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INTERCOMNEWSLETTER FOR MEMOREX EMPLOYEES

VOL. 4, NO. 10 OCTOBER, 1967

BOARD OKAYS EUROPEAN PLANT,VASEY TO MANAGEDick Vascy, Santa Clara Production

Manager and one of the Company'sfirst employees, has accepted the plantmanager's position at our soon to beconstructed Belgium facility.

Dick came to Mcmorex in 1961. Hehelped design the Santa Clara plant,while serving as site engineer. TheCompany was just beginning in 1961,so most people had several responsibilities. Dick was purchasing agent,site engineer and he also did chemicaland project engineering.

He has already started work on hisnew job, though he will spend most ofhis time in Santa Clara, until nextspring. For the present some of hisduties will include hiring Europeanemployees, setting up training programs and scheduling plant start-up.

The new manager says his positionwill provide "a real challenge and agreat many new responsibilities." Headds "I appreciate the support of allthe people who've worked with mesince I joined Memorex. They are inlarge measure responsible for this opportunity."

Official UF SolicitorsMemorex UF representatives include

Bill Artery, Quality Control; Jim Banks,Mixing; Bill Bernick, Video; Lou Brecia,Reclaim; and Art Burt, Slitting andSurface Treating.

Others are Al Carman, Marketing;Bill Cooper, Janitorial and Security;Bill Maybcrry, Facilities and Maintenance; Jerry Miranda, ContaminationControl; and Don Mumm, ElectronicMaintenance.

Also there are Ron Porter, Finishing;Dick Ray, Scheduling; Karl Schiavo,International Marketing; Sue Sheely,Accounting; Roy Stockstill, IndustrialEngineering; and Gary Suechting, Q.C.Test Lab.

Finally there are Roy Sumrall, Finishing; Dom Ventimiglia, ProductionControl; and Bill Yasueda, AdvancedDevelopment.

FUND DRIVE BEGINS-Company United Fund Drive Chairman Tully Bryant(seated) checks the 1967 UF poster, asAssistant Chairman Boh Teresi and CindyLewis, TuIIy's secretary, look on.

UF Drive OpensOctober 2

Tully Bryant, Memorex United FundChairman and Product Control Manager announces that the 1967 UnitedFund Drive begins October 2 and willrun for two weeks.

Tully and his campaign assistant,Bob Teresi, from Purchasing, have organized a team of about 20 representatives to contact everyone at the SantaClara plant.

They will have information aboutUnited Fund for those who have questions. They will also be passing outpledge cards, which Tully would likereturned, whether you give or not.

Of course he is hoping that everyonewill realize the importance of helping

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The Memorex Board of Directorsgave final approval to plans for a multi-million dollar European Plant Projecton Friday, September 22.

It's our first overseas tape production plant and it will be located inLiege, Belgium, announces Gene Rogers, Vice President, International Operations.

The plant will be in the Haut-SartsIndustrial Park, along with manyAmerican and European companies.

Liege was chosen as the plant siteafter months of careful study foundthat Belgium offers more advantagesthan other European countries.

The facility will be set up as awholly owned subsidiary. It will beconstructed in several steps that aredesigned to put it in full productionby the first of 1970. First phase ofconstruction will begin in January,1968.

The plant will be large—about 87,-000 square feet, or more than twicethe size of our new Santa Clara DiscPack building.

Our first Belgian supervisors andtechnicians will be hired early in 1968.Some of them will be trained in SantaClara.

The plant will produce only computer and video tapes. Later it maybe expanded and other products added,when the European market warrantsthe move.

Engineering contractor for the newfacility is Coppee-Rust, a Belgian firm.

Gene Rogers, Gordon Pilcher, DickBoucher and Stan Meyer, all Memorexvice presidents, make up the projectSteering Committee. It is their job toprovide overall guidance to the venture.

Roland Jang, Director of Engineering at Santa Clara, is the LaunchProject Manager. His job is to coordinate the work between here and Belgium.

Charley Nichols, Manager of Facilities Engineering, is EngineeringManager for the Belgium project. Hisgroup is responsible for designing and

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The charts show that as Memorex'ssales increase so do the profits and ourshare in them. With continued effortsand team work of all Memorex employees, we should have another recordyear in 1967 and a continuing upwardtrend in Sales, Profits and Profit Sharing in 1968.

COMPANY WELCOMES NEW HIRESNew hires for the month of August

have brought Santa Clara Plant employment to nearly 900.

Intercom and the people of Memorex welcome these new employees:Malinda Espinoza, Production; DanielSalewsky, Production; Sharon Shank,Production; Petros Stratton, Production; Joan Doyle, Marketing; MarthaGiannini, Finance; Charles Hughes,Finance; Donald Louie, Q.C.; PatriciaAllard, Production; Dolores Byers, Production.

David Connell, Production; WilliamDinjian, Material Management; Connie Fields, Production; Fred Hofmann,Production; Donna Kolstad, Production; Arthur Lienhart, Production;Marlyn O'Connor, Production.

Robert Wenning, Marketing; GeraldOlson, Marketing; Barbara Ortiz, Fi

nance, Bruce Olsen, Maintenance; Lionel McKaken, Maintenance; DannyAbel, CCD; Elinor Andersen, Production; Elizabeth Ballard, Production;Molly Bccerra, Production; LeslieBruntz, Maintenance; Clarice Burns,Production.

Charles Hassler, Maintenance; Nancy Hernandez, Finance; Gloria Her-rera, Production; Patricia Hesselgrave,Material Management; Susan La Rue,Production; Joseph Maher, Q.C.; SirkkaMcGee, Production; Robert McLane,Production; Kathleen Norred, Production.

Nancy Prosser, Production; RobertSater, Engineering; Sylvia Semides,Production; David Sutherland, Production; Lauro Torres, CDD; Mary Young-berg, Production; Sandra Sevier, Production.

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building most of our Santa Clara facilities. The group has also done muchof the design work for the Belgiumplant.

Jan Jansen, who was Charley's facilities project engineer, is now theSite Engineer in Belgium. He is therealready, working on pre-constructiondetails. Jan will stay in Belgium asthe resident design and constructionengineer and has already moved hisfamily to that country.

Phil Conley is Project Coordinator.Some of his duties include preparingmonthly progress reports; seeing thatconstruction and operations scheduleconflicts are resolved; keeping the project on schedule; and helping to set uptraining programs for new Belgianemployees.

Equipment Manager is Bcrnie Benz.He will be spending lots of time between here and Belgium, selectingequipment, scheduling its installation,phasing the installation so that itmeets facilities and operations plans,and seeing to the final equipmentstartup.

Deffeyes Teaches WritingBob Deffeyes is conducting a tech

nical Writing Seminar aimed at casestudy and group discussion of technical writing problems. The course islimited to those who have a definiteneed to perform technical writing aspart of their job. Participants will bedoing two or three hours of homeworkper week for the next seven weeks.

The nine week seminar started Tuesday, September 19. It runs from 5-9p.m. each Tuesday.

INTERCOMNEWSLETTER FOR MEMOREX EMPLOYEES

EDITOR: Gary WilliamsSTAFF: Sara Millar, Roger Cook

Sue Dunn, Judy Bonino

CORRESPONDENTS:

Franeee Donaldson (Comdata),Virginia Koeberle (PSC)

Ron Gillett (DP, Substrate)An official publication for employees ofMemorex Corporation. Published monthlyby the Industrial Relations Division, 1180Shulman Ave., Santa Clara, Calif. 95050.

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Disc Packs On MarketAfter Successful Tests

More than 100 Mark I Disc Packshave been sold and delivered to computer users throughout the UnitedStates and Europe, according to BillWilson, Disc Pack Product Manager.

Disc Pack Corporation, a Memorexsubsidiary in Hawthorne, is workingon a three shift basis to turn out packs.

Mark I Disc Packs have been indevelopment for three years and justrecently have undergone extensive fieldtesting. The tests proved the Mark Imeets or exceeds all specifications forthe IBM 1316 and that it may alsobe used on the IBM 1311, 2311 orsimilar disc drives.

Dick Penny, Product Liaison Manager for Disc Pack, reports customeracceptance of field test packs "has beenexcellent."

Memorex is second internationallyto introduce the memory storage device.The disc pack concept has only beenin existence four years, but already itenjoys an increasingly wide acceptancefor use in the newer types of computers.

The Mark I offers a high level ofperformance reliability and a superiorcase, guaranteed against breakage. Itwill go on public display for the firsttime at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in Anaheim, November 14-16.

REASON TO SMILE—John Lowe, onscales in center, is a happy man. He hasjust lost 29 pounds and won a wager atthe same time. Last July, John and thethree other Product Technical Servicefield engineers made a friendly bet thatone of them could lose the most weightby Labor Day. When they finally gotaround to weighing in John was the winner and (from left) Keith Reynolds,Rick La Forge and Dick Fodor were sadder, but thinner. The four lost a total of75 pounds. John's successful diet? Lessfood and a new baby boy to walk atnight.

ROGERS NOW V. P., INTERNATIONALGene Rogers has been appointed

Vice President, International Operations, announces Laurence Spitters,Company President.

Mr. Spitters explains Memorex isreorganizing its international businessinto a profit and control center locatedin Santa Clara. Mr. Rogers will be

Gene Rogers

Company Aids OICThe Memorex Foundation recently

donated $1,000 to help start a San Josebranch of the Opportunities Industrialization Center of Santa Clara County.

The Foundation is a fund establishedby the Company to aid certain charities each year. OIC helps the unemployed train for jobs in the community. Classes teach skills, as well asbasic subjects such as math and personal grooming.

COMDATA HIRES ACCOUNTANTComdata Corporation, one of our

two Southern California subsidiaries,has a new accountant. He's JerrySmith, a native of Idaho, who's livedin California since 1951.

Jerry is a 1957 graduate of CaliforniaCollege in Long Beach. He is marriedand has three children.

He comes to Comdata from Hoffman

Electronics, where he worked the pastfour years.

responsible for this profit center andreport to Mr. Spitters, as do the general managers of our other two profitcenters, the Supplies Division andPeripheral Systems Corporation.

Mr. Rogers will be in charge of alloperations in Europe, Latin Americaand the Far East. He will also retainmanagement of Memorex's legal matters.

His title since 1965 has been VicePresident, Administration. For the present he will keep his old duties, alongwith the new ones. He was responsiblefor International Operations, Advertising and Promotion and Industrial Relations. The latter two will be reassigned in the near future.

One reason for the organizationalchange is that International is so largeit can best be managed by having onemember of top management responsible for its operation. Our international business now exceeds Memorex'sentire volume of business for 1964.

Another reason is our Belgium plantproject, which is explained on pageone. Mr. Rogers will be charged withassuring that it is effectively managed.

Laundry OperatorsSet Wash Record

"Lena Salerno and Dorothy Swansonhave done the equivalent of an athletecracking the four-minute mile," saysLarry Mullins, supervisor of Contamination Control.

Larry explains that his two hardworking clean room laundry operatorsrecently washed a record 400 coverallsin one day. They broke their ownprevious record by 33.

FLASH! ! — Since we received thenews of their record-breaking washing they've gone higher twice. Latest record is 490 in one day.

Just washing the coveralls wouldn'tbe so difficult, says Larry, except thatthe two also have to fold the garmetsand seal them in plastic bags. Theyalso use a microscope to make periodic-checks of uniforms, making certainour clean room garments are as cleanas possible.

Our laundry is the first of its typein the nation and it enables clean room

personnel to have at least one freshuniform each day. Some people evenchange more than once a day.

I'M A REFRESHED AMERICANby WILLIAM HAMLEY

I'm a Refreshed American . . .I'm tired of tired Americans who are willing to leave the field . . .

when the fight has just begun . . .when I have to conquer cancer, end war, make my cityliveable, preserve my resources, control my population andlearn to live on the moon.

How can I be tired, yearning for a past that has been magnifiedinto a dream world by memory . . .

when there are so many books to be written, plays to be given,poems to be read, formulas to be discovered and pictures tobe painted . . .when there are so many houses and apartments and manu

facturing plants to be built . . .when there are so many miles of highways to be poured andrivers to be spanned, so many products to be invented andsold

How can I be tired when I have so many things to learnabout myself,

my country and my world . . .when so many people of the world are depending upon meto help them find a brighter, healthier, freer life

How can I be tired when my children and my grandchildrenare questioning my material goals and are asking what I'mdoing about my ethical and human values . . .when I know my children must try to solve the problems Ihave left unsolved? There is so much to do before I leave.

How can I be tired, enjoying the luxury of self-pity when somany of my neighbors are enslaved by hunger, disease, slumsand untutored minds . . .when I still think skin color important . . .when I still think the gift of high intelligence, talent orposition does not carry with it a responsibility to those whoare not so gifted?

With so much to do and such a long way to go, how can I betired; the excitement of change, the challenge of tomorrowmake me wakeful . . . I'm a refreshed American.

(Reprinted from Reporting Magazine)

United Fund Helps You Help Others(Continued From Page 1)

UF provide its 77 agencies with money."Last year about half of our employeesmade pledges," says Tully. The average donation was $28 and nearly allwho gave took advantage of the convenient, painless payroll deductionplan.

Tully explains that payroll deduction allows everyone to spread his orher "fair share" donation over the entire year, by having a small portiontaken from each paycheck.

Three or four dollars a month willdo wonders for the handicapped, theaged and all those who seek help fromone of the 77 UF agencies during thecoming year. A few dollars each month

will hardly be missed, especially whenyou know that it is going to combatjuvenile delinquency, provide homesand foster parents for neglected children, and help families stricken bydisaster.

A "fair share" donation is one hour's

pay per month for those earning lessthan $10,000 anually. Those earningmore than $10,000 are asked to giveat least 1% of their salary.

When the UF representative fromyour group asks you to give rememberthat your money will go to assist thosewho need help most in your community.

Company BuysNearby Land

Memorex has purchased the land andbuildings presently occupied by Associated Machine Company, disclosesDick Boucher, Manufacturing VicePresident.

Associated Machine is on the Eastside of the Santa Clara plant, borderedby Shulman Avenue, Ronald Streetand our parking lots.

The buildings on the property havea total of 30,000 square feet, most ofwhich will probably be used for warehousing. There are also a number ofoffices in the buildings and the lot canpark up to 50 cars. Present plans callfor Memorex to occupy the buildingsby the first of next year.

Associated Machine is now lookingfor a larger building in which to reestablish its operations.

IT'S GETTIN' THERE—Santa Clara's

Disc Rack Building is right on schedule.

It's due to be in full production by thefirst of 1968. Resides housing Disc Parkproduction lines and Memorex offices,the new building will have a small lunch

room. The room will be smaller than our

present employee center, but it will have

vending machines. This shows one of thefirst walls being hoisted into place backin late August. The walls went up in oneday, much to the surprise of the employees who parked by a foundation in themorning and found a building there inthe afternoon .

Denny Stars in Technical PresentationA movie crew came to Memorex Saturday, September 16, and made some of

our employees into movie stars. At least one gentleman in the script has even beenoffering autographs since that date. Purpose of the camera crew's visit, some ofwhich is chronicled on this page, was to video tape the first of a three-part serieson the care and handling of Memorex products. The color video tape will thenbe used at a number of seminars, planned by the Company to help keep ourcustomers better informed.

Bill McDonough, from Hal Lawrence Advertising Agency, is consultant-producer for the tape series. The camera crew is from Seros TV Productions.The crew had just finished filming a Danny Thomas TV Special in San Diegoand had to hurry off to Monterey for the Jazz Festival when our session wascompleted.

This first taping concerned computer tapes. It starred Norval Denny, ProductTechnical Services Manager. Others in the cast included Advertising/PromotionDepartment members Pat Sook and Neal Dempsey, and Grace Adkins, receptionist. Neal is production coordinator for the series, as well as an actor.

In the top left picture are, from left, Bill McDonough, Norval, Pat and Neal.The second shot in the left column shows Pat, Norval and Grace getting readyfor a scene. In the top right photo Pat watches as Grace gets some make-up. Thebottom right shot shows the actual taping of a scene.

Memorex PeopleOn the Move

(Editor's note: In case you missedlast month's Intercom, this is a newcolumn giving credit to those who're"On the Move" at Memorex.)

The Finishing Department has anew supervisor, Hank Hildreth. Hankwas previously foreman in the samedepartment.

Bob Florio and Bob McLeod arenew additions to the Warehouse Department. Bob Florio was with CCD,and Bob McLeod was in Production.

Marvin Curtis received a recent promotion into the Engineering Department. He was previously in the Maintenance area.

Alan Ainey has been promoted toVideo Scheduler.

The Production Department lostHorace Harvey recently on a promotion. Horace is now a MaintenanceTechnician.

The Mix Department has a newforeman with the promotion of BennyReynolds.

Chris Perry has acquired a new titlealso. He is now an Associate Engineerin Industrial Engineering.

Richard Dickens is the new Customer Sales & Service Specialist in theMarketing Department. He comesfrom Quality Control.

Mike Fissel has joined the Maintenance Department, transferring from theProduction area.

Bob Morris has been promoted toVideo Production Manager. Before hispromotion, Bob worked in IndustrialEngineering.

Disc Pack gained three new employees who transferred down fromSanta Clara. They are Marge (Edwards) Hanback, Jim Lunde, andClarence Lemons.

Found: Guitar PickFOUND: One guitar pick, a gold

watch, an earring (3 white stones ina gold setting), two pair of safetyglasses, one pair of sunglasses, a weirdwrench (you have to describe it toclaim it), a Yamaha motorcycle ignition key, one six-foot steel tapemea-sure, one thrce-inch-"L"-shaped-steel-rod-do-hickey, one wedding ring, oneArmy ring, seven sets of keys, and afew other odds and ends—mostly odds.

Any of the items mentioned abovecan be claimed in the Personnel Officeby the owners, between 8 a.m. and 5p.m.

HARD AT WORK-From left, Sue Sheely, Jim Ellis, Jeri Johnson, Martha Giannini,Lindy Carmack and Rarbara Greer are hard at work preparing decorations for theannual Christmas Party. See story below for additional details.

Original TraineeHeads Office

Lary Lindsey will head the Company's 22nd United States sales office,located at 7710 Computer Ave., Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Lary and his new office will comeunder the jurisdiction of Vern Kuell-mer, Mid West Regional Manager.Lary worked in Santa Clara for twoyears before he went into the field asa sales engineer.

He was the Company's first salestrainee to go into the field. He hadbeen working mainly in Illinois.

Lary Lindsey

DECORATION COMMITTEESEEKS MORE HELPERSAS PARTY DRAWS NEAR

MAG's biggest event of the year isalways the annual Christmas Party andthis year's will be no exception.

Lindy Carmack, Party Chairman,and the MAG board are hard at work,making sure the December 2nd partywill be even more successful than lastyear.

The decoration committee, headedby Sue Sheely and Jeri Johnson, is already beginning to make decorationsand they can still use plenty of help.Call Sue or Jeri if you want to jointhe group. Those who find time to helpwill be rewarded with a party just forcommittee members at the home ofLindy and his wife.

The attractive Pavilion Building atthe Santa Clara County Fairgroundswill be decorated to show the "Christmas Fantasy" theme. Those whohaven't seen the Pavilion will be pleasantly surprised at the nice interior andspacious dance floor.

Del Courtney, his band and vocalistwill provide the music. His group wasa big success at last year's party.

Dress is semi-formal. Dinner will

be served buffet style, though the menuhas not yet been selected. Sue Mc-Candless is still accepting bids fromcaterers.

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MAGNETICS BOWLING

Memorex bowlers never seem to tire,as evidenced by the fact that a newleague starts as soon as another ends.The Magnetics, which bowls at Futurama on Friday evenings, is one oftwo new winter leagues that juststarted.

Colorusnitime (that's a team name,in case you weren't sure) has a 7-1record, to take a two game lead oversecond place Satans Slaves (anotherteam—not a motorcycle gang).

Martoonie's and a squad, unnamedat this writing, are also tied for secondwith identical 5-3 marks.

Colorusnitime players are Dave andJedda Monson, Cathy Cable, Fred Siauand Chuck Linen. Satans Slaves areRalph Watkins, Carmel Wilton (haveyou had your flu shot yet?), Mary-Nelson,Sue Sheely and Frank Wolhart.

Martoonie's include Pat Sook, BillO'Brien, JoAnne Smetka, GeorgeWright and Jerry Kelly. The unnamedteam is manned by Jim Keenan, HopeMaycumber, Vacancy, Wayne Saylorand Ray Kodres.

Ron Peck's 222 is high game thusfar. Marge Allen is high for the ladieswith a 183. High series was rolled byChuck Linen, a 647.

MIXED LEAGUE

The MemorexMixedBowling League,which meets Wednesday evenings atMoonlite lanes, has finished its secondweek of winter play.

Four teams are battling for first inthe standings, with 4-2 records. Theyare Swinging Four (Rod and GwenHefner, Chuck Rimer and LennyMozingo), Three & A Miss (LarryLeech, Bonnie Anthony, Glen Heavi-side and Mike Munson), Dandy Lines(Cliff Harter, Micki Rousseau, Alt Caseand Russ Rousseau) and Bottomland-ers (Fred Taylor, Gordon and ElviraMcClenaghan, and Willy Opp).

Lenny Mozingo has the highest gameso far with a 234. Bob Wallin has a587 for high series.

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DIVOTEERS TOURNEY

The annual Divoteers Tournamentof Champions will be Sunday, October15, at Pajaro Valley Country Club.

Fourteen men and one woman, AnnBassford, will play in flight 1, to determine who will be Memorex's "Golferof the Year." The second flight is opento all employees.

The 15 potential champions all finished either first or second in otherDivoteer tourneys over the past year.They are: HowardBurkhart, last year'swinner, Ben Kimura, Russ Rosseau,Mits Okamoto, Paul Spetoskey, JohnLowe, Carl Anderson, Don Horn,Gary Stevens, Larry Nelson, Ann Bassford, Dave Duncan, Jerry Tipton, KeithGerry, and Frank Wolhart.

After the two flights finish playthere will be an awards banquet, general meeting and election of officers inthe country club facilities. Ladies areinvited to come and golf in the secondflight, or just to watch and providemoral support for Ann.

ARCHERY CLUB

The Archery Club has been invitedto Lakewood Club in Sunnyvale, Sunday, October 8, for some friendly competition against Huntz Hunters, aSunnyvale group.

Registration will be between 8:30and 9:30 a.m. Chuck Sanders andMike Hopkins, two of the MemorexClub's founders, invite all who are interested in archery to attend. The registration fee, if any, will be nominal.

Refreshments will be served duringthe day-long event. Wonder if they'llhave any apples?

The club also wants to announcethat meetings will be on the first Sunday of each month from October on.Seems that a lot of potential archershave to work Saturdays. Call Chuckor Mike at extension 342 for information about the club.

GIVE UNITED

HAWKS WIN SOFTBALLCHAMPIONSHIP FROM FIBERGLASS

John Morrison drove in four runswith a home run and double, guidingthe Memorex Hawks to the 1967 SantaClara Parks and Recreation Department softball championship.

The Hawks trounced Santa ClaraFiberglass 6-2, in a game that cameto an early conclusion because of anhonest-to-goodness doneybrook.

Jim Ferreira, from Memorex, inadvertently started the action when hedumped a bunt down the first baseline.The Fiberglass second baseman coveredfirst and Jim accidentally bumped himwhile racing across the bag.

The Fiberglass player shovedJim anda pushing match ensued between bothteams. It started and ended quickerthan you can say roller derby, but theumpire called the game on account ofshort tempers. Both sides later madeapologies for acting rashly in the heatof the playoff game.

Kit Weaver was the winning pitcher.He received strong backing from theentire Hawk team, especially JohnMorrison, who drove in the winningruns.

The Hawks did poorly the first halfof the season, then ran away from thefield in the second half. They finishedwith a perfect second half record of8-0.

PICNIC BALLOTS

Balloting to determine the site ofnext year's annual picnic has shownthat MAG members are overwhelmingly in favor of returning to FrontierVillage.

Frontier Village received 259 "yes"votes and only "79" no's. The secondmost popular picnic site was Blackberry Farm, with a whopping 12 votes.Uvas Meadows came in third with 8.Two wishful thinkers suggested Disneyland.

We don't mean to rush things anyby announcing the date of next year'spicnic—it'll be Saturday, August 10—but some people like to start planningearly.