Hello Everyone,
We will have a Wednesday planning meeting this week. We will start at
6:45 PM. We will enjoy pizza, discuss this years calendar, current
projects and upcoming events.
**Highlighted Future Events** Remember to check and to send events to
calendar@InfoAge.org to have them posted on the planning calendar.
- Radio Repair Clinic, Sat, Feb 20th, 0900, all day, 9032 A Section,open to the public - Contact Ray Chase
- Sunday, HH2010 planing meeting #2 with Nels and Judy - time?
- Monday, Feb 22nd InfoAge BOT meeting 4 PM in Marconi Hotel.
- Saturday, Mar 6, 2010 Large Radio/Electronics Auction, all day Sat,9032 A Section (snow date 13th).
- Saturday March 14th 1:00pm InfoAge Open House and new member drive (tentative - subject to change).
- April 1st & 9th TIROS 50th anniversary. We are loking toward Saturday the 3rd for our ceremony.
- May 6th V-E Day + 65 = dedication of 9032B & C as the WWII Home Front Living Memorial Museum
- Aug 15th V-J Day + 65 = WWII Seminar and radar laboratory victory celebration.
>>>>Recent events and progress: There has been a ton. Please email
things I miss to fill in the gaps.
Great events - Good Progress - Great press coverage
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1) The best show clearing in all of NJ was at Camp Evans. IT was
cleared twice due to two nasty storms. Thank you to Mike G. for the
equipment. The operators: Mike G., Steve G., John T., Joe G., and ??
did a great job with our plows, gas snow throwers and human powered snow
shovels. The parking lot was so clean only the painted lines were
left. Thanks to Nels who called in reinforcements to remove a giant
snow pile and some touch-up.. Nels cleared the Diana site for an OMARC
event.
2) We have a Camp Evans history videos on YouTube.com thanks to Ryan L.
and John B. who created a page on our site to link to YouTube. Norm and
Ryan L. will be targeting Frank O., and his Apollo Computer for the next
set of videos. We will soon add a virtual Frank the Nasa Computer
expert to virtual Ray the radar expert and virtual Fred the Camp Evans
historian to our PC based videos.
3) We are making progress rebuilding the old 2” wide blinds – thanks to
Matt O. and Steve G. for getting the supplies. This Sunday, Matt and
Jim Orgill wrote procedures and took photographs for a 'How-to-rebuild
blinds". If we rebuild the binds in 9032 A-C we will save nearly $6,000
in costs. If we could buy replacements in the same old ugly wide style
the cost would be $300 per window = $27,000 for the A - C. Big savings!!
4) The lights in 9162 are all re-wired. We need to get going. We lost
two weekends due to the snow. We have the covers to replace and some
ceiling sheet rock repairs. The TIROS anniversary is April 1st.
5) In 9032 the EW room is all ready. Bob P. will be replaced the light
fixtures in this room and others.
6) The restored WWII restrooms in 9032B & C may be checked by the
building inspector tomorrow thanks to Steve G. and Mark C. of C & H
Plumbing.
7) The Monroe Township Veterans Council will be visiting with 25 WWII
Vets on Wednesday, April 27th . We need to have a nice tour for the
gents. Ray C. will firm up a date with them. Ray did you call them?
8) Matt Orgill's Eagle Ceremony went excellent on Sunday the 7th (the
6th was snowed out). Mike G. had the dining room looking as good as
new. He hand stripped the wax buildup and re-waxed the floors.
Amazing. I read a letter of congratulations for Nels and Judy W. to
Matt. Our hope and Mike G.'s hope is this will be the first on many
Eagle Court of Honor ceremonies at InfoAge.
9) Able, Michele and the Blossom volunteers are breaking all records
with enhanced museum attendance thanks to the Disney ticket program.
Michele is spending lots of time sorting and inventorying the donations
for foster children ‘Care-packs’ and the many excellent programs Blossom
hosts. This effort has brought our more supplies than we could have
imagined. Blossom has even helped the local DYFS office with the
supplies donated.
10) Future Eagle Scout Zack visited on Sunday with his plans to expand
our river front trails to Watson Road. We hope the council approves his
proposal.
11) This Sunday, Jim Orgill, Bill Kortenhouse, Steve Makrinos., and I
were guests of Monarch Energy Associates (aka Mike Golub) at the 47th
Annual Monmouth County Republicans Lincoln Day Dinner. We enjoyed a
great time and great food with Mike and Kathy G. BOT members Steve
M., Claire French and I did our best to update our supporting
republicans friends on InfoAge's excellent progress. We gave out our
cards and newsletters. It was great to update Congressman Chris Smith
and tell him to look for our Earmark request. We got to see InfoAge
volunteer Assemblyman Dave Rible. State Senator Sean Kean told Mike G.
the bill to name Camp Evans the state of NJ WWII living memorial is
almost ready. We got to see former assemblyman Steve Corodemus. Steve
was the host of our 2005 WWII Living Memorial Dedication. We also got
to see Mike Fitzgerald the former head of the original Marconi Park
Reuse advisory committee. His committee (including our BOT members John
Truhan and Claire French with the urging of our BOT chairman Mike Ruane)
recommended Wall Township give InfoAge a chance to save Camp Evans back
in 1994. We got to meet new Freeholder John Curly as well as a number
of current and former Freeholders who have supported us over the years.
We did our best to meet as many person we thought could help us. Thank
you Mike and Monarch Associates for putting us in the same room as all
these key persons.
12) Thank you to BOT member Steve Makrinos for preparing our request for
federal funding (earmark) for Congressman Smith's consideration.
13) BOT member Bob G. is making great progress on The Book. Bob and I
will be working to find better resolution digital copies of the photos
he has selected for publication. Thank you to helpers like BOT member
Larry Tormey for the editing.
14) Congratulations to Dan Lieb for successfully preparing, submitting
and winning a Monmouth County Historical Commission Grant for InfoAge.
The ceremony is on Feb 22nd at the Hall of Records - 7 PM. Great job
Dan! The matching funds will repair structural damage to the frames of
WWII wood structures 9029, 9031 and 9034.
15) NJARC had a great meeting in 9032A. Thank you to President Richard
for giving me a few minutes to say thank you to the group, for all the
progress they have brought to InfoAge / Camp Evans.
They have grown with us from the cottage 9003 to the NJARC Radio
Technology Museum packed with artifacts. They are now poised for
expansion into the 'H' buildings. A NJARC advance party has already
colonized a storage room in 9010A.
16) Dan L. has created a set of Edward Henderson posters for a traveling
exhibit. They may visit Wall town hall.
17) John B., and the website committee are looking at Joomla.
18) Another great history find and win by Ray C. A WWII technical
manual was offered on ebay. A photo of IFF equipment had some buildings
in the background. On close examination they turned out to be 9017 and
9037.
19) Steve R. and members of the archive committee are working on an
Archive policy for InfoAge. Thank you to Steve for his leadership in
this effort. Steve also cataloged the set of Marconi drawings donated
to InfoAge by the Sarnoff Library. We hope to add them to our
finding-aide on our website.
20) Thank you to John T. and Joe G. for continuing to catalog our
handreds of Camp Evans drawings.
21) Dan L. reminds us your articles for the next InfoAge Marconigraph /
InfoAge Signaleer are due by midnight March 31st . Thank you rot Frank
O. for the TIROS story
22) Remember to send your calendar entries to Webmaster John via email –
calendar@InfoAge.org Thank you to John
for setting up the google calendar and many other web improvements.
23) It is amazing how many memberships have expired. Get your $25 in
to help us with this good cause. Michele R., Terry L., Steve M., and
other members of the membership committee will be starting on outreach soon.
24) Blossom and OCAPA are teaming up to organize the second InfoAge Flea
market and stuff sale. Details to follow.
25) Our web committee is taking shape under John B’s technical
leadership. John, Steve G. and Michele have begun looking into using
Joomla to enable more persons to contribute to our web content.
26) Thanks to Joe G. for working on getting us an improved copier. We
hope to get the old copier up and running soon.
27) The NJARC members are agreeable the help find information on the
industries in the1945 list of NJ companies who earned the Army-Navy E –
award . We hope to contact them for a donation in honor of their WWII
accomplishments.
These past two Sunday was super busy with lots of visitors and families.
On site were Dave Sica, Dave Sn., Phil V. Ray & Edith C., Marsha & Jerry
S., Harry K.and others in the NJARC museum. Steve G., John T., and Joe
G were all over the place as usual. Jeff F. and Evan K had the MARCH
exhibit open. Neil N., Dan and Terry L. had the NJHDA shipwreck museum
open. Mike G., was getting ready for the Eagle court of honor and
plowing. Able & Michele R., Bella R., and conscripted visitors were
sorting, inventorying and moving the hundreds of Blossom donations.
Dan J. and sons were in the computer deconstruction lab. Jim and Matt
O. plus new volunteer Jake D. were working on the blinds. JoAnne was in
the lobby. Norm and Ryan L. were delivering video updates. I know I
missed lots of folks - sorry. The last two weeks were crazy. Good
crazy with progress.
I hope to see you at this meeting to help make more progress. It is up
to us to make historic Camp Evans a place of public benefit service that
is honoring to those who served there.
Reasons to tell persons why to donate (via check or PayPal) to our effort NOW:
- Saves an incredibly historic site
- Honors WWII Signal Corps and Honor Front veterans
- Helps education by inspiring kids to learn science
- Furthers the development of a NJ Shore tourist destination.
- Will create full and part-time employment
- Improves property values in the North Wall and Shark River area.
- We are the White House recognized stewards of the Camp Evans Historic District and now it is under our protection for future generations.
No Passion = No Progress.
We have passion and we are progressing - even if it is tough sometimes.
If we do not tell kids what great things others have done to improve our
nation how can we expect them to know what they are capable of.
Thank you,
Fred
732 299-089
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