Dear Shakespeare at Winedale students:
I learned today that one of our most devoted friends, Virginia Elverson, has been diagnosed with terminal colon and liver cancer. As some of you remember, Virginia was a close friend of Miss Ima. I met her the same day I met Miss Ima, October 8, '70, at Winedale. She and her husband, Robin, were the first presidents of the Friends of Winedale and they were the first to establish a scholarship for Shakespeare at Winedale. Virginia not only funded the rose gardens along the front fences of the property and the vegetable garden inside but dug the holes and planted. In 2000, she was astonished to find that everything she began had died and had disappeared through neglect. They have never been replaced. The current administration of the property had ignored that. She vowed never to give anything to Winedale again. But she has remained a very strong supporter of Sha at W. And has attended the galas and bought the wooden cows. She is indeed our tie with the beginning and now we are losing her.
Alice went to elementary school with her daughter, Ginny. And just a lot of you will remember swimming in their pond near Winedale (especially Maggie, our token olympic swimmer).
I would really like to see those roses on the fence again, growing.
This has not been a very happy week. We have lost Professor Douglas Parker, who wrote the very first evaluation/review of Shakespeare at Winedale in '72. And we learned just this week about our colleague, Lizz Ketterer, in a coma in New Mexico. Please keep all of these in your thoughts.
Doc
Doc, do you think it would be appropriate for those of us who may never have met Virginia but who value her role in giving us what we needed to send her a card or a note?
If not, I understand.
If so, what's the best address we could use.
---Mike
On Friday, February 11, 2011, James Ayres jayres@cvctx.com wrote:
Dear Shakespeare at Winedale students:
I learned today that one of our most devoted friends, Virginia Elverson, has been diagnosed with terminal colon and liver cancer. As some of you remember, Virginia was a close friend of Miss Ima. I met her the same day I met Miss Ima, October 8, '70, at Winedale. She and her husband, Robin, were the first presidents of the Friends of Winedale and they were the first to establish a scholarship for Shakespeare at Winedale. Virginia not only funded the rose gardens along the front fences of the property and the vegetable garden inside but dug the holes and planted. In 2000, she was astonished to find that everything she began had died and had disappeared through neglect. They have never been replaced. The current administration of the property had ignored that. She vowed never to give anything to Winedale again. But she has remained a very strong supporter of Sha at W. And has attended the galas and bought the wooden cows. She is indeed our tie with the beginning and now we are losing her.
Alice went to elementary school with her daughter, Ginny. And just a lot of you will remember swimming in their pond near Winedale (especially Maggie, our token olympic swimmer).
I would really like to see those roses on the fence again, growing.
This has not been a very happy week. We have lost Professor Douglas Parker, who wrote the very first evaluation/review of Shakespeare at Winedale in '72. And we learned just this week about our colleague, Lizz Ketterer, in a coma in New Mexico. Please keep all of these in your thoughts.
Doc
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Thanks, Mike. Might be good to plant roses, as others have suggested. She would, I think, be very happy with that gesture.
Doc
On Feb 11, 2011, at 5:28 PM, Mike Godwin wrote:
Doc, do you think it would be appropriate for those of us who may never have met Virginia but who value her role in giving us what we needed to send her a card or a note?
If not, I understand.
If so, what's the best address we could use.
---Mike
On Friday, February 11, 2011, James Ayres jayres@cvctx.com wrote:
Dear Shakespeare at Winedale students:
I learned today that one of our most devoted friends, Virginia Elverson, has been diagnosed with terminal colon and liver cancer. As some of you remember, Virginia was a close friend of Miss Ima. I met her the same day I met Miss Ima, October 8, '70, at Winedale. She and her husband, Robin, were the first presidents of the Friends of Winedale and they were the first to establish a scholarship for Shakespeare at Winedale. Virginia not only funded the rose gardens along the front fences of the property and the vegetable garden inside but dug the holes and planted. In 2000, she was astonished to find that everything she began had died and had disappeared through neglect. They have never been replaced. The current administration of the property had ignored that. She vowed never to give anything to Winedale again. But she has remained a very strong supporter of Sha at W. And has attended the galas and bought the wooden cows. She is indeed our tie with the beginning and now we are losing her.
Alice went to elementary school with her daughter, Ginny. And just a lot of you will remember swimming in their pond near Winedale (especially Maggie, our token olympic swimmer).
I would really like to see those roses on the fence again, growing.
This has not been a very happy week. We have lost Professor Douglas Parker, who wrote the very first evaluation/review of Shakespeare at Winedale in '72. And we learned just this week about our colleague, Lizz Ketterer, in a coma in New Mexico. Please keep all of these in your thoughts.
Doc
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Dear Doc,
I remember Mrs. Elverson from 1975, and know how much you and the Elversons have valued each other over the years, and
what supporters of Sh at W they have been. I am so sorry about her condition. She, Lizz and Dr. Parker are in my thoughts and prayers.
Maybe we can do something about making those roses bloom again.
Love,
Mary
________________________________ From: James Ayres jayres@cvctx.com To: Weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: president@po.utexas.edu; diehl@austin.utexas.edu Sent: Fri, February 11, 2011 9:31:25 PM Subject: [Weeklong-l] Virginia Elverson
Dear Shakespeare at Winedale students:
I learned today that one of our most devoted friends, Virginia Elverson, has been diagnosed with terminal colon and liver cancer. As some of you remember, Virginia was a close friend of Miss Ima. I met her the same day I met Miss Ima, October 8, '70, at Winedale. She and her husband, Robin, were the first presidents of the Friends of Winedale and they were the first to establish a scholarship for Shakespeare at Winedale. Virginia not only funded the rose gardens along the front fences of the property and the vegetable garden inside but dug the holes and planted. In 2000, she was astonished to find that everything she began had died and had disappeared through neglect. They have never been replaced. The current administration of the property had ignored that. She vowed never to give anything to Winedale again. But she has remained a very strong supporter of Sha at W. And has attended the galas and bought the wooden cows. She is indeed our tie with the beginning and now we are losing her.
Alice went to elementary school with her daughter, Ginny. And just a lot of you will remember swimming in their pond near Winedale (especially Maggie, our token olympic swimmer).
I would really like to see those roses on the fence again, growing.
This has not been a very happy week. We have lost Professor Douglas Parker, who wrote the very first evaluation/review of Shakespeare at Winedale in '72. And we learned just this week about our colleague, Lizz Ketterer, in a coma in New Mexico. Please keep all of these in your thoughts.
Doc
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What a great lady. Aw, nuts. Thanks for this Doc -- let's replant the roses in her honor. I am not to be trusted with plants of any kind, but I can dig a hole.... Who do we need to talk to to do that as a gift, in active de-spite of the current neglecters of the property? Maybe we could pick a Saturday in a few weeks and have a planting day. As brave Egyptians demonstrated in the last 18 days, the forces of cold neglect and selfish disregard of others must eventually be overthrown by the forces of song, courage, and joy. Here's to Virginia, Dr. Parker and all the forces of good in this wild and whirling world...
cs
On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:31 PM, James Ayres wrote:
Dear Shakespeare at Winedale students:
I learned today that one of our most devoted friends, Virginia Elverson, has been diagnosed with terminal colon and liver cancer. As some of you remember, Virginia was a close friend of Miss Ima. I met her the same day I met Miss Ima, October 8, '70, at Winedale. She and her husband, Robin, were the first presidents of the Friends of Winedale and they were the first to establish a scholarship for Shakespeare at Winedale. Virginia not only funded the rose gardens along the front fences of the property and the vegetable garden inside but dug the holes and planted. In 2000, she was astonished to find that everything she began had died and had disappeared through neglect. They have never been replaced. The current administration of the property had ignored that. She vowed never to give anything to Winedale again. But she has remained a very strong supporter of Sha at W. And has attended the galas and bought the wooden cows. She is indeed our tie with the beginning and now we are losing her.
Alice went to elementary school with her daughter, Ginny. And just a lot of you will remember swimming in their pond near Winedale (especially Maggie, our token olympic swimmer).
I would really like to see those roses on the fence again, growing.
This has not been a very happy week. We have lost Professor Douglas Parker, who wrote the very first evaluation/review of Shakespeare at Winedale in '72. And we learned just this week about our colleague, Lizz Ketterer, in a coma in New Mexico. Please keep all of these in your thoughts.
Doc
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Clay, wonderful! I'd be happy to help pay for the roses; cannot, alas, help plant them.
Mary
________________________________ From: Clay Stromberger cstromberger@mail.utexas.edu To: weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Fri, February 11, 2011 11:32:01 PM Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Virginia Elverson
What a great lady. Aw, nuts. Thanks for this Doc -- let's replant the roses in her honor. I am not to be trusted with plants of any kind, but I can dig a hole.... Who do we need to talk to to do that as a gift, in active de-spite of the current neglecters of the property? Maybe we could pick a Saturday in a few weeks and have a planting day. As brave Egyptians demonstrated in the last 18 days, the forces of cold neglect and selfish disregard of others must eventually be overthrown by the forces of song, courage, and joy. Here's to Virginia, Dr. Parker and all the forces of good in this wild and whirling world...
cs
On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:31 PM, James Ayres wrote:
Dear Shakespeare at Winedale students:
I learned today that one of our most devoted friends, Virginia Elverson, has been diagnosed with terminal colon and liver cancer. As some of you remember, Virginia was a close friend of Miss Ima. I met her the same day I met Miss Ima, October 8, '70, at Winedale. She and her husband, Robin, were the first presidents of the Friends of Winedale and they were the first to establish a scholarship for Shakespeare at Winedale. Virginia not only funded the rose gardens along the front fences of the property and the vegetable garden inside but dug the holes and planted. In 2000, she was astonished to find that everything she began had died and had disappeared through neglect. They have never been replaced. The current administration of the property had ignored that. She vowed never to give anything to Winedale again. But she has remained a very strong supporter of Sha at W. And has attended the galas and bought the wooden cows. She is indeed our tie with the beginning and now we are losing her.
Alice went to elementary school with her daughter, Ginny. And just a lot of you will remember swimming in their pond near Winedale (especially Maggie, our token olympic swimmer).
I would really like to see those roses on the fence again, growing.
This has not been a very happy week. We have lost Professor Douglas Parker, who wrote the very first evaluation/review of Shakespeare at Winedale in '72. And we learned just this week about our colleague, Lizz Ketterer, in a coma in New Mexico. Please keep all of these in your thoughts.
Doc
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Count me in, I can bring a shovel and the fertilizer...
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What a great lady. Aw, nuts. Thanks for this Doc -- let's replant the roses in her honor. I am not to be trusted with plants of any kind, but I can dig a hole.... Who do we need to talk to to do that as a gift, in active de-spite of the current neglecters of the property? Maybe we could pick a Saturday in a few weeks and have a planting day. As brave Egyptians demonstrated in the last 18 days, the forces of cold neglect and selfish disregard of others must eventually be overthrown by the forces of song, courage, and joy. Here's to Virginia, Dr. Parker and all the forces of good in this wild and whirling world...
cs
On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:31 PM, James Ayres wrote:
Dear Shakespeare at Winedale students:
I learned today that one of our most devoted friends, Virginia Elverson, has been diagnosed with terminal colon and liver cancer. As some of you remember, Virginia was a close friend of Miss Ima. I met her the same day I met Miss Ima, October 8, '70, at Winedale. She and her husband, Robin, were the first presidents of the Friends of Winedale and they were the first to establish a scholarship for Shakespeare at Winedale. Virginia not only funded the rose gardens along the front fences of the property and the vegetable garden inside but dug the holes and planted. In 2000, she was astonished to find that everything she began had died and had disappeared through neglect. They have never been replaced. The current administration of the property had ignored that. She vowed never to give anything to Winedale again. But she has remained a very strong supporter of Sha at W. And has attended the galas and bought the wooden cows. She is indeed our tie with the beginning and now we are losing her.
Alice went to elementary school with her daughter, Ginny. And just a lot of you will remember swimming in their pond near Winedale (especially Maggie, our token olympic swimmer).
I would really like to see those roses on the fence again, growing.
This has not been a very happy week. We have lost Professor Douglas Parker, who wrote the very first evaluation/review of Shakespeare at Winedale in '72. And we learned just this week about our colleague, Lizz Ketterer, in a coma in New Mexico. Please keep all of these in your thoughts.
Doc
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Clayton, as ever you step up to the plate, or in this case, the garden gate. I would be more than happy to contribute to the roses.
It had been so long since I had seen the Elversons, and we all are becoming so anciano, that I didn't know whom Doc was talking about at first, Virginia or Ginny, her daughter my age. I remember Viriginia as tall and commanding and kind and funny. She and Robin were quite the elegant, eloquent pair, and such dedicated supporters of Doc and all of us. I think she must be close to the age my mother would be now--in her nineties, Doc? The weight of this sad time we must obey.....
Love, Alice
From: Clay Stromberger cstromberger@mail.utexas.edu Reply-To: weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:32:01 -0600 To: weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Virginia Elverson
What a great lady. Aw, nuts. Thanks for this Doc -- let's replant the roses in her honor. I am not to be trusted with plants of any kind, but I can dig a hole.... Who do we need to talk to to do that as a gift, in active de-spite of the current neglecters of the property? Maybe we could pick a Saturday in a few weeks and have a planting day. As brave Egyptians demonstrated in the last 18 days, the forces of cold neglect and selfish disregard of others must eventually be overthrown by the forces of song, courage, and joy. Here's to Virginia, Dr. Parker and all the forces of good in this wild and whirling world...
cs
On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:31 PM, James Ayres wrote:
Dear Shakespeare at Winedale students:
I learned today that one of our most devoted friends, Virginia Elverson, has been diagnosed with terminal colon and liver cancer. As some of you remember, Virginia was a close friend of Miss Ima. I met her the same day I met Miss Ima, October 8, '70, at Winedale. She and her husband, Robin, were the first presidents of the Friends of Winedale and they were the first to establish a scholarship for Shakespeare at Winedale. Virginia not only funded the rose gardens along the front fences of the property and the vegetable garden inside but dug the holes and planted. In 2000, she was astonished to find that everything she began had died and had disappeared through neglect. They have never been replaced. The current administration of the property had ignored that. She vowed never to give anything to Winedale again. But she has remained a very strong supporter of Sha at W. And has attended the galas and bought the wooden cows. She is indeed our tie with the beginning and now we are losing her.
Alice went to elementary school with her daughter, Ginny. And just a lot of you will remember swimming in their pond near Winedale (especially Maggie, our token olympic swimmer).
I would really like to see those roses on the fence again, growing.
This has not been a very happy week. We have lost Professor Douglas Parker, who wrote the very first evaluation/review of Shakespeare at Winedale in '72. And we learned just this week about our colleague, Lizz Ketterer, in a coma in New Mexico. Please keep all of these in your thoughts.
Doc
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OK, what about a day during Spring Break? I will get the roses from The Rose Emporium. After checking, of course, if the Winedale administration will allow our gifts.
Doc
On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Clay Stromberger wrote:
What a great lady. Aw, nuts. Thanks for this Doc -- let's replant the roses in her honor. I am not to be trusted with plants of any kind, but I can dig a hole.... Who do we need to talk to to do that as a gift, in active de-spite of the current neglecters of the property? Maybe we could pick a Saturday in a few weeks and have a planting day. As brave Egyptians demonstrated in the last 18 days, the forces of cold neglect and selfish disregard of others must eventually be overthrown by the forces of song, courage, and joy. Here's to Virginia, Dr. Parker and all the forces of good in this wild and whirling world...
cs
On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:31 PM, James Ayres wrote:
Dear Shakespeare at Winedale students:
I learned today that one of our most devoted friends, Virginia Elverson, has been diagnosed with terminal colon and liver cancer. As some of you remember, Virginia was a close friend of Miss Ima. I met her the same day I met Miss Ima, October 8, '70, at Winedale. She and her husband, Robin, were the first presidents of the Friends of Winedale and they were the first to establish a scholarship for Shakespeare at Winedale. Virginia not only funded the rose gardens along the front fences of the property and the vegetable garden inside but dug the holes and planted. In 2000, she was astonished to find that everything she began had died and had disappeared through neglect. They have never been replaced. The current administration of the property had ignored that. She vowed never to give anything to Winedale again. But she has remained a very strong supporter of Sha at W. And has attended the galas and bought the wooden cows. She is indeed our tie with the beginning and now we are losing her.
Alice went to elementary school with her daughter, Ginny. And just a lot of you will remember swimming in their pond near Winedale (especially Maggie, our token olympic swimmer).
I would really like to see those roses on the fence again, growing.
This has not been a very happy week. We have lost Professor Douglas Parker, who wrote the very first evaluation/review of Shakespeare at Winedale in '72. And we learned just this week about our colleague, Lizz Ketterer, in a coma in New Mexico. Please keep all of these in your thoughts.
Doc
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Sounds like a lovely way to spend a day of spring break.
cs
On Feb 12, 2011, at 9:12 PM, James Ayres wrote:
OK, what about a day during Spring Break? I will get the roses from The Rose Emporium. After checking, of course, if the Winedale administration will allow our gifts.
Doc
On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Clay Stromberger wrote:
What a great lady. Aw, nuts. Thanks for this Doc -- let's replant the roses in her honor. I am not to be trusted with plants of any kind, but I can dig a hole.... Who do we need to talk to to do that as a gift, in active de-spite of the current neglecters of the property? Maybe we could pick a Saturday in a few weeks and have a planting day. As brave Egyptians demonstrated in the last 18 days, the forces of cold neglect and selfish disregard of others must eventually be overthrown by the forces of song, courage, and joy. Here's to Virginia, Dr. Parker and all the forces of good in this wild and whirling world...
cs
On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:31 PM, James Ayres wrote:
Dear Shakespeare at Winedale students:
I learned today that one of our most devoted friends, Virginia Elverson, has been diagnosed with terminal colon and liver cancer. As some of you remember, Virginia was a close friend of Miss Ima. I met her the same day I met Miss Ima, October 8, '70, at Winedale. She and her husband, Robin, were the first presidents of the Friends of Winedale and they were the first to establish a scholarship for Shakespeare at Winedale. Virginia not only funded the rose gardens along the front fences of the property and the vegetable garden inside but dug the holes and planted. In 2000, she was astonished to find that everything she began had died and had disappeared through neglect. They have never been replaced. The current administration of the property had ignored that. She vowed never to give anything to Winedale again. But she has remained a very strong supporter of Sha at W. And has attended the galas and bought the wooden cows. She is indeed our tie with the beginning and now we are losing her.
Alice went to elementary school with her daughter, Ginny. And just a lot of you will remember swimming in their pond near Winedale (especially Maggie, our token olympic swimmer).
I would really like to see those roses on the fence again, growing.
This has not been a very happy week. We have lost Professor Douglas Parker, who wrote the very first evaluation/review of Shakespeare at Winedale in '72. And we learned just this week about our colleague, Lizz Ketterer, in a coma in New Mexico. Please keep all of these in your thoughts.
Doc
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I'd be honored to be a part as well. Please count me in! Craig
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Clay Stromberger < cstromberger@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
Sounds like a lovely way to spend a day of spring break.
cs
On Feb 12, 2011, at 9:12 PM, James Ayres wrote:
OK, what about a day during Spring Break? I will get the roses from The Rose Emporium. After checking, of course, if the Winedale administration will allow our gifts.
Doc
On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Clay Stromberger wrote:
What a great lady. Aw, nuts. Thanks for this Doc -- let's replant the roses in her honor. I am not to be trusted with plants of any kind, but I can dig a hole.... Who do we need to talk to to do that as a gift, in active de-spite of the current neglecters of the property? Maybe we could pick a Saturday in a few weeks and have a planting day. As brave Egyptians demonstrated in the last 18 days, the forces of cold neglect and selfish disregard of others must eventually be overthrown by the forces of song, courage, and joy. Here's to Virginia, Dr. Parker and all the forces of good in this wild and whirling world...
cs
On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:31 PM, James Ayres wrote:
Dear Shakespeare at Winedale students:
I learned today that one of our most devoted friends, Virginia Elverson, has been diagnosed with terminal colon and liver cancer. As some of you remember, Virginia was a close friend of Miss Ima. I met her the same day I met Miss Ima, October 8, '70, at Winedale. She and her husband, Robin, were the first presidents of the Friends of Winedale and they were the first to establish a scholarship for Shakespeare at Winedale. Virginia not only funded the rose gardens along the front fences of the property and the vegetable garden inside but dug the holes and planted. In 2000, she was astonished to find that everything she began had died and had disappeared through neglect. They have never been replaced. The current administration of the property had ignored that. She vowed never to give anything to Winedale again. But she has remained a very strong supporter of Sha at W. And has attended the galas and bought the wooden cows. She is indeed our tie with the beginning and now we are losing her.
Alice went to elementary school with her daughter, Ginny. And just a lot of you will remember swimming in their pond near Winedale (especially Maggie, our token olympic swimmer).
I would really like to see those roses on the fence again, growing.
This has not been a very happy week. We have lost Professor Douglas Parker, who wrote the very first evaluation/review of Shakespeare at Winedale in '72. And we learned just this week about our colleague, Lizz Ketterer, in a coma in New Mexico. Please keep all of these in your thoughts.
Doc
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Spring break at UT starts March 14. Argh, not ideal timing for me. If I get to Texas at all this spring, looks like I'll be visiting Doc and admiring your new rose bushes.
From: James Ayres jayres@cvctx.com Reply-To: weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:12:03 -0800 To: weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Virginia Elverson
OK, what about a day during Spring Break? I will get the roses from The Rose Emporium. After checking, of course, if the Winedale administration will allow our gifts.
Doc
On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Clay Stromberger wrote:
What a great lady. Aw, nuts. Thanks for this Doc -- let's replant the roses in her honor. I am not to be trusted with plants of any kind, but I can dig a hole.... Who do we need to talk to to do that as a gift, in active de-spite of the current neglecters of the property? Maybe we could pick a Saturday in a few weeks and have a planting day. As brave Egyptians demonstrated in the last 18 days, the forces of cold neglect and selfish disregard of others must eventually be overthrown by the forces of song, courage, and joy. Here's to Virginia, Dr. Parker and all the forces of good in this wild and whirling world...
cs
On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:31 PM, James Ayres wrote:
Dear Shakespeare at Winedale students:
I learned today that one of our most devoted friends, Virginia Elverson, has been diagnosed with terminal colon and liver cancer. As some of you remember, Virginia was a close friend of Miss Ima. I met her the same day I met Miss Ima, October 8, '70, at Winedale. She and her husband, Robin, were the first presidents of the Friends of Winedale and they were the first to establish a scholarship for Shakespeare at Winedale. Virginia not only funded the rose gardens along the front fences of the property and the vegetable garden inside but dug the holes and planted. In 2000, she was astonished to find that everything she began had died and had disappeared through neglect. They have never been replaced. The current administration of the property had ignored that. She vowed never to give anything to Winedale again. But she has remained a very strong supporter of Sha at W. And has attended the galas and bought the wooden cows. She is indeed our tie with the beginning and now we are losing her.
Alice went to elementary school with her daughter, Ginny. And just a lot of you will remember swimming in their pond near Winedale (especially Maggie, our token olympic swimmer).
I would really like to see those roses on the fence again, growing.
This has not been a very happy week. We have lost Professor Douglas Parker, who wrote the very first evaluation/review of Shakespeare at Winedale in '72. And we learned just this week about our colleague, Lizz Ketterer, in a coma in New Mexico. Please keep all of these in your thoughts.
Doc
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Oh Doc,
Not Doug Parker?! When did this happen? I loved him on sight. This is just too sad.
I'm the praying sort but I will keep Virginia and Lizz in my heart and send their sweet souls all my love.
love, Terry
-----Original Message----- From: James Ayres jayres@cvctx.com To: Weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: president@po.utexas.edu; diehl@austin.utexas.edu Sent: Fri, Feb 11, 2011 9:31 pm Subject: [Weeklong-l] Virginia Elverson
Dear Shakespeare at Winedale students:
I learned today that one of our most devoted friends, Virginia Elverson, has been diagnosed with terminal colon and liver cancer. As some of you remember, Virginia was a close friend of Miss Ima. I met her the same day I met Miss Ima, October 8, '70, at Winedale. She and her husband, Robin, were the first presidents of the Friends of Winedale and they were the first to establish a scholarship for Shakespeare at Winedale. Virginia not only funded the rose gardens along the front fences of the property and the vegetable garden inside but dug the holes and planted. In 2000, she was astonished to find that everything she began had died and had disappeared through neglect. They have never been replaced. The current administration of the property had ignored that. She vowed never to give anything to Winedale again. But she has remained a very strong supporter of Sha at W. And has attended the galas and bought the wooden cows. She is indeed our tie with the beginning and now we are losing her.
Alice went to elementary school with her daughter, Ginny. And just a lot of you will remember swimming in their pond near Winedale (especially Maggie, our token olympic swimmer).
I would really like to see those roses on the fence again, growing.
This has not been a very happy week. We have lost Professor Douglas Parker, who wrote the very first evaluation/review of Shakespeare at Winedale in '72. And we learned just this week about our colleague, Lizz Ketterer, in a coma in New Mexico. Please keep all of these in your thoughts.
Doc
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A couple of fond memories of Doug Parker:
1. When I was a first-semester freshman in an upper-level Cicero seminar taught by Prof. Parker, I was a little intimidated because I was the youngest student in the class, but his disarmingy friendly formality (he called me Mr. Pees in a way that was neither condescending nor stuffy) made feel a bit more like a grown-up.
2. When he was teaching the Lysistrata, he would inject a bit a Cold War humor into the play by reading aloud the Spartan parts in the original Greek but with a Russian accent. That's not easy to do.
He was a brilliant teacher. My connection with him was through the Classics Department, and I had not known, until now, that he was such a great early friend of Shakespeare at Winedale. Given his appreciation of language and beauty, that doesn't surprise me.
And I can't say it better than Terry: "I will keep Virginia and Lizz in my heart and send their sweet souls all my love."
--Bob
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Oh Doc,
Not Doug Parker?! When did this happen? I loved him on sight. This is just too sad.
I'm the praying sort but I will keep Virginia and Lizz in my heart and send their sweet souls all my love. love, Terry
-----Original Message----- From: James Ayres jayres@cvctx.com To: Weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: president@po.utexas.edu; diehl@austin.utexas.edu Sent: Fri, Feb 11, 2011 9:31 pm Subject: [Weeklong-l] Virginia Elverson
Dear Shakespeare at Winedale students:
I learned today that one of our most devoted friends, Virginia Elverson, has been diagnosed with terminal colon and liver cancer. As some of you remember, Virginia was a close friend of Miss Ima. I met her the same day I met Miss Ima, October 8, '70, at Winedale. She and her husband, Robin, were the first presidents of the Friends of Winedale and they were the first to establish a scholarship for Shakespeare at Winedale. Virginia not only funded the rose gardens along the front fences of the property and the vegetable garden inside but dug the holes and planted. In 2000, she was astonished to find that everything she began had died and had disappeared through neglect. They have never been replaced. The current administration of the property had ignored that. She vowed never to give anything to Winedale again. But she has remained a very strong supporter of Sha at W. And has attended the galas and bought the wooden cows. She is indeed our tie with the beginning and now we are losing her.
Alice went to elementary school with her daughter, Ginny. And just a lot of you will remember swimming in their pond near Winedale (especially Maggie, our token olympic swimmer).
I would really like to see those roses on the fence again, growing.
This has not been a very happy week. We have lost Professor Douglas Parker, who wrote the very first evaluation/review of Shakespeare at Winedale in '72. And we learned just this week about our colleague, Lizz Ketterer, in a coma in New Mexico. Please keep all of these in your thoughts.
Doc
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When is spring break? Like Clayton, I'm not much of a green thumb but I can work the dirt and work in the manure....I am almost sure I've met Virginia or maybe just heard Doc speak of her so often.....please keep me posted. Love, Joy ----- Original Message ----- From: Clay Strombergermailto:cstromberger@mail.utexas.edu To: weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.orgmailto:weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 9:21 PM Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Virginia Elverson
Sounds like a lovely way to spend a day of spring break.
cs
On Feb 12, 2011, at 9:12 PM, James Ayres wrote:
OK, what about a day during Spring Break? I will get the roses from The Rose Emporium. After checking, of course, if the Winedale administration will allow our gifts.
Doc
On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Clay Stromberger wrote:
What a great lady. Aw, nuts. Thanks for this Doc -- let's replant the roses in her honor. I am not to be trusted with plants of any kind, but I can dig a hole.... Who do we need to talk to to do that as a gift, in active de-spite of the current neglecters of the property? Maybe we could pick a Saturday in a few weeks and have a planting day. As brave Egyptians demonstrated in the last 18 days, the forces of cold neglect and selfish disregard of others must eventually be overthrown by the forces of song, courage, and joy. Here's to Virginia, Dr. Parker and all the forces of good in this wild and whirling world...
cs
On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:31 PM, James Ayres wrote:
Dear Shakespeare at Winedale students:
I learned today that one of our most devoted friends, Virginia Elverson, has been diagnosed with terminal colon and liver cancer. As some of you remember, Virginia was a close friend of Miss Ima. I met her the same day I met Miss Ima, October 8, '70, at Winedale. She and her husband, Robin, were the first presidents of the Friends of Winedale and they were the first to establish a scholarship for Shakespeare at Winedale. Virginia not only funded the rose gardens along the front fences of the property and the vegetable garden inside but dug the holes and planted. In 2000, she was astonished to find that everything she began had died and had disappeared through neglect. They have never been replaced. The current administration of the property had ignored that. She vowed never to give anything to Winedale again. But she has remained a very strong supporter of Sha at W. And has attended the galas and bought the wooden cows. She is indeed our tie with the beginning and now we are losing her.
Alice went to elementary school with her daughter, Ginny. And just a lot of you will remember swimming in their pond near Winedale (especially Maggie, our token olympic swimmer).
I would really like to see those roses on the fence again, growing.
This has not been a very happy week. We have lost Professor Douglas Parker, who wrote the very first evaluation/review of Shakespeare at Winedale in '72. And we learned just this week about our colleague, Lizz Ketterer, in a coma in New Mexico. Please keep all of these in your thoughts.
Doc
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Me too, me too! Wonderful idea.
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 10:17 PM, JOY MARVIN joyandthomas@msn.com wrote:
When is spring break? Like Clayton, I'm not much of a green thumb but I can work the dirt and work in the manure....I am almost sure I've met Virginia or maybe just heard Doc speak of her so often.....please keep me posted. Love, Joy
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Sounds like a lovely way to spend a day of spring break.
cs
On Feb 12, 2011, at 9:12 PM, James Ayres wrote:
OK, what about a day during Spring Break? I will get the roses from The Rose Emporium. After checking, of course, if the Winedale administration will allow our gifts.
Doc
On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Clay Stromberger wrote:
What a great lady. Aw, nuts. Thanks for this Doc -- let's replant the roses in her honor. I am not to be trusted with plants of any kind, but I can dig a hole.... Who do we need to talk to to do that as a gift, in active de-spite of the current neglecters of the property? Maybe we could pick a Saturday in a few weeks and have a planting day. As brave Egyptians demonstrated in the last 18 days, the forces of cold neglect and selfish disregard of others must eventually be overthrown by the forces of song, courage, and joy. Here's to Virginia, Dr. Parker and all the forces of good in this wild and whirling world...
cs
On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:31 PM, James Ayres wrote:
Dear Shakespeare at Winedale students:
I learned today that one of our most devoted friends, Virginia Elverson, has been diagnosed with terminal colon and liver cancer. As some of you remember, Virginia was a close friend of Miss Ima. I met her the same day I met Miss Ima, October 8, '70, at Winedale. She and her husband, Robin, were the first presidents of the Friends of Winedale and they were the first to establish a scholarship for Shakespeare at Winedale. Virginia not only funded the rose gardens along the front fences of the property and the vegetable garden inside but dug the holes and planted. In 2000, she was astonished to find that everything she began had died and had disappeared through neglect. They have never been replaced. The current administration of the property had ignored that. She vowed never to give anything to Winedale again. But she has remained a very strong supporter of Sha at W. And has attended the galas and bought the wooden cows. She is indeed our tie with the beginning and now we are losing her.
Alice went to elementary school with her daughter, Ginny. And just a lot of you will remember swimming in their pond near Winedale (especially Maggie, our token olympic swimmer).
I would really like to see those roses on the fence again, growing.
This has not been a very happy week. We have lost Professor Douglas Parker, who wrote the very first evaluation/review of Shakespeare at Winedale in '72. And we learned just this week about our colleague, Lizz Ketterer, in a coma in New Mexico. Please keep all of these in your thoughts.
Doc
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