InfoAge Meeting, Wednesday, October 27.

Hello Everyone,

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

* The 2010 Haunted Hotel - TWO of our Seven crazy nights are left Oct. 29-30th. FRIDAY and SATURDAY are the LAST nights.
**Date to be set - IEEE Milestone in technology bronze plaque presentation for the 50th anniversary of TIROS. This is Camp Evans second milestone - Project Diana was the first.
**Dates to be set - The Holiday Trains and the VMC aka VMX.
**Next Newsletter articles due last day of November**


Report from Ray Chase:

Present were Ray C., Dave Snellman, Ron B., Al K. and Harry K. Wallboard and insulation was purchased and staged in 9312. Ron B. has started installing insulation. Wiring of 9312 is complete and has been blessed by the inspector. Al K. is continuing work on the Communications room. Fine tuning continues on the Mad Science Lab. Display items were gathered up and prepared for the Science Festival in Clifton. Harry K. took some of them on Wednesday in his station wagon. On Friday, a cargo van was rented and the remainder were loaded with help from Steve G. and brought to the Clifton High School where they were set up by Harry K. and Ray C. The Clifton Science Festival was manned on Saturday by Ray C., Harry K., Matt Reynolds and Fred for several hours. Evan was there with another of his members. On Sunday it was manned by Ray C., Harry K., Matt R., and later by Dave Sica and Richard Lee as well as the Evans crew. The display was folded at 5 PM on Sunday and loaded up with help from Matt, Dave and Richard. Monday morning it was returned to InfoAge with help from Steve G. The Science Festival was fantastically successful, more info to follow.
Ray

Comments on the Haunted Hike by Dave Sica - who I am told is an ACE with the smoke ring cannon:

If you haven't made it over to the "Haunted Hike" at InfoAge yet, there
are still two more days to go, this coming Friday and Saturday. The scale
of this event is just awesome. The hike probably covers an acre of ground
and you wouldn't believe how creepy an abandoned army base can be at
night under a full moon! There are dozens of dedicated and talented
actors playing the roles of all kinds of scary creatures and the amount
of work and creativity that's gone into the construction of the displays
is almost beyond my ability to comprehend. The InfoAge Haunted Hike is at
least as ambitious as any Halloween event anywhere and is a good deal
less expensive than many. It's also a major fund raiser for the
organization and a great tool for outreach into the community.

This past weekend was the first time I really participated in the event.
I had breezed through with a camera last year but working behind the
scenes in the mad scientist lab was something else. My hat is off to the
NJARC guys (primarily Ray Chase, Harry Klancer, Al Klase and Dave
Snellman) who put together a real crowd pleaser. You'll see pictures in the
NJARC newsletter and on the website, but you really have to be there in
person to get the full effect. And although the customers loved it, I can
personally guarantee you that it's even more fun to be part of the crew!

Most everyone (of the thousands of folks who've passed through so far)
left with a big smile on their face, even some of the older kids who came
in with a bit of a chip on their shoulder, as if they were just too cool
for us to possibly be able to entertain them. One teenaged skeptic even
left saying "hey man, thanks, that was great!"

The really scary part is that all during the event I kept getting ideas
on even more things we could do NEXT year.

For more info: http://www.campevanshaunt.com/

--Dave Sica


The Haunted Hike is going great. Everyone has great comments. We have raised just over $24,000. We are well on the way to being able to put a new roof on one of the 9011 sections. Thank you to the many volunteers who are making this a great event. Thank you to the CACI employees who helped out and hopefully had fun too. As always, Blossom, OMARC. MARCH, NJHDA, MTMNJ, NJNG, MAST, Rob and the the Shore Players, Laura and the Wall thespians, the Wall ROTC. Plus the walk is safer thanks to Wall DPW patching the many potholes. Please come volunteer and have some fun at the same time.

The NJ Science Festival was great. I can not put it any better than Dave Sica:

"I was able to drop by for the last couple of hours today to help pack up
the exhibit.

Wow!

I have a friend who always says "if you want to be big, you've got to
look big." The InfoAge booth looked ten times better than the display put
on by Liberty Science Center and as good or better than nearly everything
else there. And I was blown away by the kids; I guess the ones who
dragged their parents there (or maybe were dragged there by their
parents) were exactly our target audience. I've never been peppered with
so many questions before! It was so much fun talking to little kids who
got all excited about this stuff. And it was also a little bit
encouraging that maybe the future of our country isn't going completely
to hell in a handbasket after all. Major kudos go to they guys who put
together this impressive display."
--Dave Sica

***It was fun and the five eras of computer development dioramas were a big hit. Mel dropped off a box of flyers to go with his exhibit. The satellites were a good draw too. MARCH had a great display and lots of interested visitors. We hope this outreach will net InfoAge more visitors and more supporters.

***Thank you Ray and Dave for the reports.

*On Monday we had the pleasure of hosting the Monmouth County Historical Commission meeting at InfoAge. The commissioners spent lots of time in the museums. They have helped us with grants to put a new roof on the TIROS building, repair the WWII addition on the Marconi Power plant, fix structure issues with 9029, 9031 and 9034. Neil is working on a grant to have a second roof put on 9034 to stop the growing number of leaks. Last count was eight.

***Festering and at times flaming issue. We need to file for permits when ever we do work on our buildings. Twice I have had to force folks to get permits for electrical work. At times we do not realize we need permits for the work we are doing. We will develop an internal form to submit to our 'Building and Grounds committee' prior to any work actions. They will review the form and submit the information to the town.
* The buildings and Grounds committee met on Monday at 9 AM.

*Our CBDG is moving along thanks to Lou R. and John Truhan. We are waiting on the bid specs.
*Larrison Fuel and Oil completed cleaning our hotel boiler so we will to be ready for this winter. They recommended working with Central Boiler to get the zone valves the Army disabled working

* Mike G. visited Brian Boyce, who makes amazing WWII dioramas. Brian would like to display some of his dioramas at InfoAge. Mike loves his dioramas.
* Thank you to Mike G. for the new giant door mat at the back of the hotel.
* Thank you to Jamie B. for calling us to put together a story on our Haunted Hike.


--This Sunday we had a low number volunteers on site (due to Haunting Hangovers), but a nice flow of guests. On site were JoAnnn B., Frank O., Joe G., Neil N., Dave Snellman of the NJARC and others I am sure if have missed.

---Thank you all. See you are the meeting


*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.**
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