Fall October 2015 #61
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1 FLifty years for Kathie! A newsletter for the employees, families and friends of the Old Frontier Airlines We are FLamily! FALL OCTOBER 2015 #61 Pictured above is the August 24, 1965 Frontier flight attendant class: L-R Sharon Swingler, Colleen Gregg, Mildred Ann Barton, Kathleen O'Connor, Jean Genar, Sandra Hurley, Judy Petrucciani, Ann Percival and Rita Thomas. This past August, 50 years later, Kathie O’Connor Fahrenholz retired as a flight attendant with United Airlines. After Frontier Airline’s bankruptcy in 1986 she continued her career with Continental Airlines until it merged with United Airlines in 2010. Five years later, two months ago, she retired from United with 50 years of service. An incredible feat!. Kathie’s husband Chuck Fahrenholz was Frontier’s LAS sales representative at the bankruptcy. See page 3 2 The FRONTIER NEWS is published quarterly and dedicated to ex-employees, friends, family and fans of the “old” Frontier Airlines which “died” on August 24, 1986 and was “buried” on May 31, 1990. It is a non-profit operation. All income goes into keeping the NEWS going. Opinions expressed in this newsletter are those of the author and not the editor or the publication. Publishing dates are October for Fall, January for Winter, April for Spring and July for Summer. Articles and photos are welcomed and subject to editing and space requirements. We cannot pay for such items but will give credit as appropriate. All submissions should deal with the “old” Frontier Airlines. Especially welcomed are stories of personal experiences with a humorous slant. Special thanks go out to Daryle Holte and Jim Kyte All airline employees have a treasure trove of such for their large donations to the cause. Thanks also to stories. Please share them with the rest of the FLamily. Judi Fenton Plumer who sent me a set of commemmora- We also want to publicize ALL “old” Frontier gather- tive FL glasses for my birthday and she didn’t even ings. Be sure to notify us with details: place, date, know it was my birthday. It took FedEx two days contact and so forth. They will be published in the HNL-FYV and nary a broken glass either. “Timetable”. There are now have 6400 FLolks in my FLiles: 1600 Subscriptions are $12 per year. Some back issues are in the obituaries and 4800 alive. available & cost $3 each. Enjoy the newsletter in color and free Reunion season is nearly over. Attend one when you can - our at the FL website. You can download and print a personal copy numbers are going down and it may be the last chance you get to there too. see FLriend and for FLriends to see you. Text ads are $5 for 20 words, $10 for 40 words, $15 for a Best wishes for the upcoming Thanksgiving and Christmas business card, $20 for 1/8th page and $40 for a quarter page, holidays. Celebrate life every chance you get: Every day is a $100 for a full page. Mail checks to Jake Lamkins, FL NEWS, gift, that’s why it’s called the present. Never take leave of a 1202 Scrimshaw Cove #4, Fayetteville, AR 72701. Thanks for loved one without telling them you love them. your support. FRONTIER ON THE INTERNET THE KANSAS CITY http://OldFrontierAirlines.com. Visit the FL website and heck out our page on CV-580 Facebook. Just search for Old Frontier Airlines. You CREW BASE can join the FL Club by emailing Jake at Ex- [email protected]. is a proud supporter of THE FRONTIER NEWS & OLD FRONTIER AIRLINES WEBSITE at http://OldFrontierAirlines.com TABLE OF CONTENTS Jake Lamkins, Webmaster, Kathie Fahrenholz...................................... 1 [email protected] Letter From The Editor.............................. 2 and http://www.KansasCityCrewBase.com More On Kathie......................................... 3 Reunions.................................................... Capt'n Phil Stallings, Webmaster, 4 FLights West.............................................. 6 [email protected] Employees............................................... 13 Check the websites for FL news, Central Six................................................ 14 notices on upcoming events, Mel Maynard............................................ 16 pictures and stories from the past. FL News - May 1970................................. 17 Obits - Maintenance................................... 18 Notes From FLolks.................................... 22 FL Briefs..........................................21 & 23 CN Skywriter - Sep 1963.......................... 24 FL Daily - Oct 1985................................. 25 Deregulation............................................. 26 Frontier Reports........................................ 27 Quiz Game............................................... 28 KATHIE FAHRENHOLZ From page 1 3 They still live there after all these years. Bev Cummiskey - Best to You Kathy!! Goodbye to an era, hello FLacebook Posts: Jake Lamkins - After 50 years FL flight attendant next chapter!! See you at the reunion!!. Kathie O'Connor Fahrenholz is retiring at UA. She started in Aug Ginger Treptow - Sad that we all couldn't have stayed on with FL, 1965. Congratulations, Kathie, now get started on that book. You didn't have a choice and as life went, I'm glad I'm not working must have a million stories worth hearing. anymore. Bill Leis - Way to go Kathie, have fun now. Jack McLaughlin - Congrats Kathy, someday I'll retire too! Joe Barker - Congrats Kathie, I have missed you guys since we left Roberta Brashears - You look the same Kathie, don't you know LAS, best wishes for a very happy retirement, you have earned it flying ages people? Enjoy this next chapter of your life!! Shirley Mitchell - Congratulations on a successful career! 50 Trish Swanson Hawk - Congratulations Kathie, enjoy your new years...awesome achievement! life Kim McCaleb Austin - Living the dream! Congrats on ur retire- Shari Salsbury - Congrats, Kathie Fahrenholz!!!! ment! U look great! Patty Benton - Congratulations Kathie Fahrenholz! I'm right be- Jim Mustain - Congratulations, Kathie!! Enjoy your retirement!! hind you with 45years!! Crazy!! Say "HI" to Chuck! Billy Walker - Best Wishes Kathy! You are terrific and one of the Kathi Goff - Congratulations Kathie!! best to fly with! Ramona Nelson - I don't know how Kathie did it....I remember her Bonnie Dahl - sorry you can't come to the FAL reunion, have fun! from when I flew, and I have been retired from the airlines for 15 Ruth Pitts - Congratulations Kathy O'Conner, always remember years now. Amazing accomplishment! our trips together, enjoy retirement, glad you made the 50 mark. Barbara Brown - Congratualtions Kathie. You'll love retirement Rosemary Wirth VanEpps - Wow you keep goin and goin.. Con- (yeah, right) lol gratulations..What an accomplishment. Doug Berkey - Kathie, early out I hope? Came to UA in February 1986 before the FL shutdown, based at IAD. Wonder if our paths have ever crossed? Enjoy retirement, I am jealous! Roger Hootman - Congratulations Kathie! Still remember you and Chuck from FAT. Feb1970 Frontier Days at Oaklawn Racetrack in HOT. From the left are Jeff Gilbert, HOT station manager and Chuck & Kathie Fahrenholz. Chuck was the STL FL sales representative at the time. 4 REUNION NEWS REUNIONS TIMETABLE PHX PICNIC No 2015 event planned - 2016 TBA This is the information we currently have. Contact: Coordinators of FL events; please let us know the details. Cyndy Camomile, 480-831-1660, [email protected] More info at http://OldFrontierAirlines.com Ginger Treptow, 480-813-4595, [email protected] SLC PILOTS DEN MAINTENANCE PICNIC Luncheon, monthly, every third Thursday, Held Tue, June 16, 2015 at Squires Park, 99th and Lowell 11:30 am at Chuck Arama Buffet, 744 East 400 South, SLC Blvd., Westminster at 11:30 a.m. Contact: Contact: New contact needed Shirley Drnovsek, 303-427-1246, [email protected] SLC REUNION DEN MAINTENANCE CHRISTMAS PARTY No info on a 2015 event Nov 17, 2015 - 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Contacts: The Country Buffet, 8685 Sheridan Blvd., Westminster, CO. Suspended pending new coordination Contact: Shirley Drnovsek, 303-427-1246, [email protected] REUNIONS NEWS DEN PILOTS (Photos from the DEN and FYV-FSM Reunions are posted at Luncheon, monthly, every second Tuesday, 11:30am at FLacebook. Just put Old Frontier Airlines in the Facebook Mr. Panda Chinese Restaurant, 2852 S. Havana, Aurora, CO search and it will take you to the FL webpage. You can click on Contact: JOIN THE GROUP in the upper right and/or click on PHOTOS Bonnie Dahl, 720-747-7610, [email protected] then ALBUMS to see the pix.) DEN REUNION PICNIC DEN MAINTENANCE PICNIC: We don't have people sign Was Sat, Aug 22, 2015, 10:30 am - 3:30 pm, $15 admission in so a guess would be about 50 of us at the June 16 gathering. Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum We don't do anything much that is exciting. Mostly we just Contacts stand around and visit for about an hour. Juanita and I get all the Carolyn Boller, 303-364-3624, [email protected] food out, whch we buy at Albertson's. We have a nice chicken Julie Dickman, jjdickman@gmail lunch with all the fixin's and then everyone leaves. Sue Lehotay, [email protected] Some of us stay a little longer to finish up the visiting and Barb Monday, [email protected] cleaning up. We have a lot of fun getting to re-know each other DFW MECHANICS GET-TOGETHER and find out what they have been up. There is a lot of Probably sometime in Oct 2015, 11:00 am reminiscing about the "Old Frontier Days." The weather is Beacon Cafe on Hicks Field near Fort Worth. always good for us. I get a lot of hugs to store up until our Contact Christmas party and then I get re-hugged until our next function. Brady White, 817-913-9313, [email protected] Our Christmas party is scheduled for November 17th. We are DFW PILOTS having it again at The Country Buffet located just south of 88th Luncheon, every odd month, 3rd Monday, noon @ Ernies, Avenue on Sheridan Blvd.