CHARLIE MURPHY 1971 - 1983 GENERAL COUNSEL, COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT DEN DC Congratulations - You Are The Winning Buyer! Frontier Airlines Document Case Item number: 6533725675Seller: thelastonehome (A Appollo - Alexandria, VA United States) End date: May-25-05 10:01:05 PDT Dear jakeroo, you have committed to buy this eBay item from thelastonehome. This seller prefers PayPal. Click Pay Now to confirm shipping, get total price, and arrange payment through: PayPal. Payment Details Sale price: US $18.05 s&h $7.90 Total $25.95 -Ebay (5/25/05) The feedback's already been left for you, and your FL document case will be mailed out to you first thing tomorrow. Enjoy it. I kept it safe all these years, so you got a wonderful item. Thanks again, and take care. Annette I'm looking forward to it. I worked for Frontier for 22 years so it has nostalgic value. Did you work for Frontier? Jake (5/26/05) I did. As assistant general counsel to Charlie Murphy in Washington, DC. Al Feldman was our "boss," so to speak and a beloved man. He gave me this case, so it's got a tragic and lovely history. I'm glad you'll have it now. I'm also sending you a FL shoulder patch that Al tossed into the bunch of stuff he sent me one day just to make me laugh. There was even a Frontier Airlines golf bag! He always told me that the big "F" on the planes stood for Feldman. I still miss him. It was a great carrier. It was a great time...... I'm off to the Post Office to drop your package in the mail. Be well, Jake Annette (5/26/05) Your purchase will be shipped with PayPal Shipping with U.S. Postal Service! Annette Appollo used PayPal Shipping with U.S. Postal Service to create a shipping label for your purchase. Once the package is given to the Post Office(tm), it will be on its way to you! You can track the package online at: http://trkcnfrm1.smi.usps.com/netdata-cgi/db2www/cbd_243.d2w/output?CAMEFROM=OK&strOrigTrackNum=9101150134711152398653 Annette Appollo 300 Yoakum Parkway Suite 1222 Alexandria, VA 22304 -Paypal (5/26/05) Wow! That adds enormous significance to my purchase! Take a look at http://FYV.tripod.com/FYV_Museum.html to see where some of my other Frontier items are displayed. You can read more about the Frontier story at our website: http://FAL-1.tripod.com Check out the "Death Of Frontier" essays which include the sad story of Al's last days. If you want to re-connect with the Frontier family, we have a newsletter and an online club. Email me at ExFAL@yahoo.com and I will plug you in. Jake (5/27/05) You're so kind. Thank you for the links. It's astonishing how the folks have held together through the years. But, no, it's a time in my life that meant so much - still means so much - and yet it's also a time of sadness and loss. When I came across the FL stuff Al had given me, it was like 1981 all over again, and it's really not good to go back there. Your document case and patch should arrive soon - they went out Priority Mail yesterday. I know you'll be pleased with them. Thank you again, Jake, for a sweet experience. Stay well. Annette (5/27/05) PORTER ANNETTE APPOLLO 59 ALEXANDRIA VA -US Search (5/27/05) Men I Love: Not Air Florida, not then _POSTED ON Feb 28, 2005 - 12:41 AM by Annette Appollo The Best Of The Best This is the sweetest time. The forecasters are staying up all night, the highway crews are out and moving, my little city is ready and waiting, and I am tucked away up here in my in-town aerie, warm and snug and delighted. As February ends, we are going to have the biggest snowstorm in two years. This is typical of this area. I remember once watching snow land on the cherry blossoms. That’s a sight that remains, once you’ve seen it. I had no need to get the ingredients for what I call The Snow White Casserole: toilet paper, milk, and bread. All those white things, grabbed by mad shoppers, who happen mostly to be white, too. Out at the farm, the driveway will be plowed by one of our neighbors, who loves doing stuff like that, and he’ll call to let me know when it’s safe for me to return, if I feel like it. The airports are on high alert with de-icing equipment............. I remember the Air Florida flight that hit the 14th Street Bridge more than twenty years ago. Someone I loved was scheduled to be on that flight, and I sat in my office, thunderstruck at the idea of his death. There was no way to comprehend that he was gone, and, even though I was an airline attorney, no one could get through to the airline. In those days before personal computers, pulling up the manifest was reserved only for the airline, and Air Florida was holding that very tightly to its corporate vest. No one could have survived, everyone said the same thing, milling together in the office where he would not return. I went and made sure the door to his office was closed. I didn’t dare go inside, but I didn’t want anyone else going in there, either. We had a joke. He flew to Florida every week in the winter – his wife was there for the season, so he spent four days at the office and three days with her. Since we both hated Richard Nixon, a tradition had been born: I had found a startlingly bad watercolor portrait of The Big Dick at a street vendor’s stall one day, framed and cheap. Of course I bought it, and hung it in his office. He carefully hung it in my office when I was away. I took it out of the frame and taped it inside his raincoat. He covered my desk with it, meticulously fashioned with double-sided tape. On this trip, it was folded and hidden inside his briefcase, the one he would have carried onboard with him so he could work on the flight. There were things I could not think of. The people who were milling and growing steadily hysterical moved away from me, as if I were too dangerous for them to approach. I wanted nothing to do with them, and they knew it. Grief and shock are private, dangerous things, subjective and unpredictable, always unknowable. I got a call from Jim, who was living in Saratoga Springs then. He had been to visit so many times, and he had always flown into and out of National Airport, so he knew what and where it had happened. He called to make sure I was safe, hadn’t been flying anywhere. It was hard to tell him I was safe, because I didn’t feel very safe right then. I couldn’t tell him that someone else I loved was gone. He was just relieved that I was all right. His love never stopped standing close to me, embracing me at the times I most needed his touch. There was no point in trying to get home that night, with all the snow and all the traffic, so I made a reservation at a hotel and then I sat behind my desk, while people left for home, saying tentative goodnights as they departed, and I knew I couldn’t leave because he might return, and I didn’t want him to walk into an empty office. I thought that I should take his nameplate off his door, but I didn’t do it. Tomorrow, I thought, I’ll do that tomorrow. His papers have to be assembled, I knew, for shipment to the Presidential Library on whose board he sat. The pictures on his office walls, they’d have to come down, too. Well, he said, standing in my office doorway, it’s a real mess out there. He had snow in the brim of his hat, on his shoulders, and his face was red and shiny. He was smiling at me. All I did was burst into tears. I missed my flight, he said, and the phones in the airport had long lines, so I thought I’d just come back here. I sat there, crying. He took off his hat and coat and gloves, put down his briefcase, and I stood up and hugged him. I cried and cried and couldn’t talk, and he just held me and said things that I no longer remember. Then we walked the almost-impassable two blocks to the hotel where I’d also managed to reserve a room for him, and we had dinner in the dining room, and everything was fine. The crashed plane not far from us might well have been on the other side of the world. I drank too much and cried some more, and told him how the idea of his death frightened me so much. Eight months later, he was gone. We had had our proper goodbyes, although I didn't know they were goodbyes at the time, over a lunch to which he had invited me at the International Club, which isn’t there anymore, either, and when we parted, me to go back to my different office in a different place, and him to his old office where they later found my birthday card to him on top of his desk, I turned to look at him one more time as we walked away from each other that summer day in downtown Washington. He had turned around, too, to look at me. I guess we both knew. After his funeral, I took the nameplate from his door. I keep it with me, no matter where I am. We’re going to have a great big snowstorm tomorrow. It fits nicely with this great big life I stumbled into, and the great big people I’ve been lucky enough to love and the great big stories they gave me. -http://www.annetteappollo.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=580&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (5/27/05) Charles S. Murphy, most recently General Counsel of Frontier Horizon, died last August. His outstanding career in Washington, D.C., and his contributions for many years as Counsel to the President of Frontier Airlines will be long remembered. -Frontier Holdings Annual Report, 1983 (5/27/05) Charlie was carried as General Counsel in Frontier Annual Reports as far back as 1972. That Annual Report has a photo of him in it. I am unable to determine when he started. -Jake Lamkins (5/27/05) Email to Annette: I browsed through your website and saw the essay on Charlie and the Air Florida incident. May I use it on an obituary website for Charlie and in our newsletter. You may have seen our obituary pages from the links I gave you. In case not, Al's is at http://LAMKINS.tripod.com/Al_Feldman.html We don't have one of Charlie so I'm putting one together. I found a photo of him in a 1972 Frontier Annual Report which I'm attaching for you. The 1983 Annual report had a memoriam to Charlie: "Charles S. Murphy, most recently General Counsel of Frontier Horizon, died last August. His outstanding career in Washington, D.C., and his contributions for many years as Counsel to the President of Frontier Airlines will be long remembered." Regards, Jake (5/28/05) Hi, Jake........... I was idly looking up stats on my website - annetteappollo.com - last night, and I saw that you'd linked your wonderful FL site to it. That's very good. That's an old, old picture of Charlie, taken even before I met him, which was in 1977. I'm attaching one that was taken just a couple of year before he died, before Al died, when everyone was still safe and happy. I'm also attaching a picture of Al that I've always loved. He hated when I walked in, because it always meant he was going to hear that dreaded clicking of the shutter, but, hey, I took some brilliant pictures of him. This one, attached here, was taken four months before his suicide. As I understood it, Al hired Charlie as general counsel right after he became CEO of FL. That was long before my time, but he brought Charlie in after he left his post of Chairman at the Civil Aeronautics Board. (I can't believe I'm remembering all these little details - who knew they were still in my head?) So, you can date Charlie's time with FL approximately at the beginning of Al's tenure there. Charlie stayed on after Al left for Continental. It was one of the lowest points in my life the day I had to call Charlie to tell him of Al's death. They had quite the father-son relationship. Do you know what ever became of Glenn and Corinne Ryland? I'm just curious. Anyway, I hope you like the photos - I had forgotten they were on this hard drive. There sure are a lot of them ..... I hope all is well with you and yours, Jake. Be safe and happy. Annette (7/27/05) CHARLES MURPHY Born 20 Aug 1909 Died Aug 1983 At 20006 (Washington, District Of Columbia, DC) 213-38-2245 Maryland -SSDI (7/27/05) Profile of Charles S. Murphy Charles Brief profile : Administrative Assistant to the President, 1947-1950 Special Counsel to the President, 1950-1953 Personal Papers : see Personal Papers and Organizational Records Oral History : Charles S. Murphy Online Photos: Murphy photos Biographical sketch : 1909 (August 20) Born, Wallace, North Carolina 1931 A.B., Duke University 1934 LL.B., Duke University 1934-1946 Worked for Office of Legislative Counsel, U.S. Senate 1947-1950 Administrative Assistant to the President 1950-1953 Special Counsel to the President 1953-1961 Worked for Morison, Murphy, Clapp & Abrams Law Firm 1957-1960 Counsel to Democratic National Advisory Council 1960-1965 Undersecretary of Agriculture 1965-1968 Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board 1968-1969 Counselor to the President 1969-1979 Worked for Morison, Murphy, Abrams & Haddock Law Firm 1969-1981 Board of Directors, Harry S. Truman Library Institute 1979-1983 Worked for Baker & Hostetler Law Firm 1983 (August 28) Died, Anne Arundel County, Maryland -http://www.trumanlibrary.org/profile/viewpro.php?pid=155 (7/27/05) Hi Annette, Thanks for the additional info on Al & Charlie. I've added to both their obituary websites - http://fal-1.tripod.com/ObitsMgmt.html Glen Ryland went with US West after leaving Frontier then I lost track of him. According to Switchboard.com he's in California: Ryland, Glen L 8545 Carmel Valley Rd, Carmel, CA 93923-9556 (831) 625-2367 Ryland, Glen L 27217 Prado Del Sol, Carmel, CA 93923-9526 (831) 626-3657 I sent him a copy of the newsletter last year but he never responded. He is universally reviled by ex-Frontier employees as causing Frontier's death. I don't share that feeling. He was caught in an impossible situation. I believe Frontier's death was sealed the day the Deregulation Act was signed into law. We were a regional carrier with our hub occupied by a 400 lb. gorilla (Continental) and a 500 lb. gorilla (United). It's so ironic that we supported deregulation and it killed us. Jake The pictures look great, Jake, and I'm especially happy to see that Charlie - and his remarkable career - get some good space on that wonderful site of yours. Thanks very much, and I'm quite honored that you'd link to my memories of Charlie. Wasn't he amazing? Poor Glen. He never aspired to be anything but CFO of Frontier, and Al's leaving for CO just threw him into a spot where he really didn't belong. He was a decent man in an impossible situation. I remember Al laughing as he told me how he'd had a brainstorm while driving to work one day, and managed to get a $14 million subsidy to FL written into the Airline Deregulation Act. I remember thinking that that was just gonna backfire so bad on everyone. And it did. One grand consolation, though, is that Lorenzo was forever banned from the airline industry, which was the only place he ever wanted to be. What no one knew was that Burton Lifland, the judge who threw Lorenzo out of bankruptcy court, had grown up in the same neighborhood as Al and his four brothers. Small world, eh, Jake? Again, I'm glad you liked the photos. Take care, Annette (7/28/05) Nothing at FindAGrave.com Article about his death says he was with FL 12 years so I will use 1971 as his start year. -Jake Lamkins (11/1/12) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Text for website CHARLIE MURPHY 1971 - 1983 GENERAL COUNSEL, COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT DEN DC Charles S. Murphy, most recently General Counsel of Frontier Horizon, died last August. His outstanding career in Washington, D.C., and his contributions for many years as Counsel to the President of Frontier Airlines will be long remembered. -Frontier Holdings Annual Report, 1983 (5/27/05) Charlie was carried as General Counsel in Frontier Annual Reports as far back as 1972. That Annual Report has a photo of him in it. I am unable to determine when he started. -Jake Lamkins (5/27/05) That's an old, old picture of Charlie, taken even before I met him, which was in 1977. I'm attaching one that was taken just a couple of year before he died, before Al died, when everyone was still safe and happy. I'm also attaching a picture of Al that I've always loved. He hated when I walked in, because it always meant he was going to hear that dreaded clicking of the shutter, but, hey, I took some brilliant pictures of him. This one, attached here, was taken four months before his suicide. As I understood it, Al hired Charlie as general counsel right after he became CEO of FL. That was long before my time, but he brought Charlie in after he left his post of Chairman at the Civil Aeronautics Board. (I can't believe I'm remembering all these little details - who knew they were still in my head?) So, you can date Charlie's time with FL approximately at the beginning of Al's tenure there. Charlie stayed on after Al left for Continental. It was one of the lowest points in my life the day I had to call Charlie to tell him of Al's death. They had quite the father-son relationship. Anyway, I hope you like the photos - I had forgotten they were on this hard drive. -Annette Appollo (7/27/05) CHARLES MURPHY Born 20 Aug 1909 Died Aug 1983 At 20006 (Washington, District Of Columbia, DC) SSN issued in Maryland -SSDI (7/27/05) Profile of Charles S. Murphy Administrative Assistant to the President, 1947-1950 Special Counsel to the President, 1950-1953 Biographical sketch : 1909 (August 20) Born, Wallace, North Carolina 1931 A.B., Duke University 1934 LL.B., Duke University 1934-1946 Worked for Office of Legislative Counsel, U.S. Senate 1947-1950 Administrative Assistant to the President 1950-1953 Special Counsel to the President 1953-1961 Worked for Morison, Murphy, Clapp & Abrams Law Firm 1957-1960 Counsel to Democratic National Advisory Council 1960-1965 Undersecretary of Agriculture 1965-1968 Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board 1968-1969 Counselor to the President 1969-1979 Worked for Morison, Murphy, Abrams & Haddock Law Firm 1969-1981 Board of Directors, Harry S. Truman Library Institute 1979-1983 Worked for Baker & Hostetler Law Firm 1983 (August 28) Died, Anne Arundel County, Maryland -http://www.trumanlibrary.org/profile/viewpro.php?pid=155 (7/27/05)