[ex-Texan]

I do not think so. She was very upset about the whole experience. She was also very bright -- the daughter of a doctor -- not given to imaginative flights of fancy at all.

I chose to believe her story at the time. You will not pursuade me to change my belief in her now, over 35 years after the fact, just because you posted a few words on FR. Bye.

[NYC GOP Chick]

BFD. I was there for four years -- I'm also very bright and the daughter of a doctor. And I say that the story you were told is full of crap.

I knew someone at Smith who had transferred there from another school and gave a different story to different people about why she transferred -- everything from her previous school not having a good enough dance program to an alleged ex-boyfriend who beat and/or stalked her (details changed depending on to whom she told the story).

So, yes, just wimper and scamper away instead of dealing with reality. Maybe she discovered a taste for the sapphic life and that freaked out her parents who then yanked her home? Or maybe she couldn't handle living far from home?

[pogo101]

Well, it could be you're both right.

Smith College has no sororities, but like many "non-Greek" campuses, its students may form clubs, and some of those clubs may choose be secretive, selective, etc., e.g., Skull & Bones of Yale. Betty Friedan '42 (then Bettye N. Goldstein), as editor of Smith's student paper, wrote about the college's "secret societies."

Perhaps the lady to whom you refer was trying to get into a club like that, and simply refers to it as a "sorority" for the sake of convention.