HP Female Bowling Team

This team of female HP employees represented the company at the 40th Annual Women’s International Bowling Congress held in San Francisco in 1958. Made up of (from left) Dottie Lao, Dea Doebler, Betty Orrick, Joan Palmer, Betty Geen and Mee Chow, the team was one of 2,400 competing at the tournament. Bowling was a popular extracurricular activity for HP employees of all genders, especially during the 1950s. The company even organized its own coed league.