Dear Friends,
As many of you know, a very important element of Shakespeare at
Winedale is the educational Outreach program, directed by Clayton
Stromberger (S@W 83-84). For anyone who is in or near Austin, I
wanted to let you know about an event this Saturday at which some of
Clayton's kids will be performing.
This Saturday, from noon to 2pm, we will be having an Outreach
luncheon at the Long Center, in the Kodosky Lounge, with a beautiful
view over Lady Bird Lake. Details are given below; if you are
interested in coming to meet Clayton and see the students perform,
please let me know. The Dean of Liberal Arts, Randy Diehl, and
Associate Dean Richard Flores will also be there.
I promise not to crowd your in-boxes with announcements of this kind,
but I thought any Winedale alumni in the Austin area might be
interested in coming to see what Clayton has been doing with these
remarkable kids. If you have questions please don't hesitate to
email, or to call me at 512 422 7496.
Thanks,
James
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The email address we had for Shari is leading to bounces -- anyone who knows
how to get in contact with her should do so and (ideally) send me a working
email address. See below for the bounce message.
--Mike
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I'd like to be added to the reunion list! (Winedale 75,76 - or maybe 74,75)
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Dear fellow Shakespeare at Winedale alumni,
I just wanted to say hello, and to second Doc's invitation to please
find your way back to Winedale for the 40th anniversary celebrations
this summer. Doc's earlier email gives a clear account of plans for
the 'ancianos' reunion week, August 7-15. Many thanks to Doc, and to
Gail, Alice, Terry, Mary, Kirsten, Madge and Mike for all they have
done to help organize this event.
The whole summer season will be a commemoration of the 40th
anniversary, and you are welcome to come at any time to say hi,
participate, and catch up with other former students. During the
summer, we will dedicate each weekend to the students of one decade of
the program, beginning with the 00s on the first weekend and then
moving back through the 90s, 80s, and 70s. We will recognize former
students at performances and will have a light brunch for that
decade's alumni before the Sunday matinee--coffee, kolaches and a
chance to catch up. We hope you can come!
For anyone who wants a chance to get back on the barn stage during the
summer, please consider getting involved in one of the pre-performance
scenes that will be done before all Saturday and Sunday performances.
These are open to all former students (spring or summer); for schedule
and details go to www.shakespeare-winedale.org and click on 'Reunion
Activities.'
We also be having a reception before the final Saturday night
performance (Twelfth Night, on August 7) to kick off the Reunion
week. However you are able to participate, we want to see you back at
Winedale this summer.
Thanks to everyone. It will be great to see you all soon, and
celebrate together.
All best,
James
Hello to everyone! It has been really good to hear from folks I have
not heard from for a long time. Mike Godwin has done a remarkable job
of developing the list, hasn't he? Well here is the letter Mike said
I would write, telling you all of the plans we have thus far set down
for the 40th reunion. When I say "we," I refer to Gail McDonald,
Alice Gordon, Terry Galloway, Mary Collins, Kirsten Kern, Madge
Darlington and myself. Gail was in the very first class, Terry the
second, Alice the third, and so on. Three decades represented here.
Here we go!
The reunion really began with Mike's invitation to join the list, as
many of you noted, so let's keep the exchanges and discoveries
going. We are still looking for for others. So please help with that.
To celebrate the 40th year, James Loehlin, director of Sh at W since
'01, has asked former students to present as prologues to the three
plays he is directing, performances of 8-minute scenes from each of
the 37 plays (some 5 -6 scenes before each of those performances,
then). And he has designated Saturday evening, August 7, as "Reunion
Night." At this point I am not quite sure what he intend to do, but
I hope that as many of you as possible can attend that evening. You
can read more in detail about James' plans for reunion at shakespeare-
winedale.org.
Plans for former students of the first 30 years (the so-called
"ancianos") are these:
1. A week-long in residence opportunity to work on scenes from Sh in
the Theater Barn toward a public Reunion Performance on Saturday,
August 14, at 2:00 p.m. Dates of this adventure: Saturday, August 7
(arriving at 5:00 p.m.) through Sunday, August 15 (departing at 10.00
a.m.) Participants will be staying at the Shelby B & B 5 miles from
Winedale. Cost for each participant is $320. All meals will be taken
at Winedale in Wagner House at no charge. Sh at W fill fund that.
Should you have interest in this adventure, please let me know before
April 1. Deadline. On April 1, the committee of young women noted
above, will select 20 from those who "apply." They will also select
the scenes and assign roles.
2. Should you not have time or inclination for the week-long
opportunity, you may be interested in a shortened version we hope to
schedule Thursday, August 12 (arriving at 3:00 p.m. through Sunday,
August 15 (departing at 10:00 a.m.) Those interested in this
opportunity will work on short scenes, speeches, poems, etc., which
will be performed at various times, e.g., as interludes between the
scenes on Saturday, as performances at the brunch or at the reunion
dinner, or just anytime the spirit strikes. Those working in this way
will stay at B & B's in the area. Or possibly at Winedale in Wagner
House. Again, all meals will be taken at Winedale.
3. Should you not have time for either of the above, we hope that you
will attend any part of reunion week that you can, feeling free to
drop in at any time, any day, but certainly to be present all day
Saturday, August 15, and hopefully Sunday morning following. I can
guide those in 2 and 3 to overnight B & B stays.
Most important to us at this point is that you make plans now to come
to Winedale for the reunion, find your way back here. For any part of
what we are planning. Bring everyone you love. Kids and other friends.
Here's a tentative schedule for Reunion Day, Saturday, August 14:
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Brunch. With performances by Camp
Shakespeare kids and just anyone else.
2:00 p.m. Performance of scenes by week-long ancianos and others (see
#2 above).
6:30 p.m. Reunion banquet. More performances.
Sunday, August 15:
Breakfast at Winedale 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Departure: 10:00 a.m.
I will of course have to learn how many to expect and on what days for
meals (breakfast, lunch, supper) at Winedale.
So there's your invitation.
One further thing: please continue to search for folks missing thus
far from the list and send your discoveries to Mike. He will send
them to me. Many thanks.
From the e-mails I've read, excitement is building, folks are being
re-connected. This is already a great experience, as many of you have
noted.
Several have asked me to say something in this letter of what I have
been doing. OK. Here it is. It would be really good to hear what
you have been doing. So please feel free to offer that. We can
create a notebook of those accounts.
I passed the directorship of Sh at W to James Loehlin in September,
'00, after 30 years in the barn and performances of the 1603 Hamlet
and Midsummer Night's Dream at the Globe Theater, London, in '98 and
'99 and Romeo and Juliet in the RSC Swann Theater at Stratford in
'00. I began summer day workshops for kids 10-14 at Winedale in '01,
an experience which developed Camp Shakespeare, which is now
approaching its 8th year. Camp Shakespeare is mini-Winedale, a two-
week in-residence exploration of the play through performance open to
kids 10-16. We offer 2 two-week sessions of Camp Shakespeare. Have a
look at the Camp Shakespeare link on shakespeare-winedale.org. I
retired from UT in '06 after teaching in the UT Oxford Program at
Brasenose College (second time) and was eager to find out what doing
nothing was like. But out of nowhere came an invitation to teach
Shakespeare at Texas A & M University. So I did, for 2 years.
Currently I am back at UT for a semester. I am now in my 52nd year of
University teaching. JoAnn and I have 7 kids between us and 13
grandkids, ages 24 - 3. We live on a small farm near La Grange (12
miles from Winedale) in an old farmhouse (c. 1902) which we are very
slowly restoring. JoAnn is a Round Top real estate broker. I am very
much involved in the reading program for 4th grade munchkins at Round
Top Elementary and at The Texas Czech Heritage and Cultural Center (my
mom was Augustine Kutac) in La Grange, where I am helping organize the
Czech library and design the museum at the site. I am trying to learn
Czech. I also substitute teach at La Grange HS in the Honors and
College Prep programs. And am very good at Wii bowling. Will take on
anyone.
I really look forward to the reunion and to hearing from all of you.
I am quite sure that if I have forgotten something in the above or
misstated something that I will hear from the feminine authority noted
above.
I hope that all of you are well, thriving,
Take pains, be perfect.
Doc
Please note that Maria Black (reached on Facebook with Bruce Wharton's help)
has been added. She's mariablack1(a)gmail.com. Note also that Jayne's last
name is Noble, not Nobel -- I believe this was merely a tyop, although I do
think Jayne's a prize.
--Mike
It turns out to be harder to extract useful data from the mailing list
program I'm using (an open-source program called Mailman) than I imagined.
But after some tinkering and tweaking I've pulled out what we have now -- a
mailing list of just under 120 people, with perhaps 110 active. See below.
Look for friends who are there, and friends who aren't there. Anyone who
wants to add people should feel free to have me do it, or to have the added
people email directly to
winedale-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org
(where a little robot that works for me will promptly respond).
Below is the list of email addresses we have now. Note that some have been
disabled by request, but others have been disabled automatically because of
bounced emails. When you see the latter it probably means we have the wrong
email address for the person in question.
Obviously, we'd like to be in contact with the many people who are missing
from this list -- again, if you know how to reach them, ask them to sign up,
or forward their information to me. Doc may also have some people he wants
to contact -- in any case, look for some mail directly from him soon.
--Mike
(adarshk(a)kiit.com) Kaleigh Reynolds (disabled by bounces)
alexanderncox(a)gmail.com Alexander Cox
alicegordon(a)earthlink.net Alice Gordon
andybond23(a)gmail.com Andy Bond
ankleking(a)yahoo.com Anne Engelking
(bdancy(a)vbllp.com) Blair Dancy (disabled by request)
ben(a)texasfrenchbread.com Ben Wilcott
bhadlockster(a)gmail.com Betsy Hadlock
carl_smith(a)mac.com Carl Smith
churwic(a)gmail.com Craig Hurwitz
cstromberger(a)mail.utexas.edu Clay Stromberger
david.kroll(a)texasbar.com David Kroll
dbwjaw(a)cox.net Bruce Wharton
dmsacks(a)yahoo.com Dan Sacks
dpsharpeaustin(a)gmail.com David Sharpe
dsvanhoozer(a)yahoo.com Daniel Vanhoozer
dweiser(a)katorparks.com David Weiser
emilyabrams(a)hotmail.com Emily Abrams
engelcox(a)gmail.com Glen Engel-Cox
eric.thomas(a)uth.tmc.edu Eric Thomas
falexander(a)brsfirm.com Fields Alexander
fishergalus(a)gmail.com Leigh Hopper
getsharpe(a)sbcglobal.net Ernie Sharpe
heather(a)democracytravel.com Heather Dolstra
(ibrekke(a)earthlink.net) Idalia Brekke (disabled by bounces)
imclark7(a)gvtc.com Idalia Clark
impotts(a)yahoo.com Isabelle Potts
jackson(a)rjackson.com Robert Jackson
jan(a)jannotzon.com Jan Notzon
jasonhoblit(a)hotmail.com Jason Hoblit
jayres(a)cvctx.com James "Doc" Ayres
jerald_head(a)concentra.com Jerald Head
jmccarthy6(a)bellsouth.net Jeanne McCarthy
john.bouler(a)intel.com Mark Bouler
john.rando(a)verizon.net John Rando
joyandthomas(a)msn.com Joy Howard
jspohrer(a)brynmawr.edu Jennie Spohrer
jsuhler(a)mail.smu.edu Jayne Nobel Suhler
kmcgregor(a)independencetitle.com Kara McGregor
kozusko(a)mac.com Matt Kozusko
(lana.lesley(a)gmail.com) Lana Lesley (disabled by request)
larsbeck(a)swbell.net Mary Beckner
lavonnecarlson(a)sbcglobal.net Lavonne Carlson
lizzisms(a)gmail.com Lizz Ketterer
lynnedwardsmcguire(a)hotmail.com Lynne Edwards
madge(a)rudemechs.com Madge Darlington
maggie(a)bizaffairs.com Maggie Megaw
mgodwin(a)wikimedia.org Mike Godwin
michael(a)asyoulikeit.biz Michael Collins
michael_barker(a)spe.sony.com Michael Barker
mikemergen(a)gmail.com Mike Mergen
mmcollins50(a)yahoo.com Mary Collins
mnemonic(a)gmail.com Mike Godwin
mollycollins(a)mac.com Molly Collins
mushtaq_kapasi(a)yahoo.com Mushtaq Kapasi
nthorne111(a)sbcglobal.net Nancy Hellinghausen Thorne
onstage(a)austinchronicle.com Robert Faires
paziz(a)yahoo.com Patrick Aziz
polybear(a)sdc.org John Stokes
polytropoi(a)gmail.com Jim Cherry
probertson(a)mail.utexas.edu Phyllis Robertson
rdeike(a)gmail.com Robert Deike
(reganm(a)georgetownisd.org) Monica Regan (disabled by bounces)
(rjax(a)ix.netcom.com) Robert Jackson (disabled by request)
rmatney(a)gmail.com Robert Matney
(rmatney(a)mac.com) Robert Matney (disabled by request)
robinmize(a)gmail.com Robin Mize
rpees(a)akingump.com Robert Pees
rvnewell88(a)yahoo.com Robert Newell
sarah_d_darnell(a)yahoo.com Sarah Darnell
scottyve(a)gmail.com Yvette Scott
scriptteacher(a)arjet.net Robert Pelton Arjet
sesmithnyc(a)gmail.com Shanna Smith
sharidenise(a)earthlink.net Shari Gray
shawn.kairschner(a)villanova.edu Shawn Kairschner
shawn.sides(a)gmail.com Shawn Sides
(skgreen(a)hotmail.com) Sarah Kennedy (disabled by bounces)
snhagge(a)yahoo.com Sarah Hagge
staceyheit(a)mindspring.com Stacey Silverman Heit
stan(a)texashealingarts.com Stan Kern
stevepricetexas(a)sbcglobal.net Steve Price
susan_g_todd(a)hotmail.com Susan Todd
tarissaday(a)yahoo.com Tarissa Day
tarrytown8(a)aol.com Tom White
thelaughingbird(a)hotmail.com Marie Black
tjaynes(a)philagrafika.org Teresa Jaynes
tlgalloway(a)aol.com Terry Galloway
travishale2(a)yahoo.com Travis Hale
wewilson(a)gmail.com Willie Wilson
whfriedman(a)optimum.net Bill Friedman
beckettsage(a)yahoo.com Sage Ferguson
bottisatva(a)gmail.com John Botti
bruce.meyer(a)utsouthwestern.edu Bruce Meyer
crabthedog(a)earthlink.net Britt Block
(david(a)texasfertilityacupuncture.com) David Karchmer (disabled by user)
dzieglersf(a)hotmail.com David Ziegler
fishgirls(a)aol.com Meg Brooks
fleepy(a)rockinflash.com Mark Lovell
freewillyb(a)yahoo.com Brett Youens
g.mcdonald(a)soton.ac.uk Gail McDonald
gdemombynes(a)gmail.com Gabriel Demombynes
gorska(a)gorska.com Caryl Gorska
haldredge(a)austin.rr.com Horatio Aldredge
hotyoganz(a)xtra.co.nz Claire Szabo
jellinger(a)texasperformingarts.org Jeff Ellinger
jonsydwat(a)yahoo.com Jon Watson
kathrynblackbird(a)sbcglobal.net Kathryn Blackbird
khwoodruff(a)sbcglobal.net Kate Woodruff
larry.lomax(a)gmail.com Larry Lomax
malouflato(a)att.net Malou Flato
pazmundial(a)gmail.com ??
phillip_glenn(a)emerson.edu Phillip Glenn
ralpert(a)tarrantcounty.com Richard Alpert
sangee06(a)hotmail.com Sangeeta Shah
sudon(a)austin.rr.com Don Brode
tarakkirkland(a)yahoo.com Tara Kirkland
vark(a)flash.net Aubrey Carter
vrangus(a)me.com Virginia Rufener
wsteele(a)lockelord.com William Buddy Steele
Dear folks,
At some point in the next day or so I hope to produce a text roster of
everyone we've gathered so far, plus their email addresses. That will be
helpful for those of us who want to correspond and catch up individually,
but it also should cast a light on who we haven't found yet, and I hope
you'll look at the list and think of names we should try to include.
--Mike