Thanks, Mike. Might be good to plant roses, as others have
suggested. She would, I think, be very happy with that gesture.
Doc
On Feb 11, 2011, at 5:28 PM, Mike Godwin wrote:
Doc, do you think it would be appropriate for those of
us who may
never have met Virginia but who value her role in giving us what we
needed to send her a card or a note?
If not, I understand.
If so, what's the best address we could use.
---Mike
On Friday, February 11, 2011, James Ayres <jayres(a)cvctx.com> 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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