On Feb 12, 2011, at 9:12 PM, James Ayres wrote:
> OK, what about a day during Spring Break? I will get the roses from
> The Rose Emporium. After checking, of course, if the Winedale
> administration will allow our gifts.
>
> Doc
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> On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Clay Stromberger wrote:
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>> 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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>> Clayton Stromberger
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>> College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin
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