Thank you, dear Alice, for the kindest of thoughts. I loved how you expanded on Heather's words by using the expression "... brought us further into the fold." Indeed.
Love, David On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 8:14 AM Alice Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > David, thank you for carrying the double burdens of Vic’s death and the > sharing of it with us so tenderly. As Heather suggests, you and Vic’s other > Winedale friends have brought us further into the fold. > Love, > Alice > > On Aug 14, 2022, at 9:54 PM, David Sharpe <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Just 14 words in your comment. And yet they speak volumes. Thank you so > much, Heather. > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 8:45 PM Heather Dolstra < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I mourn Vic's passing as if I knew him. We are family, after all. >> >> Heather Dolstra >> >> >> >> Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device >> >> >> -------- Original message -------- >> From: Mike Godwin <[email protected]> >> Date: 8/14/22 7:57 PM (GMT-05:00) >> To: Shakespeare at Winedale 1970-2000 alums < >> [email protected]>, David Sharpe <[email protected]> >> Subject: [Winedale-l] Fwd: Victor Hauser, A Remembrance >> >> >> Forwarding a message from David Sharpe about Victor Hauser. >> >> Mike >> >> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >> From: David Sharpe <[email protected]> >> Date: Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 3:30 PM >> Subject: Victor Hauser, A Remembrance >> To: <[email protected]> >> >> >> Three weeks ago, when Vic Hauser (a student from the Winedale Summer of >> 1983) was diagnosed with pneumonia, I and those of us from Winedale-'83 who >> came to know Vic in his latter years thought that this was going to be just >> another health problem where he and his hospital doctors and nurses would >> once again do battle to get a medical handle on it. Vic would then return >> to his beloved Co-op apartment complex in Austin, and soldier on as he had >> done so often in the past. >> >> In fact, at various times in the last 5 to 8 years, Vic had managed to >> survive a host of ailments, such as diabetes, throat cancer, lupus, and two >> cases of pneumonia. He also avoided getting Covid 19 or any of its >> variants. Vic definitely had a strong will to live. >> >> Unfortunately, this time Vic's luck ran out. This time he was not going >> to win his struggle with his third case of pneumonia, for it was ultimately >> diagnosed as being terminal by his Austin doctors.. >> >> So after giving the matter serious thought and realizing that being >> trapped in a hospital bed connected to multiple tubes and bags was no way >> to live, Vic willingly agreed to transfer to the hospice at Christopher >> House in Austin. It was a brave decision. Six days later Vic's suffering >> and multiple battles with his chronically compromised health came to an >> end. He died peacefully on a Friday night, August 12, 2022. >> >> Given his host of health issues, Vic was never strong enough to make the >> long trek from Austin out to Winedale to see a play. However in 2018, Vic, >> along with Winedale friends Clay Stromberger, Steve Price, and myself, >> made a car trip to Shakespeare at Winedale to visit Director James >> Loehlin's summer class, which on that day was in the throes of rehearsal. >> Before the rehearsal began, James asked the class to sit down on the stage >> in the Barn, and then introduced Vic (Previously, Vic had asked James - >> another Winedale-'83 alum - for an opportunity to speak briefly to >> the class). Standing before them, Vic very simply told the students that >> they may not realize it at that moment, but what they were going through at >> Winedale that summer was a unique and very special experience, that it >> would unlikely come again, and that they should take full advantage of >> every minute while they were there. Now more ever, this was the time to >> seize the day. Vic spoke a little more and then sat down. >> >> Vic didn't have money to give donations to Winedale - he just had enough >> money to live on. But he wanted very much to give something back to >> Shakespeare at Winedale that had given so much to him and for one summer >> uplifted his life. And going to Winedale and addressing the summer class >> was his way of giving back. Of course, Vic's message to the students was >> absolutely true and something that could never be said enough. And in his >> own quiet but serious way, Vic made his point very powerfully. >> >> David Sharpe >> >> -- >> Be vigitant, I beseech you! >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Shakespeare at Winedale Email List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/shakespeare-at-winedale-email-list/CACsW7ypcekV_DAjsb3-KRA0%3DBOCm5F3m6dqrebXjCoXSMNak2w%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/shakespeare-at-winedale-email-list/CACsW7ypcekV_DAjsb3-KRA0%3DBOCm5F3m6dqrebXjCoXSMNak2w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > _______________________________________________ > Winedale-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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