BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana State University isn’t the closest school to their home, but it’s clearly closest to the heart of one southwest Louisiana family.
The Advocate reports that 22-year-old history major Mac Thompson of Lake Charles was graduating Friday from LSU, like his parents and his 10 older sisters and brothers. Six of them are married - all to LSU graduates.
Thompson says he never applied anywhere else, both because of family tradition and because he’s a huge sports fan and grew up watching the Tigers.
People were interested in these podcasts
His mother, Cathy Thompson, says her oldest child thought about going to Alabama. But Mac was just a few months old when Catherine “C.C.” Thompson graduated from high school, and she wanted to be close enough to get home and see the baby.
___
Information from: The Advocate, http://theadvocate.com
Please read our comment policy before commenting.