He comes to us-with extensive &erfence and hae beea assigned to work with Mr. Bremeon and John Chin on the medical iuetrumente. .He He grew up in Pennsylvania whare his father was a Presbyterian minister. After gradu- ation frum high school, he went to Coyue Technical School in Chicago and studied 8ngineering. w.W. II brou@t him to Rare Ieland where ho worked for the Navy iu the 8ngineering deefgu departmeat. He liked ft eo well here that he decided to stay and hae worked for e8v8ral inetrum8nt vaniee in. this area, The past three years he epeat doing design drafting for the Hicroch~ca.l, Canpany here ia Berkeley. Stan does sane amateur photography for fun, builds gardea furuiture and enjoys camping with his family. tie Alters' hane in San Pablo is over 100 years old, as it was ou8 of the first houses in the area on a Spanish land grant. Stan's two daughtere are se&m at Sau Jose State, Barbara In Medical Technology and Nancy in Elem8ntary Edu8atioll.

-g%iif?& sizz&%zG:fz~ They may decide to remain there to live.

August 31, 1962 - page two

Promotion. Opal Taylor has taken over the job of Purchasing Agent since Howard Kirk left to accept a job'wiih the East Bay MUD. Opal has been with the company since September of 1960. She had previously worked for Thaler Pipe where, as assistant purchasing agent she had been work&g with the same line of valves and fittings that we use on our instruments. She started here as Production Clerk, was pro- moted to buyer and assistant to Howard, and in this job proved herself capable of handling ;this promotion to Purchasing Agent. Her prime qualification, I am told, is her ability to smile most charmingly at salesmen and get rid of them in short order.

Rae Zolman has moved down from engineering to be Opal's assistant and also carry the inter- office mail.

New Girl! Dee Fenster has taken over the job of getting the typing out for the engineerina departm ent. Her past accomplishments include growing up in Philadelphia, taking an academic course at Olney High, taking nurses' training for a year at Einstein Medical Center (which was enough to convince her that she would rather do something else), serving as a vol- unteer ambulance nurse, and working for three years at Minneapolis-Honeywell as a secretary in the sales engineering department. Three that she had so she and came all the plays on the company. For of popular her friend couldn't find two girls weeks ago the thought struck her never been west of Philadelphia, another girl started driving and way. Dee enjoys most sports and noon volleyball team here at the fun, she has a record collection show tunes and Calypso. She and live in Emeryville, because they another place that would rent to and a dog named flGumdropt'.

Custodians. Since Jack 0 `Keefe got a full- time job and decided to cut his working hours down to eight hours a day, he is no longer roller skating around the plant with his broom. We had to hire another janitor! Leslie Bowden is a local boy, went to Harry Ells High in Richmond and has completed a year of pre-law at Contra Costa College, He is now sweeping our floors to help finance the rest of his schooling. He is handsome, beautifully mannered and soft spoken -- sll of which is completely wasted on this empty building at night. Les is an avid fisherman and presently prefers trout fishing because he likes the mountains; however, he is just waiting for an opportunity to go salmon fishing, which he thinks might be even more interesting. He enjoys hunting also, and has a gun collection which includes an antique or two given to him by his father. He lives in Richmond with his parents and his sister. Congratulations to M.L.B.! A Hektoen

Dr, Harkins for their presentation of our Heart Massage Machine -and Portable Resua- citator at the Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association in Chicago. The 370 exhibits were judged, and medals were awarded to the three most outstanding for originality and excellence of presen- tation.

New Parents : The Eero Vasankaris have in- creased the Finnish-American population by one. Their baby daughter, Christine, was born August 10th -- a blue-eyed blonde, of course. The Erich Liskea are the proud parents of a baby boy, David Eric, born July 23rd. Erich left the assembly department last month to accept another job.

New Assembler. The new man in assembly is John Shackleford. Originally from Florida; he went tow school in Tampa and then joined the Navy. During his 9 years of active duty, he received his technical train- ing, sailed the seven seas and had duty stations in the Phillippines, Spain, Iceland, Texas and Maine. For the past year he has been working as a civilian in the overhaul and repair department of the Naval Air Sta- tion in Alameda. His varied interests in- clude leathercraft, coin collecting, histor- ical novels, auto mechanics, sports and eating interesting and different food in foreign restaurants. His next immediate project is to start night school at Oakland City College to accumulate credits toward a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is interested also in buying a ranch so that his two boys, now 3 and 6, can have the fun of spending their vacations in the country. John lives in Oakland and is a member of the active reserve in training in airways com- munications.

Who's Doing the Job? If Bill Breyer is looking a bit weary these days, it is from running the company single-&nded for two weeks while Mr. Schimbor was on vacation and Mr. Hallikainen was in the hospital for his unexpected surgery. However, E.F.S, is back taking charge of things again and K.E.H. is home in Orinda recuperating and obeying the doctor's orders. We expect him back September 4th in top shape.