Warp and Woof
An Upper East Side dog lover who funded one of the city's oldest hate groups is dead
by Maria Luisa Tucker
May 30th, 2007 11:30 AM
In most ways, Michelle Ilse Weyher fit the cliché of an Upper East Sider. The blonde housewife was married to a big-deal lawyer. She had a pet Chihuahua named Mr. Peeper, whom she carried around in a Sherpa bag. She occasionally wrote letters to the editor of The New York Times with advice to fellow dog owners. But Weyher stood out in one very big way. Her charity work was not for the Junior League or the Met, but for New York's oldest hate group: the Pioneer Fund, a foundation that has supported all manner of racist pseudoscience since 1937.
In most ways, Michelle Ilse Weyher fit the cliché of an Upper East Sider. The blonde housewife was married to a big-deal lawyer. She had a pet Chihuahua named Mr. Peeper, whom she carried around in a Sherpa bag. She occasionally wrote letters to the editor of The New York Times with advice to fellow dog owners. But Weyher stood out in one very big way. Her charity work was not for the Junior League or the Met, but for New York's oldest hate group: the Pioneer Fund, a foundation that has supported all manner of racist pseudoscience since 1937.
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