Giving Back Through Sports

In 1969, the company sponsored a new softball team named the HP Owls. Within a few years, the Owls expanded their playing circuit to Soledad and San Quentin state prisons, where Hewlett-Packard sports teams had visited for at least a decade. “The teams feel a certain pride in representing HP as a part of society doing something constructive through this type of recreation, and helping maintain outside contact for the inmates of these institutions,” explained one company newsletter.