In the end this all begs a few questions. Who are these people and why do they fancy each other and who exactly is Susan McShane? Wouldn’t you all like to find out? But more importantly what does this say about our society and the way we live and our purported aspirations? Does money trump all, and does one only bother with an Ivy League education because that’s where the ‘good life’ is waiting for you? The good life with callous calculating individuals who judge you whether you are Jewish, loaded, an Anthropology major or some extremely well connected kid? What ever happened to integrity, valor and being liked for whom you are? Perhaps Susan McShane can shed some light for us?
Evidence 6:
‘Mankind has had gold-diggers for time immemorial, and you assume that my friends necessarily share the same values/characteristics as Ms. Wilde-Anderson… which couldn’t be further from the truth.’
In the end one has to wonder what society really values, let’s hope that the next time we all drop by for a drink at the Ivy League Plus club (assuming we’ll still be allowed in) that we are not being judged for our social rank and money quota, but then again perhaps this is just a wishful thought from an ex ivy league student himself…
Yes – I am the Susan from the article. You took a couple of emails totally out of context, omitted your own emails egging me on for dirt and then printed a few choice items out of context.
Yes I graduated from an ivy league school. No I am not a member of the ivy plus society. I don’t even get their emails anymore. I have been to one ivy plus event, and I was dragged to it by another friend.
Yes – I’ve hung out with Jennifer Wilde Anderson, mostly parties and dinners, but we are not friends. My connection to her is through other friend/s. A couple of close friends happen to be friends with her which is how I know of these stories.
And despite your distorted use of my email, my friends and I are not anti-semitic. in fact, my really good friend who told me most of these stories about Jennifer Wilde Anderson is Jewish. Which is why we joke about Jennifer Wilde Anderson’s WASPY aspirations.
Christopher: You raise some interesting issues. In a piece entitled Transactional Romance: Matchmakers vs. Madams: Is there Really a Difference? which I wrote back in 2003 (see: http://christopherlondonblog.com/2003/02/08/88764590) I raised questions about whether the ethics of the more legal enterprise (matchmakers) are in fact worse than the ethics of the oldest profession. You see in the oldest profession, assuming that the woman is participating of her own free will and volition and is not the victim of human trafficking, and if she is say represented by a Madam who is not taking an egregious but rather fair cut for arranging the trysts than it is an above board fair market transaction. The problem with “ALL” matchmaking enterprises is that their marketing never matches their offerings. Far too many of even the well regarded matchmakers have a database of ringers (young female models) who will go on dates with rich old guys but they make their fees off of professional women in their 30’s and 40’s and the matchmakers often do not have a quality data base of age appropriate men to meet the demands of people who are paying them. I know because a rather prominent matchmaker in this town used me and gave me several “free dates” with her Jewish female clients who were looking for a guy not named CHRISTopher but you see she had no dudes in her database and she took $10,000 checks from the woman’s family. This story of creating an enterprise to in effect SELF DEAL makes the woman who ran IVY PLUS SOCIETY in effect the BERNIE MADOFF of matchmaking.