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McGraw-Hill publishes second edition of Saratogan's book

McGraw-Hill in New York recently published the second edition of Vern Solberg's Design Guidelines for Surface Mount and Fine Pitch Technology. Solberg, a Saratoga resident, is director of advanced manufacturing technology at Tessera, a developer of chip-scale packaging in San Jose.

The new edition is an update of Solberg's 1990 guide to surface mount methods, materials and applications. He is considered an international authority on the subject. The book is available at technical book sellers and costs $52.

Anderson named top producer for Cornish & Carey Residential

Saratoga residential real estate agent Sally Anderson was Cornish & Carey's top producer for 1995, according to Rodger Rickard, the firm's president and CEO.

Anderson has been Cornish & Carey's number-one sales executive for eight out of the last nine years. Before joining Cornish & Carey, she was Contempo's top sales associate for several years running.

Cornish & Carey Residential, founded in 1935, is the largest independent real estate firm in Northern California. The company has offices in Santa Clara, San Francisco and San Mateo counties and is headquartered in Palo Alto.

Saratogan John Lundell awarded NASA medal

John Lundell of Saratoga was awarded a NASA medal for exceptional engineering achievement during a May 7 ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center. The medal was awarded for his research work in the late 1970s and early 1980's on the heat shield for the Galileo Entry Probe.

The probe successfully entered the atmosphere of Jupiter last December and, after surviving severe heat entry, a complex payload of instruments made a number of measurements to characterize the atmosphere of the most primordial planet in the solar system. In order to protect instruments from the entry heat, the probe had a heat shield which weighed half the total probe weight of 750 pounds.

Lundell spent the last eight years of his 35-year career with NASA in management and retired in 1990 as associate director of aerophysics. He has lived in Saratoga for 37 years with his wife Coralyn and the couple raised three children here.

Cleaner 2000 finalist for Clean Air Award

Abe Ashfari of Cleaner 2000 of Saratoga is a finalist for the Clean Air Award handed out by the American Lung Association.

Each year, the Lung Association presents the Clean Air Award to a company or individual who has accepted the challenge to play an aggressive role in reducing air pollution and its impact.

Ashfari has found a way to clean clothing without the use of harmful solvents. The awards will be presented during a luncheon May 31 at noon at the San Jose Athletic Club.

Kaplan acquires Score!

Kaplan Educational Centers, one of the nation's largest educational companies, has acquired Score! Learning Corp., an educational services company with 14 locations in California, including a site at 1440 Big Basin Way in Saratoga.

Alan Tripp founded Score! in 1992 with financial backing from William Hewlett of Hewlett-Packard.

Score! students are guided by academic coaches as they work with multimedia curricula. The newly acquired centers will be called Score @ Kaplan, said Jonathan Grayer, Kaplan president and CEO.