New IMF Chief Graduated Holton Arms

[Anonymous]

A study sometime back showed that most top female leaders had either graduated an all girls school and/or been in the girl scouts.
Congrats to Christine Lagarde (Holton Arms '74 grad) for being the first female head of IMF!

[Anonymous]

That's cool. Although just the fact of her being a "girl" is probably one of her leading qualities in this instance!

[Anonymous]

OP - what is your point?

[Anonymous]

C. Lagarde seems rather competent, even though she is not an economist, and has worked on the Greek crisis before. Hmm, could she come back to France in 5 years and be President???

(And yay! A woman at the top of the IMF!)

[Anonymous]

I just heard on NPR that she came to Holton in her senior year.

[Anonymous]

I thought it was odd that HA took out a full-page ad in the Washington Post on this issue. How much did that ad cost? Did the school pay for it? Would that money be put to better use helping a disadvantaged kid? Why wouldn't an annoucement in the school newsletter suffice?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just heard on NPR that she came to Holton in her senior year.

It was just one year. I was there.

[Anonymous]

I know that I probably won't approve of Lagarde's policies, given that she was invited to be head of the IMF, but I just gotta say, she looks cool! I'd love to look like her!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just heard on NPR that she came to Holton in her senior year.

It was just one year. I was there.

What kind of scholarship did she have?

[Anonymous]

She was a French exchange student

[Anonymous]

I also thought the full page ad was odd. Surely Holton has other successful alumni (and taking out such an ad makes that seem not to be the case). Odd use of resources as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also thought the full page ad was odd. Surely Holton has other successful alumni (and taking out such an ad makes that seem not to be the case). Odd use of resources as well.

Yeah, I wonder how Julia Louis-Dreyfus would feel about that!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She was a French exchange student

This says she "went with a scholarship". What does that mean?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Lagarde

[Anonymous]

What? She gave the school a diploma? THat's what the title of your post sounds like. It's "graduated from" or "was graduated from".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just heard on NPR that she came to Holton in her senior year.

It was just one year. I was there.

And it was a post grad year - she had already graduated from a French HS.