3/89 “Q” Miscellaneous Folder
6/1/96
Quality Information Systems Product Processes Organization, “How Information Systems Contribute to Becoming Customer Centered” with attached letter from Lew Platt calling it “an outstanding document” which “captures the essence of what we have recently learned by benchmarking other companies…also contains some interesting best practices from inside HP.”
8/17/95
Worldwide Quality Conference for HP General Managers and Quality Managers, Santa Clara; Hewlett declined invitation to attend
2/17/94
Coffee Pot Talk Q1’94 – slides and talking points from Roy Verley, Corporate Communications; the page on orders and earnings has been marked for WRH
3/90 “R” Miscellaneous Folder
1/10/96
Lew Platt announced Wim Roelandt’s becoming CEO of Xilinx, a San Jose, California-based semiconductor manufacturer, beginning 1/11/96. This is followed by two memos outlining the changes in HP without him: “…It’s almost impossible to catalog Wim’s many contributions to HP over a career that spanned 29 years. He joined the company in 1967 as a service engineer in Belgium and then moved to Grenoble, France, to hold positions in product support and R&D. He was named general manager in 1984 and was promoted to the position of general manager of the information Networks Group a year later. During this period he led HP’s networking program to a position of recognized strength, making a pivotal early decision to go with the standards-based approach that has served both HP and its customers so very well over the years. Wim was elected a vice president in 1988 and became general manager of the former Computer Systems Group later that year. When the Computer Systems Organization (CSO) was formed in 1990, Wim took responsibility for its Networked Systems Group. He was named general manager of the Computer Systems Organization in 1992 and was elected a senior vice president in 1993. Under Wim’s leadership, CSO achieved record growth rates and profitability in a tumultuous industry environment. The continued momentum of our UNIX-systems business, the success of ‘middleware’ products like HP Open View, the growing customer recognition that HP is ‘a safe bet’–these and countless other accomplishments owe much to Wim’s technical acumen, leadership skills and dedication…”
Reporter issues for Jan./Feb. 1986, Sept./Oct. 1986. In the former on page 10 there is a picture of Dave Packard congratulating his executive secretary Margaret Paull on her 25 years of service at the Service Awards luncheon in Dec. 1985
3/91 HP – Reorganization 10/90
10/25/90
HP Press Alert on Dave Packard’s recent 20-minute telephone interview on the recent reorganization to the San Jose Mercury News, 10/22. “Roy Verley monitored the interview and said he thought it went well–lots of positive statements about the reorganization, John Young and HP’s future. Packard also made a few frank statements of ‘bureaucracy’ problems.” [see 10/29 below for problems with newspaper story]
10/24/90
John Young and Jack Brigham to WRH and Packard on ideas on possible directors with a list and resumes
8/23/89
David Packard to HP Board members John B. Fery, T. A. Wilson, Harold J. Haynes, Paul F. Miller, Jay Keyworth, Walter Hewlett, and David Woodley Packard asking them to serve on “a board committee on long-range Strategic Planning…to provide advice and counsel for John Young and his team…” Mission, membership, activities, and schedule are spelled out
10/5/90
Newsgram on “HP Realigns Computer & T&M Activities, Creates Chief Executive Office”
10/5/90
John Young to General Managers re “Organization Changes,” 5 pages
11/14/90
Recap of Dick Hackborn’s visit to Sunnyvale site
11/8/90
Jack Brigham to Dave Packard re special board resolution needed to authorize continued service for T. A. Wilson past age 70. “We took identical action for Shozo Yokogawa and of course have adopted similar resolutions with respect to your continued Board service.”
11/12/90
T. A. Wilson to WRH with Strategic Planning Committee’s report to the Board, 4 pages. The Committee “has heard from essentially all elements of the HP organization…impressed with caliber of people…Hewlett-Packard is unique in that the founders and major stockholders…are knowledgeable, lucid, and active…Hewlett and Packard attended a substantial number of meetings….We end our assignment with the same general recognition that we had, in a less defined way, at the outset: the computer systems side of the business has not in the last 5 years met the lofty goals that HP has set and which, to a large extent, they have met in other areas for a considerable period of time…except for peripherals, HP has not developed a highly competitive product on a sustained basis. From the Committee’s standpoint, there is a lack of a clear, unifying vision of what are HP’s intended niches in the computer market…The computer business has had an awkward organization…John Young has realigned the computer business in a way that should remove most organizational impediments to the quality and execution of the strategic plan. HP Laboratories continues to have great capability…management must work even harder to insure that the full benefit of such an organization is realized…”
11/90
HP Corporate Org Chart
10/29/90
Roy Verley to Dave Packard on San Jose Mercury News story which ran 10/29. The paper has agreed to run a correction to their story, “Can David Packard Save HP?” 1) HP is not “beset by financial crisis” and does not have a “crisis of its balance sheet.” 2) Packard’s role in day-to-day management was overstated–John Young remains CEO and is managing the company. 3) HP is not “laying off employees.” 4) The paper will acknowledge that HP doesn’t have to be “saved” in the manner implied by its headline. “Given the magnitude of today’s article, we’re asking that the correction be given prominent placement.”
10/9/90
San Francisco Chronicle article on Douglas Chance leaving HP to join Octel Communications Corp, as president and CEO
10/4/90
John Young’s announcement to HP employees about organizational changes
3/92 HP – Reorganization
“UBS Securities” 11/29/91, 3/4/92
Upside June 1991, “Back to Basics at Hewlett-Packard” by Eric Nee, pp. 38-42, 68-73; cover drawing of cartoon with Bill and Dave
Many news articles on 1990 reorganization
10/29/90
San Jose Mercury News interview with Dave Packard: “Can David Packard Save HP?” and their article with corrections 10/30/90: “Setting the Record Straight. Because of an editor’s error [sic], stories and headlines about Hewlett-Packard Co. in Monday’s Mercury News may have caused confusion about the company’s financial position and management. The company remains solidly profitable. While Chairman David Packard has become much more active in the company’s affairs, John Young remains its chief executive.”
3/93 HP Retired Employees Club 1981, 1989-99
1999 holiday card signed by many retirees including Dave Kirby
Various invitations to parties and picnics; mainly WRH sent regrets
HP Retired Employees Club Directory, February 1998; also one dated January 1991
Issues of the HPREC News 1996-98
HP Retiree Volunteers, No. 8-12, March 1997 – June 1998
The HP Company Store Catalog, 1996
Vision and Purpose of the HP Retiree Volunteers, part of 8/10/94 invitation to luncheon
1993-94
HPREC Inc. list of officers and board members
3/23/81
HPREC presented WRH with honorary life membership in this club; membership card attached [nice exhibit item]; also attached are Club “Guidelines” and “By-Laws,” 3 pages. Club was first organized 4/4/79
3/94 Retirement Information 1993-94
11/11/94
list of HP employees retiring
6/10/93
retirement party for Cort Van Rensselaer after 45 year career
6/11/93
retirement party for George Newman after 36 years
5/17/93
Bob Wayman on Newman’s retirement: “…It will be hard for many of us to imagine the finance and treasury functions without George. He has made many core contributions that have defined treasury management at HP, and those will continue to serve us well for many years to come. His judgment and style have done much to earn HP its reputation for financial integrity. The mark George leaves on HP goes beyond the Treasury function he’s headed since 1984. Joining HP at the age of 21 in 1957, he played key roles in the start-up of Hewlett-Packard Ltd. in the U.K. and of YHP, where he served as vice president from 1965-68. He has served as director of Intercontinental, general manager of HP’s Data Systems Division, and general manager of the Calculator Products Group…” Newsgram 6/4/93 has announcement of Newman’s retirement and the appointment of Larry Tomlinson as successor
6/9/93
Joel Birnbaum on retirement of Marv Patterson “to become a senior partner in a newly created firm Innovation Resultants International…During his 20-year tenure with HP, Marv has held many key R&D positions. He joined the company in 1973 at the San Diego Division, where he initiated the large format drafting plotter product line and led the development effort that brought the HP Labs grit wheel technology to market. In 1988 Marv became director of Corporate Engineering, with responsibility for identifying the best R&D practices within and outside HP to improve the company’s engineering effectiveness. He has also been a member of HP’s Management Council. In January of this year, Marv became the first Director, R&D Operations, to assist me in my various duties as Vice President of Research and Development. In this capacity, he also served on the newly created MC2 Council.”
3/95 HP – Retirement Letters (Managers) 1986-97
12/19/96
Franz Newratil, HP-Switzerland, announced Franco Mariotti’s retirement after nearly 37 years at HP. Lew Platt, Alan Bickell and Lee Ting will be at retirement party in Geneva on 2/5; WRH sent “a profound thank you for the tremendous contributions you have made to HP Europe.” Major front page article on Franco Mariotti in Journal de Geneve et Gazette de Lausanne 2/5/97
WRH letters to retirees and those going on to other jobs:
12/12/96
John Moll
“…has been an icon in the semiconductor industry for more than four decades. His pioneering work at Bell Labs in the early ‘50s led to the identification of silicon as the most appropriate material for semiconductors.”
9/20/96
Art Young
Starting his own company, Benelytics with HR services, Santa Clara
9/6/96
Hank Taylor HP’s Corporate Network Services Manager
35 years at HP
8/20/96
Charles “Bill” Richion
HP Vice President, CSO’s manager for Global Partners; 31 years at HP
3/30/95
Nobuo Mikoshibs
Director HP Labs Japan since 1990
3/2/95
Jim Hacker
Corporate Security Manager; 15 years at HP
8/18/94
Marshall Himer
Manager of U.S. Field Personnel Operations; 35 years
6/6/94
Ray Smelek
Mass Storage Group; 37 years at HP
6/19/91
Charles House
Leaving to become Senior VP of Product Marketing and Development for Informix, Menlo Park; 29 years at HP; good letter from House to WRH on The HP Way and WRH’s “critical assessment and twinkling eye,” he writes, “from the day of describing why a computer graphics box seemed like a good idea in Colorado Springs…”
3/1/94
David Baldwin
Leaving HP Europe to chair UK committee on exports; 30 years at HP: “You were at the helm during some very turbulent years and certainly distinguished yourself in the eyes of all, including your own government”
2/28/94
Jim Barton
New Jersey Division; 37 years at HP
12/9/93
Chung Tung Software Engineering Systems Div.
28 years at HP; joining Mentor Graphics. He wrote WRH: “[I am] full of precious memories of HP Lab days in developing HP9100 and, of course, our shared dream of pocket calculator days…” Snapshot of him receiving the 6-pack of beer from Tilman Schad “by lucky guess it was Coors which was the same brand Mr. Hewlett gave him many years ago”
10/22/93
Bill Misson
Development engineer in Boise Printer Division; joined HP in 1957
10/12/93
Dennis Raney
Director of Corporate Real Estate; 23 years at HP; joining Bristol-Myers Squibb
8/27/92
Chining Liu
Going to create a joint venture software company in Shanghai called Huatek Company; 25 years at HP
6/11/92
Harold “Hal” Edmondson
37 years at HP
11/30/94
Aldo Dossola
HP Employees Federal Credit Union; 25 years at HP
11/15/94
Ben Holmes
VP/GM Medical Products Group; 34 years at HP
10/11/93
Rod Carlson
Corp. Grants; 35 years at HP
9/30/91
John Doyle
Exec. VP; 34 years at HP. WRH: “I remember the John Doyle who was given the Swedish Air Force job to straighten out…” Doyle’s warm reply
12/10/91
Maria Bilzer
“the infamous ‘Bilzer Report’ (the person) is retiring”; 30 years with HP
11/12/91
Richard Landes
23 years at HP
10/31/91
Art Darbie
Fort Collins; 36 years at HP; warm letter to WRH
4/27/89
Ken Capen
Personnel Manager; 24 years at HP
12/16/88
LaJune Bush
Govn’t Affairs; full-time consulting; 11 years at HP
12/21/88
Tom Christiansen
Govn’t Affairs; 35 years at HP
12/20/88
Nancy Thoman
30 years at HP
12/6/88
Dominick Perry
letter from his wife Mary S. Perry thanking WRH
8/1/88
Malcolm Gissing
HP Canada; 25 years. WRH told him at the job interview for President/GM Canada “you are a little bit green but I think you’ll do fine”
4/18/88
Steve Buer
37 years at HP
10/28/86
Bob Grimm
Letter to WRH thanking him for coming to retirement party; 35 years at HP: “I particularly enjoyed the opportunity to start new operations: Dynac/Dymec, 2116A computer manufacturing, Systems Division, IC research laboratory, and the manufacturing research center. I also very much appreciate your support and encouragement in my participation in community activities.”
10/6/86
Al Bagley
WRH wrote: “You know how we all feel about Al, and I will surely regret having to miss this one; especially since I could not attend the party at Corporate the other day.”
10/2/86
Paul Stoft
Warm letter to WRH
9/9/86
Emery Rogers
2/5/86
Norm Schrock
44 years at HP; HP Aviation Dept, flew folks to Colorado Springs from San Jose; WRH attended
1/15/86
Dave Weindorf
22 years at HP
3/96 HP – Retirement Letters (Employees) 1985-2000
5/2000
Mollie Yoshizumi: “Mr. Hewlett no longer comes into the office and has asked me to send this message to you on his behalf” [This is the standard thank you Yoshizumi sent to employees who wrote WRH in the last few years; mainly they were thanked for their loyal dedication and many contributions to the success of HP.] Yoshizumi wrote that while composing these letters, she copied WRH’s old letters when he was still actively involved in the company so letters are in “Mr. Hewlett’s own words” and “comes from the heart.” In addition, she wrote many letters to employees retiring after lengthy years of service. This folder has biographical and employment history on some of these employees. Some letters were handled by Judy Arluck, WRH’s secretary in years between Yoshizumi’s first and second period in the position. Among the many warm personal letters from employees thanking WRH for HP are these:
5/11/00
Larry Dykas to WRH: “…Many years ago, I worked at the New Jersey Division in Rockaway, NJ as a technician on the production line. My job was to do the final tuning on the HP-202. During one of the visits that you and Dave made to the plant, you stopped by my station and actually helped to iron out a problem we were having with the 202. It was probably the most defining moment of my life at HP.”
5/21/99
Craig Hamer, Vancouver Printer Division, to WRH: “…During my almost 24 years with HP, I have been a part of a number of transitions within the company and my family and I have always been treated extraordinarily well…HP truly does look out for its people. I could not have asked for a better overall company to spend my work life with. I can’t tell you enough how much your efforts to create a wonderful company have meant to me and to my family…”
9/17/97
Jim Murrin, HP-Roseville, on Larry Mitchell’s retirement as Roseville Site Operations Manager after 29 years at HP. In 1980 he “had the exciting opportunity to take his family to Puerto Rico to start up HP’s first operation there…In 1982, Larry returned to the U.S. to form the Roseville Terminals Division which later became the Roseville Personal Computer Division. In this role, Larry was among the first to HP to begin to extensively utilize TQC methods and the Hoshin concept in business planning…”
11/26/96
Service Award Questionnaire filled out for Tony Pay with 30 years service. “Tony was trained as a machinist in England, and came to the United States on his own. He began his work for HP in Palo Alto, at the machine shop on Page Mill Road. Tony considers his major contribution to be when he was asked to become the supervisor of the grinding shop in Palo Alto. He considered this an honor because it was customary to choose one of the highest skilled operators for positions like this….Tony considers his history around computers to be an interesting one. He remembers his past ‘immense dislike of computers’ very clearly. He remembers that when John Young said that HP was going to have a future in the computer business, that ‘he must have been out of his head!’ Now, Tony has both a PC and a UNIX workstation on his desk…Tony, like many employees with this length of service, have [sic] many wonderful memories of Bill and Dave. Tony recounted several. He remembers after he had just been working at HP for a few weeks, when he was engrossed in a particularly difficult grinding job, and Dave Packard stopped by. He said, ‘hi, how are you this morning?’ and ‘how do you like it here?’ and ‘How’s your family?’ and ‘Do you have any children?’ Tony remembers discussing this with his boss later, and asking that his boss try to keep people from disturbing him when he was trying to concentrate. Then his boss told him that the interruption came from Dave Packard! Tony remembers Dave as someone who got visibly excited when we got new machinery. He even remembers a photo of Dave with a big grin on his face, looking over a new piece of equipment. Dave used to sit at a picnic bench in the shop, with his sleeves rolled up, talking with folks. Tony also remembers the early HP picnics, where Bill and Dave and all HP employees attended at Little Basin. It was clear to Tony how important children and family were to both Bill and Dave.”
3/17/97
Mike Drayton, HP-Sonoma, on Dick Whitten’s retirement after almost 42 years. “Dick hired in to HP on June 20th, 1955, right after high school. His first position was in the riveting and spotwelding dept….Dick graduated from the machinist apprenticeship program and became a Journeyman in 1966, at the hourly wage of $3.65. In 1969, he became a tool designer, and moved into manufacturing engineering in 1970. He became an engineering manager in 1980. One of Dick’s important accomplishments in recent years was developing AVX into a high-performing supplier for Sonoma County’s microcircuit business…”
4/16/97
Maria Barraza on the retirement of Mike Masko after almost 18 years. “Mike started with HP in 1979 at the San Jose site in OED in the Building Services department. In 1988 he joined the HP Labs Hazardous Materials group which is part of the Environmental Health and Safety Department. He has been in this function from 1988 to the present. In the Hazardous Materials group Mike has been performing a number of functions critical to the efficient and safe operations of HP Labs. A primary duty has included monthly or quarterly inspections of the emergency equipment (showers/eyewashes for chemical spills and equipment for chemical spills, gas leaks, fires, earthquakes, etc.) to assure that it is always accessible and operable should an emergency arise. These inspections are also required by company and regulatory standards and Mike has done a good job in meeting the deadline and recordkeeping aspects of those requirements. Also he has worked on improving the amount and types of emergency response equipment that is available. Mike also has been involved in chemical distribution, delivering chemical containers to the researchers and picking up the hazardous waste that is generated. This activity carries significant potential risk to employees and the environment and Mike works very hard to assure that this risk is minimized. In addition, chemical and hazardous waste handling are very highly regulated and Mike has done a good job in maintaining compliance…”
12/3/94
Eugene Crew, lawyer, to WRH: “It has been awhile since I and my partner Jim Gilliland had the pleasure of meeting you to represent your personal interests in the San Francisco v. Giants of Tampa Bay litigation. I am glad that it all worked out satisfactorily and still recall how impressed I was by you and, in particular, the reason you gave us for contributing to the San Francisco Giants’ cause even though you were not a serious baseball fan. You said during our meeting, and I quote, ‘I wanted to make a contribution to my City.’ I was sincerely impressed by that noble sentiment.”
2/1/94
Frank Burkhard to Dave Packard on the occasion of 50 years working at HP: “When I began at HP, you assigned me to the production test department, which was sort of a standard practice at the time. I remember that Cap Stewart, who was the paymaster, assigned me the employee number ‘S145.’ However, all the other employees were numbered ‘O…’ I could see that this was the case because we all placed time cards in slots in a rack on the wall just inside the side door at 395 Page Mill and the employee numbers were all plainly visible. Anyway, it bothered me that I was ‘S’ and everyone else was ‘O.’ I quietly asked a number of people and got various answers, none of which made much sense to me. Cap himself said it meant he didn’t think I’d last very long. Finally, after many months I got an answer from Elaine ‘Cookie’ Cook that the ‘O’ stood for ‘original’ and the ‘S’ stood for ‘second.’ In other words I was the second person to have the number ‘145.’ I was greatly relieved. I have always appreciated being hired at HP. And I have always appreciated your assigning such a young guy as myself to do the HP Journal, especially when many felt that anyone below the stature of Fred Terman couldn’t do a worthwhile job. They just didn’t understand. I always knew from feedback from the field that the Journal was a more significant positive for HP than hardly anyone understood.”
10/3/91
Sumie Christopher to Packard and WRH: “Since my arrival in the U.S. from Japan more than 30 years ago, my limited English reading and writing skills have presented many challenges. I’ve struggled and worked hard to overcome those challenges. For me, becoming acclimated with the American lifestyle was such a drastic change in culture that I felt much like a newborn baby, starting my life all over again. I am greatly indebted and equally appreciative of Hewlett-Packard for providing me the opportunity twenty years ago to build a better life for me and my family. Thanks to you, I’ve achieved far more than I ever imagined I could accomplish in my lifetime. I am not speaking merely in terms of monetary wealth, which can be easily measured in dollars and cents, but more importantly in terms of something of greater value, the personal satisfaction that comes from working hard and the pride you take in that effort….During my two decades with HP I worked in Palo Alto, Santa Clara, Cupertino and Sunnyvale plants. I consider myself lucky to have seen the future of American technology literally pass before my eyes. I helped assemble the first generation of personal calculators produced by HP. I can remember how everyone was amazed by these ‘state of the art’ machines, which are now quite primitive by today’s advanced standards. In subsequent positions I helped to assemble keyboards, terminals and other computer-related parts and peripherals….Through the years I had the good fortune to work with a great group of people…”
11/8/91
Newsgram announcement of “VSI to be offered in North American Field Operations”
10/11/91 Emory Meeker to WRH on the occasion of retirement after 31 years at HP. He named supervisors he admired–“A remarkable cross section of the people that provided me with the meaning of the HP Way and HP Values. It is unfortunate that most of the current employees will only hear stories about the real HP.” He remembered “Dave Packard in 1961 walking through the Bldg IL parking lot door with General Charles DeGaulle attired in his French Army uniform. No secret service, no machine guns, no HP security guards, no chain fence around the plant!!!….[lists more names who “represent the HP values and spirit” and made HP “the place to be” in this industry.] There is much talk about ‘HP will never be the same; business is changing, competitive pressures’ ad infinitum, ad nauseam. I would suggest that HP values are the same–but we don’t have enough Dick Hackborns, Bob Frankenbergs, Bill Harrises and Alan Seelys to mentor and coach the ‘new kids’ whose values seemingly revolve around span of control, salary grade, titles, and Tauruses. Us old timers are not a vanishing breed, just an outnumbered bred!…”
8/14/91
Glenn Herreman to WRH and Packard: “…Many thanks for the stock option program for employees and the generous retirement program with health benefits. Before I joined HP and even after I had been with HP for many years, never, in my wildest imagination, did I ever dream that I could retire with the security, comfort and peace-of-mind that Clara and I are enjoying. Retirement was February ‘83 and we are still going strong….My first supervisor was Rufe Kingman. One of my early assignments was to make a progressive die for the very slow ‘Pacific Press.’ With each stroke, a flat strip of aluminum was fed into the press and a finished part, an angle with holes punched, went flying into a big box off to the side of the press. I was involved with many other successful tooling projects before moving on to quality control/assurance to set up a gage calibration program. Calibration gradually evolved into precision measurements for product development and finally our department became Mechanical Metrology in 5L. We were the first user of HP’s Laser Interferometer, and because of our many laser measurement applications we hosted other metrologists, inspectors, and engineers from around the world. As a department we wrote many papers relative to machine tool calibration with the laser, roundness measurements, flatness and straightness….I enjoyed my work and always looked forward to new challenges in our specialized field. I recognize that my success was made possible by my supervisors and the good people working with me. I also recognize that only at HP could someone with a high school education have a successful career in a new field that was just taking off. I often think of Ernest Schlage’s comment when I told him I was leaving Schlage Lock Co. for HP. ‘You shouldn’t go to HP because you aren’t an electronics engineer and you will be frustrated. You should stay here and work with mechanical design and tooling.’”
3/22/90
Jerry Burgess to WRH and Packard on his retirement: “…I would like to take this opportunity to express my thanks for giving myself and members of my family the opportunity to be part of HP and helping it grow. I have been associated with HP since the early 40’s and 50’s when my uncle John Jaques worked here, then from 51 to 71 when my dad Bryant Burgess was here and finally from 1956 since I’ve been here. Again thanks to both of you because HP will always be family.”
4/26/90
press release “HP Announces Results of Early-Retirement Program” with 782 long-service employees in US electing to accept it. A similar program in 1986 resulted in about 780 employees choosing to retire early
June 1989 Rolling Memos from the Midwest Sales Region house magazine with an article by Betty Nielsen, “Looking Forward Looking Back” on the 50th anniversary of HP. About a dozen employees give their impressions of May 1939, mainly they were young kids at that time…
7/3/89
Oliver Humphries to WRH and Packard: “HP South Africa celebrated its 21st birthday at the end of June, and also ceased trading as HP, as you know. My eighteen years plus as an HP employee have been exceptional. The HP Way environment has brought me immense personal satisfaction in allowing me to reach outside the confines of my ‘formal’ position plan to contribute to HP’s success (such as installing and implementing COMSYS & HEART in South Africa virtually unaided, and then having my Order Processing department achieve the lowest HEART order entry error rate in the world)….So it was a somber night for me last Friday, June 30th when HP South Africa ceased to be. I fully realize that the decision was for good business reasons, and that US domestic business has suffered badly because of HP’s presence here. That doesn’t help the knot in the gut I’ve had ever since the announcement earlier this year. However, the decision my family and I have taken is to stay if possible with HP, even though that means leaving South Africa, and changing countries is a really traumatic decision. It’s been about the hardest decision we’ve ever taken, but we feel it’s a good one. There are some excellent offers of positions for me in various parts of the HP world. Thanks again for the company ‘culture’ you spawned. It’s gripped me so tightly that I find it impossible to give up.”
4/20/89
Retirement of Rudy Hirshnitz after 30 years at HP. He began as a machinist and toll & die maker and is retiring to manage his own business, SRC Cables, a manufacturing concern producing semi-rigid coax cables for the electronic industry
4/13/88
Dave Packard to Steve Duer on his retirement after 37 years at HP. Duer came on 9/5/50 “in the Redwood Building as a test engineer, then a technical writer in publications, and ultimately assuming the big responsibility of the HP catalog. You deserve many thanks and a great deal of credit for turning the catalog into the most important non-personal selling tool of all our publications.”
11/9/87
WRH to John Kendall: “I was so sorry I could not attend your retirement party, but I had a long-standing commitment from Higher Authority. I can assure you, I would much rather have been at your retirement party, particularly because I wanted to thank you for all that you have done for our Aviation Department. John, I can honestly say that you are going to be missed. Let’s not lose track of each other.”
01/27/87
WRH to Woody Meyer on his retirement after 26 years. He was founder of the Kansas City sales office.
12/5/86
Retirement of Jim Marshall “best known for his work in the Standards Labs at HP. He worked in the original Standards Lab in Bldg 5L from 1957 until 1968 for Phil Hand. In 1968 Jim became manager of the F&T Division Standards Lab and shortly thereafter opened the Standards Lab at Santa Clara. Jim’s most visible area of accomplishment was the HP Time and Frequency Standard, or as some people called it, ‘NBS West.’”
3/97 HP- Russia 1993
7/22/93
Roland Mattis to WRH: “HP Moscow is currently planning a celebration for the 25th anniversary of HP’s presence in Russia…I have interviewed a few of HP’s pioneers, including Doug Herdt…he remembers two important documents:
–the business proposal to Hpco BOD to start business in Russia (67)
–the trip report of your [WRH] first trip.”
7/27/93
Karen Lewis, HP Archives, to Roland Mattis: “I am pulling together a packet of material for you relating to HP’s early presence in the Soviet Union beginning in 1960, with Dave Packard’s report of his visit in which he comments on the interest of the Soviet people in ‘scientific and mechanical devices,’ and the advanced state of Soviet electronic equipment; also, Bill Hewlett’s notes made after his 1964 trip; a 1973 Hewlett speech that outlines the history of US/USSR trade regulations; and other historical documents. A search of the indexes to the minutes of the meetings of the HP Board of Directors, 1966-1969 revealed no mention of a proposal to start business in Russia.”
9/20/73
“Current and Future Commercial Relations with Russia,” speech by WRH on East-West Trade Panel, International Industrial Conference, San Francisco, 11 pages [copy in WRH’s Individual File in Archives]; detailed history of US-Russia trade relations:
I think sometimes we fail to realize how extensive has been the background of trade relations between the Russian people and the United States. Back as far as 1811 Russia was taking one-tenth the total exports of the U.S., and in turn, Russia was a major supplier of marine stores to the U.S…..World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution effectively isolated the Soviet Union from Western influences, but it must be remembered that in 1920 Herbert Hoover’s American Relief Administration spent some $20 million worth of Congressional appropriations primarily in the distribution of American grain to famine-stricken Russian peasants….Following the recognition of the Soviet Regime in 1933, the enthusiasm of the United States business community for Soviet trade became even more pronounced.
In 1934 the Export-Import Bank was established for the express purpose of financing trade with the U.S.S.R., and two years later the first Soviet-American trade agreement was signed…the Cold War brought a sharp decline in commercial relations…One of the first thaws in the Cold War was probably President Eisenhower’s authorization to decontrol some 700 items in 57 commodity categories for export…[then] the visit of Krushchev to United States in 1959…warm reception by the City of San Francisco to Krushchev during his visit resulted in a personal invitation from him to Mayor Christopher and a delegation of Bay Area businessmen to make a significant and historical visit to the Soviet Union….
What was started by the Eisenhower Administration was continued by both the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations…reinterpretation of the Johnson Act [of 1934] to permit medium-term credits linked to U.S. export transactions. This step, together with an agreement with U.S. Longshoremen allowing 50 percent of export cargoes to travel in non-U.S. bottoms, paved the way for the $110 million wheat sale to the Soviet Union in 1964….Senate Foreign Relations Committee conducted a hearing on East-West trade…revealed a widespread interest in the expansion of commercial relations…Act of 1966 made an effort…Vietnam conflict resulted in defeat [of expansion of trade for a while]…each nation, on its own side, felt the necessity to set aside doctrinaire positions and to begin to work seriously together…President Nixon’s visit with Secretary General Brezhnev in Moscow in May of 1972…resulted in agreement [on many levels].
…mutual desire for increased trade does not necessarily mean that there are no problems. The question of MFN treatment, U.S. Government restrictions, problems of Soviet balance of payments, and differences in the philosophy of trade, all represent major areas of difference….”
Problems include approach to exit visa, U.S. government restrictions for trade with communist countries, substantial delays in approval for transactions, Soviet trade deficit, “difference in the manner in which trading is carried on each country,” “lack of direct, personal contract between the American businessman and his Soviet counterpart.”
The Soviets “are doing much to improve the climate for trade…In our own case we signed an agreement in May [1973] with the state Committee for Science and Technology calling for long-term scientific and technical cooperation…”
11/64
“Impressions on my Trip to Russia,” by WRH [copy in WRH’s Individual File in Archives]
General – 8 pages
Agriculture – 1 page
Foreign Trade – 6 pages
Scientific Research – 2 pages
Planning in the USSR – 5 pages
Meeting with Kosygin – 6 pages
3/98 “S” Miscellaneous Folder
6/5/98
e-mail from HP employees offended by the photo exhibit “Homosexual Art Display at HP Sites” June through September at 9 HP sites
Accent, a Publication of the Southern Sales Region, Fall 1992, “A Salute to Southern Sales Region 1966-1992″
8/5/97
WRH to Felicity Smith, HP-UK, thanking her for hand carrying the photo album of pictures taken during WRH’s visit to HP Labs-Bristol 9/96
3/21/97
snapshot of people from companies from three continents who successfully negotiated the foundation for a consortium between Sony Corporation, Philips International B.V. and Hewlett-Packard Company
12/16/96
Kenzo Sasaoka to WRH thanking him for congratulations on his being awarded the Deming Prize which was instituted in 1951 by the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers and is given annually for innovation through total quality control activities. Sasaoka is retired chairman of the board of Hewlett-Packard Japan. See also 2/9/96
Sasaoka to WRH on retirement
6/1996
“HP Way Week in St. Louis,” a promotional packet
3/4/96
Alan Bickell to Lew Platt and cc to WRH on “Business Proposal from Tewelde Stephanos re Eritrea,” his native home
Several letters from employees who enjoyed the Hermit Park facility in Colorado
6/8/95
Newsgram on “San Jose Site Explosion.” There was an explosion in Building 91 at the San Jose site Thursday, June 8 at 8:30 a.m. in the Optical Communication Division. One employee suffered cuts and minor burns. The explosion occurred in a “glove box,” a sealed space in which people work by putting their hands in through attached gloves. Cause not determined yet
8/8/76
[sic] note from Craig A. Steele to WRH including snapshot of him with the company founders at the Santa Rosa picnic
2/4/93
Bill Terry to WRH and Packard re Santa Clara University’s alleged “fiscal crisis” which isn’t as bad as reported; hopes they can help
10/9/85
Dean Morton to WRH on high unemployment in South Queensferry and possible policies HP might take
3/99 HP Scholarship Fund 1992-93
5/1992
This year 495 high school seniors were awarded HP Scholarships of $1,500, the largest number in the 41-year history of the program. More than 5,000 students have received scholarships since the program’s inception in 1951.
1/12/93
Betty Gerard to WRH on her article for Measure on the HP Scholarship Fund. The scholarships were originally established in 1952 by employees in lieu of material Christmas gifts to WRH and Dave Packard. “The HP scholarships are virtually unique in recognizing outstanding and well-rounded achievement along with need.” Her article in Measure March/April 1993: “It all began in the early days when HP people gave the co-founders the Christmas gift of a heifer for their ranch. The little company in Palo Alto had fewer than 150 employees at the time. ‘One year they gave us a sleeping bag, and the next year a manure spreader filled with crumpled-up ads,’ recalls Bill Hewlett. ‘But when they gave us the heifer, we felt it would be a more appropriate use of their time, energy and funds to start a scholarship program’” The program was set up in 1951 with awards given in spring 1952 although it wasn’t until 1956 that HP employees had children of their own who were high-school seniors.
3/100 Friedrich Wilheim Schroeder 1991
Memoirs titled “From Measure to Information (Episodes and Observations) compiled for Family, Friends and Colleagues”
Jean Chognard’s handwritten corrections re Siemens patent
3/101 HP – Securities Fraud Lawsuit 1992
8/6/92
HP press release “Hewlett-Packard Comments on Third-Quarter Performance”
8/12/92
Jack Brigham to WRH: HP Company “was recently named as a defendant in two securities class action lawsuits arising out of the drop in the company’s stock price on August 6, 1992…”
8/18/92
HP press release “HP Net Revenue Up 15 Percent in Third Quarter; Net Earnings Down 1 Percent, Orders Increase 12 Percent”
8/19/92
HP press release “HP Issues Vigorous Denial of Securities-Fraud Allegations”
3/17/93
HP press release “Class-Action Suit against HP Is Dismissed”
4/16/93 and 5/20/93
Newsgram on the copyright-infringement lawsuit Apple Computer filed against HP and Microsoft Corp. in 1988.
3/102 Security Reports 1987-99
Lists of individuals and forms for security clearance
“Hewlett-Packard Stanford Site Security Policy and Procedures” 6/91
“What have we got to lose?” 7/91
1/30/91
WRH and Dave Packard do not want card access entry system for the outside doors to their offices in 3 upper
Various incident reports on WRH’s home
“Hewlett-Packard Palo Alto Area Security Services – Information Pamphlet” 1/94
3/103 HP – Seed Program 1991
exchange, a Magazine for the Worldwide Hewlett-Packard Personnel Community Jan/Feb/March 1991 – article on “SEEDs for future growth,” HP’s primary tool for minority hiring in US
4/15/91
WRH invited to participate; regrets
3/104 HP – “60 Minutes” Show 1993
10/8/93
San Jose Mercury News “H-P in P.A. sued over its use of foreign workers”
10/5/93
Newsgram on HP’s International Contract Programming (ICP) which administers temporary assignments of software engineers between countries, mostly in US
3/105 HP – South Africa Policy 1985-89
7/17/86
WRH to Governor George Deukmejian: “I was very disturbed to read in the morning paper that you are proposing to recommend that the University of California divests its ownership in any company that is doing business with South Africa.” This recommendation has “broader implications” for HP and the Hewlett Foundation; please reconsider
9/23/86
Deukmejian reply: “…I believe that the South African government’s continued unwillingness to enact meaningful reforms …calls for our stronger action…We agree on the need to end apartheid. Adherence to the Sullivan principles and good corporate citizenship hasn’t accomplished the goal. Let’s see if divestature and other sanctions will…”
n.d. “The Sullivan Code”
Pamphlet “Hewlett-Packard in South Africa” April 1985
9/12/88
Simon Middleton to WRH and Dave Packard: “For some 3 years now I have been managing the HP Sullivan Activity here in SA…I have given you a flavour of what has happened and I wanted to say how proud I am to be a member of this exceptional company…the social investment that has been made in your name has, and is generating a positive future for some people here…”
9/19/88
Bill Johnson to John Young on “HP’s Position in South Africa” 8 pages
3/20/89
Newsgram “HP to Sell South African Subsidiary”: “Citing business conditions and the failure of the government in South Africa to make significant progress in ending apartheid, Hewlett-Packard on March 21 announced plans to sell its sales subsidiary in that country to Siltek Ltd., a South African manufacturer and distributor of computer products…”
3/106 HP Spokane – Liberty Lake Sewer District 1988-91
1988 letters on the study report sponsored by HP and three other parties; names involved include Susan Kaun, Robert Blair, and Mac McGrath at HP’s Spokane site
1/2/89
Liberty Lake Property Owners Association to WRH sending issue of Journal of Business with article “H-P battling sewer district”
“Restoring Liberty Lake: The First Sixteen Years 1973-1989″
3/13/91
Bill Terry to John Young, WRH, and Packard: “…The long term issue relates to a potential expansion of the local sewer district or adding capacity by connecting to the larger Spokane regional treatment plant…”
3/107 HP – Standards of Business Conduct 8/93
“Hewlett-Packard Standards of Business Conduct” 8/93
12/19/93
Newsgram on “Revised Standards of Business Conduct Issued”
Every U.S. employee of HP will receive this brochure. “For the first time, a post-office box is available for employees to communicate confidentially about unethical or illegal conduct they may have observed.”
7/18/97
“Negotiating Tips PRIOR to signing the hotel’s contract for meetings”
3/108 HP – Stock Purchase Plan 1993
11/8/90
Jack Brigham to WRH and others reminding recipients of HP’s “Blue Book” making them an “insider” under U.S. securities law
1/25/93
Carol Nunnally to David Packard re HP policy for new stock purchase plan of making employees forfeit all restricted shares when they leave HP
3/109 Strategic Planning Committee 1990
7/18/90
Agenda for Fifth Meeting of Strategic Planning Committee from Chuck Yort, Manager, Business Planning and Development
3/110 “T” Miscellaneous Folders
8/19/97
announcement of upcoming women’s conferences. In 1988, HP held the first Technical Women’s Conference (TWC) in Palo Alto. Two regional conferences have followed, the Rocky Mountain Women’s Conference and the Eastern Professional Women’s Conference. These have contributed to HP’s strength as a “great place to work” for many women. The main purposes have been: to provide opportunities for professional development, to showcase the achievements of HP women, and to provide opportunities for networking and sharing best practices
5/30/97
Dick Anderson retires after 38 years at HP. In 1983 he became General Manager of the Microwave and Communications Group, a job Byron Anderson will fill. Tom White of UK will step into Byron’s job as General Manager of the Communications Test Solutions Group.
9/25/95
WRH to Howard Taub turning down his offer to be co-inventor of using a low-cost printer to print Braille. “It is your idea and you deserve all the credit for it…”
6/11/93
Bryan Stahmer on “Revised HP Corporate Identity Trademark Standards” with samples of logotype
5/93
“Hewlett-Packard Corporate Identity Trademark Standards”
9/23/91
Alan Bickell to WRH re funding for an endowed chair at Stanford University in honor of Dr. K. T. Li, the ‘father of technology’ in Taiwan
9/15/89
Virginia Toney to WRH re Stanford Park Division celebrates 50th anniversary
8/15/89
packet from John Young on “Marking and Handling HP Trade Secret Information” 3 pages with additional pages of examples; also pamphlet “Protecting HP Trade Secrets” 4/89
3/111 Technical/Professional Women’s Conference 1995
See first items in folder 110
1/14/95
invitation to WRH to conference; regrets
“Diversity Journies” by Barbara Waugh delivered 6/2/95 at the 1995 HP Technical/Professional Women’s Conference. Talk gives work history of Waugh who came to HP first as part of the SEED hiring process which recruited minorities. She moved to Corporate and joined Emily Duncan in Affirmative Action hiring. “Together we looked at our AA hiring. In every category we were hiring fewer people than the statistics suggested could be our share…Small clusters of HP hiring managers, staffing and AA reps all over the country ‘got it.’ We didn’t have to educate, convince, or persuade. All we had to do was identify them, introduce them to each other, and give them visibility for their successes. In less than two years our hiring in every category exceed our goals. I moved onto HPL, where in my first year I got to work on the ‘92 TWC…we learned of unexpected support for women in pockets at the top, all over the company….I was invited to help with the Deaf and Hearing Impaired forums…I learned that HP was supporting Gov. Wilson’s 1993 budget reform initiative…[which] proposed to reduce the AFDC and other benefits going to the poorest women and children in the state. This seemed to me absolutely contrary to our citizenship objective. I sent a voicemail message to about a dozen friends…and a long letter to John Young with all my documentation…John shared his own misgivings abut our position. Later I learned that all this had reversed the decision, and in fact HP came out against this means for balancing the California budget…On the plus side we have a Technical Women’s Conference…Also on the plus side, I have never been penalized for telling the truth in this company…Where better to wage the battle [to promote diversity] than in one of the most powerful agents for change on the planet, a Fortune 30 company in a world where companies more than nations create the future?…The dream of our founders was to make a contribution to the world…WE are now the founders of the future HP!” WRH thanked her for a copy of her talk which he found “very thoughtful and inspiring. Dave and I like to think that our employees are our most important product and you certainly help reinforce that philosophy.”
3/112 Bill Terry Retirement 10/22/93
3/113 HP – United Way Policy 1992-97
9/15/92
Laurie Mittelstadt on “HP Pulls Back on Designated-Donation Matching”
10/15/92
WRH to Mark Muntean: “Thank you for copying me on your letter to John Young about the United Way….To go back a long ways, when the United Way started (it was probably called the Youth Fund or the Community Chest or some such thing), the company recognized its value in concentrating the evaluation of an organization’s needs and collection of funds by the company and the distribution thereafter in one organization.
I don’t remember when we started the program of the company matching the employee gifts. We were, I believe, one of the leaders in this respect and are still one of the few who maintain such a program. To provide some flexibility, we advised the employees that if they wished to give to a specific organization within the United Way their personal gift would be designated to that organization, but the matching gift would go to the United Way at large.
Two years ago, we opened up the matching program to include non-United Way organizations. This turned out to be a Pandora’s Box with the result that the company, through its matching program was supporting an assortment of organizations that it would not normally support. The most recent action by HP returns to the policy to where it always had been.
It is unfortunate that Planned Parenthood got caught up in the return of the old policy. I am personally a strong supporter of Planned Parenthood and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has made very substantial gifts to that organization. But as worthy as the objectives of Planned Parenthood may be, I would be reluctant to depart again from the rules that have worked effectively for so many years.
Thank you for writing – I am sorry to disappoint you.
Several letters suggest that women and minorities are not well represented in United Way
3/114 “V” Miscellaneous Folder
6/1/98
Newsgram on “HP Executive Committee Names 13 New Vice Presidents”
10/31/96
Robert Vessot to WRH: “Back in 1969 I was the HP employee in the Quantum Electronics Division in North Beverly Massachusetts who worked on Atomic Hydrogen Masers and chose not to transfer to the West when the lab was moved. Since that date I have been at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and have continued to do research with H-Maser and to work at improving their performance.
…I have been reflecting on how lucky I have been and I want gratefully to recognize how your generosity made possible my career at Harvard….
I vividly remember your generous help and willingness to make possible the transfer of NASA and Naval Research Lab H-Maser contracts to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Also I remember your generosity in letting me keep the HP lab equipment we had been using. Our work on masers has been at the cutting edge of frequency stability…” WRH thanked him for his letter.
9/30/94
Newsgram on “Three HP Businesses to Offer VSI.” Voluntary Severance Incentive programs offered at Computer Systems Organization’s Workstation Systems Group, The Components Group, and The Medical Products Group
5/8/94
San Jose Mercury News article by James J. Mitchell, Business Editor, on “Here’s how H-P gave a new life to old division,” detailing HP’s Stanford Park division which made microwave equipment into HP’s Video Communications division which makes video equipment used to create movies, commercials and animation
3/95
Rocky Review: “Rocky and Bullwinkle Mission: Bring affordable laser print quality and throughput PLUS COLOR to the personal printer market”
1/12/90
Paul Vella to WRH and Packard re spectrum analyzers made by HP and recent product decisions which result in mediocre products. WRH replied 2/13/90 that Paul should present to a special committee of the Board of Directors at a time WRH has scheduled
3/115 Vanity Fair – High Tech Pioneers 6/2000
Vanity Fair wants to photograph WRH for an article on Silicon Valley pioneers. WRH said no. Copy of published article July 2000 is included in folder.
3/116 Verifone 1997-98
Newsgrams on Verifone
3/117 “W” Miscellaneous Folder
9/1/98
Newsgram announcing retirement of Dick Watts of HP Computer Sales and Distribution Group who is leaving HP after 30 years to run a small, start-up company called ConvergeNet
3/20/96
Chris Nilson to WRH on her trip to Italy close to Bergamo, looking for the HP sign. “When I worked for you [WRH], HP meant both Hewlett Packard and ‘Have Pride.’”
01/21/96
James J. Mitchell in Mercury News on “H-P aims to help workers balance work and family”
7/14/92
WRH congratulated Harry E. Weaver, Jr. on receiving the Albert F. Sperry Award of the Instrument Society of American 10/18/92 in Houston. His letter of recommendation is also here dated 5/13/92: “Harry worked for Hewlett-Packard Company for almost 20 years and had a most distinguished career while employed by us. He worked on many projects, the most important of which was the development of the first commercial Hyperbolic Quadrupole Mass Filter. Although the work was done in 1976, it is still being manufactured and is a key component of HP’s top-of-the-line Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer.”
11/29/90
Hal Mickelson, HP Legal Dept., to WRH’s and Dave Packard’s secretaries in case they are contacted: “Hewlett-Packard helped sponsor the 1988 World Corporate Games, providing HP equipment through gifts and loans. The experience was a nightmare. We couldn’t rely on the WCG organization to accept any limitations we tried to define for our support and our people’s participation. WCG has five Vectra systems on lease and hasn’t made payments since June. [Ken] O’Bryan [WCG Senior Vice President] recently contacted HP through Cindy Williams, asking that HP donate the equipment, postpone collection or take other steps that would permit WCG to retain the products. I passed O’Bryan’s request along to the appropriate HP people…we’ve decided to turn him down…”
9/26/89
Linda Thomas to WRH thanking him “for lending me your watch” which she and others refurbished. 10/18/89 WRH wrote: “…I simply did not think it possible that my calculator watch could be off and running again after all these many years…”
3/118 Weaver, Mike – Handheld Products 1989
8/30/89
Mike Weaver, President, Hand held Products, Inc., to WRH describing their “linkage to Hewlett-Packard. Our HP-41 ROM emulator in 1981 was a major break thru using NMOS EPROM chips powered only by the HP-41’s 4 N cell batteries. This unique interface design resulted in our first patent. When the Corvallis Division agreed in 1983 to sell the plastic shell parts from the HP-41 card reader, Jim [DeArras, business partner] used surface mounted components to redesign the ROM emulator into 1/3 the size with twice the memory (32k). Next came an invitation to serve as a third party developer for the HP-71. Jim again took a unique approach to design what turned out to be seven memory modules for the HP-71. Thru his efforts we are able to add from 32k to 160k RAM in the volume allotted to the HP-71 card reader. Somewhere along the way Jim managed the development of a battery powered RS-232/HP-IL interface unit needed by surveyors in the field. Our early successes with Hewlett-Packard calculators was mutually valuable; you folks sold more calculators and we boot strapped ourselves into a cash position so that we were able to accept the next challenge. Here again Hewlett-Packard provides today a key opto-detector and nose tip for our Micro-Wand shirt pocket computer designed from 1983 thru 1986. The success of the Federal Express Corporation’s courier computer propelled Hand Held Products from a million dollar company into the tens of millions. Other customers today include A C Neilsen, DHL International, and hundreds more needing field data collection devices. As we approach the milestone of 100,000 Micro-Wands, all of us at Hand Held Products are proud to have created a product line with such overall utility…” WRH wrote thanking him for the opportunity to see the hand held products.
3/119 Wien Bridge Oscillator 1988-93
9/9/88
WRH answers Ben Zarlingo’s questions from an inquiry from the editor of Electronic Design Magazine:
Did you invent the Wien network or the Wien bridge circuit which was the basis for the 2000A? WRH answered “NO”
Do you know how the Wien network topology got its name?
WRH answered “No–probably from a man named Wien”
9/8/90
WRH to Karen Lewis, HP Archives: “As to your question about the naming of the Wien-bridge Oscillator, I believe it was named after a man, Max Wien.” She asked after seeing an article on Gen Rad saying “…in 1937, GR developed the first RC oscillator…William Hewlett modified the circuit…called a Wien-bridge oscillator. Many engineers thought that the oscillator had been developed by some worthy professor or scientist named Wien. In fact, Hewlett named it after a favorite city, Vienna.”
January 1993 The IEEE Grid, p. 20 “Max Wien, Mr. Hewlett and a Rainy Sunday Afternoon: Adaptation and Following Your Nose as Design Techniques”
3/120 Wilbur, Ray – HP Retired Officer, Deceased Nov. 26, 1994
11/30/94
WRH to Ray Wilbur III and Jean Gleason Stromberg: “I was so shocked to learn of your father’s death. As you know, we have been good friends and associates for a great many years, be it in the field of work or play. He was a quiet person and I quickly learned that he was worth listening to because anything he said he addressed thoroughly and with a great deal of thought. Our friendship certainly spanned a lifetime. Even the early days at the Cedars, Hewlett-Packard-related associations, and general family connections.”
11/29/94
obituary in San Francisco Chronicle
Undated obituary for Ray Layman Wilbur III who died in Palo Alto 3/23/97, 55 years old
3/121 HP – Women Engineers 1993
3/16/93
Randy Englund to WRH, etc. on “HP’s Project Management Council Meeting Held Feb. 1 & 2, 1993.” John Birk, Chair
2/1/93
article in Design News on “Women Engineers Rate Top Employers.” Hewlett-Packard is in The Top 10
3/122 HP – Year 2000 Project 1997-98
12/16/97
Lew Platt memo and Q&A on 2000 Drawer Statement, 8 pages
3/123 YHP 1991-95
4/28/94
WRH thanked Eiju Matsumoto for copy of the Yokogawa Technical Report including Matsumoto’s article on the history of diagonal scaling. “In the article I traced back the origin of diagonal scale from the 20th century Yokogawa, the 19th century Weston, the 18th century surveying instruments in Japan to the 16th century Tyco Brahe in Denmark.”
3/124 “XYZ” Miscellaneous Folder
01/27/95
WRH gave $5,000 to the American Red Cross – Japan Relief fund in honor of Benjamin Yoshizumi; WRH letter to Mollie Yoshizumi, Ben’s wife and WRH’s secretary
10/26/93
Molly Yoshizumi to WRH with her resignation as his secretary effective 11/30/93, “due to my husband’s medical set-back”
3/125 John Young – Retirement 10/29/92
Articles on John Young including his work on the Council on Competitiveness, Joint Venture: Silicon Valley, “Young out of running for Cabinet post,” several Measure articles
12/07/92
Newsgram on press coverage on HP forthcoming changeover of executive leadership
7/16/92
Newsgram “Young and Morton to Retire in October; Platt Names Next President and CEO”
7/16/92
Text of John Young’s public address announcement
1977
WRH’s announcement of Young elected president and COO and Morton executive vice president effective
11/1/77,
WRH’s last message “From the president’s desk”
Undated handwritten speech for Young’s retirement party [probably WRH’s]
3/126 John Young & Dean Morton Retirement – Board of Directors Dinner 9/17/92
