A couple of fond memories of Doug Parker:
1. When I was a first-semester freshman in an upper-level Cicero seminar taught by Prof.
Parker, I was a little intimidated because I was the youngest student in the class, but
his disarmingy friendly formality (he called me Mr. Pees in a way that was neither
condescending nor stuffy) made feel a bit more like a grown-up.
2. When he was teaching the Lysistrata, he would inject a bit a Cold War humor into the
play by reading aloud the Spartan parts in the original Greek but with a Russian accent.
That's not easy to do.
He was a brilliant teacher. My connection with him was through the Classics Department,
and I had not known, until now, that he was such a great early friend of Shakespeare at
Winedale. Given his appreciation of language and beauty, that doesn't surprise me.
And I can't say it better than Terry: "I will keep Virginia and Lizz in my heart
and send their sweet souls all my love."
--Bob
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Oh Doc,
Not Doug Parker?! When did this happen? I loved him on sight. This is just too sad.
I'm the praying sort but I will keep Virginia and Lizz in my heart and send their
sweet souls all my love.
love,
Terry
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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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