Wigginton, Classmates Celebrate UKPT Class of 1984
By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director
When Tassa Wigginton came to UK in the Physical Therapy Department in the early 1980s, she was a nontraditional student, married with children, and she took on a mother figure role to the class while also making lifelong friends.
She also happens to be black, and she went on to become the first black PT student to graduate from the University of Kentucky.
On July 13, Tassa, now 79, helped celebrate the 40th anniversary of that group with her classmates in The Commons Room at the College of Health Sciences. Many former students walked into the special celebration and formed a line, waiting to give Tassa a big hug.
