23
Feb
Anne Spurzem = Hilly Holbrook. Just sayin'.
A hot racist mess masquerading as a Smith College alum who as the President of her local Smith College Club, INTERVIEWS POTENTIAL STUDENTS, had the sheer gall of whining to the college paper about how her alma mater isn’t white enough.
There are some PHENOMENAL responses to her ridunculous letter including one by a Lola W:
Dear Anne Spurzem,
In the Sophia Smith Archives, one can find a letter written to President Neilson by a well-heeled society woman and Smith alumna. In it she complained about the rising number of Jewish women who were being admitted to Smith in part because they were all so unattractive and all looked exactly the same.
President Neilson, in his infinite wisdom replied (to paraphrase): I’m sorry that your Smith education failed you so terribly.
I am not the President of Smith, but to you, my fellow alumna, I offer you a similar sentiment.
That said, I was totally reminded of a character from this Oscar-nominated film:
To read the lovely letter by Sparky McSpurzem, check it out here. While there, be sure to read the eloquent responses by some of Smith’s finest, not to mention those below:
Anne Spurzem, class of 1984, majored in economics, attended the MacDuffie School for Girls. She attended Duke University after Smith, where she got her MBA in marketing, before moving to Greenwich, Connecticut, the 2006 American city with the highest median income, where I am sure there are no…