I went to her alma mater! As a freshman I got a random phone call to my dorm room asking me to have dinner at a trustee’s home so we could talk about the issues that mattered most to us. She wasn’t a trustee but she absolutely stole the spotlight - and I stole her placecard

I only remember a few concrete things - the trustees said that they would not have gotten in if they applied now, and the students who were a few years above me agreed that they wouldn’t have been admitted either. Since it was my first year I was pretty confident I would get in, Joan cackled and >>

Wow!! You went to a fancy school.