Acrostically yours, Doc. Happy Birthday!
Love,
Carl Smith
'70, and I forget the other years - but I still remember my Oberon and Shylock speeches!
An Anciano woke, as from a dream
His spittle dry, an emblem of his age.
Am I the Oberon that I once seemed?
Perhaps my fairy voice can still be rais’d.
Presuming I remember where to start,
Yellow gold may yet run in these salt streams.
But notwithstanding, haste, pierced through the heart
I thirst for gracious, golden, glittering gleams.
Recalling voices of Windedales long past
The shade of oaks, the heat, the barn, the stars,
He recognized their meaning, and he gasped,
Doc’s birthday’s coming, I forgot a card!
Although the Bard of Avon’s mouth has closed,
Your birthday song is singing from his prose.
Hi Doc - Happy Birthday from frozen Massachusetts, where even though "the
icy fang and churlish chiding of the winter's wind ... bites and blows upon
my body, even till I shrink with cold", (and believe me, I am shrinking) I
smile thinking of you in celebration of 80 years and all you've achieved.
So many students discovering richer lives because of the magic of the barn
and the hills of Winedale and a love of Shakespeare's words that you
inspired.
Thank you, Cindy Jaynes ('78 and '80)
Hi Doc,
I hear it's your 80th birthday. I certainly wish I could be there to congratulate you. I hope your 80th is a good one.
I am still over in Germany. Still doing music, but also studying mathematics. I am very happy. Also got married in 2011.
As you already know, Shakespeare at Winedale played a huge role in me becoming who I am. Without that experience there would be so much that I would be missing - and I wouldn't even know that I would be missing it. And I have that, thanks to you. To play's the thing.
So thanks again, and have a happy birthday,
Brett Youens, '96, '99
Doc and Eric,
You both have good memories. I only remembered, "Take pains, be perfit, adieu." Anyway, hope you both are well. Happy 80th Birthday, Doc. Sounds like quite a celebration is brewing. Would love to catch up more. JTB
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 12, 2013, at 10:17 PM, James Ayres <jayres(a)cvctx.com> wrote:
> Hey Eric. Great to hear your voice. Well I did talk a bit before ending with the lines which you quote with expert memory. Yo. 1985: Harry Ransom Award. That's 28 years ago!
> OMG.
> Love,
>
> Doc
>
>
> On Mar 11, 2013, at 2:27 PM, Thomas, Eric wrote:
>
>> At the College of Liberal Arts graduation ceremony in 1985 Doc received a teaching award. He went to the podium, said thank you, and recited these quotes, in order:
>>
>> 1. Nothing comes from nothing. (Lear, Lear)
>>
>> 2. It is required you awake your faith. (Hermione, Winters Tale)
>>
>> 3. Take pains, be perfect, adieu. (Bottom, Midsummer...)
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> On Mar 11, 2013, at 1:48 PM, "Jerald Head" <jlhead1952(a)gmail.com<mailto:jlhead1952@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> From: "Head M.D.,Jerald Lynn" <JHEAD(a)sw.org<mailto:JHEAD@sw.org>>
>> Date: March 11, 2013, 1:47:40 PM CDT
>> To: "jlhead1952(a)gmail.com<mailto:jlhead1952@gmail.com>" <jlhead1952(a)gmail.com<mailto:jlhead1952@gmail.com>>
>> Subject: FW: birthday
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Head M.D.,Jerald Lynn
>> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 1:18 PM
>> To: Head M.D.,Jerald Lynn
>> Subject: birthday
>>
>> Dearest Alice,
>> When I think of quotes and Doc, the one I always hear to this day is,
>> SNUG
>> “Have you the lion's part written? pray you, if it
>> be, give it me, for I am slow of study.”
>>
>> probably because I had such a miserable time memorizing lines. However, I cannot recall Doc ever having used this quote towards me, but I just assumed he was always thinking it when I flubbed my part.. I continue to hear it in my head to this day, and in my dreams, where I am always forgetting my lines, much to his disappointment. But, I always hit my mark.
>>
>> I found in some files, old mimeographed notices he sent before each summer, and there I found some quotes he used in admonishing incoming students. It was fun rereading these letters, definitely yellowed with age. I wish I had saved them all.
>>
>> “And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe.” AYLI 1976
>>
>> EYRE. “Where be these boyes, these girles, these drabbs, these scoundrels?” Shoemakers Holiday. Doc used this to open his first letter to us all in 1976, and before if I am not mistaken. A type of call to arms, to join. 1976
>>
>> Look to thyself, thou art in jeopardy.” King John Always a nice way to start a correspondence.
>>
>> “But let the world rank me in register.” AC 1977
>>
>> “ I will tell you the beginning; and if it please your ladyships(lordships too), you may see the end, for the best is yet to do…….” AYLI 1977- a rather hopeful way of seeing the future.
>>
>> “Your own good thoughts excuse me, and farewell….” LLL 1975
>>
>> “Rather say, I play the man I am.” Corliolanus 1976
>>
>> “peace good pint pot, peace good ticklebrain.” A favorite sign off.
>>
>> He mentions that his favorite song is “Ben” by Michael Jackson in the letter, and I recall that
>> as well. Another place in 1977 he mentions that as he has matured, he now favors “Clouds” by Joni.
>>
>> These may or not be helpful, and I am sure there are so many others.
>> I look forward to seeing you for the big day.
>> Jerald
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Jerald L. Head, M.D.
>> Occupational and Environmental Medicine
>> 425 University Blvd. #335
>> Round Rock, TX. 78665
>> Ph 512-509-3926
>> Fax 512-509-3925
>>
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