Word: pomey
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Suzanne M. Pomey ’02 and Randy J. Gomes ’02 will be arraigned this morning in Cambridge’s Middlesex Superior Court on charges of grand larceny, after allegedly withdrawing funds from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals and depositing them into their personal accounts...
Perhaps this amusing experience—feeling my social stock rise just high enough for Pomey to try charming me—explains why I am so terribly, horribly fascinated by the story of her apparent fall from grace. This is said, I should add, with all due respect to Randy Gomes '02, her alleged partner in crime. Gomes is doubtless fascinating on his own account, but he lacks the qualities that have made Pomey the swirling center of this story. Pomey is, after all, one of Harvard’s campus celebrities—a former president of Kappa...
...could have known this better than Pomey, whose notable undergraduate moments, according to friends and colleagues, include producing the cash to rent out Locke-Ober for a Theta-Delphic mixer, holding an open-bar birthday bash at T.G.I. Friday’s (paid for, they say, by her good friend Gomes), and helping to co-found Isis, that all-female and quite expensive answer to the Porcellian and the Fly. She made herself intriguing and famous—and in the end, the money had to come from somewhere...
Money can’t buy you love, though, or so the Beatles said. It’s telling that in spite of her parties and clubs and endless activities, hardly anyone has stepped forward to defend Pomey. Theta’s sisterhood has distanced themselves from their erstwhile president, the priestesses of Isis decline comment, and the Hasty Puddingers—well, they’re the ones who turned her in. What this says about the nature of Harvard “popularity” is enough to make you shudder...
...part, the former Theta prez and Isis girl stayed true to form until the end. On Saturday night, a red-clad Pomey cruised through the Hong Kong—causing quite the stir, needless to say. Gather ye rosebuds while...