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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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Clayton Stromberger   
Outreach Coordinator, UT Shakespeare at Winedale
College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin
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