Monthly Archives: December 2014

N – Individuals File Guide

Nalepa, Roger A.
[Manager, Little Falls Site]: résumé, incl. internal news memos; photo removed

Narimatsu, Yoh
[General Manager, Kobe Instrument Division, YHP]:  résumé, incl. internal news memos;

Neely, Norm
[Manager?, Neely Sales Region]: obit from Neely Sales Region electronic newsletter, 5/24/93; reminiscences from NN (including his invention of the “roadshow”) at time of his retirement in 1976;

See Also Oral History Collection

Neil, John “Marty”
[General Manager, Santa Clara Division]:  résumé, incl. internal news memos;

Newsom, Thomas N
[Group Marketing Manager, Automated Test Group]: résumé, incl. internal news memos; photo removed

Nordlund, D. Craig
[Associate General Counsel and Secretary]: résumé, incl. internal news memos; photo removed

M – Individuals File Guide

Marcopulos, Theodore A.
[Solution Architect, Test & Meaurement Organization]: résumé;

McMullen, Mike
Named VP and GM of Chemical Analysis Solutions, 10/09/01

Meng, Chin-Kai

Minck, John
letter to Barnholt, 12/13/2000;

Moll, John L.
[Associate Director, HP Superconductivity Lab]: retirement announcement, 11/96; pioneering work at Bell Labs led to identification of silicon as most appropriate semiconductor; Ebers-Moll transister model;

Morton, Dean O.
[Executive VP and Chief Operating Officer]: bio; article announces appointment of Morton at COO, 10/90; WRH’s public address system announcement about DM’s 1977 election to Executive VP and Directory; speech (with handwritten notes) given at President’s Club, about HP history, 12/7/88′

Moseley, Francis L.
[HP Director; Founder, F.L. Moseley Company]: news release announces appointment to the Board, 3/28/66; resolution of appreciation, upon FLM’s retirement from the Board, 1/81; quotes from FLM in Reporter article; bio;

See Also Oral History Collection

Mueller, Joe
[R&D section manager, Technology Center]:

L – Individuals File Guide

La Barre, Larry (Lawrence Jose)
list of patents granted, 1967-1992; memorial farewell planned for 1/15/94;
See Also Oral History Collection

Lee, Ralph
[HP Executive VP ]: photo of Electronic Technician Apprentice Program team, 1/70, caption identifying RL as founder of the ETAP;

Lee, Soo-Ghee
[Vice president and general manager of the Semiconductor Products Group’s Optoelectronic Products Division]:

Litton, Charlie
reminiscences of CL by Don Hammond;

Loebner, Egon Ezriel
[HP Labs]: memo indicating that Loebner is leaving HP to work in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, November 1974; description of Auschwitz and other experiences as a prisoner in Germany; paper, “Mnemonic Aids for Telephone-based Interfaces”;

K – Individuals File Guide

Kampe, William
[Senior Director, Cross-Program Alignment]: résumé, incl. internal news memos

Karrer, Ed
[Director, Agilent Labs]: 6/2000 interview and reminiscence ; retirement announcement 2/2000; EK joined HP in the Dymec Division in 1966

Kataoka, Tsugio
[Vice-President & Senior Director, Japan Field Operations, Test & Measurement Organization]: Test & Measurement Japan Field Operations receives President’s Quality Award (PQA), 1996; résumé, incl. internal news memos

Kerins, Nancy J.
[General Manager, Little Falls Analytical Div.]: résumé, incl. internal news memos

Kirby, Dave (1):
draft speech to Materials Engineering Group, 6/65, about public relations; remarks to Division Managers Meeting, 6/67 (draft & final); seminar on successful exhibiting at WESCON, 5/67; 6/68 speech to the Optimist Club about HP; notes prepared for 3/69 Paly High School career day; “Growth, Revolution & the Corporate Image,” presented at HP Management Meeting, 6/17/69;

Kirby, Dave (2):
articles praising HP public relations and Measure, circa 1990; talk by DK to European marketing managers of EPG on 7/9/71; “Public Relations Posture for the 70’s,” presented at HP Management Meeting, 6/19/72; remarks to Data Systems Group, 7/19/72, about growth and social issues; remarks to Data Systems Group, 11/8/72, about corporate image and social responsibility; talk to neophyte sales seminars in 1973, regarding PR generally and how it works at HP; presentation at ICON Managers Meeting, 7/1/75; asked to speak to San Jose State student chapter of PRSA, 1977; “PR Employers Outline Hiring Practices, Policies,” summary of Bay Area survey results by SJ State students; “Myth of Managerial Tenure” and job security, by Albert Porter, SJ State professor; syllabus & bibliography from Albert Porter’s management courses at SJ State; draft of speech to neophyte sales seminar from 1979;

Kirby, Dave (3):
“Trust & Confidence in Institutions” charts, 1977; “Restoring Public Confidence in Business: Can HP Help?” presented at HP Management Meeting 1/31/78 (includes findings of Opinion Research Corporation survey on trust);

Kirby, Dave (4):
DK retires (6/21/89 news release); comments on the retirement by Gary Fazzino
See Also Oral History Collection

Kirkwood, Robert C.
[Government Affairs]: joins HP July 1976; Chairman, Executive Committee of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal Association;

Kniss, Rick
[Senior VP, Chemical Analysis Group]: retirement announcement 1/2000; “Salt & Pepper of Working at Agilent,” 5/3/01 interview/feature for be.agilent; résumé, incl. internal news memos; photos removed

Kramer, Michael R.
[General Manager, Clinical Information Systems Application Business Unit]: résumé, incl. internal news memos

Krammer, Gerhard
[Manager, European Business Groups]: résumé, incl. internal news memos

Kriner, Bob
[Operations Manager, Analytical Supplies Operation]: résumé, incl. internal news memos

Kyle, Albert S.
[General Manager, Cardiovascular Business Unit]: résumé, incl. internal news memos

H – Individuals File Guide

Hackborn, Richard A.
[Executive VP and head of Computer Products Organization, CPO]: 2/03 article by Fast Company‘s George Anders About the Fiorina campaign to reinvent HP, including RAH’s role; Wall Street Journal article outlining HP Board member RAH’s role in hiring Carly Fiorina and in the HP-Compaq merger, 5/21/02; HP news release “Hackborn Retires,” 11/19/93; remarks at the HP 20M Printer event at Comdex 11/15/93; interview by Rob Hof 3/3/92 (18pp); Don Curtis’ interpretation of Dick Hackborn’s Five Important “Must” Principles for Success; interview in Business Week 2/91 (27pp); “Hewlett’s Consummate Strategist,” New York Times (3/10/92); “Dick Hackborn: History of Success,” Measure (May-June 1991)

See Also Oral History Collection

Hahn, William R. (Bill):
[Senior Vice President of Corporate Relations for Agilent]: Personal profile, 1/30/01; Closing Comments to Corporate Relations Team, 2/23/2005;

Hahn, William R. (Bill):
[Senior Vice President of Corporate Relations

for Agilent]: Notes on HP/Agilent Split 1998-1999: Letter from Congressperson Anna G. Eshoo; Tear-out of Corporate Leadership Award Announcement; First write-up of plus/minus issues of HP split, 11/98; Initial plus/minus split notes – includes notes of Ned Barnholt and Bill Hahn, 11/98; Ned Notes from HP executive staff discussion, 1/99; HP split implementation issues, 2/99; Pre-announcement write-up of MO/NewCo, 2/99; Meeting notes to sort or Cheetah, 2/99; Overheads used by Lew Platt to Announce Split, 3/99; Announcement overheads used for MO attendees, 3/99; Overheads used to explain split announcement, 3/99; Notes from HP/NewCo discussions on details of split, 3/99; Wall Street Journal article on split, 3/3/99; Overhead of “First 100 Days” plan; First memo to all of MO, 3/4/99; First memo outlining basic org structure, 3/8/99; First write-up explaining NewCo, 4/29/99; Initial draft of NewCo values/objectives/vision from Ned’s staff, 4/99; First memo outlining strategic planning team, 5/4/99; Early description of NewCo for banker meetings, 5/99;

Hahn, William R. (Bill):
[Senior Vice President of Corporate Relations

for Agilent]: Notes on Name Launch Event, 1999: Overhead of garage cartoon from Mercury News; Overhead about “New name…same garage”; Overhead of FY99 Communications Architecture at the company level; Overhead set on creating the new brand identity; Newco Incorporated printed image; humorous spray-painted Agilent Technologies sign; “Grateful Ned” name choice; HP/NewCo poetry; NewCo naming possibility outlines; Ad text for the day after for the day after the announcement; Overhead of NewCo naming and branding update; logos used to select Agilent blue, 7/99; Notes from Rudy who helped spin-out Lucent from AT&T; Scripts for Bubbleheads, Scrabble, Survivors, Pandora’s Bistro, Downtime, Don’t Walk, Coming Home; List of Brand Champions, 7/28-29/99; List of NewCo Name Launch Event Ambassadors;

Halbert, Douglas J. Jr.
[VP of Manufacturing]: résumé, incl. internal news memos; 1/16/01 press release announcing appointment of DJH as a senior VP at Acterna; PR announces departure of DJH, 8/3/00; DJH succeeded by Roland Noz as general manager for the Korea Instrument Operation, KIO, 5/31/96;

Halloran, Jean
[Senior VP of Human Resources]: bio from be.agilent ; YWCA of Santa Clara Valley honors JH, 1/21/03; interview 8/2001 discussion workforce reductions and payroll reductions; Halloran and Agilent win 2001 HR Symposium award, for “Overall HR Excellence”; interview with JH 5/27/99 on topics such as HP Way, compensation & benefits, diversity, JH career at HP, transition from Oldco to Newco, work/life balance; résumé, incl. internal news memos

Hamilton, Gail
[General Manager, Telecommunications Platform Div.]: résumé, incl. internal news memos

Hammond, Donald L.
[Associate Directory, HP Labs]: “Converting Innovative Technologies to Products,” related to R&D in the Defence Science and Technology Organization (DSTO), presented in Melbourne, Australia, and again 6/24/88; notes from DLH meeting with Packard discussing China, 5/12/88; “Measurement, Sensors & Transducers in a Technical Transformation of Traditional Industry,” 5/88; “Highlights of Don Hammond’s Career at HP, 1959-87; DLH and HP Labs in Bristol (first HPL branch outside Palo Alto), Lab Notes 1984; recollections of the 1960s sent to Hewlett in 1983 on topics of Charlie Litton, management by objectives, managing creativity (enthusiasm, inquisition, decision), patience and impatience of HP management, Afghanistan; text for brochure on HP Labs, R&D decentralization, new products; résumé, incl. internal news memos;

See Also Oral History Collection

Hartley, Duane
[VP ESPG Measurement Product Generation Units]: retirement announced for 11/1/00; promoted to General Manager, Signal Analysis Division, 1/31/85; article “Managing in the Midst of Chaos,” Fortune (4/5/93) features Hartley from HP and three others;

Hasebe, Kunio
[VP and General Manager,Japan Field Operations]:formerly General Manager, Hachioji Semiconductor Test Div.; GTO org chart, 2002; résumé, incl. internal news memos

Hayes, Dorothy D.
(Dotty) [Director, Internal Audit]: Everest Finance Team org chart, 2/2002; 2002 quotes about integrity, accounting, business controls; résumé, incl. internal news memos

Herdt, Doug
[European Operations, South-East Region, Business Development Manager]: headed team to researcha and promote sales in former Soviet Union;

Hewlett, Flora Lamson
[Trustee, Stanford University]: news release announcing death, 2/9/77; obit 2/10/77; bequest to SF Theological Seminary;

Hewlett, Rosemary Bradford
engagement announcement, RB and WRH; endowed chair at Smith;

Hewlett, Walter Berry
[Director]: résumé; 10/2001 interview for beAgilent with WBH, Agilent Director; information about the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, circa 1986; CCARH Newsletter, 11/86; news release 1/19/87 announcing nomination of WBH to HP Board of Directors; “Growing Up Hewlett” by Meredith Maran, Peninsula; handwritten notes circa 1987;

Hilliard, Reed L.
[General Manager, Test & Measurement Support Div.]: résumé, incl. internal news memos

Hilton, Ed and Jean
retires after 35 years, Santa Clarion Dec/Jan 1982; HP Journal article about HP’s electronic counter written by Ed Hilton, 1953;

Hoehn, Dieter
[VP & General Manager, Analytical Products Group (APG)]: internal retirement announcement, 3/2/95;

Hoeprich, Paul
[Marketing Program Manager, Chemical Analysis Group]: (formerly of Argonaut Technologies, Perkin-Elmer, Affymax, Triton Biosciences); résumé, incl. internal news memos

Holdway, Alan
[General Manager, Canada]: retires, 4/2001

Holmberg, Larry
[Senior VP, Sales Marketing and Customer Support]: bio, 2003; interview, 1/2002;  9/20/01 LH internal message highlighting Customer Contact Program

Holmes, Benjamin
[General Manager, Medical Products Group]: article about HP’s acquisition of Sanborn, which then became the Medical Products Group; “Engineering Education: a Time to Reach Out,” June 1983 speech to AAEE;

Hopkins, Jenny
[VP & GM, Global Solutions Business Unit]: interview, 2/2003;

Horner, James F.
[General Manager, Communications Components Div.]: news release about acquisition of Avantek; résumé, incl. internal news memos; clippings

House, Chuck
[Director, Corporate Engineering]: elected fellow of the IEEE, 12/89; reference to CH receiving HP’s medal for “extraordinary contempt and defiance.”

Huettemann, Werner
[General Manager, Boeblingen Instrument Div.]: résumé, incl. internal news memos

Hufstedler, Shirley
[Director]: transcript of interview/town hall meeting 5/18/95; former U.S. Secretary of Education in the Carter Administration elected to the board of directors, 4/82;

G – Individuals File Guide

Gasparian, Michael C.
[V-P and General Manager, Multi-Industry Business Unit]: résumé, incl. internal news memos; “Seizing Opportunity in a Downturn” talk, May 2001; voicemail transcript with details on consolidations within ESPG, 7/15/99; announcement of creation of Electronic Measurement Division (EMD), to be headed by MCG and based in Colorado, 4/19/95;

Glaser, Robert J.
[Director 1971-1990]: resolution of appreciation upon retirement of RJG from H-P Board, 1/18/91; Director bio dated 11/8/74; receives honorary degree from Temple University, 5/28/73; RJG elected to California Water Service board, 12/7/72; clipping announces election as President and CEO of Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 3/1/72; press release announcing election to H-P board, 1/15/71; various versions of his bio from annual reports; curriculum vitae, 9/70, including bibliography;

See Also Oral History Collection

Goldman, Paul E.
[General Manager, Intensive Care Application Business Unit]: résumé, incl. internal news memos; photos removed

Gordon, Gary
[HP Labs research]:

Grimm, Robert A.
[Director of Labs’ Manufacturing Research Center]: Peter Will replaces recently retired RAG as MRC Director, 1/19/87; bio dated 4/29/86; move from Dymec Division general manager to assistant to the VP of marketing, 4/1/67; various Newsgrams related to staff and other changes at the Technology Research Center (TRC); RAG, the Tech Museum’s director of programs and exhibits, hosts archives meeting;

See Also Oral History Collection

Grund, Karl
[General Manager, Boeblingen Computer Division]: email from Menno Harms to WRH when Grund passed away, 2/18/98; BCD formed under Grund, 6/83.

F – Individuals File Guide

Fanton, John L.
[Marketing Manager, Ultrasound Imaging Div.]: résumé, incl. internal news memos

Favaretto, Roberto
[Vice-President, European Field Organizations, Test & Measurement Organization]: résumé, incl. internal news memos; coffee talk 11/12/01; org chart for EPSG Europe, 9/2002 and 1/2000

Fazarinc, Bojana
[Director, Global Marketing Services & Communications]: appointed Director of combined department, 9/16/98;

Fazarinc, Zvonko:
news blurbs on Fazarinc’s COLOS project, 3/1/95 and /11/88; profile from Measure Jul/Aug 1988; ZF is HP’s first resident scientist at Stanford’s Center for Integrated Systems (CIS), 5/24/85; ZF establishes systems engineering lab, 5/9/84; Instrument Research Laboratory renamed the Measurement and Communications Laboratory, 12/31/81; speech “Early History of the 1980 Measurement System,” 1/20/82?

Finch, Nathan Cochrane,
1909-1990 [This lawyer began doing work for HP in 1945, placed on retainer in 1951 after helping with HP’s first joint venture, Dynac]: obit from PA Times Tribune, 11/90; “Recollections of 81 years,” by NCF (HP connection begins p.20); 1956 letter of recommendation for DP from Superintendent of Schools Henry Gunn

See Also Oral History Collection

Firooz, Kamran
[Vice President & General Manager, OSS]: résumé, incl. internal news memos; KF will lead OSS Division in CSG, 2/6/03; KF email message to MTBU employees after 9/11 tragedy, 9/13/01; KF named Engineer of the Year by Electronic Products & Packaging magazine, 2/8/01

Fong, Art :
AF 4/00 comments on factual errors in How It All Began, book detailing Loveland Division history; 2/99 note from Ned Bartholt declining invitation to lunar new year event featuring AF; 1998 bio of Art and Mary from Palo Alto Medical Foundation Annual Report; bio of Art and Mary, 4/96; AF brief biography, 8/94; 1994 press release announcing AF given UC Berkeley’s Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award, plus a letter of congratulations from WRH; 1986 Lab Notes article about AF upon his retirement; AF elected IEEE Fellow, Watt’s Current 12/70; reminiscence about time at MIT, from MIT Dept. of EE website, 4/23/98;

See Also Oral History Collection

Friis, Harald Trap
[consultant to H-P]: HP press release (including bio) when he died, 6/16/76; biography from IEEE history website, 2/03; info on Harald Trap Friis Professorship at Stanford

E – Individuals File Guide

Eaton, John
[VP for Corporate Development]: Corporate Development org chart 12/12/02; interview where portfolio management, venture capital and high-growth strategy are discussed, 3/00; interview with Rach Wagner discussing Stratos, Agilent growth strategy, 5/01; photo removed

Edmonson, Harold C.
[Director of Corporate Manufacturing]: retirement memo 4/1/92; presentation at APICS on “New Technology:Industrial Renaissance,” 11/3/83; HP Management Council committee membership lists

Egbert, Jacob H.
[General Manager, EEsof Div.]: résumé, incl. internal news memos (Eesof, a Division of the Microwave and Communications Group created from an acquired company that developed computer-aided engineering software used to design high-frequency systems, circuits and devices)

Eldred, W. Noel
[Executive VP; Director]: death announcement 11/30/70; remembrance (Noel Porter?) from Measure 1/71; notes from WRH upon hearing of Eldred’s death, 11/30/70; eulogy by Noel “Ed” Porter in Watt’s Current 12/70; notes on California electronics industry, 6/7/65; speech to WEMA marketing seminar, 3/31/61; “A New Type of Slotted Line Section” by W. Bruce wholey and WNE, 3/50; pre-HP biography from Watt’s Current 7/26/46;

Elwell, Cyril Frank “Cy”
[radio pioneer, HP employee]: obituary, ???;; biography “Radio Telegraph & Telphone Pioneer 1909-1959,” by Felix Rosa; “Cy Elwell Story” pt.1-2 by Elwell in Wire & Radio Communications, 1959; WESCON recognizes Elwell with “Pioneer of Western Electronics” honors 8/57; draft talk on the history of radio by Elwell to AIEE, 4/8/57; IRE Australia makes Elwell “Honorary Life Member”, 1954; biography in Watt’s Current, when Elwell came to work for HP (while in his 60’s), 3/52

Ely, Paul:
PE’s remarks to New York Times (August 1983) touches on inventory, computer business, employee turnover;

Ergueta, Taia:
Named Senior Director of Business Development, 10/09/01

Evans, Jane:
comments on HP-Compaq merger, 11/25/01; inducted into Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame, 11/23/98; “Breaking New Ground: First Woman BSEE Grad from SJ State University Makes Her Mark at HP,” Silicon Valley Engineer Magazine 11/89; elected Fellowof the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), 4/7/88; photo of JE, product manager for software data acquisition systems, 11/70; résumé, incl. internal news memos