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Sandra Force at work
Sandra Force is a flight attendant and former
elementary school teacher who won the
Miss Tennessee USA pageant in 1968.
Originally from
Memphis, Tennessee , Force represented
Tennessee in the
Miss USA 1968 pageant held in
Miami Beach ,
Florida . She placed in the semi-finals for the national title.
[1] Force graduated from
Mississippi College in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in art and education then moved to
Dallas, Texas .
[2]
Force left her job as a Dallas school teacher in 1971 to join
Southwest Airlines as one of its original flight attendants.
[3]
[4]
[5] She appeared on the cover of
Esquire Magazine in February 1974.
[2]
[6] As of February 2014
[update] , Force was one of five original flight attendants still working for Southwest.
[2]
References
^
"Hall of Fame" .
Miss Tennessee USA . Retrieved July 13, 2015 .
^
a
b
c West, Richard (February 21, 2014).
"Flashback Fridays: Esquire Magazine Creates Iconic Southwest Image" . Nuts About Southwest .
Dallas, TX :
Southwest Airlines . Retrieved July 13, 2015 .
^ Freiberg, Kevin; Freiberg, Jackie (February 17, 1998).
Nuts!: Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success .
Broadway Books . p. 43.
ISBN
978-0-767-90184-0 . Retrieved July 13, 2015 .
^ Bailey, Jeff (May 15, 2006).
"On Some Flights, Millionaires Serve the Drinks" .
The New York Times . p. A1. Retrieved July 13, 2015 .
^ Clifford, Geraldine J. (September 19, 2014).
Those Good Gertrudes: A Social History of Women Teachers in America .
Johns Hopkins University Press . p. 318.
ISBN
978-1-4214-1433-1 . Retrieved July 13, 2015 .
^
"Their rich history at Southwest" .
St. Petersburg Times .
St. Petersburg, FL . May 30, 2006. p. 6A. Retrieved July 13, 2015 .
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Awards and achievements
Preceded byNancy Brackhahn
Miss Tennessee USA 1968
Succeeded bySuzie Richardson