Avoiding Employment Ups and Downs

Editor: UPFRONT Brad Whitworth Art d irector : Annette Yatovitz Associate editors : Betty Gerard Joanne Engelhardt Con trib uto r: Vernon Andrews "~lel1l read about Carson Why does he overextend himself all Kclll in that old issue of the lime') "When I go . I want to leave my Circu la tion : Mcosllrt:', I thought to Ianuly some good memories.' he says, Kathleen Go~arty rnvself. 'That sounds a lot like me . Meanwhile. he s crowdtng as much Phil Clark, who works in the Belle into every day as he can, H(' just accom vue, Washington , sales offi ce purrhas panied his 12·year·old son's champion MEASURE ing departmern . recalls a story that ship soccer team 10 Hawaii and he will was in Measure three years ago, It de help Irain seven kids in Iield events for " M a n t m o f a l l is he ea s u r e scribed how Carson. an H&D projer t t his summer 5 Special Olympu-s things."'-ProlClgows (circa -1 81 manager at Computer Sysrerns Divi Carson Kan says he recently called 411B,CJ sion in CUPf'r! ina.Ca lifor n ta . learned I'lJil''just to jaw" and found the two M easure is published s ix Itmes it (0 cope with rcsucular cancer-how he have va lot in common " Carson hasnt year for em ployees a n d associa tes was cured and (hen how he turned to seen an oncologist (a rumor specialist) ofHewIe ll- Pac ka rd Com pany, Pro counsehnu 01 hers w it h C,lllcer- in three yt"ars and is st ill "as crazy as duced by Co rp o rate Public Rel a Unlike Carson. Phil knows his cancer ever, You know, right after (hat story li ons. Internal Co m m u n icati o n (histiocyttc lymphoma) is mcurahle hut ran in Measllre, people called me up to Department. Gordon Bro w n . he is handling his 5 1rug,glc with the find out tf I had dted vct! " m ana g er. Addres s co r r e s p o n disease in much the same wav Far from it More ]j'kely you'll find dence to Measure . Hewl ett-Pack " I know one day I!'sgoing to kill me, Carson dead center in tilt' thick ofHP a rdCom pa ny 20 BH. POUox 1O :~ 01 . but not rodav." he says, 111:';[('ad of act tvit it's like Junior Acluevement and Palo Allo . Califo rnia. 9.J303-0H90 broodmg about his rm stort um-. Phil Un ited Way, HIS main thrust. (hough. USA Report chan ge of ad dress to spends much of hi s lift' helping oth IS counseling cancer patrents ;" ve yo u r loca l personnel departrn eut. ers-especially young people. taken some training so now the quahty Material in th is Issue rnav be re ..( was mto drugs a n d alcohol mvself of my counseling has improved." printed with wrttren pe rmtssron for 10 vears so I can relau- to kids who Carson and Phrl have much in com Me mber. Internal ional Assoc ta have those problems now." mon. especially the reco,gnition that life lion of Bu siness Commurucat ors " If Phil isn't out coach ing his son s is special As Phil puts it. "Mys elf. I'm a n d Induslrial Com rn u n ic ut to n soccer team. he 's laking sornr teenager bortng, I'm really only happy when I'm Co u ncil. to a drug-abuse meeting or working 011 out of mvself and uuo orhers '14 Hewl ett-Packard Com pa ny de the Specral Olympics.' sa~ s co-worker s igns a n d manufactures co m pu t and trtend Dave Tucker, D,l\T has ers. etec t romc lest equrprne ut , known Phil for five wars smce t hev handheld cal culators , elec t rome both worked at HI' as ni ,gh 1januors. co m ponents. medical e lec t ro n ic "He's truly Inspirational." says Da\T eq u ipmen t and tnstrumenrauon "Kids adore hun, Here at work he s ad for chemical a n a lys is , Manufac mired. 100 Ht· had never played softball turing Iactlittes are located ill 2 J until last year \\ hell hejoin ed HP's soft US, c u tes In eight s ta les and ill ball team , Darned ifhe didn 't walk off 10 cities in nine cou n tr ies ill th e with the 'm os t msptrartonal trophy." rest of the world, HP salt's a n d ser Outside of HI'. Ph il o rga lll zt" s holiday vice offices can be found III m ore food drives for needv larmlies. talks at th an 80 U.S, cittes a nd (induding schools abOUI alcoholism, opens his dfs t r i bu t o r s h ips l i n a p p r o x i home to a forei~n exchauue student. mate lv 200 cu tes in 70 co u rurtes cooks ellrfst mas dinner at the local a ro u nd the world. HPemploy's more mission and volunteers at a co m m u than 74. 000 people nity ca nce r cou nseling service . " lrn not special. I'm re-allv not. ' Ph rl ON THE COVER protests. "I get 111.\' reward Irorn belllg Bellevue's Phil Clark wItt1 two or his bes1 able to help others At orie lime in rnv T ll is abstract paf/ern 0/ tocun reosons 'Of Ilvtng: daughters $Qbrlna (Ieff) life someone was there lor me Now I andleeky. p yramids is part (~ r HP's n ('ll' want to be there for someone.' a nechoic c h a m ber in Cupert ino , Since he discovered a lump under his Ca l !Jorn ia . The pyramids a bsorb arm three years ago while doing push slray ele c fro m a g n etic si glwls i ll' ups, Phil has undergone chernorhcra si de a st eel c h a m ber Ihar will be phy, a lot of pain and much medical ion used to rest new compute-r prod He 's had two ot her flare-ups leach time ucts. See story on page 16 . Cove r the lump was removed) and says right phoro bySharon Hall now he's "lurnpless .. MEASURE .... r » ! , ' . 1 ,. 1 l ~ .. SEC. ROW SEAT APRIL _II 1984 surtL ~ ;)5 P.M. EVENT 5 BOSTON FIELD LEVEL-$7.00 APRIL 8 1984 SUNDAY 1:05 P.M. Linda Alderson, data processing manager tor the Oakland A's, poInts to the SO,OOO-plus seats EVENT 5 the team hies to fill10r Its 81 home games. OAKLAN D-ALAMEDA COUNTY COLISEUM 110 REFUNDS· RAIN CHECK The Oakland A's have been an adventurous and trend READOC,",NDITIONS RE SIDE setting professional baseball team for the past 16 SEC. ROW SEAT years. Their recent use of computers and high technol -, ,- 1 ") ~ ogy during games has gained them much applause . ~ '- l ..-' from ns and the media. Why, then, this recent statement by A's president Roy Eisenhardt on the scrapping of some of the A's state-of-the-art technology?: "It was a beautiful game for years without those gad gets. We think we can get along fine without them., APRil 8 1984 Roy and his A's have a few reasons for abandoning SUNDAY 1:05P.M. Diamond Vision, their slow-motion replay board, EVENT 5 and the Apple lIe computer that was used primarily to chart hitter-pitcher tendencies to aid coaches in decision making. Among them: excessive cost; player dissatisfaction ("Let me know when a computer can teach me how to May-June 1984 Barbara Beggs,ticketlng system manager, takes phone-in orders All-star second baseman Joe Morgan, (I natlve 01 Oakland now in his trom A's lans and assigns seats using an HP 3000 computer terminal. nrst ve<Jr with the ball club, should draw more lans to the Coliseum. throw a slider on the outside corner and ,gro u p turuttons. t irketilll( has be prints ou t a slip or paper with the seat every lime . , then lm all for it." says As come a mussive opcrat ion worthy of locat Ion pitcher Steve McCattyl: and worry that more than a lemonade-stand approach The paper is taken to the t irket vault. the replay board in left-center field was to selling. ({nd a ticket cor responding to I he cus turning A's games "in to a TV show . , . , Baseball u cke unu IS muc-h hk« tomer's re-que-st is pulled, then mailed there's enough commercialism in the an airline rescrvauon S\'SW1ll ," lICHt'S to lilt' fan game already,- says Roy, t he As consult inl( programnlt'r Bob Next vcar the As will enhance (he svs But Rov and the As have decided to Sraaterrnan "T h e ,Urlillt' S haw a lot 01 tern with a n o th er disc drive, more te;· keep one high-tech item 111 their lineup: flights , but onlv about 2(Xl people per m1l1<115 and a ticket primer. The printer an HP 3000 computer system lli!!:ht Here: weve gut up 10 50,000 peo alone should S 3 \ '(' (he t earn a bo u t The As purchased the HI' 3000 in ple per 'flight' and, thouuh these flight" SHO,OOO per yea) , With (he new prmrer June 198\ primarily for tieket opera are spread OUI O\ T r H I l!'lllles.

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