DEFINITELY NOT OUR CROWD, DARLING

SOCIETY When Arthur Young accountant DICK BROWN was indicted in July for embezzling more than $500,000 from his partners. Brown and his socialite wife, CAROLE ANN, began to suffer what some might call the revenge of the nerds.

Dick Brown didn’t lead the lifestyle of the stereotypical accountant. He and Carole Ann were used to being in the newspapers for attending the Great Gatsby party at the Dallas Arboretum or for being among the celebrities to wait on tables at the annual luncheon that benefits the Leukemia Society. Two stylish swans glide across the ornamental pond at their opulent Forest Lakes Lane home. The couple enjoyed frequent trips to Europe.

But now that they’ve fallen from the “Fete Set” onto the police blotter, Dick and Carole Ann have had to get used to a different sort of attention.

Quickly and quietly, Carole Ann disappeared from the society columns. She resigned from some of her high-profile benefit committees. According to Brown’s defense attorney MARCUS BUSCH, Carole Ann has been indicted-and found guilty-by some in the community right along with her husband.

That judgment has been handed down by what Busch calls “socialite misfits,” referring to a note Carole Ann received not long after her husband’s indictment. Written in an older woman’s rounded flourish on a pretty pastel card, the note says in part: “We think you should resign from everything before you are asked. It will be very embarrasing [sic] and we know you were in on it, so everything (most) you have is stolen, house, car, clothes, etc., so get out quietly. Your husband is a phoney [sic] and so are you-that means thief.”

The letter was signed “Most everyone, the list is too long.”