JERRY KITCHEN
1947 - 1959
TRAFFIC & SALES MANAGER, CARGO SALES MANAGER, 
MANAGER - PUBLIC RELATIONS, DIRECTOR - PUBLIC RELATIONS
DEN


SUNLINER NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
Vol. 1 - #1 (Dec. 10, 1951)
Frontier's traffic gains - 1st nine months of 1951: 
*76,776 passengers 
*21 million rev. passenger miles 
*2,128 M pounds air freight 
*Total Revenues - $2,993,000 
*Non-mail revenues $1,195,000 
Silver City-Hurley service inaugurated 12/1/51 on route between Phoenix and El Paso. 
200 people carried at $2.50 each on sight-seeing flights over area. 
Sales task force organized to "blitz" communities Sales team consisted of: 
*Chet Lubben - DEN 
*Vern Carlson - GJT 
*Ed Gerhardt - PHX 
*Mike Cook - SLC 
*Dick White - ABQ/BIL 
*Bob Evans & Brooke Burnham of CAL & BNF 
*Jerry Kitchen - Cargo Sales Mgr. 
*John Lindsay - Psgr. Sales Mgr. 
Worked in 36 on-line cities and 22 off-line cities with five solid months of sales travel. 
*Called on 5,000 business firms *some 20,000 persons *60 luncheon/dinner meetings 
*40 travel movie showings with 35 to 400 people 
*55 radio programs with 10 to 15 minute presentations 
*100 newspaper articles 
*Distributed thousands of "Let's Get Acquainted" booklets 

Shown as G. S. Kitchen in the masthead of the Sep 1953 FL Sunliner News.
-Jake Lamkins
(4/3/08)

Shown as Jerry Kitchen, traffic manager, on the Sep 3, 1947 Monarch Airlines photo found on ebay.
-Jake Lamkins
(7/9/10)

Shown as Gerald Kitchen in 1951 SVC article.
-Jake Lamkins
(1/12/12)

Q - Jerry Kitchen joined you in early 1947.  He had had a background with Continental Air Lines in tourist sales?
A - Yes, Jerry did quite a bit of public relations stuff. This is where he exerted his best efforts for us. 
per Jul 6, 1978 Ray Wilson interview.
-Jake Lamkins
(11/10/17)

Re: FL NEWS - Winter Issue
JUST FINISHED THE WINTER ISSUE AND STORY ON HAL DARR AND INTERVIEW 
OF RAY WILSON DONE BY MY GREAT FRIEND ED GERHARDT. 
IN BOTH ARTICLES THE NAME OF JERRY KITCHEN IS MENTIONED. 
I WAS SEPARATED ON DECEMBER 1, 1958 FROM THE AIR FORCE 
AND RETURNED TO DENVER TO START CIVILIAN LIFE. 
A GOOD FRIEND, PETE DELONGHAMPS WITH CONTINENTAL AIRLINES 
SAID TO CONTACT HIS FATHER WHO WAS A BANKER IN DENVER TO HELP ME FIND A JOB. 
I CONTACTED MR. DELONGCHAMPS WHO I HAD MEET IN THE SUMMER AND 
HE CALLED JERRY KITCHEN AND JERRY TOLD HIM TO SEND ME OUT TO TALK TO HIM. 
JERRY THEN TOOK ME TO PERSONNEL AND TOLD THEM TO INTERVIEW ME. 
THIS WAS IN EARLY JANUARY 1959 AND WEEK LATER I RECEIVED AN OFFER 
TO WORK AS A STATION AGENT AND ATTEND SCHOOL, FINISHED SCHOOL, 
ASSIGNED TO DENVER STATION TO WORK FOR CAL REESE AND 
STARTED ON FEBRUARY 7,1959 AND THE REST IS HISTORY. 
ALL BECAUSE SOMEONE KNEW JERRY KITCHEN. 
I HADN'T HEARD HIS NAME FOR OVER 50 PLUS YEARS UNTIL THIS LAST ISSUE OF FL NEWS. 
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES.   -HERB SCHMIDT
(1/24/18)

G S KITCHEN
DEN public relations manager
per the Nov 1955 Frontier Roster.
He is not on the Feb 1960 Frontier Roster so he must have left in 1959.
-Jake Lamkins
(1/24/18)

Jerry Kitchen, DEN director-public relations, May 87, age 74,
died at Riverton, WY
DOB Oct 29, 1912
per Ken Schultz' We remember database.
-Jake Lamkins
(2/2/18)

FLacebook - FL Club
FLight West: Jerry Kitchen
DEN director - public relations Jerry Kitchen's memorial webpage has been upgraded at 
http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Jerry_Kitchen.html
He started with Monarch Airlines in 1946 and left in 1959.
Post your remembrances of him.
-Jake Lamkins
(2/2/18)