Sandra Ward Washington

I have been married since 1975 in my mother's and stepfather's front yard in Birmingham and the man I married was living in Knoxville, Tennessee where we met when I came here to go to Knoxville College in 1971 one year after he came from Charleston, South Carolina to go to Knoxville College. We decided to make Knoxville our home and we have been raising our two daughters and now we have a grandson since March 2008 and he and his mother and father live in Nashville, Tennessee where they met going to College at Tennessee State University. I love my job and I became an internal auditor the year I graduated from Knoxville College in 1978. I work now for the past twenty years at the University of Tennessee since 1988 and I get to travel across the State of Tennessee for my job. I also get to travel across the country for training with the Association of College and University Auditors and one time we went to Montreal Canada. I love to reunite with my Class of 71 like I look forward to reunite with my Family Reunions and look forward to all of them and tell everybody about them all of the time. I pledged Delta Sigma Theta at the University of Alabama in Birmingham in 1974 under my best friend Edith Peagler and my husband and her husband were already Greeks too of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, so we had lots in common when I would bring my husband to town to visit.

One of my greatest memories is winning the Senior Class Historian position and how I made a poster to put on the wall to get votes for me and everytime I hear Stevie Wonder sing "Here I am Signed, Sealed Delivered, I'm Yours" I think of my poster that read: "Here I am Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm your Historian, Vote for Me". I remember how I marched as a Majorette and how we marched in parades and my favorite march was when the band learned and played, the Hawaii Five-O theme song and we put a nice routine to it and did it at football games. I remember how Mrs. Burke gave me a sympathy card with five dollars in it after she came in the class that morning and I was suppose to lead the devotion and I was the first one in the class and Mrs. Burke saw that something was wrong with me and she asked me and I started to cry and told her that my mother's father, my grandfather died. My Father and I talk about how we both were in Mrs. Burke's English class or like I was in both her homeroom and English. We loved Mrs. Burke because she was very classy and correct.