Bonnie Granger Melba Puryear Seymour Klein Mary Ann Hutnick

Dorothy Marvin Joseph Caziere J. Morquecho Noel Amos

Billy Bruhn Davie Henshaw Harold Ferguson

PROMOTIONS

BONNIE GRANGER from GAE Leadto Supvr., Assembly; MELBA PUR-YEAR from Executive Secretary to Cus-tomer Service Administrator; SEY-MOUR KLEIN from Systems Analystto Supvr., Manufacturing Estimating;MARY ANN HUTNICK from Manu-facturing Data Analyst to ProcurementLiaison Coord.; DOROTHY MARVINfrom Department Clerk to Manufactur-ing Data Analyst; JOSEPH CAZIEREfrom Truck Driver to Procurement Liai-son Coord.; JOSEPHINE MORQUE-CHO from Parts Marker to FlexowriterOperator; NOEL AMOS from CustomerTraining Clerk to Support Analyst; BIL-LY BRUHN from Manufacturing Esti-mator to Industrial Engineer; DAVIEHENSHAW from Marketing Plans Pro-grams Coord, to Cost Account Coord.;HAROLD FERGUSON from Supvr.Test Equipment Design to Mgr., TestEquipment Design; VIOLET STEAR-LEY from Shipping Receiving Clerk toProduction Control Follow-Up Coordin-ator; PAT KEEGAN from Engineer toSupvr., Test Equipment Design; JOANN BINNS from Dept. Clerk to Job

Order Clerk; CAROL GOLDTH W AITEfrom Executive Secretary to Adminis-trative Assistant; RICHARD JOHN-SON from Final Assembler Lead toMfg. Estimator; DAVID SACKS fromField Service Engineer to Sr. Field Serv-ice Engineer; KENNETH KELLEY fromField Service Technician to Field Serv-ice Engineer; DOREEN JACKSON fromSecretary to Sr. Secretary; WILLIAMALEXANDER from Field Service Engi-neer to Sr. Field Service Engineer; EL-FRIEDE OTERO from Systems Analystto Sr. Systems Analyst; MICHAEL KEE-GAN from Electronic Engr. Assoc. toSr. Electronic Engr. Assoc.; STELLAWHITAKER from Sr. Job Order Clerkto Executive Secretary; ROBERT LANGfrom Supvr., Packaging Design to Sr.Staff Engineer; ROBERT SEBESTAfrom Sr. Designer to Design Specialist;E.K. PATEY from Designer to Sr. De-signer; FRANK GETZEWICH from En-gineer to Sr. Engineer; HELEN ESPO-SITO from Contract Coordinator toContract Administrator; STEVEN KOR-ELL from Contract Coordinator to Con-tract Administrator; RICHARD KINGfrom Sr. Designer to Design Specialist.

72 Awards in 79 ForEmployees' Suggestions

Forty employees had a totalof 72 suggestions accepted forawards during 1979. Theawards (gift certificates) rangedfrom $15 to $100.

In addition to the regularawards, bonus awards are giv-en for previously accepted sug-gestions, and range from $25to $100.

Bonus awards for this yearwere presented to: Jim Aver^a,for his improved method fnprocessing circuit board film;Jerry Benoit for devising amethod for utilizing existingequipment in making view-graph copies; Jim Davis forhis suggestion for the increased

productivity and reduced ma-terial handling of polyurethanefoam in the Carpenter Shop;and to Harry Pace for his sug-gestion for reducing time inthe interpretation of E.O. draw-ing changes.

Other bonus winners for theyear were: Leo Heinz, NeldaArata, Chris Gil, Adolph Bart,George Webb, Vic LaCasella,Ed Ritts, and Margaret Reb-man.

The ESP committee, headedby Marion Daggett, includes:Carl Culver, Phil DeGrazio,George Doerries, Ron Maas,and Duane Vennes.

News, events and other it

Librascope Awarded S1

The Company was recently awarded a$1 million contract for the design anddevelopment of new equipment for use inthe torpedo room aboard U.S. Navy attacksubmarines.

This program has been designated theTRU (Torpedo Room Upgrade) Program.

OTHER NEW BUSINESS

Tactical Computer TerminalsDemonstrated to U.S. ArmyUnits in Europe

During November and early Decembera Librascope Army team consisting ofHank Pinczower, Ted Aitken, Vic Netup-sky and Bill Chin, demonstrated opera-tional hardware to various elements ofthe U.S. Army stationed in Germany.

Presentations were made to the Hdq.

Seventh Army/USAthe Fifth Corp. inSeventh Corps in Sti:from those viewingwas reported as "exc

Countermeasure 1Module System (C

The Company hastive award to develoLauncher Module Ssigned to provide aacoustic countermeaclear attack class su

Surface ShipModernizationProgram

Librascope receivawards from the N;

Personal Accident InsuranceSign-Ups in January

If you did not already sign upfor The Singer Company PersonalAccident Insurance Plan offeredlast June, you may enroll duringthe month of January, 1980. Or, ifyou wish to increase the amountof coverage you signed up for inJune, you may do so in January.

This plan, for all salaried, tech-nical and office employees and

their dependents, offers anyamount of personal accident insur-ance coverage, from $25,000 to$250,000, in multiples of $25,000,up to and including the maximumpermitted for your salary class.

Enrollment cards and/or informa-tion may be obtained in the Compen-sation and Benefits Office, Bldg.3, Ext. 1223 or 1224.

Do You NeedUpdating?

If you have recently married,or made some other change inyour status that would make itnecessary to change the depen-dent coverage on your insurancepolicies, you should update thatinformation with the Nurse'sOffice, Bldg. 17, X-1244.

"It is most important that em-ployees keep their group insur-ance dependent coverage cor-rectly listed," reminded ChuckHenry, Manager, Compensationand Benefits.

"It is particularly importantto keep the correct beneficiarylisted under the life insurancebenefits of your policy."

Dependent children over 19years of age are not covered bygroup insurance medical benefitsunless they are full-time studentsand depend solely on the em-ployee for support. In such cases,a dependent may be covered untilage 23.

For information regarding ben-eficiaries and dependent cover-age, employees may contact theNurse's Office.

Amateur RadioClub Formed

A new club has been formed atLibrascope . . . the Amateur RadioClub. Organizers.MauriceDeLongfieldand Jim Gilliam, say they started theclub primarily for those persons inter-ested in radio communications, inhelping persons obtain their radiooperator license, and if necessary, toprovide emergency radio communica-tions at Librascope.

Meetings are held the first Tuesdayof every month in Bldg. 17, duringlunch, Club officers are: Maurice De-Longfield, president; Jim Gilliam, vicepresident; Jan Brazil, secretary; War-ren Douglass, Activity Chairman; andJerry Mundy, Treasurer.

The club is open to all employees.For more information, call Ext. 1085,or Ext. 1062.

iteresting things...

Million Navy Contract

IEURin Heidelberg,Frankfort, and the;tgart. The response;he demonstrationsellent".

auncher,AMS)received a competi-) a Countermeasure'stem (CLAMS), de-neans of launchingiure devices from nu-amarines.

sd two competitiveval Ocean Systems

Command, NOSC, San Diego, for hard-ware development to be used on surfaceASW ships.

The first of these awards, an InterfaceControl Panel, will provide a switchinginterface for Shipboard Weapon ControlSystems. It is a small, low-cost, reliablereplacement for existing Weapon ControlSwitchboards.

The second award was for an Ordaltneeded to upgrade the capability of theASROC Mk 16 Launcher. This programinvolves the design of a microprocessorcontrolled amplifier used in training andelevating the launcher.

Both of these programs have productionpotential over the next three to five years.

In addition, NOSC, San Diego, hasawarded Librascope a sole source contractto study the handling of target data.

9 Graduate FromGAE Training Program

I-S? TRAINING CLASS (from left): Gregory Valdez; Aliceis, Lead; Kenneth Menephee, LeRoy Day, Marcellinegs, John Millette, Chad Clark; Bruno Lozingot; Wm.g; David Johnson; Nelda Arata, Lead; andlva Stewart,i.

ne out of twelve persons successfully completed aweek Company sponsored training course for

>ral Electrical Assemblers (GAE's). The nine grad-3 of the course are now classified as General;rical Assemblers. Three of the employees entering;ourse were Custodians at Librascope, one was awrap, and five persons were hired for the trainingram which ended in October.e new GAE's are: Marcelline Triggs, William Seelig,Millette, David Johnson, Bruno Lozingot, Gregory

ez, Kenneth Menephee, LeRoy Day, and Chadk.e purpose of the GAE training courses at Librascopetrain persons with no prior electrical experience for' into electrical assembler classifications,structors for the course were: Gerry Henshaw, RonIdi, Keith Weideman, Jim Doll, Malinda Boyd, Jimpton, Ralph DelleFave, Bob Peterson, Gene Marsh-Sob Nelson, Sam Baker, and Bonnie Granger,irking with the trainees as Leads were: Alice Hinds,a Arata, Iva Stewart, Catherine Roszhart, Helenrts and Alberta McClerkiens.e training covered basic soldering, as well as cablelarness soldering, hardware orientation, wire prep-on, circuit board soldering and tool usage, hard-and hand tool orientation, and component identifi-n and installation.

Social SecurityUp in '80!

Beginning with the first payperiod in January, 1980, moreSocial Security (Medicare-FICA) taxes will be deductedfrom employee paychecks. TheSocial Security tax will be6.13% of the first $25,900 ofemployee earnings, or a maxi-mum tax of $1587.67. This isan increase of $183.90 over1979.

A matching amount (maxi-mum of $1587.67) will be paidto the Federal Governmentby Librascope for employees.

State Disability Insurancein 1980 will remain at 1% ofthe first $11,400 of employeeearnings, or a maximum of$114 for the year.

Golf Club Sets '80Tournament Schedule

Sightseeing or golfing??? Golf club members at the La Canada CountryClub Tournament in November (from left): Dick Kennerknecht, JohnGuarino, Bill Graham and Al Germano.

The Librascope Golf Clubheld its final tournament ofthe year at the La CanadaCountry Club on November 3.A banquet in the clubhousefollowed the tournament, atwhich the top three winners ofthe year-end tourney wereawarded their prizes. Winnerswere: Chuck Laughlin, 1stplace; Ken Mandeville, 2ndplace; and Ron Brannon, 3rdplace.

Following is a schedule oftournaments planned for 1980:Saturday DeBell Golf CourseJan. 12 BurbankMonday Sunset HillsFeb. 18 Thousand OaksFriday Encino Golf CourseApril 4 Sepulveda DamSaturday Azusa GreensMay 10 AzusaSaturday Tropicana Golf CourseJune 21 Las VegasSaturday Brookside Golf CourseJuly 19 PasadenaSaturday Santa Anita Golf CourseAug. 16 ArcadiaSaturday Knollwood Golf CourseSept. 20 Granada Hills

Frank Copple,Tournament Chairman

Welcome Aboard!Following are Librascope's newest additions:JEFFERY OW, Associate Engineer; GLENDA NUCK-

LES, Department Clerk; WILLIAM HALL, Sr. Engineer;CHARLES GOOLEY, Technical Programmer; HELENWYATT, Technical Editor; WILLIAM HUNSAKER, Sr.Pressman; DONNA GLASS, Repro. Equipment Operator;GLENN BENJAMIN, Surface Plate Inspector; FREDSTEINER, Sr. Engineer; GEORGE FLYNN, Engineer;STANLEY RAYMOND, Field Service Engineer; GREG-ORY VALDEZ, GAE; KENNETH MENEPHEE, GAE;BRUNO LOZINGOT, GAE; CHAD CLARK, GAE; TIMWILKINSON, Industrial Security Representative; RACH-ELLE CARTER, Department Clerk; JOSE SOSA, Tech-nical Illustrator; JERILYN SPEED, Dept. Clerk; SYLVIAHUERTA, Parts Lister B; RUDY NUNEZ, Sr. TechnicalIllustrator; EDUARDO SALUD, Staff Accountant; RAN-DALL ARRUDA, Field Service Technician; WALTERLONGACRE, Sr. Engineer; BRUCE GADNEY, IndustrialEngineer; ELINOR SHIELDS, Technical Programmer;ANNIE ROWE, GAE; JOANNE REYNOLDS, Secretary;MARY MONTOYA, GAE: RENEE JONES, Payroll Super-visor; RONALD ANDERSON, Systems Analyst; JOHNNYJONES, GAE; CATHY VANNOY, Employment Assistant;MARGARET BRICE, Department Clerk; CHRISTINAHEINMILLER, Repro Typist;

Fun, fantasy and traditional holiday spirit will be themagical ingredients for Christmas at Disneyland thisyear. The Park's 11-day celebration, Dec. 21-31, willbring a traditional "winter wonderland" atmosphere to"The Happiest Place on Earth," along with top-nameentertainment, extended operating hours, and the delight-ful "Very Merry Christmas Parade."

Disneyland's holiday hours will be 10 am to midnightDec. 21-31; 10 am to 7 pm Christmas Eve (Dec. 24); 9 amto 7 pm on Christmas Day (Dec. 25); 9 am to midnightDec. 26-30; and 9 am to 7 pm Dec. 31, before reopeningfor a special New Year's Eve Party held from 8:30 pm to2:30 am on Dec. 31.

Libravets

Richard Roepke25 Yrs.Maintenance Engr.

Bertha Montgomery20 Yrs.Adjusting

Roy Brown20 Yrs.Art Department

Margarett Vasilieff20 Yrs.Sched. & Records

Charles Renter20 Yrs.Engr. Admin.

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Nick Costantini Gene Swygard20 Yrs. 20 Yrs.Value /Liaison Engr. Sys. Support/ Eval.

Mai Dacher Albert Saenz20 Yrs. 20 Yrs.Nav. Weap. Sys. Eng. Receiving Inspection

Liliane Buteau20 Yrs.Machining

J. Paul Jones20 Yrs.Field Service

Marion Daggett15 Yrs.Personnel & Org.

Art Owens15 Yrs.Finance

Frank Yapp20 Yrs.Personnel & Org.

NOT PICTURED:20 Yrs - David Sanderson, Sam Baker,Warren LeBow, Margaret Lopez.15 Years - Richard Havener, Carl Man-dernacht, Harry Ford

MORE LIBRAVETS:10 Years - Tommy Jurado, Othel Wilson5 Years - D wight James, Virginia Gar-cia, Walter O'Connor, David Congleton

retirements

EDITH VESTEY, 20 yrs., Ship-ping and Receiving, with Supvr.,Art Steiner.

RICHARD GUZMAN (card in hand), 13 yrs., Model Shop, withfellow co-workers.

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HELENFLINK(second from right), 20 yrs., Oper-ations, flanked by (from left): Kathy Milano, LesHey, Helen, and Margaret Vasilieff.

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PEARL LINE, 12 yrs., Spares/ DEE BRUNSWICK, 13 yrs., Print- JEAN EMOND (right), 26 yrs.Provisioning Packg. ing and Reproduction. Model Shop, and Charlie Cole.

LOU BURRY (seated), 27 yrs., Model Shop, with Machining andModel Shop well-wishers.

VERA ZELE (with orchid), 13 yrs.,Computer Aided Design Dept., with,from left: Ron Howe, Jan Coffman,John Gustafson, Vera, Larry Finkle-man, and MaryEllen Wicks.

TONI KIRKHAM, 20 yrs., Ckt. BoardAssembly.