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From: James Ayres <jayres@cvctx.com>
To: Weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Cc: president@po.utexas.edu; diehl@austin.utexas.edu
Sent: Fri, February 11, 2011 9:31:25 PM
Subject: [Weeklong-l] Virginia Elverson

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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