InfoAge Meeting, Wednesday, May 12.

Hello Everyone,

We will be meeting tonight at 6:45PM.

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

**Rocket Science Education Weekend canceled due to State Eagle Issues
* June 19th Classic Car Show & Yard Sale
* Aug 15th V-J Day + 65 = WWII Seminar and radar laboratory victory
celebration.


It have been a extremely busy time. Good Progress - high stress

Our audit is complete. All is good. We now have an audited financial
report for foundations who require one. We need to tune up a few
procedural items in our record keeping.

Our board of trustees is expanding by four new members, possibly a
fifth. We will discuss how to appoint a representative from the
membership at the meeting.

Important issue. You will notice a third of the parking lot is closed
off. Do not enter the closed off area. The persons who watch the
eagles are reporting our activities to the state fish and wildlife
people. They have called in a number of issues. Please do not approach
or tell these persons anything. We are not to make noise during our
events. Thus we have canceled the Rocket Education event. If you use
the parking lot you must go immediately and directly into a building.
We can not hold the car-show in the parking lot. We are working on a
new layout for that event. Do not walk along Marconi road or drive
near cottage 9001. We can not mow or do any property maintenance along
Marconi road. The state will be posting signs in our parking lot
shortly. We will discuss this at the meeting. This is not a joke. I
have been threatened with a federal summons, if there are any problems
with the eagle chick. Luckily, the eagles are doing well in the
location they chose. The hundreds of cars, trucks and motorcycles
passing by them on Marconi road do not bother them. According to the
state, just we do. Remember we are being watched and these people are
reporting on our activities to the state on a daily basis.

As you know the TIROS Celebration went well. Bill M. of Cablevision has
a great segment on our TIROS celebration on his Neighborhood Journal. I
taped a copy. We can view it on the VCR Dan J set up for us.

We are making progress on our Community Block Grant thanks to Larry
Tormey and John Truhan. This will repair many of the broken curbs and
sidewalks around the hotel, 9032 and the center entrance to 9010.

Congratulations to Nels W., Pete R., Matt and Dan G. They opened the
expnded Military Technology Museum vehicle display in 9011. It looks
great. They had it ready for the veterans visit and the anniversary of
V-E day

Thanks to Randy G. and the Monmouth County Historical Commission's
Weekend in Olde Monmouth we have lots of visitors on May 1st & 2nd.
Commissioner Barbara Kolarsick-Harrigan visited our site. Another great
event hosted by the Commission.

>>>>Recent events and progress: Please email things I miss to fill in
the gaps.
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1) Reports form Ray Chase and the Wednesday group:
Present were Ray C., Harry K., Dave Snellman, Vince L., and Al K. The
balance weights for the doors to 9032 A section were installed so doors
operate easily. If it is desired to lock this section (not a bad idea)
a lock and latches need to be added. Continued work on 9032 C
communications and EW rooms. Went on scrounging search of buildings to
be razed to collect up hardware, venetian blinds, etc. Moved more stuff
to storage in H building. Worked on planning for the Jewish museum in
Freehold.
Present were: Ray C., Al K, Vince L., Dave Snellman, Harry K., John T.,
Steve G. and Joe G. Most of the day was taken up hosting the group of
25 veterans including several ladies. It was good experience for all
and we learned some things that we must alter to make the tour more
comfortable for seniors. ADA access is sorely needed. I was not sure
that the vehicle tour would work but it went fine and was most
impressive. It was great on Wednesday but when I saw what Nels and crew
did between Wednesday and Sunday I was amazed at their effort and
how superb it looked.
The Divers museum and the MARCH museum were also open and manned.
Some clean-up had to be done quickly before the group arrived, we must
strive to keep the place neat and not just dump trash anywhere we feel.
Some work was done on the future communications room in 9032C and Al K.
repaired a WWII field telephone switchboard for the communications
display so we can operate field phones through it.
Thank you Ray and company

2) An update from Ron and OMARC:
Old computer equipment removed from truck disposed of by Jeff Harshman
and Art Golberg. Equipment taken to Monmouth County reclamation center.
Also, storm windows removed from bldg 9116 and put in storage by Rick
Kennard.
Jeff also hopes to snake out the sewer line at 9116 to the septic tank
sometime this week.l
All mentioned above are OMARC members.
***Thank you Ron

3) Progress by Joe G. This week, I worked a lot on the guard shack, in
both the office and the back closet. The mailbox is now in the back
closet with the soda machine, and the room is better organized overall.
I have also prepared the guard shack office for use as an office.
Between Saturday and Sunday, I had a good number of visitors to the
fallout shelter. Additionally, I have cleared out the cottage of most
of its junk. Lastly, I pulled two good metal shelves out of the moving
truck on Sunday before it filled with scrap.
This week, I started working on moving some of the flotsam in the hotel
and it's basement to the yard sale pile. I also continued work on
emptying Cottage 1 (9002) of its tons of stuff. As far as last week, I
got the office in the guard shack more-or-less functional as an office
for Judy Warren. I also cleaned and organized the guard shack closet and
placed a mail box in there.
***GO OLD JOE!!!

4) AN update from John T.
1 The new shutoffs are installed on the sink upstairs in the board
room. Now I just have to connect the drain.
2 I fastened all the top-heavy book cases to the wall
3 I filled a the book cases in the conference room with the bound
newspapers and filled two book cases in the hallway with library books
4 I cut to size the 4 screws needed to mount the hardware on the one
book case in the hallway
5 I relocated all the smoke detectors in the cottage
6 I salvaged lumber John C. needed, but I ran out of time so I did not get
it ripped down to size
7 I cleaned a lot of the junk up in the e-shop
8 Dave Sica and I brought 3 pallets of Sarnoff stuff down to the Early
Television Convention
9 I'm working with the Camden County Historical Society on a date when
they will come pick their stuff up. It's looking like the end of this
month.
***Thank you John

5) Dan Jacobs hand dug the dirt behind 9097, aka the guard shack. This
helps the water drain better and prevents further building damage Dan
is usually on site each weekday morning around 9AM for his InfoAge
exercise. You are invited to join him.

6) Dan L. and the contractor Kerry are making the repairs to the
firehouse 9031, 9029 and 9034. This is thanks to a grant from the
Monmouth County Historical Commission.

7) Thank you to Terry L., and the members of the membership committee.
Nearly 50 members have renewed their membership resulting in nearly
$2000 in new funds.

8) The Wall ROTC continue practice in 9032A. Last week and this week
Wall High has been using 9032 for Advance Placement testing. They were
short of space at the HS. Nearly 250 students used our facility.

9) Thanks to Bob Judge and Trinity Episcopal Church of Asbury Park we
now have a 13 passenger bus. It is behind the hotel. Thank you Bob!!!

10) Thanks to Steve Makrinos the Fort Monmouth Industrial Reps
Association (IRA) held a luncheon in our hotel. Many of the reps worked
at Camp Evans. They are making a donation for the tours. Thanks to
Steve G. for being tour guide. Thanks to Mike G. for getting the place
set up.

11) Mel Nussbaum will be bring the five new dioramas to todays meeting.
His radio and first computer dioramas are a big hit with the family
visitors. Nice work Mel.

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

13) We planted 100+ hosta plants on the west hotel hill to improve the
look and reduce the hill mowing work for Pete and Nels.

14) Thank you to John B. for all the recent website improvements. We
now have a hit counter on every page. We also have a new frontpage graphic

15) Thank you to Dave Sica for continuing to post information to the
InfoAge blog and also thanks to Michele for creating the InfoAge
facebook page. Cori is setting up a Twitter account for us.

16) Sadly I must report no earmarks were submitted by Congressman Smith
and his party. So no help for the leaking roofs. The state will not
help and the town is out of money too. So we have to reach out to the
public.

***Time to get to my paying job... Sorry for the items I have not
gotten to list. Please email me things you have done I have missed***

*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