School of Education--Room 3044
Language Education Department
Internet Address: Sanford@indiana.edu
Telephone #: 812-856-8270
School of Education--Room 3044
Language Education Department
Internet Address: Sanford@indiana.edu
Telephone #: 812-856-8270
I am a Christian and an active member of the Bloomfield First Baptist Church. I taught church school for twenty years, attend weekly Bible Study and sing in the church adult choir.
In connection with doing Bible Study I became interested in the genealogy of Christ. I discovered there isn't any published genealogy with information about each ancestor. Thus I proceeded to do one myself. I did a lot of reading and if you are interested it is here for your perusal. Just click on Genealogy
A favorite story of mine usually comes up around Easter. I just found it again and thought you might enjoy it. It is the legend of the dogwood tree. Click here to read about it. Dogwood Legend
I started working at Indiana University in January 1969 as the secretary for the Future Homemakers of America director. That position was moved to Indianapolis thus I went to my next position as department secretary in the Elementary Education Office and am now Department Secretary in the Language Education Department where I have been since 1975. I enjoy meeting and talking with the students especially the international students. I have friends all over the world of former masters and doctoral graduates. I have been invited to come and visit a lot of countries. I hope to do that some day.
I was one of the many volunteers at the Pan American games in Indianapolis several years ago. That was quite an experience that I will never forget. I met athletes from so many different countries and was introduced to sports , many that I had never heard of until then like Tai Kwando. I helped check athletes in as they arrived in the camp, I sold tickets at one of the games (boxing), I did a variety of things in preparation for the event. It was very nice and made me proud to be an American and an ambassador for the United States. I enjoyed it. I wish I had known Spanish as these were the Pam Am games, I'm sure I would have enjoyed myself more.
I am the mother of two sons both PMT's (Preventive Medicine Technicians) in the Navy, both married girls from California, (they are both cosmeticians or at least went to cosmetology school), and a daughter who died January 1980, at age fourteen.
My first, Robert Alan born in Fort Worth, Texas (Carswell Air Force Base) and of late was on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, until December 1, when he retired from the Navy and now has embarked on a second career working with the football athletes in Jacksonville. He wasmarried to Debra Denny (they have since divorced--January 2000) They both, however, still live in Jacksonville, Florida. Debbie is a manicurist and has her own shop in Jacksonville where she does fancy nails. You can e-mail Bob at Bob Sanford.
Then there is my second or middle child, Jeffrey Daniel, born at Barksdale Air Force Base, Bossier City, LA. He was stationed at Iwakuni Marine Base in Japan. He was also on the U.S.S. Tripoli, docked at Oceanside, California until it was decommissioned in September, 1995. (He is married to Gabriella Alarcon, from Los Angeles. They loved Japan, especially Gabby and Sara. You can e-mail Jeff at Jeff Sanford
Jeffrey and his family have moved back to the states where he is an instructor at the Uniformed Services University of Health and Science (USUSH), Bethesda, Maryland teaching preventive medicine. He is in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics. The are adapting to the midwestern temperatures and variety of weather. The first winter they had an ice storm leaving them with no electricity for several days, then floods in the spring. Welcome back to the states, and our changing weather. Not quite like California nor southern Japan.
I have three lovely grandchildren, (two teenaged boys, Joshua
and Marc [Bob and Debbi's] and a little girl, Sara [Jeff and Gabby's]):
Joshua, now 18 (Florida), enjoys playing the saxophone is in an orchestra at his school. Makes good grades and is a budding artist. Is now in the possession of a driving license and a car of his own...."Watch out Jacksonville!" He graduates May 30, 2000.
Marc, 15 (Florida), is in the gifted and talented class of his
school and loves to read and do research. He questions everything.
and then there is
Sara, 9, for three years lived in Iwakuni, Japan at the Iwakuni Marine Air Station. Sara is tri-lingual. She speaks some Japanese, and was fluent in Spanish and English. Sara is currently attends Viers Mills Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland. She has made many friends and enjoys school. She is away from her Spanish speaking grandmother and grandfather and is losing some of her Spanish vocabulary. She is growing into a little lady. Loves shopping with mom and doing almost anything with dad.
In my spare time I like to write stories of incidents in my life, or about things that my mother and father have told me about their lives growing up in Kentucky. These stories are all based loosely on things that really happened either to myself, my children, or some member of my family.
A story that I wrote about my grandmother was published on the internet a long time ago. But I can't find it anymore. If you would like to read it click here.
Parson's
Sheep (This is one that my mother taught me. She learned it as
part of a Christmas program when she was a girl in grade school.)
Twenty
Froggies (From mom's childhood.)
Playmate
(Another of my mother's.)
Filipino
Baby (One I remember from right after WWII.)
My Dad's favorite song:
Great
Speckled Bird
And, another special favorite: Deck
of Cards, by Tex Ritter.
Some that are old, but not "really" old -- some we did in school:
Sentimental
Journey
Don't Fence
Me In
On Top
of Old Smokey
A collection of Silly
Songs
Mairzy
Doats
All of
The Thing
Splish
Splash
Hello Muddah
Shortnin
Bread
Old Joe
Clark
And then we have those other songs that I like, such as:
How about a couple of the old love songs from the "fifties", like:
Young Love
Teddy
Bear
Tammy
Mr. Sandman
"Oldies
Unlimited P.O.O.L. Member"
Then everybody likes Christmas songs.
How about some of my favorite Proverbs:
I also like poetry, I have written a couple, but I especially like some of the old silly stuff like these:
Casey at
the Bat,
Halloween
Shadow
The Cremation
of Sam McGee.
Some poems I wrote a few years ago during an especially sad time in my
life:
Sand
Just Ask
Letting
Go
A couple I like, the authorship is unknown:
Don't Quit
Answered
Prayer
And there is my all time favorite High Flight which used to be the "sign-off" on channel ten (Terre Haute) television station as it went off the air. I have always loved it -- since the first time I heard it.
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