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1 15 YEARS WITHOUT A DELAY! A newsletter for the employees, families and friends of the Old Frontier Airlines We are FLamily! SUMMER JULY 2015 #60 The above item is from the May/June 1964 SUNLINER NEWS. It was preceded by an article in the October 1963 issue of the newsletter which detailed Joe’s courageous story. It is reprinted on page 3. Joe retired from Frontier in 1984 after 38 years of service as an aircraft mechanic in DEN. His story reminds us once again that life is full of heroes, often quiet and unassuming, but they are all around us - we need only stop and listen to find them. The Feb/Mar 1978 issue of the FRONTIER NEWS has another report on Joe: “I waited until I was blind before I learned to ski,” says Aircraft Technician Joe Pasqua, “and now I’m a champion.” In more ways than one. An employee of the company for 30 years, Pasqua is a man who’s good at his job (in the tire and wheel shop) and almost anything else he takes on. Through the efforts of the Denver International Airport Lions Club, a fund raising organization whose members are associated with Stapleton, he took up skiing four years ago at Loveland. See Page 5 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. The Spring issue was delayed enroute by the postal All airline employees have a treasure trove of such service because of the ad on the back page. The MCI stories. Please share them with the rest of the FLamily. Flight Crews Reunion ad gave the address of the hotel We also want to publicize ALL “old” Frontier gather- where the attendees would stay. The postal service sent ings. Be sure to notify us with details: place, date, several newsletters to that address instead of the address contact and so forth. They will be published in the on the mailing label. I will make sure no other address “Timetable”. than the mailing label will be shown on the back page in Subscriptions are $12 per year. Some back issues are the future. available & cost $3 each. Enjoy the newsletter in color and free Many thanks to flight attendant Jeanne Palmquist Wolf who at the FL website. You can download and print a personal copy mailed me FL memorabilia from the mid 1950s. The goodies there too. included a styrofoam female head and her flight attendant cap. It Text ads are $5 for 20 words, $10 for 40 words, $15 for a is now on display at the Arkansas Air Museum in FYV. business card, $20 for 1/8th page and $40 for a quarter page, It’s hard to believe this issue completes 15 years since I began $100 for a full page. Mail checks to Jake Lamkins, FL NEWS, publishing it. Who would have guessed at the 2000 FYV-FSM 1202 Scrimshaw Cove #4, Fayetteville, AR 72701. Thanks for Reunion when the idea was born that it would have proved so your support. successful and long lived. More on page 5 THE KANSAS CITY FRONTIER ON THE INTERNET http://OldFrontierAirlines.com. CV-580 Visit the FL website and check out our page on Facebook. Just search for Old Frontier Airlines. CREW BASE You can join the FL Club by emailing Jake at is a proud supporter of [email protected]. THE FRONTIER NEWS & OLD FRONTIER AIRLINES WEBSITE at http://OldFrontierAirlines.com TABLE OF CONTENTS Jake Lamkins, Webmaster, Joe Pasqua.................................................. 1 [email protected] Letter From The Editor.............................. 2 and http://www.KansasCityCrewBase.com Joe’s Story.................................................. 3 Capt'n Phil Stallings, Webmaster, Reunions.................................................... 4 [email protected] More On Joe............................................... 5 Check the websites for FL news, FLights West.............................................. 6 Karl Penner................................................ 12 notices on upcoming events, Obits - Pilots & Dispatchers....................... 14 pictures and stories from the past. Lew Dymond.............................................. 17 Notes From FLolks..................................... 18 Employees.................................................. 20 Bill Wayland’s Story.................................. 22 Frontier’s Death......................................... 25 DEN Reunion............................................. 26 Frontier Reports......................................... 27 FYV-FSM Reunion.................................... 28 3 JOE’S STORY SEP/OCT 1963 SUNLINER NEWS 4 REUNION NEWS REUNIONS TIMETABLE PHX PICNIC Was held Sun, November 9, 2014, 11:00 AM This is the information we currently have. No 2015 event planned - 2016 TBA Coordinators of FL events; please let us know the details. Contact: More info at http://OldFrontierAirlines.com Cyndy Camomile, 480-831-1660, [email protected] Ginger Treptow, 480-813-4595, [email protected] DEN MAINTENANCE PICNIC SLC PILOTS Tue, June 16, 2015 at Squires Park, 99th and Lowell Blvd., Luncheon, monthly, every third Thursday, Westminster at 11:30 a.m. 11:30 am at Chuck Arama Buffet, 744 East 400 South, SLC Contact: Contact: Shirley Drnovsek, 303-427-1246, [email protected] New contact needed DEN MAINTENANCE CHRISTMAS PARTY SLC REUNION Was Nov 6, 2014 - 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. No info on a 2015 event The Country Buffet, 8685 Sheridan Blvd., Westminster, CO. Contacts: Contact: Suspended pending new coordination Shirley Drnovsek, 303-427-1246, [email protected] DEN PILOTS Luncheon, monthly, every second Tuesday, 11:30am at AIRLINES CODES Mr. Panda Chinese Restaurant, 2852 S. Havana, Aurora, CO CC Air California Contact: QH Air Florida Bonnie Dahl, 720-747-7610, [email protected] ZV Air Midwest DEN REUNION PICNIC NE Air New England Sat, Aug 22, 2015, 10:30 am - 3:30 pm, $15 admission ZW Air Wisconsin Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum AS Alaska Airlines This list is from about Contacts AK Altair Airlines 1983 and many of the Carolyn Boller, 303-364-3624, [email protected] AA American Airlines carriers named have Julie Dickman, jjdickman@gmail AP Aspen Airways now flown west. Sue Lehotay, [email protected] Barb Monday, [email protected] GQ Big Sky Airlines DFW MECHANICS GET-TOGETHER BN Braniff Airways Probably sometime in Oct 2015, 11:00 am DP Cochise Airlines Beacon Cafe on Hicks Field near Fort Worth. CH Coleman Air Transport Corp. Contact CO Continental Air Lines Brady White, 817-913-9313, [email protected] DL Delta Air Lines DFW PILOTS EA Eastern Air Lines Luncheon, every odd month, 3rd Monday, noon @ Ernies, UR Empire Airlines 8206 Bedford-Euless Road, North Richland Hills, TX FL Frontier Airlines Contact: Jim Ford, 817-268-3954, [email protected] GW Golden West Airlines FYV-FSM MEMORIAL PIGNIC RW Hughes Airwest Sat, Aug 29, 2015, 11am-3pm, FSM Burford Pavillion II Imperial Commuter Airlines Contact: ML Midway Airlines Phil Green, 479-783-2981, [email protected] XV Mississippi Valley Airlines Jake Lamkins, 479-879-8358, [email protected] NA National Airlines LNK REUNION NY New York Airways No info on a 2015 event NW Northwest Orient Airlines Contact: OZ Ozark Air Lines Gerald 'Cork' Guenther, 402-798-2102, [email protected] PS Pacific Southwest Airlines Mike Macek, [email protected] MCI FLIGHT CREW LAYOVER PA Pan American World Airlines Fri - Sat - Sun, Sep 18-19-20, 2015. PI Piedmont Aviation Contact: RC Republic Airlines Phil Stallings, [email protected], 816-668-6294 QG Skywest Aviation MKC/KCK/MCI REUNION WI Swift Aire Lines Luncheon, third Sat of every odd month, 11:00 am TI Texas International Airlines HyVee Grocery, 5330 NW 64th St., Kansas City, MO 64151 TW Trans World Airlines Contact: UA United Air Lines Rose Dragen, 816-741-1995, [email protected] AL U. S. Air WA Western Air Lines JOE PASQUA 5 LAMKINS LETTER From page 1, Joe Pasqua A webpage has been added to http://OldFrontierAirlines.com Now he’s the Senior Mens Slalom Champion, a title earned at website. I scanned all my copies of the employee newsletter the National Handicapped Races held at Winter Park in Febru- Sunliner News issued from 1951 until 1965 and they are posted: ary. http://FAL-1.tripod.com/FL_SunlinerNews.html “It was an absolute thrill when my name was called,” he adds, The name of the Frontier employee newsletter was changed to “and I was pleased to share the joy with my son who was my Frontier News in late 1965 and I am scanning and posting my monitor down the course.” copies at http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Frontier_News.html Blind since the age of 26, Pasqua has also contributed to There is some great history in these Frontier newsletters. You Frontier programs directed towards the handicapped. “I want to may download copies for your personal FLiles. be able to help others overcome difficulties and I’m proud of the Due to my frugality (maybe I’m just stingy) and the generous work Frontier is doing in this area.” Spoken like a true cham- help of the FLamily the current Fronter News is in good shape. pion. Special thanks to Phil Stallings who places an ad in every issue and has for many years. The DEN FARPA pilots also donated a Joe emailed in May, 2006: I retired in 1984. I retired early large sum to keep the FL NEWS publishing at a reasonable because I had in thirty eight years and with my age I could retire subscription rate.