If you have any other Hallikainen Instruments information or documents, I'd sure be interested in seeing them! Drop me a note at harold@hallikainen.com . Thanks for your interest in Hallikainen Instruments. The community of people that worked there reminds me of the vibrant community reflected in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes. All that's left are the memories and equipment that continues to operate in the field some 30 to 50 years after the people reflected here built the equipment.

Volume 1, Number 1 - May 23, 1961 - Newsletter intro; Mr. Hallikainen goes to Europe; The new bowling team; Skip to Bakersfield; Steve Schulte joins company, Bill Breyer trucks across the country; Eero Vansankari looks forward to trip to Finland; Howard Kirks head for Amsterdam.

Volume 1, Number 2 - June 26, 1961 - Dr. Bramson in the news; Goin' fishing; Company picnic coming; Skating custodian marries; Dick Shchimbor graduates with honors; Bowling news; Mr. Hallikainen back from Europe; Vacation coming.

Volume 1, Number 3 - July 28, 1961 - Newsletter gets a name: Halinco hi-Lights; How I spent my summer vacation; new kid on the block; more bowling news; and new time cards.

Volume 1, Number 4 - August 30, 1961 - Heading to the ISA show; Electrocardiac Massage Machine now used in seven hospitals; Hallikainen Blood Oxygenator on TV!; Fun at the company picnic; Kathie Lydon joins accounting; New time slips do have a purpose; Walt Wilson heads for Panama; Bowling team comes in sixth; Motor scooter and screen door, cheap!

Volume 1, Number 5 - September 28, 1961 - ISA show a success, though the pickup died; Busy sales meeting; Instruments displayed at Texaco symposium; Bowling League wins $37 - Next season's league to include women; New employees welcomed; Championship chess; Greetings from Uncle Sam; Getting married; Blood drive.

Volume 1, Number 6 - October 27, 1961 - William Pritchett busy improving our products; Christamas party coming up; Introducing new electronics tech; a secret wedding; the big flood; a couple more weddings; Word Series pool yields $13.50.

Volume 1, Number 7 - November 30, 1961 - Exposition of Chemical Industries in New York; Bramson tours country with electrocardiac massage machine; long time employee and new employee; Christmas parties coming; chess games continue; new look to newsletter.

Volume 1, Number 8 - December 30, 1961 - Inventory underway; Norman Waner personality sketch; personalities in the news; children's Christmas party; John Chin's new daughter; new employee Rae Thayer; Christmas party news.

Volume 2, Number 1 - January 31, 1962 - Adding a fourth building; five year employees; Personality sketch - Alfons Keil; safety shower in test department; Donetta Reese joins personnel department; Ben Kleinstein joins engineering department; auditors visit company; welcome the new pipe threading machine.

Volume 2, Number 2 - March 31, 1962 - New machines in shop; Travels of Bill; life saved with heart massage machine; personality sketch - John Chin; Sun Yung Kim, secretary to the chief engineer; Alice brings coffee; blood donors; Monty's back; Hello Eloise; What, no February?

Volume 2, Number 3 - April 30, 1962 - Night shift moves to days; stockholders' meeting; Let's Get Technical; visitor from Arabian American Oil Company; wedding bells; Welcome Caitlin Rabbitt; personality sketch - Tom Hale; Skip Bradford to leadman in electronics department; Hank Johnson moves to the test department; company picnic coming up!

Volume 2, Number 4 - May 29, 1962 - Let's Get Technical - Boiling Point Analyzers; company picnic coming up; personality sketch - Eero Vasankari; Girls in Electronics - Kathy Sims and Fumiko Takashita;

Volume 2, Number 5 - June 25, 1962 - Let's Get Technical - Kinetic Vapor Pressure Analyzer; Personality Sketch - Alva Beach; Off to the ball game!; It's time to go fishing; Visitor from Alpha Engineering;

Volume 2, Number 6 - July 27, 1962 - Let's Get Technical - Viscometers; company picnic results are in; Personality Sketch - Wlater Brugman; How I Spent My Summer Vacation; thanks for the blood!

Volume 2, Number 7 - August 31, 1962 - Let's Get Technical - Thermotrol, Thermodyne, and Resistotrol; Five year employee - Pui C. Leung; New engineer - Stan Alter; John Kaufmann back to Switzerland; Opal Taylor promoted to purchasing agent; New girl - Dee Fenster does typing for engineering; Leslie Bowden cleans up; Bramson receives medal; New Finn; New Liske; New assembler; Bill Breyer runs the company when Schimbor and Hallikainen out.

Volume 2, Number 8 - September 30, 1962 -Let's Get Technical - Color Alarm; Instrument Society of America; Five year employee - Julius Rosin; Bramson at San Francisco Heart Association Symposium; 50% Boiling Point Analyzer licensed from Sun Oil; Steve Sculte joins accounting practice; United Way; Winston "Arkie" Young paints stuff blue; Carl Hammons joins the assembly department; Frank Sumner joins machine shop crew; Douglas Beverly joins assembly department; Roger Brown joins engineering department; Horst Hermann back from army; Johann Wolf heads for Germany.

Volume 2, Number 9 - October 31, 1962 - ISA success; United Crusade raise $149.50; Christmas parties coming up; Personality Sketch - E. F. Schimbor; Charlene Lewis is back; Julius Rosin in hospital.

Volume 2, Number 10 - November 30, 1962 - Let's Get Technical - Acid Analyzer; Five year employee - Rich Netto; Stuffy Stufflebeam joins test department; Neal Mulkey joins machine shop; Bob Palmore takes over painting; Ralph Schramm joins sheet metal shop; John Kaufmann sends regards from Switzerland; Jim Martin joins accounting department; citizenship classes; Christmas parties coming up; Eero Vasankari is back; Julius Rosin due back soon.

Volume 2, Number 11 - December 31, 1962 - History of Berkeley building; Travels of Bill; Five year employee - Skip Bradford; Hallikainen article on viscometry in November issue of Instruments and Control Systems; Mr. Hallikainen elected as president of Berkeley Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Schimbor elected to board of directors; Christmas parties a success; Delayed parts cause three day lay-off in electronics; Hank Johnson out ill; Ben Kleinstein off to Israel; Tom Fukya back in accounting; Our Venezuelan rep visits; Stuffy's daughters visit; Johann Wolf back from Germany; Eugen Steiert back from hospital visits; for sale: lawn mower, $5.00

Volume 3, Number 1 - January 31, 1963 - Licensed to Manufacture - Nice summary of the product line origins; On weekends, sign the register and lock the doors;New Ozalid falls over; Deborah Joan Hale arrives; Walter Brugmann has perfect attendance; Staff changes; New intercom system saves time!

Volume 3, Number 2 - February 28, 1963 - Notes on the Kinetic Vapor Pressure Analyzer; Schimbor and Stuffy off to the AIChE Petrochemical and Refining Exposition; Medical Instrument History; Bill Stairs charts production; Flo Sheehan joins the engineering department; Arthur Alston, the new applications engineer; Another visit from the auditors; Virginia Carpenter is new accounting assistant; Betsy Randolph joins the sales department; Another Zoman expected.

Volume 3, Number 3 - March 31, 1963 - Fun trip to the Chemical Show; N. S. Waner to chair session at Western States Electrical Industry Show; New Ozalid machine in and running; Microwelding wires in resistance thermometers; Company picnic date set; Six year employee Horst Hermann; Wine tasting; Henry Scheutz goes fishing; Stuffy marries; Arthur Alston family arrives.

Volume 3, Number 4 - April 30, 1963 - Stockholders' meeting tells of great results for company; Universal Catletinorouter described; Cats!; Company picnic coming; Engineering gets new drafting tables; Ron Bultena on military leave; Bill Stairs back from bout with pneumonia; Citizenship coming for many; Changes in the accounting department; New rules for volleyball.

Volume 3, Number 5 - May 31, 1963 - KEH consults Bell Telephone on temperature control; Richard K. Brown joins the board of directors; Monty Montgomery appointed plant safety engineer; Martin Kaufmann heads accounting; Wyle Labs looks at Thermotrols; Newsletter off a new press; Picnic results are in; Arlene Coate is the new billing clerk and joins the noon volleyball group; Shirley Ramacher runs the Multilith and types operating instructions and correspondence.

Volume 3, Number 6 - June 30, 1963 - Five year employee Bill Stairs; Automatic Osmometer licensed from Shell; Mr. Hallikainen awarded Management Man of the Year by the East Bay Chapter of the Society for Advancement of Management; Refrigerated Boiling Point Analyzer for Venezuela; Mid-year inventory; Hans Bockenkamp, P. C. Leung, and Fred Wolff now US citizens; Daughter Linda vorn to the Kvasnickas; Jewella Deffebach is the new production clerk and expediter; Herb Liske writes from Germany.

Volume 3, Number 7 - July 31, 1963 - How we spent our summer vacation; Ro Direct Shear Soil Testing Machine licensed from Hugh O'Neil Company; Travels of Arthur Alston; Arlene Coate's new diamond ring; Kay Crawford's back!

Volume 3, Number 8 - August 31, 1963 - Mr. Hallikainen off to Europe; Chicago ISA show coming up; Five year employees Hans Bockenkamp and Henry Schuetz; Dick Schimbor, son of V.P. Ed Schimbor marries; Marisue Tierce takes over as Mr. Schimbor's secretary; George Tafoya Jr. cleans up; Bob Peacock paints; Girl's night out; New arrival: David Ray Zolman; Bud Singh back to India; For Sale: Revere Movie Camera, Model 88, $12.50.

Volume 3, Number 9 - September 30, 1963 - Mr. Hallikainen back from Europe, visits Hallikainen Instruments Limited, met with Elliott Brothers, visits oil refinery and paper pulp lab in Finland; Three year old Finn Anne Maarit Hallikainen welcomed by her new adopted family; President thanks staff for efforts in preparation for trip to Europe; Hallikainen resuscitator saves life in San Francisco; Chicago I.S.A. show a success; Mr. Hallikainen awarded as Fellow of I.S.A.; New building planned for Richmond; Safety team complimented by insurance company; Kenneth "Stuffy" Cole back as a rep; Probolog probes ordered by competitor; Norm Waner teaches engineering for Cal Extension; Accounting department has new floor; Arlene Coate to be married November 15; Eight viscometers head for Japan; United Crusade seeks contributions; New babies!

Volume 3, Number 10 - October 31, 1963 - Ship carrying constant temperature bath sinks in France; D. J. Pompeo Memorial Fund; Christmas parties coming; Dick Leuba joins engineering department; Herb Liske and Ron Bultena back; Kenneth James Bradford born; Fish trade; Leung dismantles tranducer - assures it can be reassembled; Buttermilk, bananas, and quitting smoking.

Volume 3, Number 11 - November 30, 1963 - Death of President Kennedy; Traveling salesmen; Wedding shower for Arlene Coate, now Mrs. Ronald Lee; Sun Yung Kim's student work experience ends; Christmas parties; Marc Andre Kaufmann born;

Volume 3, Number12 - December 31, 1963 - Hallikainen Analyzers online at Standard Oil refinery in Mississippi; Hallikainen Building Corporation; Auditors are coming; Inventory; Christmas parties reviewed; Pictures of the year.

Volume 4, Number 1 - January 31, 1964 - Haze point analyzer; New building construction to start by April; Safety first; Several new citizens; Bowling Boys; Julius Rosin new shop steward; Paula Brown, new sales secretary; Trainees advance; Marisue Tierce has left company.

Volume 4, Number 2 - February 29, 1964 - We have licensed the Lectecon Trainer from its inventor, Mr. Saba of Oakland's Skyline High School. We intend to manufacture this electronic training equipment; Uncle Sam gets Henry Schuetz; George Hays joins staff of traveling salesmen; The stockholders' meeting had an 80% attendance; Federal Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Disbursements issues permit for alcohol to test Osmometer; Mr. Hallikainen presented a talk on viscosity measurement at the Houston section of the Instrument Society of America; Herb Liske now a citizen; Newsletter editor Ann Fraley leaves for Pacific Bridge Company.

Volume 4, Number 3 - March 31, 1964 - Stockholders meeting: 78 stockholders present, 1963 sales exceeded $1 million, directors and officers elected; J. S. Dunnett of Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation of California joins board of directors; George Hays will drive a new Metro Van around the country to demonstrate and service equipment; Ro Direct Shear Soild Testing Machine licensed from Hugh M. O'Neill Company; Ralph Schramm is replacing Rick Netto who is out ill; Kathy Sims is the proud mother of her new daughter Deborah; Mr. Kaufmann has been elected treasurer of Hallikainen Instruments; Five year employee Fred Wolff; Mary Kneisel joins the accounting department; Adventures of Tom Hale; Hello from new newsletter editor.

Volume 4, Number 4 - April 30, 1964 - The new soil tester was demonstrated to the California Division of Highways; Florence Fields joins accounting department; Former corporate secretary Vivian McCarthy dies; Company picnic coming; Hoorah-Super-Duper-Bingo-Weather-Adjustor to be demonstrated at company picnic; Preliminary building drawings submitted to Richmond Redevelopment Agency - Construction should begin this summer; Antti Fagerroos joins assembly department; Meet Jose Madero.

Volume 4, Number 5 - May 31, 1964 - Rain brings fun to company picnic; George Hays is on the road showing equipment in the new mobile demonstration van; A pan of baked beans appears to have been lost in the flood at the picnic; M. L. Bramson conducting research on long term storage of blood; Daughter of Robert Peacock set to be married; Willem Missel joins machine shop;

Volume 4, Number 6 - June-July 1964 - How I spent my summer vacation; Nancy Weber joins accounting department; Travels of Mr. Hallikainen; Elliott-Automation Limited of England has acquired nearly 55% of the company stock; Groundbreaking for new building July 27; License for Falling Ball Viscometer licensed from Shell Development; Dick Leuba adopts baby girl Suzanne Rebecca; Picnic in Florida?

Volume 4, Number 7 - August 31, 1964 - Travels of Mr. Hallikainen; ; Herb Liske goes back to school; New building under construction; Vacation news; Preparing for ISA Show in New York; Billy Goostree joins machine shop; Yvonne Kirchenbauer drafts; George Kuehn joins machine shop; Walter Brugmann's wife dies; Newsletter editor Rosalie Andrews accepts scholarship.

Volume 4, Number 8 - September-October 1964 - Report on ISA show; Mr. Schimbor back from vacation; N. S. Waner presents papers at the National Petroleum Refiners Association; Two employees in hospital; Christmas party scheduled; New building walls going up soon; Ben Kleinstein back from Israel; Andy Guild back from Germany; George Hays has exciting time demonstrating equipment; New editor lurking.

Volume 4, Number 9 - November 1964 - Mr. Bramson's membrane oxygenator has been used in five open heart surgeries; Robert Ludlum heads new Systems Division; Christmas parties scheduled; Paula Brown expects baby in April; photos of new building under construction.

Volume 4, Number 10 - December 1964 - Move to new building scheduled for end of January; Great Christmas parties; Ann Fraley and Nancy Weber help out; Henry Scheutz stops in for a visit; Arthur Alston travels!

Volume 5, Number 1 - January-February 1965 - Ribbon cutting at new Richmond building February 26; Systems Division added; Tom Hale to be Daddy for second time; New union contract; Eero Vasankari is proud father of Eric, born February 21; Ann Fraley is off to New York to attend Columbia Univeristy Graduate School; Frank Inerbichler, Ernest Shanks, Ralph Haynes, and Joe Ursini join manufacturing; Freda Swan joins office staff; Employee reception in new building; Get well wish to Fumiko Takeshita; American Chemical Engineering Exposition in Houston; Girls Night Out; Notes on Barbara Goode; Ten year employee Norm Waner; Forrest Watson new applications engineer;

Volume 5, Number 2 - March-May 1965 - Stockholders meeting; Freda Swan new sales secretary; New machinists Frank Inerbichler and Ernest Shanks; New metal technician Joe Ursini; Ralph Hayes, new electronics technician; "Sparky" Talmage Nelson completes five years at Hallikainen Instruments; Rose Hendrickson completes five years; Horst Hermmman new lead man of electronics, Eero Vasankari new lead man of machine shop; Going away party for Flo Sheehan; Freda Swan finds snake in shop; Fumiko Takeshita is back at work; Hieronim Stanke out sick; Mr. Schimbor moves to San Rafael; Kathryn Miller now teaches in San Francisco; New office employees Richard McGee, Rosemary Kirby, Melba Strickland; New manufacturing employees Kira Ryan, Carl Turnbaugh, Roger Breilein; Two new products licensed: Cloud Point Analyzer and Catalyst Reflectometer; New employee James Valley; Monty Montgomery vacuums the lawn; Paula Brown and Arlene Lee leave to be monthers; Bill Stairs dons coat 30 times each day; New Xerox machine; M. L. Bramson presents paper to American Society of Thoracic Surgeons; New plant open house; New newsletter editor;

Volume 5, Number 3 - June 1965 - Five year employee Monty Montgomery; Stork stops at the homes of Paula Brown and Arlene Lee; Melba Strickland new receptionist and billing clerk; New design draftsman Richard McGee; New assembler Kira Ryan; New electronic technician James Valley; Alan Arabian fills in for injured Herb Liske; Travels of Opal Taylor; Flo Fields visits Tahoe; Shirley Ramacher discovers worm in her desk; Grandkids visit Stan Alter; Ron Bultena on military leave; George Kuehn's daughter to marry; New addresses for Robert Peacock, Ernest Shanks, Melba Strickland, and Antti Fagerroos; Mark Schimbor works in accounting department for summer; Arthur Alston travels to Richfield refinery in Wilmington; Bud Ludlum visits Shell refinery in Oakville, Canada; Forrest Watson demonstrated Automatic Osmometer in Pittsburg, PA, Marietta, Ohio, Charleston, WV, Cinncinnati, Circleville, Columbus, Akron, and Cleveland, Ohio; Arthur Alston travels country assisting new customers; Norm Waner travels to Louisiana to find problem in KVP Analyzer; Norm Waner also traveled to Philadelphia visiting shipyards and oil companies; Company picnic planned for Angel Island.

Volume 5, Number 4 - July 1965 - Ten year employee Alfons Keil; Five year employee Ronald Bultena; New machinist Roger Breilein recently married; Larry Pease, new engineer in Systems Department; Summer help Kathy Higgins; Company picnic plans; How I spent my summer vacation; Jerry Stanke back at work; Freda Swan moving to Washington D. C.; Myna birds; Eugen Steiert and Willem Missel go to work for Temescal Metallurgical; Carl Turnbaugh leaves; Mr. Schimbor's birthday; Herb Liske on military leave; Bill Goostree new grandfather; Norm Waner elected president of the Northern California Section of the Instrument Society of America; Bob Ludlum is the Education Chairman and Mr. Hallikainen the Long Range Planning Chairman of the ISA Section;

Volume 5, Number 5 - August - September 1965 - Company picnic news; Mary Ann Stern new receptionist; Richard Alexander and Leo Dufresne new machinists; Travels of Arthur Alston and Forrest Watson; New machinist Edward Elliott; Diet news; Helen Van Slyke replaces Rose Hendrickson in engineering; Ron Bultena and Pieter Fredzess attend classes; Traveling Myna; Stan Alter, Ralph Schramm and Pui Leung hospitalized; Kenny Harris to Consolidated Electric; Tom Hale in charge of storeroom and receiving; Donald McAfee replaces Tom Hale in shipping; Flo Sheehan returns for visit; Norm Waner's article Pressure Drop in Capillary Measures Absolute Viscosity will be published in Design News; Martin Kaufmann spent two weeks in Air Force Reserve; Several visit WESCON show; More vacation news; Kathryn Miller visits; Melba Strickland and Mary Ann Stern swap jobs; Tom Hale proud father of new baby boy; Ron Bultena purchases new boat; United Crusade; Travels of Freda Swan; ISA Convention preparations; Norm Waner attends Rocky Mountain Regional meeting of the National Petroleum Refiners Association;

Volume 5, Number 6 - October 1965 - ISA Convention results; Sales meeting; Equipment on its way to the Chemical Industries Exposition in New York; United Crusade; Monty Montgomery smiles over new pickup truck; Five year employee Opal Taylor; New machinists Peter Schwarzbach and Pete Radovich; New shipping clerk Don McAfee; Helen Van Slyke joins engineering department; Visits from Rose Hendrickson, Arlene Lee, Mark Schimbor; Christmas partis set; Don McAfee has new son; Forrest Watson travels to National Bureau of Standards to work on Osmometer; Visit by Paula Brown; Travels of Schimbor; George Kuehn new shop steward; New manufacturing employees include Kenneth Weagant, Jr., Hans Graetsch; New office employees include Rollene Phillips, John Meade, and Marlene Templeton; Stan Alter, Ralph Schramm, and Pui Leung back at work; Jerry Stanke out sick; Fumiko Takeshita's husband served as interpreter for delegates from Richmond's sister city Shimada City, Japan; Farewell party for Jewella Deffebach; Snakes and mice...

Volume 5, Number 7 - November-December 1965 - Christmas party news; Report from Chemical Industries Exposition; Shell training program; New faces: Rollene Phillips, Hans Graetsch, Albert Jones, Marlene Templeton, Kenneth Weagant, Jr.; Vacation help: Thomas Decker, Harold Hallikainen; Ron Bultena visits Hawaii; Jewella Deffebach visits; George Kuehn's sister visits from Washington D.C.; Richard Schimbor receives doctorate from University of Illinois. He now works at Shell Development in Emeryville; The first Bramson Membrane Heart Lung Machine has been sold to the University of Cincinnatti; Forrest Watson has taken a job with McClellan Air Force Base; Larry Pease gets flat tires in snow; Tom Hale and Jerry Stanke out sick.

Volume 6, Number 1 - January, February, March 1966 - Ten year employee John Chin; Stockholders meeting; Death of Jerry Stanke; Change of holiday schedule; New employees: Pamela Field, Bernice Teeter, William Littlehales, Charles Russell, Alfred Hartz; Bramson Heart Lung machine gets puplicity; Northern California Industrial Exposition; Helen Van Slyke visited by daughter and grand-daughter; Mr. Hallikainen elected secretary and vice-president elect of ISA District XI Council; P.C. Leung back at work after hospitalization; Rose Hendrickson, Jewella Deffebach and Forrest Watson visit; Arthur Alston has accepted a position with the UC Field Station in Richmond; Ben Kleinstein has enrolled at UC. George Kuehn elected union steward and Ron Bultena elected committeman; Lunchtime volleyball continues; Perene Szantho injured while playing volleyball; Herb Liske joins engineering staff; Flu invades; Shell Test/Training program progressing; Jim Valle promoted to applications engineer; New employees Peter Lantelme, Ruby Sha, Richard LaBlanc, Perenc Szantho, John Pike, and Nancy Seela; Heinrich Schuetz is back as machinist after serving two years in the Army.

Volume 6, Number 2 - April-May 1966 - Ten year employee Tom Hale; G. C. Fairbanks of Elliott Automation Limited visits; Picnic plans underway; New employees Peter Lantelme, Richard LeBlanc; National Chemical Petroleum Instrumentation Symposium; New Xerox machine; Dick McGee to Dynalectron Corporation; John Chin supplying flowers; Portion of conference room now an office; Early vacations; Shell Test/Training program near completion; Ron Bultena injured water skiing; Pui Leung joined Mr. Bramson in Cincinatti to work on heart lung machine; Sone of Joe Ursini wins second prize in a zip code poster contest; New employees Roderick Sloane, Herbert Patterson, Bolek Kozol, Thomas Clark, Perenc Szantho, John Pike; New officers; Instruments on display on conference room; Visits from Rose Hendrickson and Arthur Alston;

Volume 6, Number 3 - June-July 1966 - Company picnic plans; How I spent my summer vacation; Travels of Pui Leung, K. E. Hallikainen, M. L. Bramson, and Jim Valle; New employee Thomas Clark joins the sales department; Talmage Nelson's parents celebrate 54th anniversary; Ron Bultena a blonde?; Son of George Kuehn won a trip to Mexico from the Richmond Independent; Summer help: Mark Schimbor, Gail Barrett, Harold Hallikainen; E. F. Schimbor moves to Novato; Former employees visit: Jewella Deffebach with her daughter Carrie, Ken Kole with his wife and daughter, George Hays, John Wolf, Arlene Lee and her son; Norm Waner and K. E. Hallikainen on board of directors of the Instrument Society of America, Northern California Section; New recreation program funded by canteen machines; Visitor from Japan; New draftswoman Kira Loncheades; 1965 Mustang for sale.

Volume 6, Number 4 - August, September, October 1966 - Great picnic!; Ten year employee Eero Vasankari; Christmas parties scheduled; Recreation committee reports on ping-pong, horseshoes, volleyball, badminton, and croquet; New employees Kira Loncheades, Arnold Hunn, Clara Burrow, Virginia Paoli; Dick Leuba, Melva Strickland, Herb Liske, Rosemary Kirby, Donna Carrington resign; Robert Ludlum hospitalized; Lunch with the girls; Al Jones travels to England; John Chin's daughter Michele youngest swimmer in El Cerrito Invitational;

Volume 6, Number 5 - November-December 1966 - Five year employee senior engineer Andy Guild; New employee Donna Carrington, receptionist and billing clerk; United Crusade success; $5,000to D. J. Pompeo Memorial Fellowship Fund at UC Berkeley; Gravitrol, Smoke Density Analyzer, -100 degree bath, Viscometer, and Oxygen Analyzers displayed at ISA show in New York; 25 sales reps attend Hallikainen Instruments sales meeting in New York; Old Timers Dinner; Ralph Schramm to American Airlines, Rollene Phillips to Greyhound Bus Lines; Helen Van Slyke hospitalized; Michelle LeBlanc new granddaughter of Dick LeBlanc; Shell Oil job (N-1000) complete! Bob Ludlum takes vacation, Larry Pease becomes application engineer in sales department; Funiko Takeshita visits Japan; G. C. Fairbanks of Elliott Automation visits; Christmas parties success!; Introducing Judy Sherwood, Henry Collins, Toby Moya.

Volume 7, Number 1 - January-March 1967 - Five year employee Pieter Fredzess; New employee Henry Collins; Judy Sherwood new secretary to Mr. Schimbor; Toby Moya new sheet metal man; Election of officers and board of directors; Gravitrol, Oxygen Analyzer, and Smoke Density Analyzer exhibited at Petro Chemical and Refining Show in Houston Texas; Tom Hale visits Temperature Measurement Show; Jim Valle to visit Elliott Automation in England to conduct training courses on Osmometer; Mr. Bramson visits England to demonstrate Heart-Lung Machine; Deaths in families of Larry Pease and Donna Carrington; Trudy Murphy new part time employee testing membranes for heart lung machine; Eldon Whyburn new part time employee doing deliveries; Pete Radovich elected shop steward and Horst Herrmann as committee-man; Antti Fagerroos is new father; Recreation committee has $130 from vending machine revenue; Helen Van Slyke hospitalized; Glossary of Automatic Control Terms from ISA Transmitter.

Volume 7, Number 2 - April-May 1967 - Five year employee Fumiko Takeshita, electronic assembler; Larry Pease to chair company picnic; New employees Charles Komar design draftsman, Jerry Sullivan electronic technician, Gordon Floyd technical writer; Introducing Candy Nicholson and Cordell C. Cose; Mary Kneisel resigns; Dr. Richard Schimbor, son of Mr. Schimbor, promoted technologist at Shell Chemical Company in New York; Joseph Ursini Jr (son of Joe Ursini) wins poster contest at Richmond High School.

Volume 7, Number 3 - June-August 1967 - Picnic success!; How I spent my summer vacation; New employees Cordell Cose in accounting; Candy Nicholson in engineering; Introducing Betty Brostrom, Claude Ashburn, and Reyes Jacinto; Old Timers Dinner; Distillation Analyzer, In-Line Viscometer, Cloud Point Analyzer, and Rotameters on display at ISA show; Henry Collins joins World Airlines; Raph Hayes moves from test department to cattle ranching; Peter Schwarzbach resigns; Judy Sherwood's mother dies; Arnie Hunn big winner in Shell Service Stations Americana Game.

Volume 8, Number 1 - 1968 - Ten year employee Pui C. Leung heads Research and Development; Ten year employee Horst Hermann heads test department; Directors and Officers election; Jim Valley heads training program for Shell refinery employees; N. S. Waner presents paper on In-Line Viscometer to ISA; New employees Marge Nielsen, production clerk; E. K. Nakano, engineering; Bill Gibson, machinist; W. B. Milligan, Systems Division; Wilma Jean Moreland, receptionist; David Freeman, southern California sales manager; Steve Paddock, machinist; Wayne Middleton, machinist; Bill Milligan to head Systems Division; New Los Angeles sales office; K. E. Hallikainen elected vice president of ISA District XI; M. A. Kaufmann at Hamilton Air Force Base; Rich Netto retires; Bob Peacock recovering from operation on hand that holds paint spraygun; Corky Cose marries.

Volume 8, Number 2 - 1968 - Julius Rosin's experience as a watchmaker makes him an authority on resistance thermometers; Ten year employee E. F. Schimbor, VP and Sales Manager; Sujan II takes employees to Old Timers Dinner; Gravitrol and Rotameters displayed at ISA Instrument Symposium in San Francisco; Company picnic scheduled; New employee H. R. Andrues accountant; Herbert Patterson joins Systems Division; Corky Cose becomes rancher in Arkansas; Herbert Liske rejoins engineering department for summer and fall; Harold and Sue Hallikainen help out for the summer.

Volume 9, Number 1 - 1969 - Meet the 1325F Single Automatic Macrocombustion Apparatus; New employees Brenda Johnson, receptionist; Joyce Parker, assembly department; Arthur Alson rejoins the Systems Project; Milton Bricker in Systems; Paul Sartor, draftsman; Bill Jones and Frank Simmons in the shop; Ruth Sternfeld in accounting; Part timers Wally Posner in Accounting and James Young doing deliveries; Parking lot speed limit; Picnic to be held at Angel Island; Visitor from Japan; New sales representatives appointed; Diacon Instruments added to product line; John McAdams to head Medical Department; Employees learn from product brochures; Engineering Department departures; Ten year employee Bill Stairs, production manager; Ten year employee Heinrich Schuetz; Five year employee Bob Peacock, painter; Five year employee Florence Fields accounting; Five year employee Antti Fagerroos, assembly.

Volume 9, Number 2 - November-December 1969 - Oil on Water Monitor; ISA Exhibit in Houston; Bells ring and ring; Shop lunchroom delayed, volleyball got too rough, how about darts? New employees Ray Castro, custodian; Charles English, deliveries; Mary Sindicic, Production; Norma Smith, receptionist; Dianne Stevens, Engineering; Old Timers Party; Exhibit at Chemical Industries Exposition in New York; Ed Grace, the Diacon Man; Martin Kaufmann heads the Accounting Department after spending a year at Hill Air Force Base in Utah; Heart Lung Machine saves life in Canada SF Chronicle and Oakland Tribune report; Norman Waner ISA Fellow; Atlantic Richfield Philadelphia Refinery systems project completed; Visitors; Christmas parties.

Volume 10, Number 1 - January 1970 - John McAdams joins Medical Division; Hallikainen Instruments Medical Division to sell Godart line of medical instruments; Godart instruments introduced; Equipment displayed at Chemical Industries Show in New York; Christmas party results; Visitors from GEC-Elliott Automation;

Volume 10, Number 2 - March 1970 - About the Gravitrol; More training for Shell perssonnel; Tom Clark demonstrates instruments at 19 plants and Texas A&M Symposium for Process Instruments and Process Controls; Visitors from Sun Oil inspect Distillation Analyzer; Richmond plant 5 years old; Company meeting regarding economic slowdown; February issue of Royal Aieronautical Society's Journal to publish Bramson's paper from 1935 that resulted in funding of Sir Frank Whittle's jet propulsion engine for aircraft; Kaufmann and Nixon on economy; Goodbye to Jim Valle, Milt Bricker, Andy Andrues, Arthur Alston, John McAdams, and Frank Simmons. Welcome to Chris Karels in Accounting.

Volume 10, Number 3 - May 1970 - Newsletter anniversary; Company traditions; Thoughts on the feminist movement; Oil on Water detector popular; Concerns over inflation, taxes on oil and gas, changes in Federal regulations on oil imports cause oil companies to retrench capital spending plans while waiting out the recession; Instruments and pollution control; Bob Peacock scares off car thieves with paint stirrer; Dick and Anita Le Blanc celebrate 30 years of marriage; Map to picnic at Angel Island.

Volume 10, Number 4 - July 1970 - Independence Day at Point Richmond; Orders pick up a little; Hallikainen Instruments distributes Setaflash, manufactured by Stanhope-Seta, Ltd.; Hallikainen Instruments distributes Fisher In-Line Blender manufactured by GEC-Elliott Automation Control Valves, Ltd.; Shell Tidings reports on the Oil On Water Detector; Ten year employees Sparky Nelson, Monty Montgomery, and Ron Bultena; Tom Hale's niece Candice is exchange student in Finland; John Amino joins accounting department; Picnic sound effects; Vacations coming;

Volume 10, Number 5 - September 1970 - Analyzers: The heart of the business; Vapor to Liquid Analyzer licensed to Hallikainen Instruments; Exhibit at Japanese Chemical Processes Show; In-Line Blender in demo van - Story on blender in issue of Chemical Engineering magazine; Oil on Water Detector honored by Industrial Research Magazine; Solid state Thermotrol to be shown at Chicago ISA show in October; How I spent my summer vacation;

Volume 10, Number 6 - November 1970 - How the sales department and representatives sell equipment around the world; Christmas party date set; The demo van in action; 15-year employees John Chin, Norman Wander, and Alfons Keil; Ten year employees Monty Montgomery and Sparky Nelson; Five year employees Pete Radovich and Ernie Shanks.

Volume 10, Number 7 - December 1970 - Hallikainen Instruments Japanese representative; Sandra Schieber joins the engineering department; Philip Churchus of GEC-Elliott Process Instruments Ltd. visits; K. E. Hallikainen reports from Japan; K. E. Hallikainen, Tom Clark, Norm Waner, Herb Liske, P.C. Churchus of GEC and several reps represent Hallikainen Instruments at the Instrument Society of America show in Philadelphia; Christmas parties scheduled;