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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

InfoAge Meeting, Wednesday, January 27.

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 send events to calendar@InfoAge.org to have them posted on
planning calendar.

* A night to remember - Jan 30th. See your newsletter. If you did not
get one, it means one of two things. Your membership has lapsed or we
need to correct your address / membership entry. Email me so I can fix
as appropriate.
* Saturday, Feb. 6th - Blossom Think Tank
* Radio Repair Clinic, Sat, Feb 20th, 0900, all day, 9032 A Section,
open to the public - Contact Ray Chase
* 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.
* April 1st & 9th TIROS 50th anniversary
* 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
-----------------------------
- We are making good progress restoring the original ceiling lights in
the TIROS building 9162 so the room looks exactly like the 1960 photo in
National Geographic and NASA photos.
See
http://www.infoage.org/html/nat-geo-1960-08-p296-tiros-ground-station.html
- Our Wizard of Oz costumes we use for the Haunted Hotel will help the
Wall Drama Production
- Evan and MARCH picked up a UNIVAC system and other vintage equipment.
- Mike G. repaired the snow plow truck.
- Mike G. has finished the packing away of his holiday display. Mike
stripped the entire dining room floor. It looks excellent.
- The hotel lounge is ready for the next set of improvements. Restored
lights to match the original and more.
- Check Amazon.com to purchase a copy of Frank O'Brien's book on the
NASA/Apollo Flight Guidance Computer. I ordered my copy. As you know we
have one on display in an excellent exhibit made by Frank.
- A recently published book titled 'Radar Origins Worldwide' has a
chapter - Evans Signal Laboratory'. I order two copied from Amazon.com
- Frank O., Jeff F. and Mike G. are cooking up a rocketry day to honor
Rusty Swigert in summer.
- Bob G's book on Camp Evans history is moving forward. Three more
chapters are being reviewed.
- We are considering being a part of the Belmar St. Patrick's Day
parade. Scott W. is leading the charge.
- Able R. completed the assembly of more supply shelves.
- Steve G., and John T. helped Blossom with the mass of donated supplies.
.
This Sunday we had many many visitors. Lots more items were delivered
for the Blossom Care packs and support of our activities. On site on
Sunday: Frank O., our Mayor George Newberry, Steve G.,
Able & Michele R., Bella R., John T., Ray, Edith & Toby Chase, Dave Sn.,
Dan J., Scott W., Nels W., Phil V., Dan L., Neil N., and Cicily F.

I hope to see you at the next few meeting to help plan this exciting
year of 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
732 299-089

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

InfoAge meeting, Wednesday, January 20.

Hello Everyone,


We will have a Wednesday planning meeting this week. We will start at 6:30 PM. We will enjoy pizza, discuss this years calendar, current projects and upcoming events.

**Highlighted Future Events** Remember to send events to calendar@InfoAge.org to have them posted on planning calendar.*A night to remember - Jan 30th. See your newsletter. If you did not get one, it means one of two things. Your membership has lapsed or we need to correct your address / membership entry. Email me so I can fix as appropriate.*April 1st & 9th TIROS 50th anniversary*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
Thank you to OMARC for celebrating the January 9th anniversary of Project Diana at the Diana site on Marconi Road.

A report by the G-Team: Steve G., Joe G and John T.:
Fred,The group has been involving in the following.
Assisted Michelle R. on Sunday and conducted tours.Salvaged doors, windows and blind parts in back area.Continued working on McCarthy building workshop area.Got Wayne in for check on building move possibilities.Found materials and instructions for blind rebuilds done by Matt and Blossom volunteers.Repaired windows in 9036, 9036 and telcom buildingWorking with Shaw Engineering on under slab sampling of 9010D and 9032D.Cut glass for Dan Lieb's project.Painted Guard Shack bathroom floor.Cleaned in HotelSorted recycling
*** Thank you gents

A report by Rob Davis of the GSC:
The Garden State Central Model Railroad Club, Inc. (100% InfoAgemembers) sponsored a holiday train show at InfoAge for the fourthconsecutive year. Originally scheduled to run for the two weekendsbefore Christmas, the second weekend was postponed until to January dueto the big snow storm. During the two weekends, the exhibit drew justover 1200 people to InfoAge, providing large crowds for the trainswhich spilled over to Mike G's village display and the other museumexhibits that were open. At times the crowd was so large there werelines waiting to get into the train room, which featured over 20simultaneously operating model trains ranging in size from tiny N-scaleto live steam G-gauge indoor/outdoor trains. The club's exhibit wasalso open during Mike G's InfoAge fund raiser where another 30 or sopeople came to see the trains.

------------------------------ We touched up paint in the hotel hall and lounge.- The first Haunted Hotel 2010 planning meeting went great - 14 persons attended. Lots a good ideas.- We posted our mission statement posters in the lobby for visitors to read.- 9032 restroom partitions completed and painted. - 9032 radar countermeasures room almost ready. Once the BRAC tests are done we will paint the floor.- The 21 NJR posters Dan L. created using Lynn B's photos went to NJR today. The poster for Keily Construction too.- The WWII Draft set of the Home Front Living Memorial posters are ready for review.- New versions (22" by 34") posters of the Russ Henderson 1914 Belmar station photos are ready for hanging. They show visitors exactly what the photos show in 'call-outs'.- Nels and company picked up a trailer full of fallen branches for visitor safety and site appearance.- We have a BOT meeting on Tuesday. Much progress was made on updating the ByLaws- Mr. Robie Lange of the NPS National Landmarks Survey team visited on Wednesday. It was a good visit- Thanks to Wall committeeman Jeff Foster we now have the Astronaut Rusty Swigert artifacts from the Wall library to add to our space display.- Check Amazon.com to purchase a copy of Frank O'Brien's book on the NASA/Apollo Flight Guidance Computer. As you know we have one on display in an excellent exhibit made by Frank.- Frank O., Jeff F. and Mike G. are cooking up a rocketry day to honor Rusty Swigert in summer.- Bob G's book on Camp Evans history is moving forward. Thanks to Larry T., Ray Chase and others helping Bob in the massive undertaking. Frank O. and Phil V. understand first hand the challenge of becoming a published author.- Thank you to Lewis Meixler for hosting a meeting of the NJ Regional Homeland Security Technology Committee at Camp Evans. We made new friends in the committee and may have a university offer some classes at our facility.- The Wall ROTC continues to practice in the TIROS building and do better and better in competitions

- This past Sunday we were part of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Day of Service. Michele R. and Blossom members provided leadership to make the event a great success.We raffled two copies of the collected works of Dr. King in the book "A Testament of Hope"; the volunteers painted giant likeness of two American scientist with African Heritage; painted the upstairs ladies room; disassembled, cleaned and reassembled with new webs and cords old style window blinds saving us over $240 in labor; cleaned all our restrooms, cataloged and sorted over 200 technical drawings of Camp Evans and its buildings; made computer keyboard letter pins for messages; collected and sorted dozens and dozens of supplies donated by visitors; assembled metal shelves to store the supplies until needed and helped Mike G. pack up his Holiday village display. Lots and lots of valuable work. Thank you Rev. Dr. MLK Jr, Day of Service volunteers and Blossom. During the event our regular volunteers gave tours to the many visitors.


I hope to see you at the next few meeting to help plan this exciting year of 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 site2) Honors WWII Signal Corps and Honor Front veterans3) Helps education by inspiring kids to learn science4) Furthers the development of a NJ Shore tourist destination.5) Will create full and part-time employment6) 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

732 299-089

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

InfoAge Meeting, Wednesday, January 6.

Hello Everyone and Happy New Year,
We will have a Wednesday planning meeting this week. We will start at
6:30 PM, just a little earlier. We will enjoy pizza, discuss this years
calendar, current projects and possibly break into work groups.
Welcome to a new decade. The decade of the bad BRAC is over. The
Base Realignment And Closure staff of Fort Monmouth and then the
Pentagon have failed to crush us. Their goal was to get us to walk away
so they could sell the 37 acres of Camp Evans to developers to help with
their budget. Thanks to repeated help from Congressman Smith, former
Wall Township attorney Roger McLaughlin, Bob McAllen and the RAB, and
Betsy Merritt of the National Trust for Historic Preservation the Camp
Evans Historic District is still here.
We enter this year, 2010 with many historic anniversaries that
underscore the importance of our site; the TIROS 50th, April 1st launch
& 9th birth of hurricane tracking; the 65th anniverasy of VE Day on May
6th and VJ day on August 15th. We have a number of exciting
possibilities. We could see our site named the State of New Jersey WWII
Living Memorial and our site could be elevated to National Landmark
Status as recommended by the NPS National Landmark Theme Study - WWII
and the Home Front. Plus, we are just 4 years away from the 100th
anniversary of the completion of the site as the largest wireless
station in the Marconi Network of World Encircling High-Powered Wireless
Stations.
Besides the repair of the damage created by BRAC and by time, we face
the challenges of growth. We are in a good place. We can use the
resources of the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC),
the preservation guidance provided by the NJ State Historic Preservation
Office and the National Park Service to help us along. We have
excellent volunteers who care about the Camp Evans Historic district and
are dedicated to the mission of InfoAge. We have a growing membership
and a growing support base. We have credentials - we are Preserve
America Stewards. Camp Evans is a Save America's Treasures Project and
the Township of Wall and the County of Monmouth WWII Living Memorial.
There are so many good possibilities available for us to grasp.
Welcome to 2010 and our decade.
**Highlighted Events this week**
****_*Due to the snow - The last two days of the Holiday Train Display -
sponsored by GSC - January 9th & 10th - Saturday and Sunday from 1 to
5 p.m*_.
----- January 9th is also the Project Diana (1946) anniversary day.
----- January 13th - Visit by Mr. Robie Lange of the NPS National
Landmarks survey team. Robie visited Camp Evans eight years ago.
**** On Sunday, January 17th we will observe the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King Memorial Day of Service. Blossom Int. and InfoAge are partnered
for this service event.
Also Sunday, January 17th we will have the 1st Haunted Hotel
2010 planning meeting. Judy has set a goal of $50 thousand for this
year. I say GO JUDY!!!
>>>>Recent events and progress:
-> The Very Marconi Christmas by Mike and Kathryn Golub: This event was
excellent. Besides the fun, food and a chance to be together without
tools in hand, Mike and Kathryn raised over $10 thousand net - new
dollars. All expenses were paid for and donated by Mike and family.
Mike's unbelievable lighted Christmas Village on display in the dining
room was impressive and enjoyed by all. Mike's networking brought many
new visitors. We also had return visits by NJ State Senator Sean Kean
and former InfoAge volunteer, Assemblyman Dave Rible. InfoAge Board of
Trustee Members Claire French and Steve Makrinos were in attendance to
meet prospective new supporters. Thanks to all who helped Mike. Bernie
R. and Bob B. relocated their lighted telegraph exhibit to Mike village
of the event.
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A few items of progress to note: Help with the many things I have note
recorded - email them to me for next e-news.
-Steve G., John T and Joe G. have been busy in 9400 making basic repairs
and setting up a temporary shop.
-We fixed the 9162 heat issue. Steve G. insulated and boarded up the
open ventilation louvers left open allowing the heating unit
condensation units to freeze. We may still have an intermittent
problem. But, the Wall ROTC is able to practice in the warmth.
-Nels W., Matt O and others have been consolidating material in the
H-buildings.
- Dan L. arranged our Newsletter, got it printed, we labeled it at the
last meeting and Bob J. is bringing it to the bulk mail facility ( not
an easy task ).
- We have a painting of G. Marconi and David Sarnoff for our hotel
thanks to a gift by the Sarnoff corporation arranged by John T.
- Norm and Ryan L. set up PC (supplied by Dan J.) with a series of
videos on Camp Evans history overviews. This is our second
Info-Station. Ryan is looking into putting the videos on U-tube.
- Henry's rain and snow deflector is working well. Plus, when the sump
pump failed we did not have a flood as most of the rain does not go down
the cellar ramp.
- We sold the 1,000 gal fuel oil tank removed when the 9059 oil heat
unit failed from old age. Combustion fumes were entering the duct work
so the unit was disabled.
- Dan J. and his computer de-construction lab was featured in a great
Coast Star article by Jamie B.
- John T. and Steve G. made a repair to the sink waste water link in
9002. To route the replacement line 6" (yes, six inches) of concrete
was the challenge. This has us re-thinking plans for the Hotel dining
room AC
- The scans of the Buckminster Fuller DDU plans on file at Stanford
University Archives arrived. They are the plans for our DDUs. Thank
you to Paul Moore for visiting Stanford and arranging the scans. This
is great information to enable us to make preservation repairs.

I hope to see you are the next few meeting to help plan this exciting
year of progress. The bad BRAC is gone, it is now 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 and Merry Christmas
Fred
732 299-0894


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