Rosalie Andrews, Editor

Mr, Hallikainen has returned after his ex- New Building tensive trip to four European countries. While in England, he spent the major part of his time at various divisions of Elliott- Automation, including Hallikainen Instruments Limited; he also had the opportunity of taking a tour of the Shell Stanlow Refinery where he got an overall view of what is being done in the instrumentation department there. He proceeded to Finland for a visit with Elliott!s representative, Oy Regulator Ab, and a talk with management personnel from Neste Oy, a major Finnish refinery. I& Hallikainen's stop in Holland was primarily to discuss medical instruments. There he visited Godart N.VeS (a division of Elliot Automation) and spoke with Drs, Keulemans and Martins at Eindover University (Dr, Mar- tins has been awarded the Nobel prize for his work on chromatography). And finally, in Italy Mr, Hallikainen went to Carlo Elba in Milan to negotiate a license for a Flash Point instrument, and toured E. I. Elliott, an Italian division of Elliott-Automation. News: A. B. Lahti and Company does not seem to be wasting any time on the

Mr, Hallikainen remarked that he was "quite impressed*' with Elliott?s facilities around Europe; he feels that the result of the trip will be that we probably will han- dle many of Elliott's products in the future. On the non-business side of the trips Mr. Hallikainen has many memories to recall. Although he had a very limited amount of free time, he was able to visit the Sissing- hurst Castle (which is not really a castle at all) in England; to see some beautiful Italian cathedrals, and also the original painting of the Last Supper. He admits, with the pleasures of travel behind him, tnat it is nevertheless good to be home.

Herb Liske, our good-natured electronics technician, has decided that the time has come to finish his education, He has en- rolled at Contra Costa College where he will complete one year before transferring to the University of California. He will be working part-time in the evenings until a replacement can be found construction of our new building in Rich- mond. In the office the slab floors are in, upright frames supporting the overhead beams are up and the vault has been poured. Also underground plumbing, electrical conduits and all the wiring have been installed, Most of the foundation has been poured in the manufacturing building, all of the wir- ing is in and the slab will be poured in about two weeks. It should be only three and a half to four months before National Welding and California Peanut Company, our neigh- bors-to-be at Galvin Industrial Park, have a handsome new building to look upon, Yvonne Kirchenbauer is working in coniuction with Mr. Hallikainen and Hugh-M. OPNe:l Company to plan the exterior and interior design.

Travelers Check: Mary Kneisel, sun-tanned and smiling is back after a two week vacation with her husband. They traveled to Okla- homa, Missouri, and Kansas visiting many relatives on both sides of the family, Andy Guild is absent from the company as he and his wife are taking their vacation in Germany visiting in-laws. He will return on October 3rd. George Hays, now traveling through Houston, is on the last leg of his journey and will return to the home fort in less than two weeks.

ISA Convention Coming Soon: The large dis- play set that has been under construction in the conference room is part of the pre- paration for the ISA convention to be held in New York in October. Some of the in- struments to be displayed are: the OPNeil Ro Direct Shear Soil Testing Machine, the End Point Analyzer (with Oakite Wash), The Reflux Boiling Point Analyzer, the Haze Point Analyzer, and a Gravitrol from Elliott- Automation. Mr. Hallikainen, Mr. Schimbor, Mr. Warier, and Arthur Alston will be attend- , ing the show.

' New Faces: 'i'!i I ly Goop .rer:, one of our new ma- chinists, F`Y~ (;orn in %%sburi. but spent, most of his childhood in Marysville (Northern Califor- nia). He was inducted into the army in February of 1943 and spent one of his three years in the service overseas; and while overseas he par- ticipated in the Battle of the Bulge. In 1945 at an army hospital in Utah, he met his wife who was a medical technician. After the war Billy became an Orthopedic Technician (Ortho- dist) working for two companies in Oakland en- gaged in making special machines for orthopedic patients. For three years Billy ran his own business, the Oakland Orthopedic Company. Billy then worked as a machinist at Ortho- Pneumatic and at Applied Radiation Corporation in Walnut Creek. Because Billy has always liked bowling he gave up his job at the latter company to be- come manager of a bowling alley, where he was employed prior to coming to Hallikainen. Billy spends most of his free time knock- ing down the ten pins and can claim the title of Bay Area Bowling Champ among above the knee amputees. His average is 165. Bowling is the family sport and Billy, his wife and five child- ren can often be seen playing a family game on Sunday afternoons. Billy also does some fishing.

Machinist, Billy Goostree

Yvonne Kirchenbauer, the new draftswoman who works mainly for Mr. Bramson has had a d.ver- sity of jobs before coming to Hallikainen In- struments. During the war she felt obliged to do her part and thus went to work at Richmond Shipyards #l and #3 as a draftswoman. Later she was employed at Kaiser Cargo and Cutter Laboratories. In addition Yvonne has had many years of experience in the interior design bus- iness having worked for Bonynge's,D'Onofrio's and Able I. Furthermore, she worked for six months on a heart-lung machine at the University of California Medical Center. Immediately prior to her employment here, she was with Research Specialties. Yvonne went to school at the California School of Fine Arts; she met her husband there where they were both students. The Kirchen- bauers have two sons, ages seven and ten. In what little free time she has Yvmne mints t

Draftswoman, Yvonne Kirchenhauer

George Kuehn is another machinist who has re- cently joined Hallikainen Instruments. Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, George entered the army in 1942, and though he re- ceived dental training he did general first aid work while in the service. George met his wife in Minnesota but moved to California in order to be near his wife's parents. He has worked as a machinist at Marchants,Kaiser Aircraft, Beckmann Instruments and American Can Company. George's three children take up a lot of his time, but he is losing his eldest daughter in June (she will be getting married). George also has a boy 14 and a girl 8. George is very active in his church where he is the leader of the Boys' Club and is Sunday School Superintendant. *rx+ar-r`i L c -w#r**pniii we "*ii-r-eF~*

Machirli;,l., (ii cjrge Kuehn

Our sincerest condolences to Walter Brugmann whose wife died in Germany last month.

Farewell to Our Editor: Rosalie Andrcws felt she could not let a fine scholarship which was offered to her pass by, so she has left Hallikainen Instruments to pursue her ed- ucation in history at the Davis Campus of the University of California. We will miss Rosalie and wish to take this opportunity to commend her on her fine iob as editor of Hallikainen hi-lights. We hope she takes the liberty to come back to see us now and again. km (your new editor)