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Her Father's Notebook

Perusing AT&T's archives last fall, Senior Editor
Jean Kumagai found countless little delights and
one big one: her father's notebooks.
Henry Kumagai worked for 37 years as a semiconductor engineer in the AT&T fold, first at
Western Electric and later, after the divestiture,
for AT&T's Microelectronics Division. He was
awarded 11 patents, one of which described a way
to produce tantalum films for thin-film resistors
and capacitors. AT&T used that process extensively from the 1970s to the early 1990s.
Jean was at the archives with Photo Editor
Randi Silberman to scout out photo ops for
an upcoming feature ["AT&T's Attic," in this
issue]. When she mentioned to archives manager
George Kupczak that her father had worked at
AT&T, Kupczak said, "Let's look him up." And
there he was: the archives' database listed five
of Henry's lab notebooks.
Four had been transferred to microfiche and
the originals destroyed, but the fifth was still
there. Its faded green cover looked virtually identical to the thousands of other notebooks in the
warehouse. But on the pages within, Jean immediately recognized her father's neat penmanship.
As it turned out, the notebook captured one of
Henry's most productive periods-the late 1960s
and early 1970s, when he was awarded six patents.
He retired as a senior staff engineer in 1995.
Henry believes engineering still has much to
offer. "If you have a genuine interest in technology, then solving each new problem will give you
a sense of achievement that few other careers
can match," he says. "Especially when the problems are difficult, you realize that the solutions
you develop will be state of the art."
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