GrandMarc Residence Hall (YMCA) @ Northeastern U | 291 St. Botolph Street | Fenway

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I think there is a 'Brahmin full emloyment policy' in this state, I've seen it in action and seen documentation to prove it. How about naming some instututions that fit your category today. I'm not sure even the Hoticulture Society still fits that description.
 
Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph)

Are still any Brahmins left? I thought they all left in the 50's/60's or married the bloody Irish thus destroying bloodlines.
 
Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph)

I used to think of the Athenaeum as Brahmin, but then I met John Keith and other folks there who don't fit that category.
 
Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph)

Speaking of Brahmins, have you seen the new Vineyard shop at the pru. The Bloods and the Crips ave nothing on the Brahmins when it comes to gang affiliated colors.
 
Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph)

Vineyard as in Martha's Vineyard, or as in a wine shop?
 
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Nah, man I'm not talking about rich preppy folks from around Boston. I'm talking about the real deal! The folks that can point to their Louisville Square rowhouse and say, "Yeah, my family bought it on spec."

These folks:
Adams
Bacon
Cabot
Chaffee/Chafee
Choate
Codman
Cushing
Crowninshield
Dana
Delano
Dudley
Eliot
Emerson
Endicott
Forbes
Gardner
Holmes
Jackson
Lawrence
Lodge
Lowell
Minot
Norcross
Otis
Parkman
Peabody
Perkins
Phillips
Putnam
Quincy
Rice
Saltonstall
Thorndike
Tudor
Weld
Wigglesworth
Winthrop

The only name you really hear anymore is Weld and think he lives in NY now.
 
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Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph)

According to statler's list, the late Cardinal Cushing was a Brahmin??? Who would have thought! LOL!
 
Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph)

Kerry, a Brahmin? Isn't he Irish? Let alone the fact that he's a Catholic. I thought Brahmins were hard core WASP and anyone else need not apply.
 
Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph)

The Brahmins have become more inclusive. As long as you marry, I mean have, a ton of money, you can become an honorary Brahmin.
 
Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph)

Kerry, a Brahmin? Isn't he Irish? Let alone the fact that he's a Catholic. I thought Brahmins were hard core WASP and anyone else need not apply.

Turns out Kerry's paternal grandparents were Jewish - Fritz Kohn and Ida L?we. Kerry only found out about this in 2003
 
Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph)

Kerry's got a lot of interesting ancestors (Irish, Jewish, French - his first cousins still live in France) but he's still also Brahmin for sure. His parents didn't pick the fresh-off-the-Mayflower middle name of "Forbes" (which you can find in the list above) randomly.
 
Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph)

Forbes is Scot. I don't think Kerry has any Irish in him at all.
 
Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph)

^^^ I think Teresa has a little Scot in her, now.
 
Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph)

^^^ HEY OH!
 
Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph)

^^^That would explain so much!
 
Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph)

Kerry has French cousins?! What's a COMMIE!!!

Actually, I knew that. I met him once getting off a flight from France a few years ago. According to a friend of mine at Air France, he flies them fairly often to France.
 
Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph)

Can we get back on topic?
 

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