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...
>
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> cs
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>
> 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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