Imagine being able to say your great, great aunt was one of the very first graduates at Bakersfield College.

Well, fraternal twins Colby and Shelby Chase can.

The twins heard of the interesting news when their aunt Margret Edmonston was flipping the pages of BC’s book The Centennial when she saw a photo of the Josephine Chase.

Shelby recalls being shocked to find that someone in her family was among the first class of graduates at BC.

When asked how it felt to carry on the family name at the college Shelby said, “I guess it’s okay because most of my family started off here.”

Other family members of the twins that attended BC were their dad, aunt, grandparents, and their aunts’ cousins.

Word got out after their grandmother called the school and made it public. The twins have had their photo taken and have been interviewed for newspapers and television. They are beginning to think that all the attention they’re getting for this is too much of a big deal considering they don’t know much about their great, great aunt.

Colby says, “it’s a hell of a way to start the school year” and continues to rant, “It’s crazy because people keep asking me, ‘what do you think about this,’ I’m just like, ‘well I don’t know what to think. I just think that this is freaking crazy that this keeps happening.’”

Colby and Shelby graduated from Highland High School last Spring.

Colby is majoring in Biology with plans to become a Pharmacist.

Shelby is majoring Animal Science. She says, “I think I might become an Ag teacher because I took FFA and I really liked it.”