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Body:Company Newspaper - Vol. 6, No. 2 April and May, 1966 Rosemary Kirby, Editor

TEN YEAR EMPLOYEE, TOM HALE "1 enjoy working at Hallikainen Instru- ments" was the comment made by Thomas Hale, our lovable Irishman, who completed tenyears with H.I. last January 6th. Tom started as a technician, painter, shipping clerk, janitor, etc. For some time, Tom had charge of the Shipping Department,but since September of last year, his duties have changed. Because of his workmanship, ability and diligent service, Tom now has charge of - No.1) Stockroom, No.2) Central Stores and No.3) Mr. Schimbor's stationery. Tom was born in Long Beach, California, but moved to Alameda with his parents when he was three years old. His father worked for a steamship company and was trans- ferred to San Francisco. As a child he loved sports and played little league baseball and became quite a snow and water skier. He was president of the Bay Area Ski Federation. He has had to give up the skiing since his mar- riage and has become a spectator. He is an avid '49er and Giant fan. If the Giants win the pennant, Tom plans to spend a week of his vacation at the World Series. Tom enjoys dancing, golfing, reading (news- papers and Playboy magazines) and walking on the beach (l/2 block from his home). It was through his love for skiing that Tom met his wife, Marilyn. They met at a filling station in Auburn and later that day discovered they were staying at the same ski lodge. The Hale's live in Ala- meda and have two children, Debbie, 3 years and Tommy, 9 months. A lung dis- order has hampered Tom's activities lately, but he has plans to resume his skiing again. He wants to teach his children how to ski and play golf. Being a member of the Elks Club makes Tom eligible to play volleyball at the Club when he has any leisure time. When H.I. had a bowling team, Tom was the anchor man. Tom graduated from Alameda High School and attended Laney Trade School. While attending high school, Tom had the dis- tinction of being the only red.headed Irishman working as an Italian Produce Clerk. Before coming to H.I., Tom worked for a hi-fi company.

Mr. Fairbanks, director of Elliott- Automation Limited, whose office is in London, England visited our facilities during the week of April 17th. This was Mr. Fairbanks first visit here since the opening of the new plant last year.

PICNIC PLANS PROGRESSING: This year the annual company picnic is planned for Saturday, August 13th. The chairman, Yvonne Kirchenbauer, has chosen Curry Creek Park in Clayton as the sight for the picnic. There will be a variety of things to do, - - swimming, volleyball, horseshoe throwing, baseball, dancing, and of course the fringe benefit (eating). A notice with further information and maps will be furnished at a later date. All in all it sounds like Yvonne is plan- ning a wonderful picnic, so make your plans now to attend.

NEW EMPLOYEES: A childhood dream brought Peter Lan- telme, our new machinist, to the United States in 1960. He landed in New York and went to Oklahoma where he was suc- cessful in finding a job right away in a cookie factory (repairing machines). But the weather was too hot and it was making him ill, so he moved to California. Peter has no relatives in the U.S. but has many friends from Germany that live in this area. One of his friends living here now was an American soldier who was stationed in Germany at the time Peter lived there and spent a great deal of his time in Peter's home. Peter had a new home in Germany, where he was born and raised, and now has a new hnmn in +ho nni+aJ ctcntnc. lil"lUC .&.I& aA.G VA,.&~ssU "COLSZP. He hopes tc get his U.S. citizenship this summer. Peter had his schooling in Germany. He went to a trade school where he learned to be a machinist. In Germany he worked for a company that made torpedoes for ships. He then served four,years in the German Navy working in the engine room on a ship. After the war he worked for the U.S. government in Germany and then the civilain government. Here in California he has worked for Yuba, Kaiser Aerospace, Grove Valve & Regulator and Rheem Mfg. before coming to H.I. Peter and his wife, Anne (who works at Lucky Lanes) have two children. Karl Peter, age 11, is at home and their daughter, Ranate, is married and has a little boy. The Lantelmes live in San Pablo. Peter's outside interests are garden work, barbecuing and painting. He also 1iLoc 4-n Ld m,-.vr;nn rI C=Ln n;rd-llvd.s IIRLO LV EmhG lll"YJ.F;O an, C(;LRS Jy*~uAIF;O. Peter,has made one'trip back to Germany to visit his parents and bmther. For his next big trip he would like to go to Hawaii. He enjoys seeing new places and wants to see more of the United States. *****

Richard LeBlanc, our new specialist ma- chinist, was born in Fitchburg (like the Fifth chamnnn\ Mrrecanhx,anttc l-la at- L&C_.. Y"u"'y"v,) I.UY"U~..L.LYCb~UO l,b UC- tended St. Bernard's High School there and took a ership for Institute, "Dick", work for a correspondence course in lead- three years from the Lincoln Cleveland, Ohio. as he is called, first went to fur shop where he stayed for eight years. Then for 17 years he worked for a builders hardware company (his wife also worked there for 13 years). The LeBlancs then decided to take the big step to move to California. They came to Richmond, as Dick had a sister- in-law living there. Dick opened up his own automotive bus- iness and operated it for five years and was an automotive insurance appraiser for a short while before coming to H. I. Fishing, boating, swinnning, bowling and puttering around the house and gar- J-m -wO n4,-&fo hA-A;- UCLA 511-z LI.4.L.R 0 IL""".LG;3. He loves tliz water, so enjoys the sports that take him to the water. Dick and his wife, Anita, celebrated their 26th wedding anniversary on May 30th. They have one married son, Wayne. The LeBlancs live in Dublin, but plan to move into this area as the drive from Dublin is too far.

THE CHPID SYMPOSIUM: The 7th National Chemical and Petrol- eum Instrumentation Symposium held at the Sheraton-Palace Hotel, San Francisco was sponsored by the Northern California Section of the Instrument Society of America. The dates for the symposium were May 23, 24 and 25. Norm Waner is the president of the NortE California c0-+;-*. AC Chn TQA l.lfi~"fi"~~.. U=Ll-Ll"Il "I LIIF: 10rl and on F(=UIIFJUaY, May 25th, he gave a paper entitled "A Fast Response Filter-Coalescer With Inte- gral Cooling For Analyzer Sampling Systems'! Hallikainen Instruments showed the Smoke Density Indicator and the Filter-Coalescer Demonstrator at the exhibit. K.E. Halli- kainen and Mr. Waner attended the Svmnosi- um; Larry Pease and Dick Leuba help>dAwith the registration; and Bob Ludlum, Tom Clark, Mr. Pease, Jim Valle and E.T Schimbor assisted at the exhibitmh.

BITS ABOUT 'EM: NEW XEROX MACHINE: The old Xerox ma- chine has been replaced with a new Xerox 914 copier. RESIGNATION: Dick McGee resigned on April 15th to go to Dynalectron Cor- poration, Instrument & Electronic Division in San Leandro. FLOWERS: John Chin has been supplying all the offices with beautiful cac- tus blooms for their desks. Thanks John! NEW OFFICE: Partitions were put up at the west end of the conference room and furniture was moved in, so now Your Edi- tor has a new office and a desk to sit at. EARLY VACATIONS: Mary Kneisel took one week of her vacation during the school Easter vacation so she and her family could travel in their new car to Reno and Los Angeles. While in southern Califor- nia they went to Disneyland, visited rel- atives and spent some time at the beaches. Opal Taylor went to Clear Lake during her first weeks vacation. Opal and Taylor caught lots of catfish and had a very restful week. Then on her second week, the Taylors and their 2 nephews and niece went to Lake Meade. They initiated Opal's new 4 wheel stage coach (camper}. They went fishing, visited the Hoover Dam, shopped in Boulder City and saw the Wayne Newton show in Las 'Vegas. OUR SYMPATHY: Bob Ludlum was away from his desk for a few days due to the passing of his father-in-law. SHELL TEST/TRAINING PROGRAM: The Test/Training Program at H.I. for the Shell inspectors is coming to a close. Nearly all of the in- struments have been tested. Two of the inspectors have returned to their homes and the rest will be at Martinez testing the instruments as they are installed at the new Shell Refinery. Six of the twelve in- spectors will be permanently lo- cated at the Martinez Refinery.

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SPLASH: Ron Bultena took quite a spill on his water skis recently and nearly ruptured his ear drum, but is ready to try it again as soon as his doctor gives him the o.k. TRAVELERS: Pui Leung flew to Cincinniti the week of May 16th to meet Mr. Bramson (already there) and assist him with the Bramson-Membrane-Heart-Lung machine re- cently purchased by the University of Cincinniti. ZIP CODE POSTER: Joseph Ursini, son of Joe Ursini won second prize in the Zip Code - poster contest. His prize was $50. Congrat- ulations! INTRODUCING: New employees at H.I. are Roderick Sloane, Herbert Patterson, Bolek Kozol and Thomas Clark.

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NEW OFFICERS: At a Special Board of Directors meet- ing held on April 12th, the following officers for 1966 were appointed: K. E. Hallikainen, Chairman of the Board and President; Leslie C. Dorking, a senior investment consultant of Loomis, Sayles & Company and director of the Chartered Bank of London, Vice Chairman of the Board; E. F. Schimbor, Vice President; M0 A0 Kaufmann, Treasurer; and Barbara Goode, Secretary.

MORE NEW EMPLOYEES: The first 25 years of Ferenc Szantho's life was spent in Hungary. He was born in Budapest and attended schools there. Frank graduated as a commercial artist from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. He then went to Officers school and was an officer in the Hungarian Army (Signal Corp.). In 1956, Frank and his wife, Lili, came to the United States as refugees. They first spent two months in Vienna, Arlcfri3 =I& fhnn PZII-M i-n nzblznrl C#-WlIn `,Ll" CLIU Ul`ll L`LLAI L-ULIIL C" "UI\AI*IIIl. ""all- time during this year, Frank will receive his U. S. citizenship. A window dresser at the White House in San Francisco was Frank's first job in the U.S. Since then he has worked at Beckman's, Systron-Donner, SCM Corp. and is now one of our new design drafts- men in the Engineering Department. Frank likes good food and wine and his hobbies are model trains and fishing. Frank had only worked a few days for H.I. when he ruptured his heel chord and had to have surgery. The Szanthos, living in Oakland, have a baby daughter, Jane, who is 19 months old. * * * * *

Our new technical writer, John Pike, was born and raised in St. Charles, Minnesota. Affor gra&~ating from St. PharloC High, `12. CLL "1AU.L AU" he attended business college in Milwau- kee, Wisconsin. He then went to St. Charles Normal Teachers College. John started his business career in the re- tail trade, working in specialty and department stores. Then World War II came along and John spent 5 years in the Army. He was a ra- dar officer with the rank of Captain, spending his overseas duties in the South Pacific and Southwest Pacific campaigns. Upon his discharge from the Army in 1945, he registered at the University of Wisconsin. He graduated from there with a degree in Metalurgical Engineering. Having been stationed in California, liking the climate and deciding he didn't want to shovel snow anymore, John came to the Bay Area. He took his first job in California at Standard Oil Company in Richmond as a design engineer and held var- ious other jobs, i.e. lead engineer, quali- ty control supervisor, maintenance engi- rl*or I&b-A) anAd ~cnhzalf nl in+ fcremax. uu~IILu. c yrur, L In 1959 he was transferred to the California Chem- ical Division as Administrative Assistant to the Vice President of the Manufacturing Department. The next year he was trans- ferred to Orlando, Florida as plant mana- ger. Then he came back to Richmond, Cal- ifornia on a special assignment in 1963. For the past year he has been in the real estate business in the Lafayette area. Music and cabinet making are John's hobbies. He has played the violin and trumpet, and at one time played the vio- lin in a symphony orchestra. John lives in Lafayette with his wife, Clarie, and his daughter, Barbara, who is attending Diablo Valley College.

BITS ABOUT 'EM: NEW LOOK: The conference room has taken on the appearance of a show room. Several of thAe incfrl7mnnfc msnr7fsn~1rnil by U 1 *&Au LI uJLLb&I LU AIIUIILlLUb GUI _Y 11.1. are now being displayed there. RETURNED TO WORK: Frank Szantho was re- leased from Providence hospital and has returned to work. Surgery-was performed on his foot. First he was moving around with the help of crutches, then a walking cast, and now he's able to wear a shoe, but still can't get around too fast. VISITORS: Former employees, Rose Hendrick- -^- --2 n__LL.___ ,%7-L-- __-'--_L-= L1-^ --l--L YUll dIlU HI-LllUI AlS LUII V.LS:l LtXl Llle YldIlL recently. Arthur was making plans for another dance. **Jr* TAKE YOUR AGE, multiply by 2, add 5, mul- tiply by 50, subtract 365, add the loose change in your pocket under a dollar, add 115. The first two figures in the answer are your age and the last two the change in your pocket.

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