1974 – Peninsulan

January 1974              

  • Al Warden to speak at HP
  • Bowling
  • Dave Schwartz grinds his own mirror
  • Election to be held
  • HP leagues
  • HP veterans honored
  • Interest rate up
  • Len Cutler names IEEE Fellow
  • New subjects added to apprenticeship program
  • Paul Reid’s guide dog Argus died BLOKKER. JOHN
  • Photo of workshop
  • Red Cross Blood Center
  • Second half profit-sharing
  • Train detector

February 1974              

  • Beckett named PMA “Industry Man of Year”
  • “Bumps”
  • “College by TV”
  • College courses offered on TV
  • id peninsula Citizens for Fair Housing
  • New live-in program
  • New program
  • Personnel transfer made easy
  • Perspective on this division
  • Photo and caption
  • Photos and captions
  • Progress report
  • Restroom “artwork”
  • Santa Rosa Community College installs HP-3000
  • Ski and tennis
  • The “65”

March 1974              

  • $8.7 million deposited in fund
  • 8,000th mini shipped
  • Backyard alternatives
  • Bingo dinner dance
  • Blood drive
  • Bob Grimm new president
  • Company cars for sale
  • First quarter report
  • HP people invited
  • Matching Funds Program
  • Officers elected
  • Rules for riding
  • Savings drive
  • Scholarship donation
  • Training photo
  • Working with paroled prisoners through SCOPE (Dave Pascual)

April 1974              

  • Annual Scouting Exposition
  • Baseball tickets
  • Bridal shower for Pat Ladouceur
  • Corporate moves scheduled
  • Eb Rechtin named chief engineer
  • Expansion photo
  • Feature story
  • Hang gliding
  • Johnny Morton scholarship
  • Mason Byles appointed Avondale GM
  • New 2105A and 2108A
  • Programmable calculator course
  • Rundown on N.Y. show
  • Skating champ – Richard Perez
  • Softball league
  • Snowfall damage
  • Stu Kinney and Jon Jacobson plan trip
  • Stu Kinney and Jon Jacobson plan Yukon trip
  • Summer bowling
  • Summer registration deadline

May 1974              

  • Bingo dinner dance
  • Bolivian child “adopted”
  • Elected to M.V. council
  • Federal government executives exchange
  • General report
  • Machine built by Cliff Seymour
  • Menlo College
  • New Data Systems manufacturing manager
  • Olive Street old-timers gather
  • Picnic Schedule
  • Preferential parking spots
  • Presentation of program
  • Prices lowered
  • Registration deadline
  • Santa Clara Division – Women’s Softball team
  • South Seas adventure (Steve Rowe)
  • Task force seeks members
  • Urbie named “Guard of the Year”

June 1974              

  • AMD “farmers”
  • APD to locate in Corvallis
  • Bob Grimm named to head LSI lab
  • Brigham elected assistant secretary
  • Dr. Knoppers elected to HP Board
  • First half profit-sharing
  • Graduation certificate to Chuck Fikes (Liberty Mutual)
  • Graduation certificate from Liberty Mutual
  • Grimm named to  head LSI lab
  • Joe Barr placed on special project in financial management
  • Installation of 400th minicomputer at Univ. of Iowa
  • Kurt Doehlert winner of “best of show”
  • Photo of Mike Ewing taking delivery car
  • Program outlined
  • Savings dividend
  • Scholarship winners announced
  • Technical readers needed
  • Winter sign-ups

July 1974              

  • “Again” described
  • Al Warden to speak at HP
  • Bond drive
  • Camp open for business
  • Fall program
  • Klingman wins program contest
  • Move to Page Mill Hill
  • Meeks Bay (Tahoe)open for business
  • New plan described
  • Objectives revised
  • Palo Alto office moves to Santa Clara
  • Plan to be rehearsed
  • Presented to Dr. Chua
  • Volunteers sought

August 1974              

  • Awarded title of Woman of the Year
  • Dick retires
  • Dividend declared
  • Ethel Green awarded title
  • Fall schedule announce
  • Intro of HP-70
  • Mended Hearts form local chapter
  • New hours
  • Programs announced
  • Reno trips planned
  • Soccer
  • Stu Kinney, Jon Jacobson and Joe Borghorst trek to Yukon
  • Vi Cumti becomes U.S. citizen

September 1974              

  • “Art & Industry” Exhibit at Bullock’s
  • Bus trip and fish fry
  • Dividend increase
  • Demo at WESCON
  • Fairchild building at Deer Creek Rd. purchased
  • Feature stories
  • Group at Ravenswood High completes contract
  • Hammond honored at Colo. State U.
  • Minimum insurance added to retirement plan
  • New regulations protect handicapped
  • Rick Joy named top rehabilitant
  • Test scheduled
  • Third quarter report

October 1974              

  • Donna Bass wins sports car Olympics
  • Engineers rehab unit for Homestead High
  • Features added to medical plan
  • Named Exec. VP
  • Named to Board
  • Pete’s retirement party
  • Responsibilities of bicyclists, motorists, parents
  • Selective Service requirement spelled out
  • Voter’s booklet available

November 1974              

  • Basic law course given management
  • Final tally of HP drive
  • Milton Quenzer with his new dog
  • New 3000CX
  • New catalog off the press
  • Open house
  • Paul Messina training to operate fork lift
  • Photo of new office in Santa Clara
  • Photo of new home
  • Preliminary earnings
  • Preliminary earnings reported
  • Realignment
  • Savings up
  • Ski Club
  • “Superball” more than a toy
  • Sweater time again
  • Temporary shutdown during Thanksgiving week
  • Tom named to Export Council
  • Toys for Tots program

December 1974              

  • Don’t subscribe!
  • Egon to Russia
  • Graduation certificate to Stan Barski (Liberty Mutual)
  • Group teaches marine sciences
  • Hewlett buys stock in Telteco
  • Horace’s obit
  • Restructured group
  • Second half profit-sharing
  • Service award luncheon
  • Tahoe, Reno trips
  • Volunteers sought for CHC

1975 – Peninsulan

January 1975

  • Annual meeting
  • Apply for summer jobs
  • Beckett named chairman of Metropolitan
  • Care offered Foothill students
  • Corporate training (TV) merged with management development
  • Crandall reminisces
  • Gun Club
  • How to get there
  • HP-55 unveiled
  • Legally required notice to HP personnenl
  • Meeks Bay property sold
  • Metric training to start
  • Photo of lab chiefs meeting
  • Ski Club
  • Transportation Commission

February 1975

  • Annual march
  • Annual walkathon
  • Delivery of 10,000th minicomputer (photo)
  • Delivery of 2640A
  • Dos and Don’ts
  • Feature story
  • “Flying doctors” and working with handicapped
  • HP-21 introduced
  • Info available
  • Insert
  • Joe Tembrock, Cupertino “citizen of year”
  • Named Cupertino “citizen of the year”
  • Packard receives Washington Award
  • Peninsulan still being placed in Watt’s Current delivery tray
  • Presentation of awards
  • Prices going up
  • Working with handicapped

March 1975

  • Career guidance offered
  • Donations and applications due
  • Employment opportunities
  • First quarter
  • Husband and son graduate
  • Metric program reaches milestone
  • Moderately priced condominiums offered
  • New manufacturing plant
  • New sidewalk at main plant
  • Photo
  • Photo and caption
  • Photo of street sweeper
  • Savings up
  • Science Fair opens April 10
  • Skiing (one leg)
  • Soccer photo
  • Surplus HP cars scarce
  • Wild river trip

April 1975

  • Adjust auto head restraints to avoid injury
  • Asian Business Conference
  • Bill Terry to head Scout Exposition
  • Cheaper and quicker
  • Donors needed
  • Fund-raising program
  • Hewlett named “outstanding” exec. By FINANCIAL WORLD
  • HP matches individual contributions to alma maters
  • Microprocessor course offered
  • Packard opens Exec Seminar
  • Packard speaks to Exec Seminar
  • Santa Clara Univ. uses HP 3000 system
  • Special commuter bus between Santa Clara and Palo Alto
  • Sun roof at AMD – photo, p. 1, story p.3
  • Terry to head Boy Scout Exposition

May 1975

  • Administrative group seminar
  • Division hosts black career day
  • Data Systems hosts black career day
  • Fifth anniversary
  • HP awarded 1975 Industrial Wastewater Control Award
  • HP skiers do more than ski
  • HP winner of Water Pollution Control’s award
  • HPIB a hit at IEEE
  • Interface Bus a hit at this year’s show
  • Medical alert bracelet recommended
  • New lab serves industrial community
  • New system lists surplus equipment
  • New videotapes give corporate view
  • Next issue to be a special one
  • Photo and caption of Noemi Carrera
  • Photo and caption of clean room in new IC lab
  • Photo of TV production
  • Tax change means more take home

June 1975

  • 2000 Access System
  • Bill named to direct Urban Coalition fund drive
  • Bill Johnston to direct fund drive
  • Bond drive
  • Computers aid ticket sales in entertainment field
  • CSC’s Clay Fiedler
  • Deposits set records
  • Evening courses at UC-Berkeley
  • Health plan now covers legal awards
  • Library Assn. elects Mark Baer to
  • Liong Wong at Data Systems for two year training
  • Mark elected to B of D of Special Libraries
  • Association
  • Second quarter earnings
  • Service representatives for discounts
  • Winners announced

July 1975

  • Bike lane changed at HP entrance
  • Conn. Gen. increase premiums employees have opportunity to change coverage
  • Frank Williams heads corporate personnel
  • HP-65 used in Apollo/Soyuz hook-up
  • Meeks Bay property sold
  • Mike Catalano awarded “best speaker” by Semiconductor Technology Council
  • Milpitas bus needs riders
  • Photos and story
  • Policy changed on calculator purchases
  • Recording for Blind studio volunteers
  • Williams named to head corporate personnel

August 1975

  • 35 being retired
  • APD announces new programmable
  • APD hosts Career Awareness Fair
  • Benefits increased
  • Bill Craven new general manager
  • Blood drive set
  • Buildings begun in Boise, Corvallis
  • Deed of trust loans available
  • Dividend raised
  • Fall program
  • HP increases limits
  • New division formed
  • New system handles medical claims
  • Retirement benefits
  • Schedule for Christmas and New Year
  • Soccer players needed

September 1975

  • 22 introduced
  • Auto racing – Al Johnsen
  • Cottrell appointed corporate customer support manager
  • Jerry appointed controller
  • Feature
  • Fellowship program lauded
  • Foothill-DeAnza orders 2 minicomputers
  • Library needs paperbacks for recreational reading
  • Marty Collins of APD cited for volunteer film work
  • Mary Collins of APD cited for Hope for Retarded film
  • Start of assembly in Oregon
  • Summer fellowship program lauded
  • Third quarter
  • TV group seeks acting talent

October 1975

  • Construction contract awarded
  • Communication costs
  • Comsys recommended over telephone use
  • Construction contract awarded
  • Demolition of old buildings to make way for new Mfg. Div. facility
  • Fab shops transfer from Mfg. Div. to Standard Park Division
  • IBM 370 Job Control Language program being considered
  • I. Magnin show
  • Leo Olsen elected director of National Association of
  • Accountants
  • Moderately priced condominiums offered
  • Named Executive VP
  • New medical and life insurance plans announced
  • Notify personnel department of any change of
  • address
  • Olsen elected a director of Natl’ Assn. of Accountants
  • Price reductions
  • Ross Welburn builds an electric car
  • Stanford Hospital purchases medical equipment
  • Stanford purchases medical equipment
  • Telephone costs
  • Visit by state legislators
  • Welburn builds an electric car
  • WESCON sets records

November 1975

  • 21 price reduced
  • Accident figures — home accidents as opposed to
  • Busy conference center (Bldg. 18)
  • shark attacks
  • Computer Systems building started in Cupertino
  • Corporate beer bust
  • General article
  • HP gardeners at corporate plot
  • Meeting
  • New building started in Cupertino
  • New sales organization established for marketing Fourier Analyzer systems
  • On-demand printing of stored
  • Packard meets with Czech delegation
  • Petrak celebrates 30th anniversary at HP
  • Printing Services has Xerox copier
  • Richard Baugh of HP Labs and wilderness survival
  • Rose Parade souvenir programs offered to depositors
  • Ski Club meeting
  • Toy drive
  • Wilderness survival: Richard Baugh of HP Labs
  • Womens’ lib
  • Xerox copier installed in Printing Services

December 1975

  • Annual meeting scheduled
  • Bike safety article
  • Commute by bus from Santa Clara
  • CSC golf team wins HP interplant league
  • documents by Xerox microfiche
  • HP named “one of five best” managed companies in 1975
  • HP top United Way contributor
  • John Celton, Red Cross volunteer
  • Minicomputer show announced
  • Move to Santa Clara
  • Open House on November 22
  • Preliminary year-end results
  • Red Cross volunteer
  • Schedule for Christmas and New Year
  • Storage of information on Xerox microfiche
  • Workshop program for high school students in area

1976 – Peninsulan

January 1976

  • Annual meeting
  • Annual report discusses corporate responsibilities
  • Burglar-proof your home
  • Cafeteria survey
  • HP computers go to South Pole
  • HP LEDs big in digital watches
  • New home
  • Open house
  • Special handling team
  • Summer-hire applications due
  • Terry voted WEMA chairman

February 1976

  • 3805A calibrated at CSC
  • Addition to building begun
  • Dave Sahlit awarded Hope Workshop
  • Dividend declared
  • Fort Collins and Avondale
  • Fort Collins plant site
  • Fund drive scheduled
  • HP-65 software offered
  • HP plans new Colorado plant
  • HP’s Sahlit honored by Hope Workshop
  • individual achievement
  • IRS says SDI not deductible
  • Jean Baer of Printing Services omitted by name in 20-year award list
  • Jean’s letter regarding having her name omitted from 20-year awards, and editor’s reply
  • Jose Grapa appointed Latin America area manager
  • Manufacturing Div. new die-casting shop
  • Officers chosen
  • Open house – Redwood City
  • Measurement/Computation News cited for excellence
  • Photo of snowball fight
  • Publication cited for excellence
  • Retirement benefits expanded
  • “Rock salt by the stone” spoof
  • Thrift shop needs used goods
  • Toys for Tots award certificate
  • Toys for Tots photo

March 1976

  • ’75 performance reviewed
  • Advertising policy
  • After-hours course offered on HP-65
  • Bob Turner named marketing manager
  • Collection for Guatemalan relief
  • Commute bus stop at Gemco
  • Deer Creek facility bombed
  • Ferrell addresses group at Management Seminar
  • First quarter
  • Grimm elected to Los Altos City Council
  • Leave of absence
  • Minicomputer system used in measuring brain wave
  • Myrt McClintock and Herb Hancock feted
  • Portable printing calculator
  • Reno bargain – Mike Schoendorf
  • Ski Club plans rafting trip
  • Sixth Annual

April 1976

  • 35-year old 200B is alive and well
  • Bike racks in Cupertino
  • Construction photo
  • Darts has become popular sport
  • DT offers lease plans on CRT terminals
  • Famous redwood in Palo Alto re-measured
  • Garden plots available
  • Growth continues
  • How to choose calculators demonstrations
  • HP stand on Prop. 15 on June ’76 ballot Joe Perez voted M.V. mayor
  • Larry’s accidental death
  • Lease plan for Data Terminals products
  • Ken Hurst wins golf honors
  • Opening photo
  • Puppet show on safety
  • Rae Zapella and her sand-and-sawdust garden
  • Semiconductor exhibition in San Mateo
  • Thanks from Patty

May 1976

  • Bob Kirkwood named government affairs administrator
  • Building 18 back on headquarters switchboard
  • Company cars for sale
  • Donations up 30%
  • El Camino Hospital orders HP system
  • Flyer insert
  • Hewlett heads United Way effort
  • Honesty in business
  • Honored for world trade role
  • HP attends minority “fair”
  • HP-27 introduced
  • HP participates in S.F. Twin Bicentennial Science and
  • Industry Expo
  • Kirkwood named govt. affairs administrator
  • Las Cumbres Amateur Radio Club
  • Perez voted M.V. mayor
  • Retirement
  • Same as above
  • Schedule for ’77 and ’78
  • Site acquired in San Jose to be initially occupied by Microwave Semiconductor Division
  • Tapestry ‘n Talent festival in San Jose
  • Turner named marketing manager at TV

June 1976

  • Bicentennial art
  • Cavier retires
  • Delcon’s JA company sweeps awards
  • Elected to Executive Comm. Of Santa Clara Valley Section. IEEE
  • Elected secretary and general counsel
  • First half earnings
  • Fleet car drawing
  • Hewlett and Packard receive Vermilye Award
  • HP 3000 Series II introduced
  • Indian school to be built at Birdsprings, Ariz.
  • Named Director of Personnel
  • Named general manager of Customer Service Division
  • Named “1976 distinguished alumnus” by school of liberation, U of Washington
  • Named to VP of Human Relations
  • Named VP, patents and licenses
  • Photo taken at above exhibit
  • Presented to Dr. Dertouzos
  • Presented to Dr. Director
  • Three new calculators introduced
  • Tips on completing medical claim forms
  • Towle ends 25-year career

July 1976

  • 1976 Winners
  • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  • GC/Mass Spectrometer being used Montreal Olympics
  • Honesty in business speech by Dave Packard
  • HP drops options on San Jose site
  • Kreg Martin, HP science champ
  • Last chance to claim lost and found items
  • Light rail transit
  • Margaret Bailes, US sprinter at Mexico Olympics
  • MBA courses (photo)
  • “National showdown for HP Jr. Achievers”
  • Schroeder named to head Corporate Development
  • Soup and salad bar
  • Stock index listing
  • Stop those chain letters
  • SRI needs volunteers for tension headache survey
  • Use tie lines

August 1976

  • Annual blood drive
  • Corporate Marketing Services Olympics
  • CRT terminals wins “IR-100” honors
  • Death announcement
  • Discount tickets
  • Elected president of Palo Alto School Board
  • Elected asst. treasurer and officer of HP
  • Harvest time photo
  • HP components aboard Viking
  • HP gears up for United Way drive
  • (Insert)
  • Named engineering manager of Instrument Group
  • Named general manager of Calculator Products Group
  • Named general manager of Santa Clara Division
  • Named vice president
  • Photo of float in 4th of July parade
  • Photo of honorary degree from Yale
  • Picnic photo
  • Sailing
  • Security fence to go up
  • Technical readers again needed
  • Trip planned

September 1976

  • 5-session workshop presented at YWCA September
  • Calendars given those who deposit $100 or more
  • Cosby, HP computer help sell Fords
  • Crafts fair at Data Systems
  • Daughter of Art McCarty and Modupe Ashiru of Nigeria (photo)
  • Editorial AND feature story
  • Janet Johnson appointed to B of D
  • Ken Pocek of SID in “The Great Race”
  • Lumm elected president of Nat’l Assn. of Accountants, Peninsula Chapter
  • Lynn Walker, HP Labs, in horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn
  • New division to be located in Boise
  • Newly formed division
  • Saving water is serious business
  • Third quarter
  • Which United Way
  • Vietnamese girl subject of United Way feature
  • Volunteers needed for Mental Health Agency

October 1976

  • Birdsprings, Arizona school for Navajos
  • Company of the year winners
  • Elected VP
  • HP jet schedules
  • HP vanpool
  • Kurt wins again
  • Kurt Doehlert wins first prize in woodcarving
  • November 18 set as put aside cigarette day
  • Porter’s death
  • Scouts explore computers with HP help
  • Swine flu immunization

November 1976

  • Address correct?
  • Changes in retirement plan
  • Club plans two Canadian trips
  • CSG Under the Big Top
  • “Earthquacks” — HP women’s soccer team photo
  • HP surpasses goal
  • Girls’ Club honors Cookie
  • Minck heads standards group
  • Option on site in San Jose
  • Phone costs
  • Photo of flue shots being administered
  • Photo of “witch” cashier in HP cafeteria
  • Products and early photos of HP included in Cultural Center exhibit
  • Saint Clare Hook and Ladder firefighter brigade photo
  • Third annual fair
  • Toy drive

December 1976

  • Annual meeting scheduled
  • Area teens go to school at HP
  • Courses offered
  • Feature article
  • Galileo scholarship
  • HP to protest IRS proposal
  • New headquarters building in Rolling Meadows
  • Photo – Packard major gift chairman
  • Recognition of his fund-raising service to Stanford
  • Recognition of Petrak’s fund raising service to Stanford
  • Record quarter lifts ’76 earnings
  • Review courses offered at
  • Schedule for Christmas & New Year
  • What to do before the W-2 arrives

1977 – Peninsulan

January 1977

  • Andover facility opened
  • Division to Palo Alto plants
  • Engineering fellowship at Stanford
  • Express bus
  • HP to build bike path
  • New job posting system
  • New regulations
  • Photo of new Data Systems-Data Terminals building
  • Service Awards
  • State disability higher
  • “Tax corner”
  • Teachers needed for engineering review courses
  • Toy drive successful
  • Warriors tickets available

February 1977

  • Datacommunications training manual
  • Dividend raised
  • EDP realigned into mini, maxi centers.
  • Electronics technician exam
  • Engineering exam
  • Glassblower Sagimori’s bonsai tree to HP
  • HP’s “mini-parks”
  • HP mourns Flora Hewlett’s death
  • Kyoko Sagimori’s glass bonsai tree gift to HP
  • Mediators needed for Palo Alto Rental Housing Task Force
  • Named Fellow of IEEE
  • OED four man team has book published August by McGraw-Hill
  • OED product wins award
  • Photo of exhibit at meeting
  • Ski trip to Sun Valley
  • Sportfishers info

March 1977

  • Avondale facility completed
  • Barbara earns second degree from Stanford
  • Barbara Packard at General Systems used Honors Co-Op
  • Blood drive set
  • Calculator “games pac”
  • Chance named marketing manager for Computer Systems Group
  • Donations sought
  • Doolittle cited by Pan Am for 100th Atlantic crossing
  • Engineers for a day photo
  • First quarter earnings
  • Golden State Warriors tickets available
  • Holmes in new assignment
  • HP sport divers organize
  • Photo of 10,000th terminal
  • Prices to go up
  • Status of women
  • Union stronger than ever

April 1977

  • Computer Careers Day at DeAnza
  • Corporate move to Bldg. 28A
  • Corvallis to have IC facility
  • Credit Union pays 6-1/4% dividend
  • Don’t seek health care at Santa Theresa facility
  • Eligibility expanded for “continued medical” benefit
  • Hal new general manager at Santa Clara
  • James Hodgson elected
  • Myrt killed in air disaster
  • New studio at Page Mill Hill
  • Opportunity to donate organs and tissues of your body upon death
  • Opportunity to win an HP-21
  • Paul Gallagher plans new MSD building by using a computer
  • Riggen new general manager for Colorado Springs
  • Sailing Club
  • School stock
  • Thanks from Yas
  • Thank you letters for school stock
  • TV studio wins “Emmy” awards

May 1977

  • “An HP wife shares facts about Tris”
  • Barney was presented the Lamme Medal by IEEE
  • Carpools, vanpools, bikes, etc.
  • Direct deposit
  • Gabriel Antunes builds home in Los Altos
  • Hewlett elected to National Academy of science
  • Marine World site of ’77 picnic
  • Minority Students’ Days successful
  • Packard to promote water project
  • “Some commuters are using less energy”
  • Sportfishers
  • Rechtin was recipient of ’77 Alexander Graham Bell Award from IEEE
  • Tennis
  • Those #$%&* chain letters
  • Watch model gliders

June 1977

  • 44 scholarships awarded
  • Calculator-Watch
  • Drill bits available
  • Earnings, profit-sharing
  • First half profit-sharing
  • Growing more, using less
  • Little Basin camping
  • Miller to head service for Calculator Group
  • More successes for HP-sponsored Jas
  • Public Service citation presented by Navy
  • Record earnings
  • See your service rep
  • Western day at cafeteria

July 1977

  • Answers to your questions
  • Auto Auction
  • Blood Drive
  • Calculator-Watch – employee discount
  • Calvin Gibson starts own factory
  • Carl Buchhass elec. pres.
  • CMS annual athletic meet
  • Comparison
  • DELCON Inst. Rep. Ctr. stops smoking
  • Disability
  • Foothill College
  • Holds annual athletic meet
  • HP Day
  • Inst. Repair Ctr. stops smoking
  • MSD builds new plant in San Jose – photo
  • New Plant site in San Jose
  • Presented to Dr. J. Leon Shohet
  • Recording for Blind volunteers
  • Starts own wheelbarrow factory
  • Terman Award
  • Volunteer needed

August 1977

  • $150,000 cash award for ecology invention
  • American September issue
  • Article by Barnie Oliver
  • Article to appear in Scientific
  • Calculator watch delayed sale to employees
  • Chinese visitor photo
  • Data Systems installs parcourse
  • Dividend declared
  • Donations
  • Employee sales of Cal-watch delayed
  • Explanation of HMOs
  • Fall program
  • Frank Kopish of Data Systems writes Shakespearean copy for engineers
  • HP Day
  • Installs Parcourse
  • Loans
  • Meetings on Wed. noon hours
  • Moderately priced condominiums offered
  • Photo – Bob Grimm and UW staff
  • Self breast examination
  • Shakespeare type writing for
  • Retires after 35 years
  • Tyler Ecology Award

September 1977

  • 1977 Campaign under way
  • Delivers 300th system
  • Dick Anderson retires from Board. Of Dir.
  • HP Softball team wins MV league
  • Major building additions
  • Making home computers
  • Microcomputer Interest Group
  • New format starting November
  • New phone system to be installed in 6 months
  • Out door concerts
  • Palo Alto School District
  • Photo going away party
  • Rally in Sunnyvale – Sept. 17
  • Third quarter
  • Three trips planned for session
  • Transfers to Corvallis, retires from Board of Directors of CU

October 1977

  • $307,000 collected ’77
  • Corporate Hdqs. plans new site in PA
  • Elected Exec. Vice President
  • Employee sales of Calculator watch begins
  • Health alliance included in Nov. open enrollment
  • John Young Elected President
  • One year old program
  • Open enrollment announced for November
  • New selection of jewelry announced
  • November 17 set as put aside cigarettes day
  • Photo – Myron Cox (Neeley Santa Clara) and “little brother”
  • Receives Herbert Hoover Award from Stanford Alumni Ass.
  • Seatbelts save more than 3000 lives annually
  • Stop smoking day November 17
  • To head Manufacturing Services
  • Topped $20 million in assets

November 1977

  • Annual meeting
  • Completion of water saving projects
  • HP wins “Big Booth Award”
  • Income tax deduction for SDI off again
  • Loaned executive to HIRE program
  • Merges with Data Systems
  • Photo of new bike path 854 bicycles stolen in P.A. in 1976
  • President Carter’s, Jack Ingersoll, loaned executive
  • Receives 1977 Award of Merit from American Consulting Engineers
  • Receives Distinguished Citizen Award from Boy Scouts
  • Sandy Baltierra volunteer
  • San Jose’s Tapestry in Talent
  • Schedules for 78 and 79
  • “Silver Mailbox”
  • Toy drive
  • Watches order now will be here for Christmas
  • Word Processing

December 1977

  • Error in schedule noted by many
  • Second half profit-sharing
  • Supplemental Pension plan
  • W-2 forms out in late January

1978 – Peninsulan

January 1978

  • Achievement in Life
  • Five vans on order
  • Meeting changed to Feb. 2 1978
  • Pre-retirement video tapes released
  • Receives Achievement In Life award from Encyclopedia Britannica
  • Tax change

February 1978

  • Article on inflation

March 1978

  • Effective speaking
  • Elected to YMCA board of directors
  • Follow up on last month
  • Leaving HP to go into ranching
  • To become Corporate Fleet Mgr.

April 1978

  • Article on effective speaking

May 1978

June 1978

  • (Photo incl.)

July 1978

  • KUDOS: thrift honor award
  • MBA courses offered on TV
  • Milestones: employee figures
  • MILESTONES: Option to buy: Roseville, CA

August 1978

  • Cafeteria prices to go up
  • Potpourri (goals)
  • Site-of-the-month
  • Third-quarter report
  • Vanpooling-no longer an experiment

September 1978

  • About giving
  • An agency visit
  • Be predictable-follow rules

October 1978

  • Crocker Bank Offers “Grouplan”
  • The Great American Smoke Out

November 1978

  • Minority Students’ Days
  • New group medical plan
  • Schedule for ’79-80

December 1978

  • Credit Union Annual Meeting
  • HP Hams still active