CHUCK PENNIE
1968 - 1985
BUILDING MAINTENANCE-LEAD TECHNICIAN
DEN


My name is Chuck Pennie, and I was employed at Frontier from Feb. 1968 to Jan. 1985.  My last
job assignment was in the Building Maintenance Group (DENIB) as a Lead Technician (Facilities
Electrical) at the Denver Operations Base.  I would like to have some information concerning your
organization and what is required to join.
I've recently retired from a position with the Department of Labor and Industries, State of Washington,
as a Construction Compliance Inspector, and I am living in Missoula, Montana.  While inspecting 
construction work at the Airport in Moses Lake, Washington, I met a couple of former Frontier Mech-
anics who were working for Alaska Airlines at the JAL maintenance facility.  Talking to these two
mechanics caused me to think about the old airline and wonder if anyone was keeping the past alive.
I am, at the present, time receiving both IAM and Frontier retirement so I imagine you can say that I'm
also retired from Frontier.  Something else comes to mind that caused me to think of Frontier.  The day
that I happened to be in Moses Lake on the airport assignment was a day that Former Frontier VP Fred
Schubel was at the Alaska Airlines facility, and he had left shortly before I arrived to return to Seattle.
I would have very much liked to be able to spend a little time with him.  
-Chuck Pennie
(7/26/06)

Great to hear from you and welcome back to the FLamily.
If FL carried you as CW Pennie, you have some money coming from an ESOP lawsuit.
Details are at the FL website.
I spoke to Fred Schubel on the phone a few days ago.
He is doing well.
-Jake Lamkins
(7/27/06) 
       
Thanks for the heads-up on the ESOP plan.  I looked at the list of employees and saw a number of
names of people I worked with.  When I have a chance, I will contact Wells-Fargo for the heck of it.  
It doesn't sound like a great amount, but I would sure like the check as a souvenir.  In reading the replies
of people who put in for the money, it sounds like there are still some hard feelings about the way the
company was run before its failure.  I'm very much in agreement with their feelings.  I would suppose
that I could spend hours and hours reciting incidents that I remember that made it impossible for the
company to survive, but that would be covering old ground.
By the way, I'm glad to here you are in contact with Fred S.  I hope is doing well in retirement.  From
his email address, he must be retired and probably doing well.  He was by far the best head of maint.
that I worked for at Frontier.  I've signed-up for the club and will stay in contact.
-Chuck Pennie,  Missoula, Montana
(7/31/06)

Posted at FLacebook and the FL Club:
The memorial webpage for Chuck Pennie, DEN building maintenance, has been posted.
http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Chuck_Pennie.html
I just found his obituary on the internet.
-Jake Lamkins
(3/23/13)