On 2/3/2011 7:44 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Send SWR mailing list submissions to [email protected]To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://caver.net/mailman/listinfo/swr_caver.net or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of SWR digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Fwd: [Texascavers] FW: Evelyn Bradshaw (Stephen Fleming) 2. Re: Fwd: [Texascavers] FW: Evelyn Bradshaw (linda starr) 3. Fw: NSS IO INFO February 2011 (jennifer) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 10:06:51 -0800 From: Stephen Fleming<[email protected]> To: NM Caver List<[email protected]> Subject: [SWR] Fwd: [Texascavers] FW: Evelyn Bradshaw Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Some of you older-timers may remember Evelyn Bradshaw. She died recently. Evelyn Bradshaw (NSS 11874L OS, FE) passed away from pneumonia onJanuary 29, 2011, at St. Mary's Hospital in Richmond, Va. She was 95. Many of you will remember Evelyn as NSS Internal Organizations chairman, a position she held for nearly 20 years. She also served as NSS Director 1978-1984, chairman of the NSS Bylaws Committee 1980-83, and member of the NSS Awards Committee. Evelyn was a fixture at NSS Conventions until she was nearly 90, and at the registration table at OTR for many, many years. She was made a Fellow of the NSS in 1977, and honored with its Outstanding Service award in 1984. Evelyn was a mainstay in the VAR caving community. She helped get the Virginia Cave Commission off the ground (later to become the Virginia Cave Board), and was a driving force in forming the Tidewater Grotto. For many years Evelyn was involved in the DC Grotto, serving as its newsletter editor, and also a BATS member, attending meetings until she was 90. Born in Maine, Evelyn received her degree in mathematics at Radcliffe, and met her future husband while working in China. She took a fall in a cave when young, breaking her neck! Evelyn was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2005. She had three children, James Bradshaw MD (deceased), Katharine Dryer, and Martha Adams, seven grand children and one great-granddaughter. She was an amazing woman, a good friend to cavers and the NSS, and admired by all who knew her.
Believe it or not, I first met Evelyn on a rock climbing face overlooking the Potomac River, back in the 1970s when I was in the Army. Later, she remembered me at the second NSS Convention I went to in Decorah IA (I think).
She was a neat lady... Pat O'Connell _______________________________________________ SWR mailing list [email protected] http://caver.net/mailman/listinfo/swr_caver.net
