Hello Everyone,
We will have a regular meeting at 6:45 PM. Please RSVP so I can
determine if to bring two or three pizzas.
**Highlighted Future Events** Remember to check and to send events to
calendar@InfoAge.org to have them posted on the planning calendar.
* Aug 15th V-J Day + 65 = WWII Seminar and radar laboratory victory
celebration.
* Sept 25th Wall of Honor 2010
The Wall Township Committee meeting at InfoAge went well. All the
members were very encouraging in their public comments on our progress.
We thanked the current members for holding this second committee
meeting at InfoAge. We thanked InfoAge BOT members Claire French and
John Cervini, who also attended, for their support for over a decade.
The Township committee members are the current representatives of a body
which has enabled and supported InfoAge since 1994. We thanked them for
the TRUST they have given us and the FUNDS they have placed at our
disposal to maintain the 37 acre historic district. Not every community
would take the risk. For taking that risk we have delivered over $5
million in improvements and the community has given a gift to our nation
by saving this amazing historic site. Thanks to their support the Wall
Township taxpayers are enjoying tax savings at this difficult time
thanks to the work of our volunteers. We challenged the committee to
embrace saving Camp Evans as a community project. The cost of replacing
the remaining roofs is $350,000. Once the roofs are replaced we have
met the minimal terms of the surplus historic properties program. The
buildings will be stabilized. We accepted the historic property and its
buildings and agreed to save the site and its buildings as a historic
site. We asked they use their influence to encourage the Public to
donate to save the roofs. We also pointed out the time is getting
closer for Wall and other local schools schools to partner with
InfoAge. We can provide low cost space for special programs and
possibly even laboratory space. This will reduce taxpayer costs and
help improve the delivery of science history education.
The eagle... The eagle chick has made its first flight and left the
nest. The state will be giving the town permission to remove the
barricades from our parking lot after July 5th. We will be able to cut
the hedges and grass outside the restricted area around cottage 9003 and
its garage. We will be able to use the Marconi Road parking lot for
normal activities. After August 1st the restrictions on the areas north
of Marconi Road will be removed. This will enable us to remove the
fallen branches, repair the roof damage to the 9003 garage, repair the
9003 sewer line problems, continue work on the walking paths along the
river, remove the over-grow along the road to 9004/5 and announce the
completion of three paths and the Rum-runners grove by eagle scouts for
public enjoyment of the river area.
Report from Ray Chase and the Wednesday team:
Present were: Ray C., Al K., Harry K., Dave Snellman, Vince L. and Ron
B. Most of the new men's room stall latches were installed in 9032 and
the rest rooms were cleaned. Wiring for outlets in 9312 was completed.
Work continued on the teletype in the communications room, it's not
fully working yet but no further smoke. Ron has finished painting the
walls in the 9032 C room, the floor is next. We are trying to finalize
a video display to show how a Theremin is really played. Adjustments
were made to the 9032 D&C vestibule ramp to clear an interference.
Venetian blinds salvaged from Brookdale buildings were washed for the
9032 communications room.
Question: are we doing anything for Wall Day??
--Thank you Ray and company
Reports from Joe G.:
This week, I sorted the building drawings I cataloged so as to free up
the upstairs for renovation. Between the Radiological Shield building
and the explosion proof chamber, it was really interesting. Today
(Tuesday), I got some more stuff listed on ebay to hopefully give us
some extra space and some extra cash.
--Thank you Joe.
***Reports are requested from Nels and Pete (who do so much I can not
keep up), Mike G. who is a one man wonder, and others. You guys do great
work - we should record it to show what we have do and to challenge
others to do as well.
*Thank you to Steve Makrinos for the donation of his personal files to
the InfoAge Archives. We will inventory the documents and put post the
list on the web.
*Ron B. donated a metal divers helmet, sea knife and weighted boots to
NJHDA. Dan Leib is ecstatic over the donation. He has a great idea for
a fun exhibit using the helmet.
*NJHDA had a spot on Wednesday the 23rd on News Ch12. It included a
spot inside the shipwreck museum.
*Dan arranged for a film crew to use 9043 for some filming by Proper
Television - They gave us a cash donation.
*We have asked for a estimate to repair the hotel chimney leaks,
complete the re-roofing of the main H-building corridor by 9036/7 D as
well as the 9036 A/B north central corridor entrance. This will
eliminate four major leaks in the roof.
*We sent another CD of labeled aerial photos of Camp Evans from 1971 to
the NPS to help with the NHL application.
*The NJ Senate Bill SCR-85 is in the Veterans Affairs committee. We
hope for further action in September.
*We have word from BRAC that the septic tanks removal work may occur in
July or August. The transfer of 9004 and 9005 may occur in 9011.
*We have started repairing the damaged and fallen sheet rock sections in
9010A.
*The pre-publication book sales for "Camp Evans - the Untold Story"
continue to increase.
*Joe G. has nearly completed a massive archive project. Months ago
volunteers began cataloging the hundreds of architectural drawings of
the 50+ buildings at Camp Evans. John T. helped the project progress.
Finally we took over 9032A, set up lots of tables and sorted for two
days. The last step is to arrange all the drawings, store they away and
list them on our archive web page.
*Thank you to Hannah and Leslie for organizing the west room of 9059
*Thanks to Katie Lobosco of the Coast Star for the nice story and photos
of Nels car show and Mikes' flea market.
*Thanks to a great donation by Laura Parker's drama Club we will finish
the work of creating a stage in 9032A. Laura suggested the name
'InfoStage'.
*Evan K., Jeff B., and Bill D. of MARCH painted a good portion of the
floor in 9010C. Evans actually did physical work. I took photos as
proof. Who says he can only click a mouse.
*Thanks to Nels, Kyle and Pete for watering our plantings. We have
thousands of dollars of plants - this dry spell is threating them.
The Sunday was busy in spite of the heat. On site we had Evan K., Jeff
B,. Bill D., Nels W., Pete R., Joe G., John C., Phil V., Dave Sn., Kyle
B., Dan J., D.J., Scott W., Steve G., Ray C., Dan and Luke G., Lee
Holland, Jamie and Ron B., Norm and Ryan L., and me.
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
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
InfoAge Meeting, Wednesday, June 16.
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.
* June 19th Classic Car Show & Yard Sale
* June 21st 4PM BOT Meeting
* June 23rd Wall Township Committee holds its meeting at InfoAge.
* Aug 15th V-J Day + 65 = WWII Seminar and radar laboratory victory
celebration.
* Sept 25th Wall of Honor 2010
We have been extremely busy getting ready for our classic car show
and the yard sale. Nels and Pete have the site looking better than ever.
Reports from Ray Chase and the Wednesday team:
Present were Ray C., Harry K., Al K., Dave Snellman and Ron B. Harry
and Dave scrapped and re-painted the RTM outside sign that had suffered
from the winter weather. Ron continued as a first class painter in the
communications room, 9032 C. Al continues on planning for that room.
We also made a trip to Freehold to work on our display at the Jewish
Heritage museum that open on June 1st.
Present were: Ray C., Harry K., Dave Snellman and Ron B. Ron was back
to his painting role in the 9032 Communications room. Some planning for
9312 was done alone with work on repairing the wooden walk up to the
9032 D & C vestibule. The stall door latches in the 9032 rest rooms are
being replaced with new ones; the originals are too gummed up with years
of paint.
Reports from Joe G.:
This week, I have nearly finished sorting through InfoAge for garage
sale fodder. If anyone has something that they would be willing to
donate to the garage sale to be sold, please contact me at
starbase89@gmail.com. My current plan is that on Wednesday before the
meeting, everyone will come out to the yard sale section to make sure I
am not selling any heirlooms or treasures. I also got help in continuing
the organization of 9010, to hopefully finish it soon. On Sunday, I
drove out to a couple of Lowes Hardware stores, and obtained all needed
lights and hardware for the main corridor in 9032.
This week, Judy Warren and I began to set up the garage sale merchandise
in 9037. Between arranging things and pricing, it will probably take a
few more days to complete. I also worked on Monday to clean up the
"clearing barrel" area near the front gate. The garbage in there was
enough to half-fill a trash bag. I began work this weekend on a holding
bin for garbage bags that will be located outside the gate, up against
the guard shack 9093. Lastly, I have been helping Steve G. in working on
bringing the 8-legged testing tower back to life as our WiFi hotspot and
security outpost. Between Saturday and Sunday, I entered ~350 drawings
into the database, and more day should finish the pile. I put some
interesting ones, namely a contamination report from 1996, and the
electrical layouts for the hotel's blackout system.
A report from our June 9th Wednesday meeting from John Cervini:
Dave Snellman: In the WWII memorial communications room equipment
decisions to be made by Al Klase. TTY in exhibit. A switch board
planned, plus tank communications and Jammers.
Steve G.: Working on removing stained and damaged drop ceiling in
9010A. Looking to find power feed to 9178 tower. Work on Lock system
and workshop continues.
Chris Szabo, a new member joined our Wednesday meeting
Lou R.: Had the quote for the dining room and lounge AC ready to be
signed. This project is funded by an excellent gift by ITT.
Dan L.: In 9057 the door jams are up and primed. 9032 area is cleaned
for the car show. Placemat program is progressing. Brochure exchange
project going well. Articles for next Newsletter due July 31st .
Contactor done with all the work except the clean-up and inspection of
9029, 31 and 34. News 12 series – ‘Treasure Hunting’ will have a
program on NJHDA.
Terry L.: Membership program going well. We have gained nearly $3500 in
donations. We are creating standard letters, thank you and other
forms. Terry will have a membership table at the garage sale. The new
‘down-sized’ 2 sided brochure will cost $800 for 5000.
Will S.: His group will begin working on their wave science exhibit in
9010A.
Mike G.: Good progress on the garage sale. Thanks to Dan L. for making
banners.
--Thank you to all, thank you to Joe G for getting the pizza and thank
you to John for the meeting notes.
Bob Giordano has his book “Camp Evans – The Untold Story” at the
printers. This a tremendous accomplishment. I hope to remember to
attach an order form to this email before I hit ‘send’.
John Cervini’s WWII electronic warfare exhibit is getting better every
week. Thanks to Ray C. for securing one of the ‘Invasion of Japan’
radio jammers for the exhibit. Luckily this one and thousands like it
were not needed.
Boy Scout Tim Troppoli is now an Eagle. He is the 16th young man who
has earned his eagle award helping preserve Camp Evans. Tim finished
the ‘Fallout shelter theater’. Thank you to Steve G., Dan L and many
others who helped Tim with his project. Our 17th Eagle could be Alex
Lo, grandson of a D-Day soldier. His court of honor is planned for Aug.
15th in our dining room. Alex made repairs to 9029 – the WWII guard
Headquarter building.
The Eagles - things have been quiet. The last report an eagle watcher
made to the police was not followed up by the state eagle patrol.
Please do not enter the closed off area. During the car show we are
simply to use our Marconi Road parking lot for parking only. If you use
the parking lot, you must go immediately and directly into a building.
We have a new layout for this event. The Coast Star has a story of how
Sea Girt was fined $53,000 by the Federal Wildlife Service and the NJ
DEP for the 2007 death of a beach plover chick. The parties were in
court for years. At $53K for a small plover, we do not want to find the
price on an eagle.
Bill M. Cablevision has let us know the segment on our TIROS celebration
on his Neighborhood Journal is now available via Cablevisions ‘On
Demand’. Thank you to Bill.
State Senator Sean T. Kean and Senator James Beach has introduced Senate
Concurrent Resolution No. 85 on March 4, 2010 which recognizes Camp
Evans for its designation for its as a State and National Historic
District and supporting its preservation as World War II living
memorial. You can read the bill by visiting the NJ Legislature website
and entering SCR85. We should discuss ways to support the passage of
this bill and how to use it to create publicity. I attended a
breakfast sponsored by Assemblyman Dave Rible to meet Lt. Governor Kim
Guadagno. I gave the Lt. Governor a folder with a formal letter to
request her support for the bill and an introduction to Camp Evans.
As you know saving Camp Evans (The Signal Corps Radar Laboratory)
honors and represents the tens of thousands of New Jersey residents and
veterans of the greatest generation who designed and tested the prototypes
as well as the those who manufactured the radio, radar and other
advanced electronics that helped win WII. The National Park Service is
in process to designate Camp Evans as a National Historic Landmark for
its WWII Home front service. To quote President Truman on August 6,
1945, "The Battles of the laboratories held fateful risks for us as well
as the battles of the air, land and sea, and we have now won the battles
of the laboratories as we have won the other battles." To quote Winston
Churchill, "This was a secret war, whose battles were lost or won
unknown to the public; and only with difficulty is it comprehended, even
now, by those outside the small high scientific circles concerned. No
such warfare had ever been waged by mortal men. ---Winston Churchill
Thanks to Board Member Jim Allen a group of us will be meeting with
Assemblyman Declan J. O'Scanlon Jr. to discuss keeping the Fort Monmouth
Museum in NJ, specifically at Camp Evans. You know we will ask his
support for the bill also.
We have been invited to have a classroom size exhibit at the The *New
Jersey Science and Engineering Festival* * * www.njsciencefestival.org
sponsor list on their homepage. The festival will be taking place at
the Clifton High School Complex (the largest single campus high school
in New Jersey, with 100,000 sq. ft. of indoor and outdoor exhibition
space) and Essex County (Caldwell) Airport on the weekend of October 23
and 24, 2010. It is a satellite event of the *USA Science and
Engineering Festival*, which will be taking place on the National Mall
in Washington, DC. Here is the link to the USA Festival
www.usasciencefestival.org
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.
The 22 international exchange students (AFS) who enjoyed their visit to
InfoAge sent us a nice donation.
Thanks to Pete R., Matt and Dan G. They opened the expanded 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
At the request of Randy G. and the Monmouth County Historical
Commission's we attended the follow-up meeting on the Weekend in Olde
Monmouth. We are looking forward to next years event.
After Nels cleaned up the mess behind 9033 we improved the landscaping
and planted several dozen variegated hosta plants to make the area look
nice and discourage its use as a catch all area.
Thank you to Judy W. for making the membership database updates,
preparing dozens of thank you notes, taking an inventory of items in the
hotel and recording the folder tabs in our files for easy information
and document location.
Thanks to Michele and Blossom our friends at the New Outlook Pioneers
were about to use extra care-pack donations for their underprivileged
Backpack program.
Thank you to Dan L. for making the new sign to point visitors to the
MTMof NJ historic vehicle exhibit.
Mike G. had a truck load of wood chip mulch delivered to improve the
look of the hotel flower beds.
Evan K., Jeff F. and other MARCH members with the help of Steve G. and
Joe G. are getting a section of 9010C ready for the expanded MARCH
exhibit.
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.
***Reports requested from Nels and Pete (who do so much I can not keep
up), Mike G. who is a one man wonder, and others. You guys do great
work - we should record it to show what we have do and to challenge
others to do as well.
Thank you to Dave Sice and members of the International Television
Association for the visit and the kind $$$ donation.
The Sunday before last on site we had Evan K., Jeff F., Cicely F., Judy
and Nels W., John C., Dave Snellman, Terry L., Dan J., D.J., Scott,
Bernie R., Neil N., Steve G., Joe G, John T. and me.
This past Sunday we had 20+ volunteers to greet visitors or to work on
projects. I saw Steve G., Bernie R., Neil N., Evan K., Terry L., Phil
V., John C., Dan J., D.J., Scott, Dan G., Pete R., Nels & Judy W., Kyle
B., Jake D., Jeff F, Jeff B., and trainee docents Lou R., and Hanna.
We had some special visitors; Irv Bauman of the Camp Evans photography
technology unit and Dr. Haim Soicher of the Camp Evans Institute of
Exploratory Research. He told us of his research into radio propagation
through the ionosphere from the Diana site. They were working to
determine the Total Electron Content (TEC) of the ionosphere.
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
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.
* June 19th Classic Car Show & Yard Sale
* June 21st 4PM BOT Meeting
* June 23rd Wall Township Committee holds its meeting at InfoAge.
* Aug 15th V-J Day + 65 = WWII Seminar and radar laboratory victory
celebration.
* Sept 25th Wall of Honor 2010
We have been extremely busy getting ready for our classic car show
and the yard sale. Nels and Pete have the site looking better than ever.
Reports from Ray Chase and the Wednesday team:
Present were Ray C., Harry K., Al K., Dave Snellman and Ron B. Harry
and Dave scrapped and re-painted the RTM outside sign that had suffered
from the winter weather. Ron continued as a first class painter in the
communications room, 9032 C. Al continues on planning for that room.
We also made a trip to Freehold to work on our display at the Jewish
Heritage museum that open on June 1st.
Present were: Ray C., Harry K., Dave Snellman and Ron B. Ron was back
to his painting role in the 9032 Communications room. Some planning for
9312 was done alone with work on repairing the wooden walk up to the
9032 D & C vestibule. The stall door latches in the 9032 rest rooms are
being replaced with new ones; the originals are too gummed up with years
of paint.
Reports from Joe G.:
This week, I have nearly finished sorting through InfoAge for garage
sale fodder. If anyone has something that they would be willing to
donate to the garage sale to be sold, please contact me at
starbase89@gmail.com. My current plan is that on Wednesday before the
meeting, everyone will come out to the yard sale section to make sure I
am not selling any heirlooms or treasures. I also got help in continuing
the organization of 9010, to hopefully finish it soon. On Sunday, I
drove out to a couple of Lowes Hardware stores, and obtained all needed
lights and hardware for the main corridor in 9032.
This week, Judy Warren and I began to set up the garage sale merchandise
in 9037. Between arranging things and pricing, it will probably take a
few more days to complete. I also worked on Monday to clean up the
"clearing barrel" area near the front gate. The garbage in there was
enough to half-fill a trash bag. I began work this weekend on a holding
bin for garbage bags that will be located outside the gate, up against
the guard shack 9093. Lastly, I have been helping Steve G. in working on
bringing the 8-legged testing tower back to life as our WiFi hotspot and
security outpost. Between Saturday and Sunday, I entered ~350 drawings
into the database, and more day should finish the pile. I put some
interesting ones, namely a contamination report from 1996, and the
electrical layouts for the hotel's blackout system.
A report from our June 9th Wednesday meeting from John Cervini:
Dave Snellman: In the WWII memorial communications room equipment
decisions to be made by Al Klase. TTY in exhibit. A switch board
planned, plus tank communications and Jammers.
Steve G.: Working on removing stained and damaged drop ceiling in
9010A. Looking to find power feed to 9178 tower. Work on Lock system
and workshop continues.
Chris Szabo, a new member joined our Wednesday meeting
Lou R.: Had the quote for the dining room and lounge AC ready to be
signed. This project is funded by an excellent gift by ITT.
Dan L.: In 9057 the door jams are up and primed. 9032 area is cleaned
for the car show. Placemat program is progressing. Brochure exchange
project going well. Articles for next Newsletter due July 31st .
Contactor done with all the work except the clean-up and inspection of
9029, 31 and 34. News 12 series – ‘Treasure Hunting’ will have a
program on NJHDA.
Terry L.: Membership program going well. We have gained nearly $3500 in
donations. We are creating standard letters, thank you and other
forms. Terry will have a membership table at the garage sale. The new
‘down-sized’ 2 sided brochure will cost $800 for 5000.
Will S.: His group will begin working on their wave science exhibit in
9010A.
Mike G.: Good progress on the garage sale. Thanks to Dan L. for making
banners.
--Thank you to all, thank you to Joe G for getting the pizza and thank
you to John for the meeting notes.
Bob Giordano has his book “Camp Evans – The Untold Story” at the
printers. This a tremendous accomplishment. I hope to remember to
attach an order form to this email before I hit ‘send’.
John Cervini’s WWII electronic warfare exhibit is getting better every
week. Thanks to Ray C. for securing one of the ‘Invasion of Japan’
radio jammers for the exhibit. Luckily this one and thousands like it
were not needed.
Boy Scout Tim Troppoli is now an Eagle. He is the 16th young man who
has earned his eagle award helping preserve Camp Evans. Tim finished
the ‘Fallout shelter theater’. Thank you to Steve G., Dan L and many
others who helped Tim with his project. Our 17th Eagle could be Alex
Lo, grandson of a D-Day soldier. His court of honor is planned for Aug.
15th in our dining room. Alex made repairs to 9029 – the WWII guard
Headquarter building.
The Eagles - things have been quiet. The last report an eagle watcher
made to the police was not followed up by the state eagle patrol.
Please do not enter the closed off area. During the car show we are
simply to use our Marconi Road parking lot for parking only. If you use
the parking lot, you must go immediately and directly into a building.
We have a new layout for this event. The Coast Star has a story of how
Sea Girt was fined $53,000 by the Federal Wildlife Service and the NJ
DEP for the 2007 death of a beach plover chick. The parties were in
court for years. At $53K for a small plover, we do not want to find the
price on an eagle.
Bill M. Cablevision has let us know the segment on our TIROS celebration
on his Neighborhood Journal is now available via Cablevisions ‘On
Demand’. Thank you to Bill.
State Senator Sean T. Kean and Senator James Beach has introduced Senate
Concurrent Resolution No. 85 on March 4, 2010 which recognizes Camp
Evans for its designation for its as a State and National Historic
District and supporting its preservation as World War II living
memorial. You can read the bill by visiting the NJ Legislature website
and entering SCR85. We should discuss ways to support the passage of
this bill and how to use it to create publicity. I attended a
breakfast sponsored by Assemblyman Dave Rible to meet Lt. Governor Kim
Guadagno. I gave the Lt. Governor a folder with a formal letter to
request her support for the bill and an introduction to Camp Evans.
As you know saving Camp Evans (The Signal Corps Radar Laboratory)
honors and represents the tens of thousands of New Jersey residents and
veterans of the greatest generation who designed and tested the prototypes
as well as the those who manufactured the radio, radar and other
advanced electronics that helped win WII. The National Park Service is
in process to designate Camp Evans as a National Historic Landmark for
its WWII Home front service. To quote President Truman on August 6,
1945, "The Battles of the laboratories held fateful risks for us as well
as the battles of the air, land and sea, and we have now won the battles
of the laboratories as we have won the other battles." To quote Winston
Churchill, "This was a secret war, whose battles were lost or won
unknown to the public; and only with difficulty is it comprehended, even
now, by those outside the small high scientific circles concerned. No
such warfare had ever been waged by mortal men. ---Winston Churchill
Thanks to Board Member Jim Allen a group of us will be meeting with
Assemblyman Declan J. O'Scanlon Jr. to discuss keeping the Fort Monmouth
Museum in NJ, specifically at Camp Evans. You know we will ask his
support for the bill also.
We have been invited to have a classroom size exhibit at the The *New
Jersey Science and Engineering Festival* * * www.njsciencefestival.org
sponsor list on their homepage. The festival will be taking place at
the Clifton High School Complex (the largest single campus high school
in New Jersey, with 100,000 sq. ft. of indoor and outdoor exhibition
space) and Essex County (Caldwell) Airport on the weekend of October 23
and 24, 2010. It is a satellite event of the *USA Science and
Engineering Festival*, which will be taking place on the National Mall
in Washington, DC. Here is the link to the USA Festival
www.usasciencefestival.org
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.
The 22 international exchange students (AFS) who enjoyed their visit to
InfoAge sent us a nice donation.
Thanks to Pete R., Matt and Dan G. They opened the expanded 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
At the request of Randy G. and the Monmouth County Historical
Commission's we attended the follow-up meeting on the Weekend in Olde
Monmouth. We are looking forward to next years event.
After Nels cleaned up the mess behind 9033 we improved the landscaping
and planted several dozen variegated hosta plants to make the area look
nice and discourage its use as a catch all area.
Thank you to Judy W. for making the membership database updates,
preparing dozens of thank you notes, taking an inventory of items in the
hotel and recording the folder tabs in our files for easy information
and document location.
Thanks to Michele and Blossom our friends at the New Outlook Pioneers
were about to use extra care-pack donations for their underprivileged
Backpack program.
Thank you to Dan L. for making the new sign to point visitors to the
MTMof NJ historic vehicle exhibit.
Mike G. had a truck load of wood chip mulch delivered to improve the
look of the hotel flower beds.
Evan K., Jeff F. and other MARCH members with the help of Steve G. and
Joe G. are getting a section of 9010C ready for the expanded MARCH
exhibit.
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.
***Reports requested from Nels and Pete (who do so much I can not keep
up), Mike G. who is a one man wonder, and others. You guys do great
work - we should record it to show what we have do and to challenge
others to do as well.
Thank you to Dave Sice and members of the International Television
Association for the visit and the kind $$$ donation.
The Sunday before last on site we had Evan K., Jeff F., Cicely F., Judy
and Nels W., John C., Dave Snellman, Terry L., Dan J., D.J., Scott,
Bernie R., Neil N., Steve G., Joe G, John T. and me.
This past Sunday we had 20+ volunteers to greet visitors or to work on
projects. I saw Steve G., Bernie R., Neil N., Evan K., Terry L., Phil
V., John C., Dan J., D.J., Scott, Dan G., Pete R., Nels & Judy W., Kyle
B., Jake D., Jeff F, Jeff B., and trainee docents Lou R., and Hanna.
We had some special visitors; Irv Bauman of the Camp Evans photography
technology unit and Dr. Haim Soicher of the Camp Evans Institute of
Exploratory Research. He told us of his research into radio propagation
through the ionosphere from the Diana site. They were working to
determine the Total Electron Content (TEC) of the ionosphere.
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
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