I was a bad girl - I went to Appalachian my first two years. But while I was there, I was able to sort of figure out what I wanted to do in life and that was to be a social worker – I wanted to help people. ECU had the bachelor’s of social work and that’s where I wanted to come and so here I am. When I started turning gray a couple years ago – as we age, we do that, you know – and so my hairdresser said to me, “Wanda, we need to put some color in.” And he meant put some brown in to kind of tone down the gray, and I went, “Well let’s do purple.” So, two and a half years later, I still have purple hair. It’s in everything that I do. I bleed purple from my hair to my toes. If you open my closet, it’s either purple, gold, and there’s some Panthers black and blue in there, but other than that it’s a purple and gold wardrobe. My house is purple and gold, even the steps when you walk in the front door of my house, they’re painted purple and gold. My father was an interesting man. He was a blue-collar worker, barely graduated from high school, went off for the war – served his country – came home and spent 20 or more years coaching Little League baseball. So, when he died, I had a line of men out the door of the church – it took me almost two hours to get through, telling me what a force my father had been in their lives and what an impact he had had. SO, it made me really stop and think: What is my Little League baseball? What am I doing with my life? The thing that changed my life the most was ECU. The professors that I had here, the people who challenged me to be a better person, people who taught me how to think better, how to connect things, how to solve puzzles in that critical thinking mode. And so, I had this real conscious conversation, and ECU became my Little League baseball. First-generation college student tin the mid ‘70s – when I look back at the statistics of the number of women who are college graduates in 1974, it was 8% of the United States population. It was very lucky that I made it. And how do I then pay that forward? By talking to other students, by helping them figure out what it is the next steps they want to do. I mentored a scholarship student this past year who’s now in grad school at South Carolina. We were able to work on her grad school applications together, her essays. I know what a difference that would have made in my life if I had had that kind of mentorship while I was here. I just got it later in life and I want to give back. I was not put on this earth to sit on the sofa and watch TV. I was put on this earth to do good and make life better for somebody else. And if you want me to help you, call me.