Just a few thoughts on my Career at Eastman Kodak.

I had come back to Rochester from New Mexico in February of 1972 and being basically lucky but without a bachelors degree, started working for Eastman Kodak Company as a non-professional computer programmer, code level fifty-nine, making one hundred sixty three dollars a week. I was pleased beyond my wildest dreams, as my father had said many times, “Get yourself into Kodak and you’ve got yourself a job for life”.

• The first five years in the Production Planning Department.

• The next fourteen years in the Management Services Division.

• The last nine years in Photochemicals Manufacturing.

Like Charles Dickens said, “It was the best of times (for the most part, by the way) and it was the worst of times” and all I can say now is how grateful I am for having had the chance to work for such a wonderful company and having been able to learn the following:

· Doing your best all the time pays off for you.

· Helping others when you can is the point of it all.

· Leaving things better off then when you found them is the goal.

· Don’t let the negative ones get you down.

· Smile and enjoy, life is short.

Howard.

3/24/02