TEN YEAR EMPLOYEE, JOHN CHIN John Chin has reached the l/lOth of a century mark at Hallikainen Instruments. In January of 1354, John started as an ap- prentice machini~:;t and continued working at H.I. until May of that year. He then went to work at- the University of Califor- nia Radiation Lab as a draftsman. He also worked at Eitel-McCullough, Inc. In De- cember of 1955, John was lured back to work for H.I. This time as a Jr. Drafts- man. Because of John's competance and ability he is now a Sr. Draftsman and Assistant to Mr. Waner in administrating the Engineering Department. John attended high school in San Fran- cisco and graduated from Cogswell Poly- technical College, San Francisco, with an Associate of Engineering degree and a ma- jor in Mechanical Engineering. John and his wife, Virginia, have two children, Michael and Michele. They live in the Richmond Annex. For relaxation they like to go swimming. John's hobby is raising cactus. Over the years several differenct kinds of cac- tus have been seen in his office. He is an officer of the Cactus & Succulent So- ciety of California, Inc. Last year he built a green house in his back yard. John also likes to take slides with his camera.

The Annual Stockholders Meeting was held at Spenger's Fish Grotto on the 21st of March. K. E. Hallikainen announced that we again had a 6% increase in sales over last year and the net earnings per share was $.45. Re-elected to the board of directors for 1966 were Mr. Hallikainen; Leslie C. Dorking, senior investment consultant of Loomis, Sayles & Company and director of the Chartered Bank of London; J. S. Dunnett, president of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation of Califor- nia in San Francisco; E. F. Schimbor and N. S. Waner.

A SAD FAREWELL: It is with regret that this month we have to report the passing of one of our fellow employees, Jerry Stanke. Jerry expired on February 8. He was loyal, diligent and a faithful employee and will be missed by all of us here at Hallikainen Instruments. Jerry is survived by his wife, Mariana, and one daughter, Dagmar. Interment was at Sunset View Cemetary in El Cerrito.

CHANGE OF HOLIDAY:

There has been some change in the holiday schedule for this year. This year we are exchanging the l/2 day before Christmas and the l/2 day before New Years for the full day after Thanksgiving. This will give us a nice four day weekend. The va- cation shutdown has been scheduled for the two week period commencing on July 4th.

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MEW EMPLOYEES: Pamela Field is the pretty brunette now working in the Production and Purchasing office, A native of California, Pamela was born in Albany and at the age of six moved to Richmond. "Pam" graduated from Harry Ells High School in 1964 and attended Contra Costa College 1% years, majoring in English with a minor in music, Pam has played the piano for eight years. She also plays the organ and has given several recitals. Tired of school and a desire to gain some practical experience in the business world> Pam decided to leave Contra Costa College and came to work for H,IU She plans to continue her education by attend- ing night school, Parties, boys, clothes and driving sports cars are among her many likes. PamPs dream is to h3ve her own sports car. She loves to drive d boat, go skin diving and water ski. She attends a basketball game at least once a week, plays tennis and golf, and enjoys watching the 49ers on TV0 Pamela has taken a charm course at the Oakland City College, Last summer Pamela and three other girls went to New York by car? taking three .weeks to do their sight seeing, She would like to visit Hawaii some time in the future. Pam has three brothers and two sisters and lives with her parents in Richmond. Her main goal in life is to marry some day.

Smiling Bernice Teeter is one of our new assemblers in the Electronic Department. Bernice was born in Oklahoma and spent her childhood there. She went to Jr. High School & High School in Shawnee. Ber- nice has lived in several states, includ- ing Washington, Arizona:, New Mexico and now in California, When she came to Cal- ifornia she lived in Vallejo dnd now lives in Richmond, Bernice is married to Max Teeter, whom she met at a dance in Oakland, The Teet- ers have two children, Sue, who is married 4

and Bob at home. Bernice's pride and joy is her three month old grandson, Scottie. There are now five generations in her family as Bernice's grandmother, age 87, is living and also her mother, Buying things for the new grandson, seems to be her main hobby at the present time, but when she has time she likes to work in her yard, She has many flowers. The Teeters travel quite a bit in the summer-time and when her husband goes to Reno trapshooting, Bernice goes with him, Before she was married, Bernice worked for Capwell s in Oakland, Then when her husband was called back into the Marines during the Korean War she went back to work. This time at Cutter Lab, Since then she has worked at McCorkles, Beckman and Tracer Lab.

William Littlehales, our new design draftsman in the Engineering Department, started to work for H,I, on January 24, 1966, Bill was born in Dickinson, North Dakota and moved to Richmond when he was 7 or 8 years old, He attained his el- ementary education in the Richmond schools, graduating from Richmond Union High School. Bill has attended Contra Costa Jr. College, University of California and Healds Engi- neering College in San Francisco. Gun collecting is a hobby of Bill's`, He now has about 38 guns in his collec- tion, He actively competes in pistol matches around the state, Bili has placed third in the state championship. For recreation he likes to water ski and go sailing, Bill and another gentleman have in- vented a tonometer, which measures intra- ocular pressure of the eye and is used in detecting the desease, glaucoma. Before coming to work at H,I., Bill was engaged in his own business, PThe Cygnus Co,' in Hayward, which he still has an interest in, Bill and his wife, Joann, live in Richmond` .

MORE NEW EMPLOYEES: Charles Russell, our new shipping clerk! was born in Kansas, but left there as a small child, _ His family then moved to Seattle, Washington, tTChi;ck'l. as he is called, has lived in several states as his father was an electrician and worked for an Electrical Company that moved all over the U.S, Chuck graduated from High School in Seattle and attended Business College ix Everett, Washington for thr,ee years, He first went to work with his father in the electrical trade, but gave it up as the work was too unsteady. He then moved to California and went to work at Montgomery Wards in Oakland, He has also worked at Alpha Photo Pro- ducts and Taylor Instruments before com- ing to work at Hallikainen Instruments, Chuck has known his wife, Marilyn, since childhood as they lived in the same neighborhood, Harilyn is a cashier- hostess working in Oakland_ The Russells have two daughters, Myra, age 6 and Eliz- abeth, age 3,. They live in San Leandro" Away from HOT.., Chuck likes to bowl, but h&s had to stop his league bowling, as he no-w zzi`ves home too late, since starting to Nork in Richmond, He also likes tc go hunting as often as,he can. Having :?ever been to Mexico, the Rns- sells plan to visit there on their va- cation this summer.

The expanding electronic field in Cali- fornia-brought Alfred Hartz to the Bay Area from Canada in 1957. "Al". as he likes to be called, worked for Beckman Instruments and Temescal Metallurgical Carp, before coming to work at HcI, as an electronic technicianb Al was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and graduated from high school there, He was in the Royal Canadian Air Force during W,W, II and was stationed in Can- ada and Newfoundland, Al took a course in Electron;cs? Ra- dio and Television dnd then operated his own business for awhile. In his spire time he likes to take color pictures0 Flowers are his main subject. !-I? enjoys his hi-fi and has built some of his own equipment, He has traveled across Canada several times but as yet has not seen very much of the United States, Al is married and has ttio girls living in Canadau The Hartzs live in Oakland, where he manages a small apartment build- ing,

H:.I. MANUFACTURED MACHINE TELEVISED: M0 L, Bramson's Heart-Lung machirie called the Bramson Membrane Oxygenator, which is manufactured by Hallikainen Instruments made the news. Recently it was televised on the 6:~7clock news on Channel 5 and has been publicized in the San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, Richmond In- dependent and the Presbyterian Medical Center publication "Spirit". The "Rolls Royce" of the Heart-Lung machines has been successfully used in more than 35 openheart operations,

BITS ABOUT ?EM: EXPOSITION: Fred Wolff, Eero Vasankari, Hans Graetsch, Ernie Shanks and Norm Warier? attended the 1966 Northemxli- fornia Industrial Exposition at the San Mateo Fairgrounds the first week in Feb- ruary.

AUDLTORS: The two gentlemen asking for all kinds of information in February were Nick Cerbone and Steve Oquist, They were here working on the annual auditing of our books by the Arthur Young & Company. Mr, Douglas Page, a partner of the Arthur Young & Company, visisted our plant on February llth,

HELEN VAN SLYKE was all aglow for a few days, as her daughter, Kathy and grand- dsughter, Karin, were visiting at her home for a few days, They made a quick visit to the office building when they arrived from the southern part of the state

BITS ABOUT !EM CONT< AN OFFICER: Mr. Hallikainen has been elected the new secretary and vice presi- dent elect of the ISA District XI Coun- cil. Congratulations:

HOSPITALIZED: P,C. Leung tias a patient at the Presbyterian Hospital in San Fran- cisco, Pui had an operation on Vallen- tines Day, He is now back at work and feeling fine,

VISITORS: Rose Hendrickson and Jewella Deffebach stopped by on February 2nd to say hello to all the old gang, Forrest Watson came in on January 31 to see everyone, It was his day off from his duties at the McClellan Air Force Base.

RESIGNATIONS: Arthur Alston resigned in January to accept a position at the Uni- versity of California Field Station in Richmond. Ben Kleinstein received a Public Health Fellowship and resigned on January ?lst to enroll at the University of Cal- ifornia. Ben has been coming back in when he doesn't have classes to help out in the En@-teering Department,

UN'ION ELECTION. The union had an elec- tion on Jir-lary 5th and re-elected George Kuehn as steward and Ron Bultena as atteeman for 1966,

VOLLEY BALL: Now that the weather is nicer, we find we have quite a few people that are athletically inclined. Several people are playing volley ball at lunch time.

ACCIDENT: Ferenc Szantho injured his ankle playing volley ball and had to have it operated on at Providence Hospital, We wish him a speedy recovery.

CHANGE OF CLASSIFICATION Herb Liske, our all-aroung part-time employee? has now joined our engineering staff, He dill be working as a draftsman rn the after- noons and still continue on with his schooling at Contra Costa Jr, College, FLU. Absenteeism ran high in February and the first part of March. Your Editor was among the unfortunate ones who had the flu and that is one of the reasons this issue of the Hi-lights is so late.

PROGRESS'ING: The Test/Training Program for the Shell senior inspectors is pro- gressing nicely and many instruments have been tested for the new refinery at Shell Oil in Martinez,

CONGRATULATIONS: To Jim Valle go our congratulations on his promotion. Jim was recently promoted from an electronics technician to an applications engineer in the Sales Department, His duties will in- volvs technical liaison for the Sales Department and actual sales and service contacts with customers in the field.

INTRODUCING: New employees in the manu- facturing building are Peter Lantelme, Ruby Sha and Richard LaBlanc; in the office building are Ferenc Szantho, John Pike and Nancv Seela. (More about t= nhe next issue T`

WELCOME BACK: Heinrich Schuetz was re- cently discharged from the Army and is back at Hallikainen Instruments at his old job as a machinist. Henry spent two years in the Army,

"You wouldn't have gotten such a high score if I had strings on my racket!"

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Pamela Field Kenneth Weagant

E M P L 0 Y E Bernice Teeter

Bill Littlehales Al Jones

Chuck Russell Pete Radovich