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