FEBRUARY 1978 Circulation: 400 ! - Cont RUNNING ENTHUSIASTS--JOG ASIDE FOR CINDER-EDDIE HUNGENBERG Dale Hungenberg, Senior Technical Writer (the one in the NARF hat), spent her December vacation in Honolulu, egging her faster half and her young son on in the gruesome 26 mile, 385 yard Hawaii Marathon. 61-year-old Ed Hungenberg, retired Lockheed Quality Control Engineer, was one of the 3,073 participants; 97% of which completed the race. Ed, who is Dale's husband and Application Programmer Deanne Vassiliadis' father, was among the finishers and clocked in at 5 hours and 55 minutes. The winner of the tropical scamper was a 22-year-old who trotted over the wire after only 2 hours and 19 minutes. Runners ages ranged from 6 to 71 years. Dale's son (Deanne's brother), Scott, who is stationed in Honolulu, also participated in the race. Unfortunately, Scott was recovering from a rare and exotic disease (known as the flu), and was only able to run 15 miles. (Phrog: Did I say "ONLY"????) Thirty-nine years ago, Ed Hungenberg ran fast enough to catch Dale as his wife; today, Dale is going to have to take up jogging just to keep up with her active husband. WRINGING OUT THE OLD; WINGING IN THE NEW 1977 closed with a bang and the Northeast region and some dedicated headquarters creatures had cause for a New Year celebration. In mid-December, a New Jersey customer began having some difficulties. After a bout of fingerprinting (Hardware! Software! Headquarters!), all areas rallied together to tackle the problem. When the chips are down, you can traditionally count on DPI to come through in the end. And end it was! On New Year's Eve, Charlie Renna, N.E. Regional Field Engineering Manager, John Hughes, N.E. Regional Specialist and Rich Chase, N.E. Field Engineer, along with the DPI coordinator at the customer site and Russ Mann, Sunnyvale, got it all together and solved the problem--with a full two hours to spare before 1978 arrived. Special recognition is in order for these headquarters and field creatures. IMAGE wants to know if any specific new year's resolutions came out of that effort? RANDOM NOTES: Welcome Lynn Brandhorst to the DPI Partially-Eaten Birthday Cake Club. Snow shoveler for hire. Will clear your driveway at firs flake of snow. Contact RM c/o Detroit office. TRIVINOSTALGIA DEPARTMENT What former DPI Sales Rep from the Northeast region won a sales contest in early 1969 by achieving 166% of quota? (Hint: the grand prize was $50, round trip airfare for two and a room at NYC's Waldorf Astoria). {Bill's hint: you will find the answer in the Data-Line's published elsewhere}.