roles at Winedale—in my first
summer, I rated my musical ability a 0.5 out of 10 in our pre-summer survey
of skills and he made me Balthasar in *Much Ado *(!)—and this summer he
himself accepted the absolute challenge role. To continue mixing my
metaphors (I blame/thank Shakespeare for the tendency), James elected to
wrestle with the angel this summer and, in true Winedale fashion, he's done
it as part of an ensemble. Beyond the various physical, mental, and
spiritual limits that we push past at Winedale, there is an absolute
limit—the limit of limits that marks off life's circumference from whatever
is beyond—and I cannot think of a more quintessential expression of how
James embodies everything this program means than for him to live at that
limit and direct Winedale with passion and ability alongside the students,
Laurel, and the rest of the team out there. James wrestles with the angel
at Winedale and I can bare witness the immensity and beauty of the contest.
To engage in the contest is to already have won. Even in this, James
continues to teach me.
Please join me in congratulating James on the amazing play that the
Winedale class of 2022 undertook! All my love and admiration, James!
Cheers,
Casey Caldwell (Spring 2003; Summer, 2003, 2004; Summer 2009, 2010;
Reunion 2015)
Just 14 words in your comment. And yet they speak volumes. Thank you so
much, Heather.
On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 8:45 PM Heather Dolstra <heather(a)democracytravel.com>
wrote:
> I mourn Vic's passing as if I knew him. We are family, after all.
>
> Heather Dolstra
>
>
>
> Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic(a)gmail.com>
> Date: 8/14/22 7:57 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: Shakespeare at Winedale 1970-2000 alums <
> winedale-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, David Sharpe <dpsharpeaustin(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [Winedale-l] Fwd: Victor Hauser, A Remembrance
>
>
> Forwarding a message from David Sharpe about Victor Hauser.
>
> Mike
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: David Sharpe <dpsharpeaustin(a)gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 3:30 PM
> Subject: Victor Hauser, A Remembrance
> To: <shakespeare-at-winedale-email-list(a)googlegroups.com>
>
>
> Three weeks ago, when Vic Hauser (a student from the Winedale Summer of
> 1983) was diagnosed with pneumonia, I and those of us from Winedale-'83 who
> came to know Vic in his latter years thought that this was going to be just
> another health problem where he and his hospital doctors and nurses would
> once again do battle to get a medical handle on it. Vic would then return
> to his beloved Co-op apartment complex in Austin, and soldier on as he had
> done so often in the past.
>
> In fact, at various times in the last 5 to 8 years, Vic had managed to
> survive a host of ailments, such as diabetes, throat cancer, lupus, and two
> cases of pneumonia. He also avoided getting Covid 19 or any of its
> variants. Vic definitely had a strong will to live.
>
> Unfortunately, this time Vic's luck ran out. This time he was not going to
> win his struggle with his third case of pneumonia, for it was ultimately
> diagnosed as being terminal by his Austin doctors..
>
> So after giving the matter serious thought and realizing that being
> trapped in a hospital bed connected to multiple tubes and bags was no way
> to live, Vic willingly agreed to transfer to the hospice at Christopher
> House in Austin. It was a brave decision. Six days later Vic's suffering
> and multiple battles with his chronically compromised health came to an
> end. He died peacefully on a Friday night, August 12, 2022.
>
> Given his host of health issues, Vic was never strong enough to make the
> long trek from Austin out to Winedale to see a play. However in 2018, Vic,
> along with Winedale friends Clay Stromberger, Steve Price, and myself,
> made a car trip to Shakespeare at Winedale to visit Director James
> Loehlin's summer class, which on that day was in the throes of rehearsal.
> Before the rehearsal began, James asked the class to sit down on the stage
> in the Barn, and then introduced Vic (Previously, Vic had asked James -
> another Winedale-'83 alum - for an opportunity to speak briefly to
> the class). Standing before them, Vic very simply told the students that
> they may not realize it at that moment, but what they were going through at
> Winedale that summer was a unique and very special experience, that it
> would unlikely come again, and that they should take full advantage of
> every minute while they were there. Now more ever, this was the time to
> seize the day. Vic spoke a little more and then sat down.
>
> Vic didn't have money to give donations to Winedale - he just had enough
> money to live on. But he wanted very much to give something back to
> Shakespeare at Winedale that had given so much to him and for one summer
> uplifted his life. And going to Winedale and addressing the summer class
> was his way of giving back. Of course, Vic's message to the students was
> absolutely true and something that could never be said enough. And in his
> own quiet but serious way, Vic made his point very powerfully.
>
> David Sharpe
>
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Dear folks,
Some of you have noticed that sometimes, when exchanges get longer, the old
mailing list (winedale-l, run off the Wikimedia Foundation server) won't
forward messages bigger than 40K. And I've had to go hand-approve the
too-large messages.
That problem may be fixed now, thanks to some updates in the Wikimedia
server software. I quickly changed the 40K limit on messages to 256K--we'll
see if we need to adjust it further, but it should reduce the number of
bounces and delays on the older "Ancianos" list for now.
Thanks as always for your patience!
Love,
Mike
Forwarding a message from David Sharpe about Victor Hauser.
Mike
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: David Sharpe <dpsharpeaustin(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 3:30 PM
Subject: Victor Hauser, A Remembrance
To: <shakespeare-at-winedale-email-list(a)googlegroups.com>
Three weeks ago, when Vic Hauser (a student from the Winedale Summer of
1983) was diagnosed with pneumonia, I and those of us from Winedale-'83 who
came to know Vic in his latter years thought that this was going to be just
another health problem where he and his hospital doctors and nurses would
once again do battle to get a medical handle on it. Vic would then return
to his beloved Co-op apartment complex in Austin, and soldier on as he had
done so often in the past.
In fact, at various times in the last 5 to 8 years, Vic had managed to
survive a host of ailments, such as diabetes, throat cancer, lupus, and two
cases of pneumonia. He also avoided getting Covid 19 or any of its
variants. Vic definitely had a strong will to live.
Unfortunately, this time Vic's luck ran out. This time he was not going to
win his struggle with his third case of pneumonia, for it was ultimately
diagnosed as being terminal by his Austin doctors..
So after giving the matter serious thought and realizing that being trapped
in a hospital bed connected to multiple tubes and bags was no way to live,
Vic willingly agreed to transfer to the hospice at Christopher House in
Austin. It was a brave decision. Six days later Vic's suffering and
multiple battles with his chronically compromised health came to an end. He
died peacefully on a Friday night, August 12, 2022.
Given his host of health issues, Vic was never strong enough to make the
long trek from Austin out to Winedale to see a play. However in 2018, Vic,
along with Winedale friends Clay Stromberger, Steve Price, and myself,
made a car trip to Shakespeare at Winedale to visit Director James
Loehlin's summer class, which on that day was in the throes of rehearsal.
Before the rehearsal began, James asked the class to sit down on the stage
in the Barn, and then introduced Vic (Previously, Vic had asked James -
another Winedale-'83 alum - for an opportunity to speak briefly to
the class). Standing before them, Vic very simply told the students that
they may not realize it at that moment, but what they were going through at
Winedale that summer was a unique and very special experience, that it
would unlikely come again, and that they should take full advantage of
every minute while they were there. Now more ever, this was the time to
seize the day. Vic spoke a little more and then sat down.
Vic didn't have money to give donations to Winedale - he just had enough
money to live on. But he wanted very much to give something back to
Shakespeare at Winedale that had given so much to him and for one summer
uplifted his life. And going to Winedale and addressing the summer class
was his way of giving back. Of course, Vic's message to the students was
absolutely true and something that could never be said enough. And in his
own quiet but serious way, Vic made his point very powerfully.
David Sharpe
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