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...Holsman's remarks at the winter session class, open to all who want to attend, "startled me so much that I wasn't sure if I'd heard her correctly," said Peggy Byrd, a Brown University senior who walked out of the lecture...
...wake of the controversy over the speech, Holsman, a 1970 Wellesley graduate, resigned her trustee post, saying she felt her resignation would be in the best interests of Wellesley College...
...could not stand by while Wellesley was torn apart on such an issue [racism] for which neither Wellesley or I stand," Holsman said. "I felt I didn't get a chance to speak before I was judged," she added...
...Holsman said her remarks were taken out of context and that she had no intention of making generalizations about people of different races. She said she was speaking only about her personal experiences with her own company...
...Prior to Holsman's resignation, she had served for eight months on the 35-member Board of Trustees. She had been elected to the Board, the college's major policy-making body, by Wellesley alumnae...