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HP/AGILENT ALUMNI CLUB NEWSLETTER HP/AGILENT ALUMNI CLUB MINUTES – 5/4/10 The May 4, 2010 meeting of the HP/Agilent Alumni Club was called to order at 1:45 pm by President Joetta Hoewisch. The minutes for the April 6, 2010 meeting as published in the April 2010 newsletter were approved. Treasurer Jack Sheets gave the Treasurer’s report. Income for the month included $25 in dues, $9 in donations, and $27 for the 50/50 lottery for a total of $163.17. Expenses for the month totaled $79.59. The report was filed. There were 32 attendees, including Jan Allen, Joyce Arellano, Pat Bestgen, Jack Casey, Penny Cherry, Claudia Christiansen, Roger Christiansen, Nancy Craig, Ken Fulton, Lois Green, Juanita Hartman, Joetta Hoewisch, Carol Kibel, Anna Kochis, Patricia Korenke, Laura Mattison, Peggy McClellan, Gerry McGonigle, Wanda McGonigle, John Meredith, Ivagene Mikesell, Jerry Murphy, John Powell, Cecil Ray, Betty Rodosevich, Wanda Rogers, Jack Sheets, Joe Tighe, Polly Tounzen, Randy Walters, Helen Wilcots, and Gerry White. There are currently 172 paid members in the Agilent Alumni Club. The quorum required to conduct business at the meeting was determined to be at least 26 members including one officer. The quorum was met and was announced by Joetta at the start of the meeting. May Birthdays:
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Anderson........... May 11 Deaths: Donna Grasty, wife of Dick Grasty, died on April 29. We extend our sympathies to Donna’s family. New Business: Joetta explained a membership drive that the Board of Directors has approved. A new HP TouchScreen Computer will be given to the club member who wins a lottery based on recruitment of new members. The computer was given to the club by HP. Each lottery participant will be given one chance for each new member they recruit. The winner will be selected at the club picnic on August 3rd, but does not need to be in attendance to be eligible. Joetta encouraged all club members to participate in the membership drive indicating that the more members one recruits, the better chance they have for winning the computer. Gerry McGonigle described key features of the computer. The computer includes a LCD widescreen monitor, keyboard, and mouse, all of which are connected wirelessly. The computer uses Microsoft Vista operating system and features HP’s new TouchScreen technology. Joetta reported that Barbara Parsons has agreed to be a Sunshine Person for the club. Barbara’s duties as Sunshine Person will be to contact new club members to determine background information they would like to share with other club members. This information will be published in our newsletter. She will also contact regular members who are missing meetings to encourage them to attend. Old Business: Joetta indicated that the bylaws update will be completed prior to the June meeting. The revised bylaws will be distributed at that time. Presentation: The club was treated to an enjoyable hour of lively musical entertainment provided by the Fountain Valley Harmonizers. The Harmonizers, who were led by Sandy Franklin, were introduced by Jerry Murphy. The Harmonizers are made up of men and women 55 and older who have been providing musical entertainment to a wide range of Colorado audiences over the past 16 years. Sandy kicked off the hour-long session with an invitation for club members to join in the singing. The group sang a number of big band, traditional Irish tunes, and Broadway, tunes. Sandy invited several club members to participate. Roger Christiansen, Penny Cherry, Nancy Craig, Jerry Murphy, Anna Kochis, and Joetta Hoewisch joined the Harmonizers for a couple of tunes. These somewhat reluctant club volunteers put on a very impressive performance that delighted their fellow club members. Sandy invited club members to join the Harmonizers at their weekly jam sessions. These sessions are held at the Fountain Valley Senior Center at 5725 Southmoor Drive in Fountain on Wednesday afternoons from 3:00 to 4:00 PM. Announcements: Jack Casey reported that he will be returning to Agilent as a part-time, contract employee. Joetta explained that some members had asked questions concerning security of our website. The website has a secure area that requires user name and password for access. Sign-in information is provided to club members through email newsletters and mailed newsletters. There is sensitive information such as membership data containing names, addresses, and phone numbers on the Web Page. This information has been approved by members and is provided by the treasurer. This information should not be shared with non-members. The Board decided to change the password and has asked Gerry to include that information in your email May newsletter. This information will be included as a special insert in the May newsletter that is mailed to members who prefer non-electronic mailings. Joetta announced the next Red Hat meeting will be held on May 19th at 11:30 at Biaggi’s Restaurant, located at 1805 Briargate Parkway in the shops at Briargate. June Fritz will be the Hostess for this month’s luncheon and will be sending out emails and calling people who do not have access to a computer. Anyone wishing to join the group for lunch should contact Joetta at 599-5292. Joetta would like to thank everyone for volunteering for the greeter and refreshment list. We still have one volunteer opportunity for the month of November and that is for refreshments. If you would like to volunteer, please let John Meredith know. Joetta thanked Peggy McClellan for being our Greeter and Helen Wilcots and Penny Cherry for Refreshments. For our meeting in June the Greeter will be Pat Bestgen and the refreshments will be furnished by Jan Allen and Lela Havens. The meeting was adjourned at 3:30. Help the Club Grow and Perhaps Win a New HP Computer We all know of folks we worked with at HP/Agilent that we wish we could be able to see again in a fun setting like our retiree club. So, why not give them a ring and invite them to join the club? To make this a little bit better, HP has donated a new Touch Screen PC to our club and we will give it away to some lucky club member who recruits new members. Here is the deal, for every new member you bring into the club your name will be entered into the drawing for the computer. Bring in one new member and your name will be in the drawing once. Bring in five new members and you will have five chances to win. The drawing will take place at the picnic in Bear Creek Park on Tuesday August 3. You do not have to be in attendance to be eligible for the drawing. Dig out your old phone list and start calling your old buddies from work. When they join we will ask if they were referred to the club by a member and we will use that info to put your name into the drawing. The HP TouchSmart IQ524 PC a novel configuration that takes up very little desk space. The entire computer is built into the 22 inch wide screen display, and it is not big and boxy. The computer includes a LCD widescreen monitor, keyboard, and mouse, all of which are connected wirelessly. The computer uses Microsoft Vista operating system and features HP’s new TouchSmart technology. You can learn more about this computer at the HP web site, www.hp.com and searching on IQ524. June Meeting’s Program We have a change in the planned June program. With Agilent selling the NTSD Division to JDS Uniphase Helene Anhalt has had her work load greatly increase as she is serving those folks who are moving to JDS Uniphase. She has asked Sandy Kraemer to come in her place. Sandy is a well known lawyer here in COS and many of you might have worked with him in the past as he works closely with Helene. Sandy’s practice emphasizes estate planning and administration, and family organizations. Sandy has extensive experience in business, healthcare, estate planning and administration and real estate. He is an expert on estate planning and his presentation will help you in working on this phase of your life. Hijacking Family Security You can manage your earned and inherited assets while you are alive and thinking clearly. But what if you die; or your mind or body begin to fail? Who will then preserve your family security? Family assets may vary from a mobile home to a large portfolio of investments. Regardless of size, if you are not available or capable of making the decisions someone else or state and federal laws will make decisions for you. Decisions are made by choice or by default. Procrastination is life’s greatest saboteur. WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS Dewayne Mayo worked for HP/Agilent for a total of 33 years. He started as a custodian and progressed through jobs in Cable and Wire Fabrication, Manufacturing Specs, R&D, and Marketing, retiring as a Technical Marketing Engineer. Over the years Dwayne actively pursued further education at UCCS, PPCC and Regis. He is currently working on finishing a Masters in Education with the aim of beginning a second career in teaching, hopefully at the middle or high school level. His wife of 34 years and best friend, Ellen, is still working at Agilent. She currently has more than 30 years with HP/Agilent. They have two daughters. Dave Akin worked for HP/Agilent for 28.5 years. He worked in the raw PC board Fabrication and was in charge of writing and maintaining the NPC software and administering computers. Later he worked as an NPI test engineer/test system developer/implementer. Dave and his wife, Nancy, live in Colorado Springs Dennis Kruse, worked for HP for 30 years, first in CRT and then in Intercoperate Accounting. Dennis is married to Sharon. They have enjoyed traveling to Australia, and Hawaii. Dennis also enjoys golf, bridge, and hunting and fishing. Mike Griebel worked for HP for 37 years. He worked at the Colorado Springs site until 1981, and then moved to Corvallis, Oregon. His work involved procurement and also tool engineering, where he designed plastic injection molds. Mike is married to Michelle and they currently live in Corvallis, Oregon. GREETER & REFRESHMENT LIST GREETER REFRESHMENTS
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Jan Allen The Experiment A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. Three minutes went by and a middle-aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried up to meet his schedule. A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping continued to walk. A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work. The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tugged him along, hurrying, but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on. In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition. No one knew this but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars. Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theater in Boston and the seats averaged $100. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and priorities of people. The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context? One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing? JUST FOR LAUGHS Why Eat Here? A group of 45 year old guys discuss where they should meet for dinner. Finally they agree to meet at Kelley's Restaurant because the waitresses have low cut blouses. 10 years later at age 55, the group agrees to meet at Kelley's because the food is good and the wine selection is excellent. 10 years later at age 65, the group agrees to meet at Kelley's because they can eat there in peace and quiet and the restaurant is smoke free. 10 years later at age 75, the group agrees to meet at Kelley's because the restaurant is wheel chair accessible and they have an elevator. 10 years later at age 85, the group agrees to meet at Kelley's because they have never been there before. A Blond Guy Joke ..... And well worth the wait! An Irishman, a Mexican and a blonde guy were doing construction work on scaffolding on the 20th floor of a building. They were eating lunch and the Irishman said, "Corned beef and cabbage! If I get corned beef and cabbage one more time for lunch, I'm going to jump off this building." The Mexican opened his lunch box and exclaimed, "Burritos again! If I get burritos one more time I'm going to jump off, too." The blonde opened his lunch and said, " Bologna again! If I get a bologna sandwich one more time, I'm jumping too." The next day, the Irishman opened his lunch box, saw corned beef and cabbage, and jumped to his death. The Mexican opened his lunch, saw a burrito, and jumped, too. The blonde guy opened his lunch, saw the bologna and jumped to his death as well. At the funeral, the Irishman's wife was weeping. She said, "If I'd known how really tired he was of corned beef and cabbage, I never would have given it to him again!" The Mexican's wife also wept and said, "I could have given him tacos or enchiladas! I didn't realize he hated burritos so much." Everyone turned and stared at the blonde's wife. The blonde's wife said, "Don't look at me. The idiot always made his own lunch." The Baptist Cowboy A cowboy, who just moved to Wyoming from Texas, walks into a bar and orders three mugs of Bud. He sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn. When he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and orders three more. The bartender approaches and tells the cowboy, "You know, a mug goes flat after I draw it. It would taste better if you bought one at a time." The cowboy replies, "Well, you see, I have two brothers. One is in Arizona, the other is in Colorado. When we all left our home in Texas, we promised that we'd drink this way to remember the days when we drank together. So I'm drinking one beer for each of my brothers and one for myself." The bartender admits that this is a nice custom, and leaves it there. The cowboy becomes a regular in the bar, and always drinks the same way. He orders three mugs and drinks them in turn. One day, he comes in and only orders two mugs. All the regulars take notice and fall silent. When he comes back to the bar for the second round, the bartender says, "I don't want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to offer my condolences on your loss." The cowboy looks quite puzzled for a moment; then a light dawns in his eyes and he laughs. "Oh, no, everybody's just fine," he explains, "It's just that my wife and I joined the Baptist Church and I had to quit drinking." "It hasn't affected my brothers though!"
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COLORADO SPRINGS **************** SPECIAL FEATURE **************** The following article was printed in the May 2010 issue of Pueblo Lore, and with their kind permission is reprinted here for the enjoyment of those who worked in the company co-founded by this wonderful man. David Packard 1912 - 1996 By Aria Aschermann (First published in the April, 1997 issue of Pueblo Lore.)
Editor's Note: DAVID PACKARD, a native of Pueblo famous as co-founder of the gigantic electronics firm, Hewlett-Packard, and a founding father and guiding spirit of Silicon Valley, died a year ago on March 26, 1996, in Palo Alto, California. Packard was born on September 7, 1912, to lawyer Sperry Packard and his wife, Ella, a high school teacher. The company which Packard and his college friend, Bill Hewlett, started on a shoestring in 1939, today is one of the world's leading manufacturers of Hi Tech electronic equipment utilized by both the private and public sector consumers. From 1969-1972 Packard served at the Pentagon as deputy to Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, under President Nixon. After leaving this post he served on several commissions for the Defense Department, most recently under President Reagan. PCHS member Neal McNaughten, now of Rockville, Maryland, attended Centennial High School with Packard. They kept in touch for more than seventy years, In fact, they were planning an August trip to Packard's lodge "Tetachuck", west of Prince George, British Columbia, when David became ill. Neal recently sent us a packet of articles from California newspapers written at the time of Packard's death. Most of the following information comes from that source and from David Packard's book, The HP Way. How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company. New York, HarperCol/ins, 1995. ----------------------- DAVID PACKARD was always interested in radio. As a youth he was a ham radio operator in the days before most people even had a radio. He was an athlete, a gardener, a lover of nature and all things outdoors. He became a community worker, member of the school board and later chairman of the board of trustees at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, and a philanthropist. He also developed The HP Way, his own particular method of building a competent and loyal work force in a growing business. During the summer between his junior and senior years at Centennial High School (Pueblo, Colorado) he visited Stanford and learned this university had an excellent electrical engineering program. Upon his graduation from Centennial High School in 1930, he was accepted at Stanford. Before his college graduation in 1934, three events took place to shape his future: he met Lucile Salter whom he married in 1938 (they had one son and three daughters); he and William Hewlett became good friends and set a goal of building a business partnership, which became a reality in 1939; and he discovered an amateur radio station on the campus near the laboratory of a new young professor, Fred Terman. (Through the years Terman served as a mentor for Packard and Hewlett, giving them much valuable help.) It was Packard's interest in ham radio that helped set his future course. During his summer vacations in college, Dave worked various jobs. One summer was spent with a hard-rock miner near Cripple Creek, setting dynamite and hauling loose rock out with a wheelbarrow, another at a Pueblo brickyard, loading and unloading the kilns. Another was spent delivering ice in Bessemer, picking up large chunks of ice hauled by freight from Salida, where the ice had been cut and stored during the winter, and cutting it into pieces for his customers. Packard's first job after his graduation from Stanford was with General Electric at Schenectady, New York. He was told there that there was no future for electronics (called "radio" in those days). After a couple of non-challenging jobs he was assigned to the vacuum-tube engineering department. The gallon-size glass tubes were made in batches of twenty. Many exploded when tested. Given the job of getting the next batch through, he decided to spend his time on the floor making sure every step was done properly. He soon learned that instructions given by the engineering department were not clear enough to ensure that every step could be done correctly. The factory people wanted to do their jobs right, so he worked along side them to learn every possible cause of failure. "As a result," he said, "every tube in that batch of twenty passed its final test without a single failure." This to him was an important lesson -- that personal communication was often necessary to back up written instructions. This was the genesis of what became known as HP's "Management by Walking Around." In the summer of 1938 Fred Terman arranged a Stanford fellowship for Dave Packard. GE gave him an unpaid leave of absence, and in August he and Lu drove back to Palo Alto from New York. (He formally resigned from GE a year later.) At this time he was reunited with Bill Hewlett, and their long time partnership was formed. The partners flipped a coin to determine whose name would appear first in the company name. Hewlett-Packard's legendary start as manufacturers took place in 1939 in a one-car garage behind the house at 367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto. The huge initial investment sum was $538. (The garage is now a California Historical Landmark.) The Packards were renting the lower floor of the house, and Hewlett, then a bachelor, lived in a small building in back. Their first big order came from Walt Disney Studios for eight audio oscillators at $71.50 each, which Disney used in the sound production of his cartoon, "Fantasia." At the end of 1939, their first full year in business, their sales totaled $5,369, with profits of $1,563. By that time they needed additional space in which to work and rented a small building nearby. However, their resources were still limited. They built an oven out of an old refrigerator and put it out back to replace Lucile Packard's oven which they had been using to bake paint onto cabinets. The refrigerator's insulation one night caught fire, but it was quickly extinguished before it did much damage. The company prospered. Dave had taken two classes at Stanford in 1938 -- business law and management accounting, which proved invaluable. Although Bill was basically the technical expert and Dave handled the business strategy, Dave was also greatly respected among the engineers, and when Bill was called to the Army Signal Corps during World War II and Dave was left with management of the firm, all went well. Through the wide circle of contacts of the gregarious and genial partners, HP always managed to find highly qualified engineers to develop new products. Individual research and experimentation were encouraged throughout the company. As time went by, Hewlett-Packard's system of management became known as The HP Way. Pay as you go rather than incurring long term debt was the watchword. Although at times a business might have it tough, borrowing large sums can often lead to the loss of everything. If belts can be tightened enough, a down-turn often proves to be temporary. Of course, as with most companies, they had their ups and downs. An example: during a slow time in 1970 incoming orders at Hewlett-Packard were running much lower than their capacity to produce. Facing a possible prospect of a 10 percent layoff, the employees agreed to a schedule of working nine days out of every two weeks -- a 10 percent cut in work schedule with a corresponding 10 percent cut in pay. But no one was laid off. After six months orders were up again and everyone returned to a full work schedule. During World II the company began paying bonuses according to production. Profit-sharing is still a part of the HP Way, as well as close relationships among HP people and combining a common purpose with teamwork. "In the early years we were all working on the same problems, soliciting and using ideas from wherever we could get them," Packard wrote. "The net result was that each employee felt that he or she was a member of the team." Management by Walking is still part of the HP Way, although due to the present size of the company it is a little different from the early days when Packard and Hewlett did most of the Walking themselves. Managers are urged to have a thorough knowledge and understanding of the work of his or her group, and through personal contact make sure that their people clearly understand the objectives and specific goals of their division or department. On a certain occasion Packard put his philosophy in these words. "Management has a responsibility to its employees, it has a responsibility to its customers, it has a responsibility to the community at large." He explained later that when he first made the statement, he was almost laughed out of the room. PROOF that Packard's philosophy works was evident after his death in March 1996. Present at memorial services were people from all ranks of technology and big business, from government and public service, from the non-profit sector and charitable organizations. But they also came from the ranks of his employees. To the workers he was "Dave." "You could see a sparkle in his eye when he said hello to you," said a graphic designer at HP Labs in Palo Alto. He was so approachable." A research services manager in Palo Alto said, "I can remember receiving one of my very first profit-sharing checks from him in person. He was always very easy to talk to. I practice what I learned from him. When we give out profit-sharing checks, I always hand them directly to the employees." A newspaper reporter said "Packard had a habit of sitting down at random for lunch in the cafeteria just so he could meet people, even though the company had grown so impossibly big that he could never know everyone intimately. Along with co-founder William Hewlett, he instilled in them a philosophy of business known as the HP Way. Treat your employees with respect, trust and humility." And so, in the words of a San Jose Mercury News columnist on March 30, 1996: "They laid a prince of Silicon Valley to rest Friday, and the other royalty of the realm, the dukes and duchesses, counts and countesses, came to pay him homage. Don't misunderstand. David Packard wasn't like the modern royals we see elsewhere. He was unafraid of getting his hands dirty with actual labor, unafraid of getting close to the people with whom he worked and lived and played. "And so his people came to pay him homage Friday afternoon -- in a church of Stanford sandstone, not Michelangelo marble, and wearing somber suits and dresses, not medieval robes -- but the effect of royal pageantry was much the same." ##### Dave and Neal … "Pac & Mac" David Packard grew up in a two-story house at 29th and Elizabeth in Pueblo. Neal McNaughten's home was at 1013 E. 7th Street. Dave graduated from Centennial High School in 1930, Neil in 1929. Though as adults they lived on opposite coasts, McNaughten in Maryland and Packard in California, they kept in close contact. When Neal renewed his membership to PCHS last August he related how he first learned about the Pueblo Lore. His initial membership was a gift from David Packard. He wrote: "A couple of years ago I was visiting Dave at his home in Los Altos, California. One morning at breakfast he asked if I was acquainted with the Society's publication, whereupon he put in front of me at the breakfast table a stack of publications at least a foot and one half high .... " You can imagine our feelings at this message. We had been sending complimentary copies of the Lore for some time to David Packard, partly because of his well known connection with Pueblo and the fact of his contributions to the area, but also because we felt he was a very interesting person and might enjoy reading about his home town. Little did we dream that he was saving the copies! Certain that Neal McNaughten must also have close ties to Pueblo, I sent back a note asking if he could be the son of Gertrude McNaughten, a nice "older" lady that I had met at Bethel Methodist Church in east Pueblo during World War II. Sure enough! Neal responded that he had been active in youth activities at the church, and his mother in the ladies' groups. He also told much about his long friendship with Dave Packard. They had a common bond in their interest in radio. Neal explained that while Dave was busy in California with his HP company he (Neal) was helping to set the world's communications system in order. "Starting in 1943 -- we hadn't won World War II yet but I was one of about eight engineers moved to Washington for post-war planning for future communications. Back then we knew nothing about satellites but we made plans to accommodate them." He explained that Dave was in the construction side of electronics, and he (Neal) was in the standardization and enforcement side of communication. A Pueblo friend of his, Pat Walker Burke, explains that when Neal retired he was Assistant Chief of the Broadcast Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission of the United States, and that during the 70s and 80s he traveled to Switzerland every year to negotiate channels for the International Satellites with other countries. Neil mentioned that he traveled to 63 different countries on his job. Incidentally, Neal McNaughten was self-educated; he did not attend college. Neal worked from 1927 until his high school graduation in 1929 for Lawrence (Larry) Walker of Pueblo Walker Radio, located at 809 N. Main (later at 218 W. 8th then around the corner from the Vail Hotel at 100 N. Victoria). He recollects that his mother had him invite Dave over for a Sunday dinner. "I had an amateur radio -- or ham -- station with which I could talk to other amateurs in Morse code practically around the world. I introduced Dave to this amateur world after dinner that Sunday -- from there he was hard to stop -- he built his own ham equipment. As a result he often introduced me to his friends as the 'guy who put him in the business.' I was always very proud of this coming from such a totally successful man." Larry Walker (Pat Burke's father) had a lot to do with Neal and Dave's interest in ham radio. During the late '20s and early '30s they belonged to the San Isabel Radio Club made up of "hams." Dave was secretary of the club, Neal the treasurer. After he graduated, Neal opened his own radio repair business, working out of his home on E. 7th, repairing radios and setting them up with antennas. Neal tells how much the two of them as high school students enjoyed fishing trips together -- sometimes for two to four weeks with no more than $15 between them. They fished the Gunnison and the Powderhorn, taking either Dave's Hupmobile or Neil's Model A Ford roadster. (On much later fishing trips they flew in to Dave's lodge in Canada -- no roads!) In Packard's book he tells about frequent fishing trips to Colorado during college vacations. (Neal says that by that time he was building broadcast stations in Texas.) One high school prank Neal shared with us. He was an assistant (at 25 cents an hour) in the Physics and Chemistry lab. "Hence I had keys to the supply room. Dave and I found two X-ray tubes, so we put them to work. Our creation permitted us to see the bones in our hand. Our teacher, Professor Jones, found out what we were doing -- he almost exploded and we both were threatened with expulsion from school on the next time." Although they were both extremely busy during their middle years, the friends kept in touch. in later years they were together many times, fishing in British Columbia, deer hunting on Dave's ranch below San Jose, California. "It was on one of those trips that Dave one morning at breakfast put that large stack of Pueblo Lore in front of me. He pointed out two or three particular items, and left me. He had to go to a Board meeting of HP as I recall. Actually, it took me into the second day to look through them." Last summer, he went on, he and his oldest son went deer hunting on Dave's ranch below San Jose -- 38,000 acres. "Dave estimated that at least 2,000 wild pigs live on this ranch, along with elk, turkey, bobcats, and deer." And so we leave our account of "Pac & Mac", although we are tempted to ask more questions and go on and on. Neal McNaughten ended one of his notes, "Thanks so much for writing. It takes me back to those days when I thought the world was my oyster. Now I am 86 and Dave was about 14 or 15 months younger than I. In closing -- has anyone found the missing (was it King or Queen) from the old Mineral Palace? Kindest Regards, Neal McNaughten." Aria Aschermann Our thanks to Jerry Murphy for finding this article and for getting permission from the publisher of Publeo Lore for us to use it in our newsletter. |