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June 1965
eosure
I n this issue
An HP nurse at work
Those ubiquitous hams
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URSE MARY DESMO DIS CONVI CED that people
N don't live safe and healthy lives by mere accident. "It
requires an effort on the part of each person. But this
is old hat," she says. "The real danger in a company like ours
is that we're not involved in hazardous occupations and there-
fore we're not always conscious of safety. You don't have to
tell a coal miner to wear a hard hat, but we sometimes have to
remind ourselves to put on safety glasses in production
areas."
o Miss Desmond is one of more than a dozen registered
nurses employed by Hewlett-Packard at locations around the
world. Her work at the Sanborn Division in Waltham, Mass.,
is identical in purpose, if not in detail, to the work of all the
others.
A typical day sees her serving her 980 charges in a variety
of ways. She may treat a cold or bandage a finger one minute,
bring an employee's health record up to date the next, then
take a quick run through the plant to inspect for potentially
dangerous conditions. All the while she is available for pro-
fessional, sympathetic consultation (she knows all the people
in the plant by their first names). And at regular intervals
she meets with the Sanborn safety committee for discussions
and reports.
o Even during time off she shows concern for the health and
happiness of Sanborn people. She has taken many courses
related to nursing and has served as a director of the Boston
Industrial urse Group. Additionally she helps many com-
munity health agencies which are available to serve em-
ployees with non-occupational as well as occupational prob-
lems.
Being a nurse was a lifelong ambition for Miss Desmond.
She was graduated from the nursing school at Carney Hos-
pital in Boston and served as a private nurse for a time while
taking further courses at Boston College. In 1941 she became ECG tests help head off potential heart conditions among employees.
the first person to take the Industrial Nurses course at Sim- A dozen or more tests are given each month.
Nurses Downing and Desmond meet with plant safety committee to discuss methods of reducing accident rate.
Left, Nurse Desmond provides friendly,
professional advice. Here she talks to Pat Costa. 3
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mons College. After five years with a large manufacturer of
industrial valves she joined Sanborn in 1947.
Sanborn's steady growth through the years holds but one
regret for her. "I have fond memories of my early days here
when there were only about 300 people and if any of them
got sick I could visit them at the hospital or in their home."
o Now, Miss Desmond is assisted in her busy schedule by
Evelyn Downing, a registered nurse who works part time for
Sanborn and also donates her services to a National Public
Health Study at Sudbury, Mass.
Each month the two nurses prepare a clinic activity report
which, among other things, provides a statistical picture of
health and safety at Sanborn. In one recent average month
there were nearly 1500 visits to the clinic. This may seem an
astounding number in view of the division's total employ-
ment, but a relatively few people requiring repeated treat-
ments accounted for the largest portion of these visits.
o Of the people who checked into the clinic, 25 were sent
home with such things as runny noses and sore throats, 15
were given routine electrocardiogram tests, and 47 received
shots for tetanus. The nurses treated 122 first aid cases but
only one was serious enough to cause lost time. This kind of
lost time record, according to Nurse Desmond, is the result
of the "ounce of prevention approach" to plant safety.
"Safety is a very personal matter," she points out. "It
seems strange, but you have to appeal to people to protect
themselves by following safe practices. Then you have to
remind them-sometimes over and over-until it becomes a
way of life." <1
Miss Desmond chats with Dick Nolan during safety
inspection of plant.
"Industrial nurses do a lot of record keeping.
I'm glad I took typing in high schoo!'''
says Miss Desmond.
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I N ORDER TO MAINTAIN a satisfactory growth rate for our com-
pany, we have to continually add to, upgrade and strengthen our total
capability. This requires a considerable amount of long-range planning,
plus a substantial investment in people, plant and equipment.
o Our ultimate success depends on the steady flow of new and improved
products from our various laboratories, so we must recruit the best technical
talent we can find. Moreover, we have to seek out people with good leader-
ship potential to be able to fill future management slots in a growing con-
cern.
We're happy to report that our recruiting activities have been especially
successful this year. We've expanded our engineering and scientific staffs
by nearly 15%, which is just about the rate we expect our business to grow
each year. We've been able to hire a number of top graduates from 39
colleges and universities.
o On the plant and equipment side of the picture, we've been particularly
busy. Here in Palo Alto we have a major new building program under way,
and in addition are investing about $2,000,000 in new machinery and equip-
ment.
We're adding over $50,000 worth of automatic and semi-automatic con-
veyor equipment in our materials handling areas. This will provide faster,
more efficient handling of parts and instruments.
The Frequency and Time Division is setting up a prototype manufactur-
ing facility for integrated circuits. This involves fairly expensive equipment,
including furnaces, vacuum evaporators and a precision camera. In another
part of its operations, F&T is adding an Edlund numeric drill to provide
high speed, highly accurate drilling of plated circuit boards. The price tag
Noel E. Porter, Vice President, Operations on this new machine is about $50,000.
o In the tool and die area we're adding electrical discharge equipment to
facilitate the production of highly complex dies. The production machine
shop will soon have another B&S screw machine and a large die casting
machine, the latter costing about $47,000. We're also expanding our metal
etch facility, and building a special automatic buffing machine for the die
cast shop.
Looking at some of our other facilities around the circuit, we've recently
announced plans for a large addition to our plant in Loveland, Colorado,
and the Colorado Springs Division is making some minor alterations to its
plant to accommodate an expanded engineering and engineering support
AROUND THE CIRCUIT activity.
Some new muscles for increasing our capability
In Massachusetts the Sanborn people are working on a more efficient
manufacturing layout, and are renovating a large part of their plant. The
renovation includes painting and re-lighting production areas, and improv-
ing the plant's air conditioning system.
In Europe the construction contract has been let for our new facility in
Scotland. This will be a 'most impressive plant, and will provide much-
needed additional space for HP Ltd.'s growing operations.
o All of this expansion and upgrading of plant and equipment doesn't just
happen. It's the result of many people spending many hours in studying
our market forecasts, analyzing manpower needs, reviewing cost and other
financial data, and in general doing a painstaking, comprehensive job of
long-range planning. And of course it requires a continuing generation of
profits to provide enough money to pay all the bills. Without profit there
are no new plants, no new machines-in short, no growth.
Each of our divisions participates in our corporate long-range planning,
and in strengthening our total capability. This is the key to maintaining our
leadership in this fast-growing field of scientific instrumentation.
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In amateur radio, there's something for everyone
Bob DeSimone, Yewell Sales Division, has
been a licensed amateur radio operator
since he was twelve.
HEN THAT PARALYZING EARTHQUAKE plunged
W Alaska into darkness and devastation last year, the
people of the state were in danger of being cut off
pastime and you've put yourself in for an hour or two of
spirited conversation. "There is no single thing about am-
ateur radio which attracts everyone to the same degree. Af
from the rest of the world. Telephone lines were down and all, there are about a quarter of a million of us aroun<-
commercial radio transmission facilities crumbled. world," he says. "However, I'd say there are some broad
But the communications blackout was not complete, thanks incentives. First there is the interest most of us have in elec-
to scores of amateur radio buffs in Alaska who quickly swung tronics and experimentation. A lot of us built our first crystal
into action and kept vital messages flowing to and from the set at about the same time we were learning to read."
outside world for the first 36 hours until commercial and o As a second incentive, North points out the desire to PPYO-
government services could be restored. form a public service and be available for emergency sit
o Was this an heroic performance? Without question, but tions. Thirdly, he lists the social aspects of being able to
this kind of selfless, volunteer service has become the modus communicate with people in another part of the nation or in
operandi for that amazing, world-wide breed of individuals far corners of the world.
known as ham radio operators. A company like Hewlett-Packard might be expected to
Ask a dyed-in-the-wool ham like Dick North (Palo Alto have more than its share of amateur radio operators,
product training section) what is so fascinating about this MEASURE editors decided to take a census. In all, there a e
George Forant, Sanborn Division Larry Miller, Colorado Springs Alicia Berkeley, Sanborn Division
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HP AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS
Name Call Letters Harne Name Call Letters Harne
HP CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS MICROWAVE DIVISION
nearly 200 who have an active interest in this avocation. All Earl Freeman WB6DEY San Jose Lester Benson WV6HBN Palo Alto
those with assigned call letters who could be tracked down Sumner Gould WA6JSP Mountain View Carl Buchhass WA6GGW Palo Alto
William Hixon WA6EEV Santa Cruz Robert Clark WA6PYQ Mountain View
are listed at right. John Lazier W6HBJ Palo Alto Chuck Clavell K6JKI Mountain View
Dick North WA6EEJ Saratoga Lee Colby WB6AMN Sunnyvale
One of these is Wally Battison, who works at Sanborn and Leslie Vickery W6AKR Redwood City Fred Collins WA6LMB East Palo Alto
lives in Arlington, Mass. He is, perhaps, the most experienced Jack Dupre WA6FKF Mountain View
BOONTON DIVISION Jim Endsley W6RRU Sunnyvale
of all HP ham operators and can be ranked as one of the Vic Binder K2QLK Lincoln Park, N.J. Harley Halverson K6HRL Palo Alto
Roger Bogert K2GHU Landing
pioneers in amateur radio. He was licensed in 1912 when Joe Hartmann K2AJV Dover
Harold Hiner W6WMO Cupertino
Lyle Jevons K6CKO Palo Alto
radio was in its infancy and in 1928 was the radio operator Ray Polen W2WCF Clifton Fred Johnstone W6DWM Palo Alto
George Sanford K2ARW Mt. Tabor Larry Lange WB6EVG Mountain View
with the first Byrd Expedition to the South Pole. With un- Don Terp K2JTN Morris Plains Jerry Lahtinen WA6NNQ San Jose
flagging enthusiasm he still rises at dawn every morning to Steve Vitkovits K2CCH Gillette Denis McHenry K6SRP San Francisco
serve the New England weather net. COLORADO SPRINGS DIVISION Aden
Montgomery K6MIX Sunnyvale
o Ham operators are prone to label each other according to Jerry Bishop
John Clayton
WIlICQ
KlARP
Colorado
Colorado
Springs
Springs Vic Moran
Bob Mostyn
W6EYG
W6UQA
San Jose
Los Altos Hills
types. There is the DX man, for instance. DX is their way of Wayne Crosslin K~STM Colorado Springs
Larry Miller WIlIZJ Colorado Springs Don Noaks K6HWU Mountain View
olizing distance and this particular type relentlessly Ed Prijatel WAIBSO Colorado Springs Ira Rogers K6GAP Sunnyvale
Bob Sammons WB6EUM Newark
es to communicate with the deep dark corners of the DYMEC DIVISION Lee Smith WN6LYD Redwood City
globe. They can talk about having a QSO (conversation) Bob Andersen K6LCG Palo Alto Bill Spurgeon K6DKM Sunnyvale
Blaine Carruth K61CW Mountain View Rudy Stefenel W60QW Menlo Park
with another ham in a far off country most people didn't Phil Davis W6MEJ Palo Alto Sam Teresi W6EOA Los Altos
know had been discovered yet. Matt Wroblewski of HP Asso- Joe Dixon K6DCD Portola Valley
Dick Horner K6YAI Redwood City NEELY SALES DIVISION
(';~ es is a big DX man who can claim contact.s with some- Bart Kingham WA6FYY Palo Alto Dick Blasing K6SHG Palo Alto
Bob Knapp K6YHB Mountain View Ralph Judy K7GAF Seattle
close to 75 countries including the Soviet Union: Fred Lummis W6DWG Sunnyvale Garry Lewis W7GQM Kirkland, Wash.
Then there are the rag chewers, the night after night Taylor Morgan K6VCP Palo Alto Tom Winker WA6SYO North Hollywood
Frank Rasmussen W6TJY Los AI tos
yakkety yak boys. Barry Goldwater and General Curtis Lloyd Summers K6VAT Santa Clara ROBINSON SALES DIVISION
Bill Taylor Bob Dospassos K3CHU Yeadon, Pa.
LeMay belong to this fraternity along with a few dozen HP W6NVJ San Jose
Walt Friedrich W3YUE Camp Hill, Pa.
Dorothy Willis K6ZLQ Sunnyvale
people. Toi Toivonen K2TMM Lincroft, N.J.
FREQUENCY & TIME DIVISION Barrie Wilmarth K3AYG Norristown, Pa.
q e contest man wants to develop new equipment and ex- Leo Clarkson W6BCD Palo Alto
RMC SALES DIVISION
p e n t with techniques. Then he enters contests to see how Lee Crandall W6MKG Cupertino
Bob Adams K2BTC Fort Lee, N.J.
John Dukes WA6TFG Palo Alto
he stacks up against others. Bob DeSimone of the Yewell Richard Goo K61AG Santa Clara Harry Mayo WB2EDS Hackensack, N.J.
Sales Division has scored highest in several VHF radio con- Carl Hanson WB6JVZ Cupertino
Bill Hawkins WA6GAU Sunnyvale SANBORN DIVISION
tests. Ed Hilton W6VKP Los Altos Wallace Battison WlHE Arlington, Mass.
Harold Humphrey WB6CMW Milpitas Alicia Berkeley WAlDHF Waltham
Another category (there are many more variations) are Dick Isaacson K6KFN Sunnyvale George Forant WlFON Hyde Park
Joseph Gaudet KlENH Somervill
tJ-. mobile hams. They are one of the fastest growing groups, Chuck Kingsford