Compaq Teams Up with Red Sox to Boost Compaq Visibility in New England
Compaq Employee Discount at New Hampshire's Currier Gallery of Art


Compaq Teams Up with Red Sox to Boost Compaq Visibility in New England

As part of a continuing effort to boost awareness of Compaq in New England, the company has entered into a marketing partnership with the Boston Red Sox. Throughout this year's baseball season, which began in Boston on April 11, Compaq will sponsor the Red Sox Birthday Party Program, now renamed the Compaq Kids' Birthday Party Program.

How does the program work? It's open to children under 15 and their friends and families. Fans pay for their tickets, and Compaq underwrites the cost of birthday party extras.

Hundreds of parties have already been booked for the coming season. Compaq will get signage and in-park recognition at every home game, 81 in all. In addition, Compaq has negotiated a block of "kids birthday party" seats for every game. Some will go to Compaq families via lottery, and some will be donated to New England youth groups that Compaq supports through its community relations programs.

The following Compaq employees and youngsters are celebrating April birthdays at Fenway Park this month, on the game days indicated. Each birthday kid and up to 14 of their friends and family members get free game tickets, lunch, scoreboard recognition, a special Red Sox/Compaq birthday shirt, and a Red Sox souvenir. Compaq security personnel selected these winners in a random drawing: April 11 Kimberly Hicks, for Kyle, born April 6, 1991 April 12 Phyllis DiMarzio, for Thomas Blankenship, born April 7, 1988 April 13 Greg Burns, for Patrick, born April 3, 1982 April 14 Patty Chase, for Steve, born April 1, 1992 April 15 Diane Kelliher, for Eric, born April 14, 1988 April 16 Steve Celone, for Alicia, born April 24, 1994 April 17 Jill Desmarais, for twins William and Jacob, born April 5, 1997 April 21 Rick Delaney, for Richard, born April 25, 1998 April 22 Gale Liles, for Eric, born April 6, 1991 April 23 Margaret Cormier, for Gregory, born April 21, 1991

Compaq Employee Discount at New Hampshire's Currier Gallery of Art

Compaq is now a corporate member of the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire - a well-known, independent art museum. A Compaq employee badge is worth a one-time entrance fee for an employee and the employee's family.

Consisting of more than 11,000 objects, the Currier's collections are considered among the finest of any small art museum in the U.S. The museum features paintings by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Georgia O'Keeffe, Gilbert Stuart, John Singleton Copley, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, and Andrew Wyeth, as well as sculpture by Henri Matisse, Frederic Remington, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The American Impressionist collection includes works by artists Edmund Tarbell and Childe Hassam. Contemporary artists represented include Josef Albers, Adolph Gottlieb, and Alexander Calder.

In decorative arts, the Currier has fine examples of 18th- and 19th- century New England glass works. The museum also has one of the country's finest collections of glass paperweights, the Henry Melville Fuller collection, which features rare pieces from the historic French glass houses of Baccarat, Clichy, and St. Louis.

The Currier complex includes the Gallery, the Currier Art Center (for art education and training) and the Zimmerman House, which is the only New England residence designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that is open to the public.

Besides the one-time free admission (entrance to the Zimmerman House is not included in the free offer), Compaq's corporate plan includes: 50 percent discount for employees who sign up for a first-time Dual-Plus (family) Membership ($25 instead of the usual $50 cost) 10 percent discount on Currier Art Center classes