FIVE YEAR EMPLOYEE: Ronald Bultena completed five years with the company on May 5th. Ron started with H. I. as an electronic assembler and because of his desire and diligence has progressed to an electronic technician trainee. His one am- bition is to become an electronic technician. To hasten this ambition he is attending night school. Ron was born in South Dakota and lived on a farm until he was in the seventh grade when he moved with his parents and one brother to Richmond. He has lived in Richmond ever since and graduated from Richmond Union High School. Water skiing and bowling are his favorite sports. Ron bowls in the mixed leagues (likes the girls) and has an average of 172. At one time he had an electronic shop at home but he no longer has time for it. Ron has been in the Naval Reserve since January, 1963 as a radar operator. He just completed his 2 weeks active duty at Los Alam- itos, California. He says that he is an in-eligible bachelor as he is in no hurry to get married.

NEW FACES: Wedding bells have sounded recently for our new machinist Roger Breilein. On July 2nd he was married to Diann Ovren in the Mills College Chapel in Oakland. They held their reception at the Lake Merritt Hotel. After the wedding they traveled to Palo Alto, Car- me1 and Clear Lake. Roger was born in Ventura, California (3 generations have been born in California). He spent most of his childhood at Ventura. After graduating from Ione High School, he entered the Air Force. His 5% years in the service were spent in Alaska and the conti- nental U.S. in Radar maintenance. When Roger returned home from the Air Force, he went to Oklahoma State College for 3 years. He worked for three years in Oklahoma City and then decided to come back to California and went to work for Aero-jet in Sacramento. After being there 3 years he came to Oakland to teach school and taught Machine Shop and Cabinet Work at the Fremont High School for 4 years. Roger decided to go back into the machining trade and worked at Allied Engi- neering before coming to H. I. Away from H.I., Roger likes to hunt, fish, water ski and bowl. It was at the bowling alley that he met Diann. He also enjoys bar- becuing and is the chief barbecuer at his father-in-law's home. For the past year, Roger has been learning how to play bridge. The newlyweds are making their new home in Oakland. (Roger's fellow employees say that the honeymoon is over as he's bringing baloney sandwiches again in his lunch pail, just like theirs.)

Lawrence (Larry) Pease, our new engineer in the Systems Department came to work for H.I. on July 6th. Larry was born and grew up in Bridgeport, Conneticut. After graduating from Central High School, he went into the Marine Corp. in 1941. His service during WW II took him to the Pacific area. After coming out of the Marine Corp. in 1945 he entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, which he attended for two years. Larry then went to work for General Elec- tric in Waterford, Conn. While working for them he decided to finish school. He con- tinued working for GE while attending school (R.P.I.) and graduated in 1961 with a Bach- elor of Science degree in Chemistry. At General Electric he worked five years as an operator, five years as an instrument tech- nician and four years as an analytical chem- ist. All of Larry's family live in California and after having visited them several times, he decided to come out here to live this spring. He first went to the L.A. area but decided he would like to live in the Bay Area. (More trees, etc.) Reading is a great hobby of Larry's and he has a collection of around 2000 books. He likes gymnastics, weight lifting, skiing and scuba diving. Larry is an eligible bachelor and lives in Berkeley.

SUMMER HELP: The friendly young lady seen about the of- fices this summer is Kathy Higgins, who is helping out in all the departments. Kathy has attended Marquette University for three years and one year at the University of Cal- ifornia. She has recently purchased an automobile and will soon be motoring back to Marquette University to complete her major in Journalism Advertising. At Mar- quette she was a cub reporter for the Mar- quette Tribune and on the Year Book staff. In her spare time, Kathy likes to write short stories. She also enjoys playing tennis, swimming, bowling and reading.

PICNIC PLANS PROGRESSING: Florence Fields has been selected chairman of the annual company picnic to be held on Saturday, September 4th at the picturesque Angel Island. A boat has been chartered and we will leave from Richmond at 9:45 A.M. for the Island and leave the Island at 5:00 P.M. to return to Richmond. A notice with further information will be posted at a lat- er date (dock information, etc.). Due to the increase in cost this year (boat ride and park admission) there will be a charge of $1.00 for each person 12 years and older, $.75 - ages 5 to 12, and $.50 - under 5. Guests are welcome at a price that will be posted later. Lunch, games and prizes are being planned. All in all it sounds like a wonderful time is in store for all; so make your plans to attend.

VACATIONS - WELCOME BACK! Vacations are over for most of the people for the year and it seems everyone enjoyed their vacations; but those of us who were on the job during vacation shut down are glad to see them back. Kenny Harris and his family went to Lake Tahoe, Reno (saw some good shows), Carson City, June Lake, Disneyland, and the San Diego Zoo. They also drove about 75 miles into Mexico. Ron Bultena stayed home and spent most of his time water skiing and fishing. Horst Herrmann went to Reno for one day; lost his money and stayed home the rest of the time. Thomas Hale and his family made side trips around the Bay Area and worked around the house (re- built his garage). They couldn't go very far as they are awaiting a visit from the stork very soon. The Pui Leung's went to Reno and Lake Tahoe. Jo Deffebach and her family went to south- ern California for one week, stopping at beach- es, missions, Marineland and Knotts Berry Farm. Joe and her husband went dancing one night at the "A-Go-Go's" on Sunset Strip. Then they spent the last week at Donner Lake fishing (caught 8 trout), horseback riding and swim- ming. They even had a little bear behind their cabin one day. John Chin and his family went to the Co-op Camp Sierra near Shaver Lake. They went hiking, swimming, and horseback rid- ing. They didn't have to cook as the meals are prepared by Co-op personnel and baby sit- ters are available in the mornings. Talmape Nelson stayed home and rearranged his flower garden. Fred Wolff and his wife traveled the farthest this year by flying to Mexico City and then to Acapulco. The Wolffs have a friend in Mexico that took them on tours showing them places of interest. They flew back to Los Angeles and visited Disney- land and Marineland. Neal Mulkey claims he just stayed home. Joe Ursini stayed home and bought a new car. Ralph Schramm and his wife went to Nevada looking at property and bought an acre of land back of Crystal Bay. Bob Peacock and family traveled to Detroit Lakes, Minnesota to visit their daughter. He caught some nice fish while there. On the way home they stopped at Spearfish. S. Dak. and saw the Passion Play. They also stopped at Reno. James Valley only had the long week end off, so he stayed home and relaxed. BP

Ralph Hayes and family traveled in his new camper to Yosemite and went camping. George Kuehn started to paint his house, went to a baseball game, made a trip to San- ta Cruz, had a chance to see his daughter swim at the Plunge and worked at H. I. Andy Guild stayed home and saved his money for another big vacation to be taken in the future. Antti Fagerroos and his family drove to British Columbia, but he spent most of his time fixing flat tires (9 flat tires) while _-- driving on the Alcan Highway. They went camping and he reported the fishing was ex- cellent. Frank Inerbichler spent his va- cation time at Reno, Lake Tahoe, fishing and at the County Fair races. Rose Hendrickson stayed at home and re- decorated a bedroom and slept until noon (unless the telephone rang! !). She has an- other week of vacation left. Shirley Ra- macher washed walls and then she and her husband went camping at McConnell State Park. (Now she has painting to do for her remaining week of vacation.) Yvonne Kirchenbauer and family spent nine days at Lake Tahoe. They took side trips to Carson Pass (enjoyed the snow), went hik- ing, swimming, and took the tram up to the top of Heavenly Valley. The Dick Leuba's went camping in the high Sierras, EL 9500', located SE of Yosemite National Park. They hiked in 7% miles from where the cars were left, to the primitive base camp that is sponsored by the Sierra Club. Food is brought in by pack mules. There was a lot of snow this year. They did a lot of moun- tain climbing (the boys are climbing now), campfire singing, etc. When they arrived home they had a suprise awaiting them as their one year old daughter, who didn't make the camping trip, had learned how to walk while they were away. Alfons Keil spent his time at his ranch at Patterson. The Julius Rosin's relaxed at Lake Pillsbury and went fishing and boating. Rich Netto and his wife went on local side trips (one was to Santa Cruz) and then spent some time at his ranch at Hollister. Kira Ryan enjoyed being home one week and worked the other week at Hallikainen In- struments. Jerry Stanke stayed home and relaxed.

VACATIONS - Continued Pieter Fredzess moved to El Sobrante dur- ing vacation and relaxed when he could when he wasn't at H.I. Fumiko Takeshita went to Hoberg's. She and her husband danced every night and they won the Champagne Waltz con- test. (The prize - a bottle of champagne.) Bill Stairs took only two days at this time. One day he spent at the zoo in San Fran- cisco with his children and one day at the baseball game. Norm Waner and his family re- laxed at the Blue Lake Lodge at the Blue Lakes and went swimming and fishing. He has more vacation time coming. Willem Missel went to Reno and Lake Tahoe and worked at Hallikainen Instruments. Ernie Shanks stayed home the long week end and worked at H.1, the rest of the time. Barbara Goode took one day's vacation with the long week end and went camping at the north fork of the Yuba River. She has plans for the rest of her vacation in August to fly to Los Angeles and go to Disneyland, Ma- rineland, Knotts Berry Farm & the San Diego zoo. Mary Kneisel and her family traveled to Oklahoma and Missouri. They visited their daughter and the parents of both Mary and her husband; enjoyed some family reunions and Mary ended a perfect vacation by winning some money at Reno. Arthur Alston made his pilgrimage to Dis- neyland and Marineland and then motored to Santa Barbara for five days enjoying the beach. Billy Goostree enjoyed traveling Northern California, from Santa Cruz thru the Giant Redwoods, with his family. "Monty" Montgomery stayed home when he could and work- ed the rest of the time at H.I. Roger Breilein really took the big step and got married and he and his new wife went to Palo Alto, Cannel and Clear Lake. Stan Alter and his wife drove through the Redwoods. They stayed at Trinity Lake in the Trinity Alps; went boating, visited a couple of saw mills, atomic energy plant and just relaxed. A few names are missing from the vacation list as some employees had no vacation time earned or they will be taking their vacation at a later date.

BITS ABOUT 'EM: JERRY STANKE is back to work and it's very good to see him at his machine after being off ill for awhile. FARWELL TO FREDA: Freda Swan is leaving the Sales Department on July 30th to go to Wash- ington, D. C. She said that she is very sorry to leave H. I. and we are equally sorry to see her leave.

MYNA BIRDS: The most talked about subject these days is Myna birds. It seems as though three of Hallikainen Instruments employees purchased three of the marooned birds at the San Francisco Airport. At one instant it looked like Myna birds would be issued on Friday instead of pay checks.

RESIGNED: Eugen Steiert and Willem Missel have left H.I. to work at Temescal Metallurgi- cal Corp. in Berkeley. Carl Turnbaugh has also resigned recently.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: On July 7th, Mr. Schimbor received a singing telegram wishing him a Happy Birthday and a delicious suprise birthday cake was waiting for him in the lunch room. It seems Mr. Schimbor and Rin- go Starr have something in common: the same birthday date. On July 19th, another large cake deco- rated with a 'Happy Birthday Martin' was in the lunch room to help Mr. Kaufmann cele- brate his birthday. His birthday was July 17th, but that date happened to fall on a Saturday.

MILITARY LEAVE: Herb Liske, who is in the Army Reserve, is on a military leave for two weeks starting July 19th. Herb is stationed at Ft. Ord. Alan Arabian, once again, is taking care of the lawns.

NEW GRANDFATHER: Bill Goostree became a grandfather for the first time recently, when his grandson, David, was born.

ELECTION: Norm Waner has been elected pres- ident of the Instrument Society of America, Northern California Section. His election was acknowledged at the June 7th meeting held at the Villa Peluso restaurant. Bob Ludlum is the Education Chairman and My Hallikainen is the Long Range Planninr Chairman.