First In the Family

“So my mom kind of nonchalantly handed me the envelope... I was tearing it slowly and looking at it. I didn’t even read the whole thing, I just read ‘Congratulations,’ and I screamed. I called everybody in my cell phone book. By morning everybody in school knew about it. They made a huge announcement over the intercom, ‘Congratulations to Eric Polk, the first Stratford student to get accepted at Wake Forest University. ’What! So I hold that title. And I basically didn’t go to any class that day, they’re like, ‘Honey, just sit down!’”