[Taualumna]

This isn't a friend, but last year, when I was a new member of the Junior League, I was introduced to an elderly sustainer (sustainers are women over a certain age and have been in the League for ages and ages) by a friend of mine. The friend said that I played tennis at such and such a club, and told me that the sustainer was a member of that club as well. The sustainer just looked at me strangely, as if she was kind of shocked (or at least it felt like it). Weird, since there have been Asian members since the mid 80s or so.

ETA: If I made the JL sound like a racist organization, then I apologize. It was this specific person who was like this, and I guess it's all due to exposure. The person I was introduced to is probably in her 80s and didn't have same experiences younger people might have had.