LAMAR MUSE PRESIDENT CENTRAL AIRLINES 1965 - 1967 Lamar left SO to become CN President May 1, 1965. He remained President until CN was sold to and merged into FL Oct 1, 1967 Lamar went with Universal Airlines afterwards and then later to Southwest Airlines. Later he started Muse Air which morphed into TransStar before being finally absorbed by WN in 1987 - final flight was Aug 10. There is a good Muse Air article in AIRLINERS magazine, Spring 1993, page 25 -Jake Lamkins (1/8/07) Subject: Check out FTW Star-Telegram | 02/07/2007 | Aviation exec dies at 86 M. Lamar Muse Click here: Star-Telegram | 02/07/2007 | Aviation exec dies at 86 (Ray sent a second email with Lamar's obituary.) -Ray Hall (2/7/07) Posted at the FL Club: CN President Lamar Muse has died. Ray Hall emailed a weblink for his obituary: http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/16641869.htm Lamar came to CN from SO in 1965 and left in 1967 for Universal. Later he helped start Southwest Airlines and then Muse Air. -Jake Lamkins (2/7/07) Here is an email I got a couple weeks ago from one of the guys I flew with at Southwest. I'm sure you may use it however you see fit ..... -Phil Stallings (2/7/07) -------------------------------------------------------------- Lamar Muse has terminal cancer. Here is an email from him. Everything in my life is screwed up right now. I'm in Baylor-Plano Hosp. with fast growth cancer which they estimate gives me 4 to 6 months. Just dicovered last week as result of severe pain in back. Started apparently in lungs, spred to entire spine, liver, right shoulder, now working on upper back and neck. Moving into fancy Assisted Living establishment next week here in Dallas after all pain killer systems are properly installed. Current goal - Celebrate 86 years of a great life and give thanks to good and true old friends and wonderful family who has made it all posssible. You and Sven have to make at least one more fast trip to Waddington Channed to spread my ashes under the Big P. I have been thinking all week about how to announce this to all my many friends. Why not just copy them on to this message. It says it all. -Will do! Have a good life everybody, and thanks so much for making mine so great. Please - No mourning, just celebrate my 86 years. Love you all - Lamar Thanks, Phil, for the Lamar email. He was a bigger-than-life kinda guy. He flew into FYV often during 1965-67 and always made a great impression. -Jake Lamkins (2/7/07) I am sending to you a copy of the Obituary of M. Lamar Muse as it was reported in The Dallas Morning News. I did not get to know him that well, but I met him at DFW after our station won a contest as to beating our quota for passengers boarded and total cargo. He and one of the Vice Pres. came over and was to do our job for the day. One flight came in and he and the Vice Pres. helped unload. We split up our duties and my selection was to deliver transfer and local bags. We had this big tug with castiron fenders. He wanted to drive so I sat on one fender and the other guy on the other side. I directed the way to local bag delivery and then we delivered the transfer bags. He had a pair of coveralls over his suit and he was wearing his nice shiny dress shoes. Of course we got all bags delivered and he had this big smile on his face. I wondered many times if he remembered that day when he got to go from President of Central Airlines to doing one of the duties of a station agent. He seemed that he enjoyed driving that big tug and he never lost that big smile. -Jack Prather (2/9/07) See the photos from the Central Skywriter about that day in June, 1965. Subject: Updated memorial webpage LAMAR MUSE PRESIDENT CENTRAL AIRLINES 1965 - 1967 http://fal-1.tripod.com/Lamar_Muse.html I added a couple of items and I found that Lamar wrote a book about his career which included two years at CN just prior to FL buying it. The title is Southwest Passage. You can order a copy at http://amazon.com -Jake Lamkins (5/20/10) A LAMAR MUSE CHRONOLOGY 1937 -- Graduated from Palestine High School, Palestine TX. 1941 -- Joined accounting firm Price Waterhouse. 1948 -- Hired at Trans Texas Airways in Houston as treasurer and chief financial officer. 1960 -- Joined American Airlines as vice president, corporate planning. 1962 -- Worked as vice president of finance and chief financial officer at Southern Airways in Atlanta. 1965 -- Hired as president and chief executive of Central Airlines in Fort Worth. 1967 -- Joined Universal Airlines of Detroit as president and chief executive. 1971 -- Hired by Herb Kelleher and Rollin King to be president and chief executive at Southwest Airlines. 1972 -- Fought a legendary battle with Braniff Airlines in which Southwest gave customers flying on full fares a bottle of premium liquor. 1978 -- Left Southwest after a boardroom battle. 1981 -- Founded Muse Air with his son, Michael Muse. 1985 -- Muse Air was sold to Southwest for $70 million When I was manager in MIA for TransStar, Bill Franklin would call me to take Lamar to the MIA boat show each year. He had a 55 footer in the islands just out of SEA. We went out to dinner every night. Interesting man. -Harold Maxwell (1/28/12) FLacebook - FL Club FLight West: Lamar Muse GSW Central Airlines president Lamar Muse's memorial webpage has been updated at http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Lamar_Muse.html Several items added and the webpage re-arranged. -Jake Lamkins (8/24/17)