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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