Again in 2007, a directory of the Santa Clara Valley Section end-of-year membership was produced from the database file obtained on floppy disks from the National Office.

    A Hewlett-Packard Laserjet 4 printer with a "Pro Collection" font cartridge was used. Programming was done in PowerBasic 3.20 (available from PowerBASIC, Inc.) to read information from the database, make necessary file format conversions, select home or work address and phone number, change the characters from all-upper-case to a more readable combination of upper and lower case, format the results column by column and page by page, and send them to the printer. Program listings are available from the Section Secretary on request.

    There were exactly 3655 records in the 2007 database. None was duplicated, so it appears that the record duplication  problem is now solved permanently.

    The directory ran to 43 pages, 3 more than the number in 2006. The directory was distributed to the 17 members of the Executive Committee (officers, councilors, and alternate councilors), to about 6 committee chairs who are not voting members of the Executive Committee, and to no one else.

    A scan of page 24 (the page that has my own name) from the directory is shown below as a sample. The actual printed pages are clearer than the picture below indicates.

                                                                Karl Marhenke
                                                                             Secretary