Sandra Davis

Dr. Davis was a Program Director and Headquarters Librarian for U. S. Army Special Services for eight years.  Other careers included: Editorial Typist in the Legislative Reference Service, U. S. Library of Congress, Bilingual, Travel-Reservation Assistant in Stuttgart, and Real Estate Broker Associate in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida.  After leaving her real estate career, she joined the faculty of Pensacola Junior College where she taught education, college success, and internet research.  She earned a Doctor of Education Degree in 1990 and retired as a District Department Head in 2008. 

She and her husband, Charlie Davis live in their dream home  he designed and built where they enjoy family get-togethers with their four children, nine grandchildren, great grandchild, extended family and friends.

Written with humor and candor, So, What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? describes the experiences of a young girl working for U. S. Army Special Services in Korea in 1964, eleven years after a war and VietNam in 1967 during the war.  Dr. Davis witnessed the best and worst of human nature.  She was the belle of the ball in Korea, but barely escaped a stalker, faced a soldier who broke into her hootch in VietNam, survived routine mortar attacks, chopper flights, and getting kicked out of the 1st Infantry Division. She met generals, political dignitaries, and a future president of the Philippines, but her best memories are of the young, brave, polite, fun-loving, and appreciative soldiers to whom she pays tribute.  For them she would do it all again.