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A-9 SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL Saturday, January 13, 2001 Hewlett donations support local programs, artists By HEATHER BOERNER SENTINEL STAFF WRITER SANTA CRUZ Bill Hewlett's legacy in Santa Cruz County is more than computers and scanners or even the dot-com revolution that's turning parts of the area into Silicon Beach. For Alex Sydnor, Paul Hammond, Jess Brown and Lance Linares, his legacy is poetry, paintings and scholarship. In the form of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Palo Alto industrialist who died Friday gave more than $2 million to Santa Cruz County cultural and educational organizations over the last decade. "Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard created philanthropy on the West Coast," said Sydnor, UC Hewlett's foundation also gave heavily to Shakespeare Santa Cruz, which is run through the university's theater department, and to the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County, the Santa Cruz County Community Foundation, the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning, the Cabrillo Music Festival, the Kuumb-wa Jazz Society and the Pajaro Valley Performing Arts Association, among others. Linares of the Community Foundation said Packard's foundation has given more than Hewlett's to Santa Cruz County over the years, since his philanthropic group has designated the county as one of four to receive grants.

But, he said, the Hewlett Foundation set the standard that Microsoft's Bill Gates is now following. Groups that have received funds from the Hewlett Foundation said the organization Is unique because it gives money for general operations, whereas most donors prefer to fund specific programs or building projects. It is also one of the few philanthropic groups that allows its grants to be donated to smaller organizations. That allows groups like the Cul- tural Council to donate money to individual artists and smaller groups. "We are so rich in this county with art and, artists," said Brown, president of the council.

"It's great when we get donations that allow us to support that." -( Contact Heather Boemer at 'Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard created philanthropy on the West Alex Sydnor, UC Santa Cruz's executive director for development Santa Cruz's executive director for development. "When you think of your Rockefellers, your Fords, you realize that there are communities on the East Coast that have benefited from their philanthropy. What does the South Bay have? We have these two. We've relied upon their philanthropy." Since 1979; Hewlett personally or through his foundation gave $1.3 million to UCSC, donat ing to the environmental studies, marine sciences and theater departments. He gave a large donation in the early 1990s to help the university create an intercultural studies program.

And, in 1999, the Hewlett Foundation gave nearly a half-million dollars to UCSC's New Teacher Center, money Sydnor said was crucial in developing the program. The center, founded in 1998, trains teachers for kindergarten through 12th grade education. Hewlett it tat. I )V (. jf What they said about William Hewlett THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A sampling of reaction to the death of Hewlett-Packard co-founder William Hewlett: Bill Hewlett inspired me and set a level that the current generation of technology executives can only aspire to.

He was a great engineer, a great businessman and a great person. His vision encompassed a leading company based on values as well as leading products. He was a pioneer whose every approach stood the test of time." Bill Gates, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft Corp. "He was considered to be an engineer's engineer with a detailed interest in the new things going on at Hewlett-Packard, and he had the unique ability to get to the heart of a technical problem." Gordon Moore, co-founder and former CEO of Intel Corp. "I first met Bill Hewlett when he answered his home phone and generously spoke to a 12-year-old kid looking for spare electronic components to build a frequency counter.

The year was 1967, and the kid was me. Bill gave me the components, and he gave me a summer job at HP's factory that built frequency counters. It changed my life forever. What I learned that summer at Bill and Dave's company was the blueprint we used for Apple; Today marks the final passing of their era, but their spirit lives on in every company iri this valley." Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple Computer Inc. "Our hearts go out to the families, as we join them in mourning the loss of a great and gentle man.

We, as stewards of his legacy, will cherish and nurture Bill's bright spirit of invention, remembering and celebrating the rich heritage that he and Dave entrusted us with." Carly Fiorina, CEO, president and chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard Co. "The death of Hewlett basically brings down the curtain on the first generation of Silicon Valley. He was the last founder. Hewlett in many ways is more the template of Silicon Valley than the others were. He is the patron saint of engineers in Silicon Valley.

The HP way is the philosophy that the valley always aspired to. It didn't always achieve it, primarily because it didn't have Bill and Dave." Michael S. Malone, editor of Forbes ASAP magazine and a Silicon Valley historian. "Not only was he a tremendous individual, but his impact on our industry and the business community around the world, I think, is enormous. Just the other day I was dealing with a difficult issue, trying to decide which way to go.

And I actually sat and thought: What would Bill Hewlett have done in this situation? And it actually helped clarify my thinking in what I should be doing." Ned Barnholt, whojoinedHPin 1966 and is now president and CEO of Agilent Technologies a spinoffofHP's test and measurement products division. jm- iu i Continued from Page Al all pretense delighting in working on new products side by side with employees or playing penny-ante poker with them. "He was an incredible person intellectually. He could listen to something and get the gist, the meat of it very quickly even with Nobel Prize winners," said James G. Treybig, founder and former chief executive of Tandem Computers who spent five years at HP in the late 1960s and early '70s.

"Yet at the same time he had the ability to relate with people, so everyone would have respect for him," Treybig said in a 1991 interview with The Associated Press. "He was a regular person. He wasn't a stand-alone president, aloof." Hewlett also was a noted philanthropist, giving tens of millions of dollars to environmental, educational and humanitarian causes individually and through a large family foundation. He and Packard gave more than $300 million to Stanford University. Soquel resident Julie Packard, David Packard's daughter and executive director of Monterey Bay Aquarium, noted Hewlett's impact on philanthropy.

"He's best known for the legacy he's created in Silicon Valley, but I feel equally important is the legacy he's created through his foundation," she said Friday afternoon. "Both he and my father were real leaders in the field of corporate philanthropy and community involvement. Maybe this will give people pause to reflect on that legacy, and perhaps follow his lead." William Redington Hewlett was born May 20, 1913, in Ann Arbor, but grew up in California, where his father was a professor of medicine at Stanford. Hewlett and Packard met when they tried out for the freshman football team at Stanford Hewlett, too small, got cut, but Packard made it, said Michael S. Malone, editor of Forbes ASAP magazine and a longtime Silicon Valley historian.

"If you want the single most important encounter maybe in the modern world that's it right there, because it was the beginning of the electronics era," Malone said. Hewlett and Packard, both engineering students, became friends their junior year at Stanford. Both graduated in 1934, with Packard going to work for General Electric Co. in New York and Hewlett earning a master's degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Associated Press David Packard and William Hewlett develop the audio oscillator in their rented Palo Alto garage in 1939.

Barnholt, he had heard Barnholt might be able to figure out what was wrong with his system. "I thought this was really amazing, that the CEO of the company would walk into the lab by himself and find me," Barnholt said. "To me it shows how down-to-earth and approachable he was. "Just the other day, I was dealing with a difficult issue, trying to decide which way to go," Barnholt added. "And I actually sat and thought: What would BillHewlett have done in this situation?" Hewlett stepped down as HP's president in 1977 and as chief executive officer the following year.

He remained vice chairman until 1987. Packard retired as chairman in 1993. When Packard died in 1996, at age 83, Hewlett said it was "a loss to the company and to the country that he loved so well." Hewlett also was involved in a variety of scientific and industry organizations. In Reagan awarded Hewlett the National Medal of Science, America's highest scientific honor. Hewlett suffered a moderate stroke A few years later decades before Intel Apple and other technology companies would transform the nearby orchards and rolling hills into what is now called Silicon Valley both men were back in Palo Alto.

With the encouragement of Stanford engineering professor Frederick Ter-man who is considered the real father of Silicon Valley Hewlett and Packard decided to start their own company, with $538 of their own money, in a rented one-car garage. They formalized their partnership on Jan. 1, 1939, with a coin toss to decide the company name. The garage now a state historic landmark was bought last year by HP, which has featured it in the company's "Invent" marketing campaign. It wasn't easy starting a company during the Depression, Hewlett told reporters in 1987.

"In the beginning, we did anything to bring in a nickel," he recalled. "We had a bowling lane foul-line indicator. We had a thing that would make a urinal flush automatically as soon as a guy came in front of it. We had a shock machine to make people lose weight." The company's first success was one of Hewlett's graduate school projects an audio oscillator to test sound equipment. Walt Disney bought eight for the film "Fantasia." The company grew quickly after World War II, during which Hewlett served in the Army Signal Corps.

It expanded from electronic and scientific instruments to calculators, computers and printers. Together, HP and Agilent employ 135,000 people worldwide. Hewlett and Packard shared basic beliefs about managing a company: disdain of strict hierarchy and formality, admiration for individual creativity and initiative and trust in employees. Packard wrote down the company credo, which became known as the "HP Way." Industry observers said the founders' beliefs helped HP produce new products and engendered intense loyalty among employees. Agilent CEO Ned Barnholt recalled Friday how one evening in 1966, shortly after he had joined HP as an engineer, he was sitting at a bench in a lab working on a stereo when Hewlett entered.

Hewlett's home stereo was broken, and though he had never met brings down the curtain on the first, generation of Silicon Valley. He was the last founder," Malone said. "Hewlett in many ways is more the template of Silicon Valley than the others were. He is the patron saint of engineers in Silicon Valley." in 1993, and last November, he had to be evacuated from a second-floor balcony when a fire caused $1.5 million in damage to his mansion. Hewlett is survived by his wife, Rosemary; five children from his first marriage; and five stepchildren from his second njarriage.

His first wife, Flora, died in 1977. "The death of Hewlett basically On the Net: http:7www.hp.com Web-related jobs more than doubled I til I I Ifli 1 1 1 M'Til 1 1UI 1 11 1 1 1 1 tfll Ti MIT 11 Whatever "-y aifflgCD38 Your Internet's impact. According to the latest update, Net-related jobs at the end of June employed 3.088 million workers, compared to 1.204 million at the end of 1998 a 156 percent increase. Internet employment grew far faster than jobs overall. During the same period, nonfarm employment in the United States grew 3.4 percent, according to the U.S.

Bureau of Labor Statistics. Denis McSweeney, regional commissioner of the bureau, was not familiar with the Texas study. But he said it has been difficult for economists to get a handle on employment in the technology industries, which can involve manufacturing, services, and a variety of other categories. He confirmed, however, that much of the economy's growth during the 1990s occurred in the services sector, which includes many high-tech firms. By KIMBERLY BLANTON THE BOSTON GLOBE As Internet use by households and businesses exploded, employment in Net-related jobs more than doubled, to about 3 million workers nationwide, during the IVi-year period that ended in June, according to a study released Friday.

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