Re: [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 _______________________________________________ Weeklong-l mailing list Weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/weeklong-l