Lucy Polk

Javier Whitaker-Castañeda, Cover Story Editor

March 11, 2015

In her speaker day presentation, Upper School English teacher Lucy Polk talked about her immigration from the Netherlands and the culture differences she experienced between the United States and the Netherlands.

Her family of five at the time planned to move to South Africa but was redirected to the United States by the South African Apartheid. Polk has returned to the Netherlands many times since her immigration and speaks Dutch to her grandson.

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