InfoAge Meeting, Wednesday, March 31.

Hello Everyone,

We will be meeting tonight at 6:45PM. This money for this weeks pizza
is from selling our aluminum can collection to a scrap metal dealer .

**Highlighted Future Events** Remember to check and to send events to
calendar@InfoAge.org to have them posted on the planning calendar.

* April 1st & 9th TIROS 50th anniversary. We are looking toward Sunday
the 11th for our ceremony.
* April 11th 2PM TIROS Anniversary Celebration
* April 24th International Marconi Day
* May 6th V-E Day + 65 = dedication of 9032B & C as the WWII Home Front
Living Memorial Museum
*****Please review the posters at
http://www.infoage.org/html/cesbm43-review-page.html *** you must paste
the URL into your browser to see the page.***
* June 19th Classic Car Show
* Aug 15th V-J Day + 65 = WWII Seminar and radar laboratory victory
celebration.

>>>>Recent events and progress: Please email things I miss to fill in
the gaps.
Great events - Good Progress - Great press coverage
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1) First a report form Ray Chase:
Present were: Steve G., Steve R., Dave Snellman, Harry K., Vinnie
Lobosco and myself. Vinnie and I transferred several van loads of
"stuff" stored in the Power House to our storage area in 9310. I hope
to consolidate our stuff in one place, sort the wheat from the chaff and
organize to get rid of excess. BTW, I saw Richard Estes this past
weekend and he asked if we were going to have an auction this fall, he's
ready to come back. I'm working on listing all donations and getting
records to you in a timely manner so we do not have a fiscal year end
crunch.
Steve R. worked in the library then joined Harry, Dave and Vinnie
working on fixing and cleaning windows in the planned communications
exhibit room in 9032 C.
Georgine Eberight and Michael Berman from the Jewish Heritage Museum of
Monmouth County (JHMOMC) arrived a little after noon to visit the
museum. Steve G. took them on a complete tour of the facility and then
after lunch I discussed how we could help them with their planned
exhibit. We will meet again next week to firm up plans, I am the
contact point.
Steve G. among other chores is working to repair overhead lighting in
our 9310 storage area that is over 50% defective.
Door closer weights and chains were repaired on vestibule door to 9032
C. More work needs to be done on these doors.

Thank you Ray and company

2) John C. spent hours the weekend in the WWII Communications and EW in
the room in 9032 doing preparation for the exhibit. He cleaned and
repaired windows.
John is also working with Ray Chase planning the V-J day Seminar and
65th anniversary of the end of WWII. Below are tentative topics.
--Radar Operations at Pearl Harbor December 7th,
1941
*NJARC Ray Chase*
--U-Boats off the Jersey Shore (I know that you have another theme in
mind) *NJHDA Dan Lieb*
--Battle of the
Beams
*AOC GSA John Cervini*
--Army Signal Corps Communications
Advances
*NJARC/OMARC Al Klase*
--German Anti-Aircraft
Techniques
*INFOAGE Fred Carl*
--Development of Computers for Military
Operations
*MARCH Evan Koblentz*

3) We need to make some progress planning for the Wall of Honor event.
We need honorees and more committee workers.

4) We painted the floor of the TIROS building - 9162. The TIROS launch
and first photo anniversary is tomorrow. We hope for some press
coverage.
--See http://www.infoage.org/html/tiros1-2.html Our event will be
Sunday, April 11th at 2 PM under the dish or inside if it rains.
--Rep Rush Holt introduced a resolution honoring the achievements of
TIROS on the 25th.

5) The Monroe Township Veterans Council will be visiting with 25 WWII
Vets. Ray C. is coordinating this.

6) Alex Lo's eagle project to repair the 9029 siding is looking good.
We supplied him the primer and pointed out some places he missed. A
note on siding. All the our WW2 wood frame buildings use Novelty siding
(pattern 105) with a six inch face. The gate 1 entrance building (9093)
was built in the 1950s. It has 8 inch face. Of all the wooden
buildings to be demolished only one by the Evans Ave fence have 8 inch
siding to harvest for repair of 9093. We need to get siding off that
building before its end.

7) Dan L. reminds us your articles for the next InfoAge Marconigraph /
InfoAge Signaleer are due by midnight March 31st - Tonight.

8) Please honor the 'Endangered Species Area' signs and give the eagle
family room to raise young. There are continuing issues with the state
volunteers monitoring the eagles. Please bring all issues to me. If
need be we will have a meeting with the game warden and township
officials.

9) 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 Will meet again soon for a politics free meeting.

10) The NJARC members and others are helping find information on the
industries in the1945 list of NJ companies who earned the Army-Navy E –
award . We have information on 25 companies so far. We hope to reach
out to them for donations in the near future.

11) Thank you to Steve G. for repairing the broken pane of glass in 9032A.

12) This weekend the Wall ROTC moved from the TIROS building to 9032A.
They will use this room for practice. We need to remove some equipment
form the room.

13) Will Somers and the wave science guys are working to join InfoAge to
help get their museum started. We may have a spot for them.

14) We are hoping the bill to name Camp Evans the state of NJ Living
Memorial will be introduced by State Senator Sean Kean. We need to
prepare an information package and possibly have some of our posters
ready as ww will get short notice on when the request is accepted and
will be acted upon.

15) Thank you to Joe G. for beginning to sort the stuff in 9010B. We
are our own problems.

16) Again please check out our V-E Day posters at
http://www.infoage.org/html/cesbm43-review-page.html *** you must paste
the URL into your browser to see the page*** If you see any problems
or things that need correction let me know.

17) We had two groups filming in the hotel this weekend. The Industrial
film school was back and a concept pilot for the history channel.

***There is more stuff - time to get to my regular job....

These Sunday was quiet with the rain. On site were Dave Sn., Harry K.,
and others in the NJARC museum. Steve G., and Joe G were all over the
place as usual. Evan K. had the MARCH exhibit open. Terry L. and Jake
D. had the NJHDA shipwreck museum open. Dan J. and sons were in the
computer deconstruction lab.
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: *
1) Saves an incredibly historic site
2) Honors WWII Signal Corps and Honor Front veterans
3) Helps education by inspiring kids to learn science
4) Furthers the development of a NJ Shore tourist destination.
5) Will create full and part-time employment
6) Improves property values in the North Wall and Shark River area.
7) 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
732 299-0894