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.
* April 24th Shipwreck Symposium / International Marconi Day
*April 26th BOT meeting
* April 28th Veterans bus visit
*May 1 & 2 Weekend in Olde Monmouth
*May 2 InfoAge Open House Membership Drive
* 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.
A report from Joe Giliberti - Jackson, New Jersey
Pressure washing the transformer building behind the hotel, the oil
tank, and parts of the hotel and porch.
Sifted through Cottage 1 and organized stuff in an effort to empty it.
Continued work on sorting H section 9010
--Thank you Joe.
A report from Ray and the NJARC - Wednesday crew.
Present were: Al K., Dave Snellman, Ray C., Vince L. & Harry K. Steve
G. & Joe G. were off pursuing other tasks. Hanging of two doors in the
future communications room was completed and work on the two doors in
the EW room was started. Fire rigging of the doors to the 9032 A
section was done. Balancing weights for these doors still needs to be
finished but some "fusible links" are required, will see if Nels can
provide. Some additional moving of museum displays and other work was done.
--Thank you Ray
12 new members thanks to our membership drive and our website PayPal
connection.
Ron and OMARC had a Swapmeet - no report...
Lots going on by many.....
***Major stress with my paying job, InfoAge stuff and stuff at home...
This is all I can get done tonight. Please feel free to email me things
you have accomplished for our record***
*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, April 21, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
InfoAge Meeting, Wednesday, April 14, 2010.
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.
* April 24th International Marconi Day
* April 26th BOT meeting
* 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.
Great events - Good Progress - Great press coverage
The TIROS Celebration went well. The disk looked great in its new coat
of paint with the American flags. The platform the New Outlook Pioneers
and Lucent volunteers build for us looked excellent. The TIROS building
looked great with the newly painted floor, repaired sheetrock and all
the posters, and the TIROS cake was great. We had excellent Press
coverage. We can look forward to another nice article by Jamie and
another nice segment in Neighborhood Journal by Bill M. The April 1
story on the front page of the Star Ledger was nice.
Thank you to Bob, Pete and the PACE volunteers who helped get the leaves
packed up, the platform assembled and the grass cut. We posted the
photo of the PACE volunteers under the dish to the National Trust for
Historic Preservation website for the "This place matters" week.
Thank you to Steve G. for working with the PACE volunteers, replacing
the missing glass panes in the interior doors and the dozen and one
trips getting ready for the event.
Thank you to Joe G. for getting the coffee and refreshments ready for
all to enjoy. Joe and others helped relocate the Lucent platform to the
Diana/TIROS site.
Thank you to Dan L. for printing and lamination the 30+ posters with
photos of Camp Evans space history. Dan also used the rope system to
fly our flags on the dish.
Thank you to Dave Sica for filming a group oral history interview of
the RCA TIROS team members at the RCA 50th TIROS celebration.
Recent events and progress: Please email things I miss to fill in the gaps.
1) Reports form Ray Chase and the Wednesday group:
-two weeks ago- Present were, Ray C., Al K., Steve G., Steve R., John
T., Dave Snellman, Harry K. , Vince L. and Joe. Al K. worked on making
posters for the guard shack. Vince, Harry and Steve R. continued work
on windows for the Communications room in 9032 C and also started
fitting original doors to replace the modern hollow core doors. Dave
and Ray C. picked up some donations from a Wall resident who is moving
away; nice Atwater Kent restored console radio as well as a very nice
Oak Vintage Wall telephone and some other goods. Ray C. and Steve G.
worked in the H building storage room fixing lights and inventorying and
listing donations. John T. was moving books to the attic.
-last Wednesday- Present were: Vince L., Steve R., Al K., Harry K., Joe,
Steve G. Dave Snellman and Ray C. Steve R. & Harry K. pretty much
finished up the windows in the 9032 C planned communications room. Al,
Vince & Dave hung two proper period doors for the communications room to
replace the modern hollow core doors. They also started work on helping
John C. with the doors to the planned EW room. Ray fixed the door
closers to the doors from the vestibule to the C section so that the
doors operate easier and are properly rigged as fire doors. The doors
to the A section need this same treatment. Also worked on donation
inventory lists.
Thank you Ray and company
2) Pete R. was out yesterday cleaning leaves on the east side of the
hotel. Mike G. cleaned the leaves from behind the hotel and the parking
lot. Pete also retrieved the TORO mower from the repair shop and gave
our other equipment their spring service.
3) We will postpone the Wall of Honor event. The committee has not
picked honorees and we more committee workers and time to make a June
event.
4) The Monroe Township Veterans Council will be visiting with 25 WWII
Vets. Ray C. is coordinating this for the 28th.
5) Dan Jacobs edged the sidewalk along the front of the hotel. Dan is
usually on site each weekday morning around 9AM for his InfoAge
exercise. You are invited to join him.
6) We have nearly completed the process to join VolunteerMatch.org
7) Dan L. completed the InfoAge Marconigraph / InfoAge Signaleer. Bob
J. supplied the labels and we put them on at the last Wednesday meeting
after the Bald Eagle life presentation. Thank you to all who helped and
thank you to Bob J. for handling all the ever changing bulk mail hassle.
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) Thank you to Terry L., and the members of the membership committee.
The letters asking all persons who have donated or attended an event to
join InfoAge are labled, stampted and in the mail. We are hoping for
new members.
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) This weekend the Wall ROTC will continue practice in 9032A. They
moved from the TIROS building.
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 are still 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 we will get short notice on when the request is accepted and
will be acted upon.
14) On Thursday evening (5:30 PM) the Wall Chamber of Commerce is
holding an event in our hotel. If you would like to be on-site to show
visitors our exhibits, please let me know.
15) I planted 70 day lilies along the north side of 9010C to improve the
site look.
16) Thank you to John T for hanging the portraits of Marconi and Sarnoff.
***Time to get to my paying job... 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.
* April 24th International Marconi Day
* April 26th BOT meeting
* 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.
Great events - Good Progress - Great press coverage
The TIROS Celebration went well. The disk looked great in its new coat
of paint with the American flags. The platform the New Outlook Pioneers
and Lucent volunteers build for us looked excellent. The TIROS building
looked great with the newly painted floor, repaired sheetrock and all
the posters, and the TIROS cake was great. We had excellent Press
coverage. We can look forward to another nice article by Jamie and
another nice segment in Neighborhood Journal by Bill M. The April 1
story on the front page of the Star Ledger was nice.
Thank you to Bob, Pete and the PACE volunteers who helped get the leaves
packed up, the platform assembled and the grass cut. We posted the
photo of the PACE volunteers under the dish to the National Trust for
Historic Preservation website for the "This place matters" week.
Thank you to Steve G. for working with the PACE volunteers, replacing
the missing glass panes in the interior doors and the dozen and one
trips getting ready for the event.
Thank you to Joe G. for getting the coffee and refreshments ready for
all to enjoy. Joe and others helped relocate the Lucent platform to the
Diana/TIROS site.
Thank you to Dan L. for printing and lamination the 30+ posters with
photos of Camp Evans space history. Dan also used the rope system to
fly our flags on the dish.
Thank you to Dave Sica for filming a group oral history interview of
the RCA TIROS team members at the RCA 50th TIROS celebration.
Recent events and progress: Please email things I miss to fill in the gaps.
1) Reports form Ray Chase and the Wednesday group:
-two weeks ago- Present were, Ray C., Al K., Steve G., Steve R., John
T., Dave Snellman, Harry K. , Vince L. and Joe. Al K. worked on making
posters for the guard shack. Vince, Harry and Steve R. continued work
on windows for the Communications room in 9032 C and also started
fitting original doors to replace the modern hollow core doors. Dave
and Ray C. picked up some donations from a Wall resident who is moving
away; nice Atwater Kent restored console radio as well as a very nice
Oak Vintage Wall telephone and some other goods. Ray C. and Steve G.
worked in the H building storage room fixing lights and inventorying and
listing donations. John T. was moving books to the attic.
-last Wednesday- Present were: Vince L., Steve R., Al K., Harry K., Joe,
Steve G. Dave Snellman and Ray C. Steve R. & Harry K. pretty much
finished up the windows in the 9032 C planned communications room. Al,
Vince & Dave hung two proper period doors for the communications room to
replace the modern hollow core doors. They also started work on helping
John C. with the doors to the planned EW room. Ray fixed the door
closers to the doors from the vestibule to the C section so that the
doors operate easier and are properly rigged as fire doors. The doors
to the A section need this same treatment. Also worked on donation
inventory lists.
Thank you Ray and company
2) Pete R. was out yesterday cleaning leaves on the east side of the
hotel. Mike G. cleaned the leaves from behind the hotel and the parking
lot. Pete also retrieved the TORO mower from the repair shop and gave
our other equipment their spring service.
3) We will postpone the Wall of Honor event. The committee has not
picked honorees and we more committee workers and time to make a June
event.
4) The Monroe Township Veterans Council will be visiting with 25 WWII
Vets. Ray C. is coordinating this for the 28th.
5) Dan Jacobs edged the sidewalk along the front of the hotel. Dan is
usually on site each weekday morning around 9AM for his InfoAge
exercise. You are invited to join him.
6) We have nearly completed the process to join VolunteerMatch.org
7) Dan L. completed the InfoAge Marconigraph / InfoAge Signaleer. Bob
J. supplied the labels and we put them on at the last Wednesday meeting
after the Bald Eagle life presentation. Thank you to all who helped and
thank you to Bob J. for handling all the ever changing bulk mail hassle.
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) Thank you to Terry L., and the members of the membership committee.
The letters asking all persons who have donated or attended an event to
join InfoAge are labled, stampted and in the mail. We are hoping for
new members.
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) This weekend the Wall ROTC will continue practice in 9032A. They
moved from the TIROS building.
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 are still 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 we will get short notice on when the request is accepted and
will be acted upon.
14) On Thursday evening (5:30 PM) the Wall Chamber of Commerce is
holding an event in our hotel. If you would like to be on-site to show
visitors our exhibits, please let me know.
15) I planted 70 day lilies along the north side of 9010C to improve the
site look.
16) Thank you to John T for hanging the portraits of Marconi and Sarnoff.
***Time to get to my paying job... 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, March 31, 2010
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
-----------------------------
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
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
-----------------------------
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
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
InfoAge Meeting, Wednesday, March 24.
Hello Everyone,
No main meeting this evening. The NJARC will be on-site most of the
day working on projects. The membership committee will meet at 6:00 PM.
**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
-----------------------------
1) Nels and crew went to work on the storm debris this weekend.
Trailer after trailer load of tree limbs and leaves were collected.
There is a mountain of tree limbs in the back. Mike G. manned the
backpack blower and cleaned the hedges and parking lot fence. Thank you
to Nels W., Mike G., Pete R., Dan J., Steve G., Scott, Bob and ....
2) Dan L., Neil N. and the NJHDA fabricated replacement garage doors to
replaced the smashed originals on 9057. The surviving parts of the
original door were saved to make a replacement in the future.
3) 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 busy planning the V-J day Seminar and
65th anniversary of the end of WWII.
4) The Monroe Township Veterans Council will be visiting with 25 WWII
Vets. Ray C. is coordinating this.
5) Alex Lo's eagle project to repair the exterior of 9029 went into high
gear this weekend. He had three carpenters at work, a group of scouts
and family. They used the primed Novelty siding (pattern 105) we saved
from structures that will be demolished. All the siding damage on 9029
is repaired. Now just priming and painting remains.
6) Dan L. reminds us your articles for the next InfoAge Marconigraph /
InfoAge Signaleer are due by midnight March 31st .
7) A state game warden marked off the bald eagle nest on Camp Evans.
Net, please honor the 'Endangered Species Area' signs and give the eagle
family room to raise young.
8) Remember to send your calendar entries to Webmaster John via email –
calendar@InfoAge.org Thank you to John
for setting up the google calendar and many other web improvements.
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 tonight.
10) Joe G. has sold some of the old car parts a friend gave me to
benefit InfoAge. Thank you Joe.
11) 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.
12) Thank you to Joe G. for setting up the glass front 72" tall cabinets
for the Wall Township archive room. Thia way we can keep the bound
issues of the Wall Herald and other items of the town and Old Wall
Historical Society safe for research by residents.
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) Thanks to Dan J. we got to meet and present InfoAge to the
committee at CDW, Eatontown. They are considering a corporate volunteer
day at InfoAge.
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.
These Sunday was busy with lots of visitors and families. A car group
visited. On site were Dave Sn., Harry K., Bob Forte and others in the
NJARC museum. Steve G., and Joe G were all over the place as usual.
Jeff F. had the MARCH exhibit open. Neil N., Dan L. and had the NJHDA
shipwreck museum open. Dan is training Jake D to be a docent. Dan J.
and sons were in the computer deconstruction lab. JoAnne and Cicely
were in the lobby.
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
No main meeting this evening. The NJARC will be on-site most of the
day working on projects. The membership committee will meet at 6:00 PM.
**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
-----------------------------
1) Nels and crew went to work on the storm debris this weekend.
Trailer after trailer load of tree limbs and leaves were collected.
There is a mountain of tree limbs in the back. Mike G. manned the
backpack blower and cleaned the hedges and parking lot fence. Thank you
to Nels W., Mike G., Pete R., Dan J., Steve G., Scott, Bob and ....
2) Dan L., Neil N. and the NJHDA fabricated replacement garage doors to
replaced the smashed originals on 9057. The surviving parts of the
original door were saved to make a replacement in the future.
3) 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 busy planning the V-J day Seminar and
65th anniversary of the end of WWII.
4) The Monroe Township Veterans Council will be visiting with 25 WWII
Vets. Ray C. is coordinating this.
5) Alex Lo's eagle project to repair the exterior of 9029 went into high
gear this weekend. He had three carpenters at work, a group of scouts
and family. They used the primed Novelty siding (pattern 105) we saved
from structures that will be demolished. All the siding damage on 9029
is repaired. Now just priming and painting remains.
6) Dan L. reminds us your articles for the next InfoAge Marconigraph /
InfoAge Signaleer are due by midnight March 31st .
7) A state game warden marked off the bald eagle nest on Camp Evans.
Net, please honor the 'Endangered Species Area' signs and give the eagle
family room to raise young.
8) Remember to send your calendar entries to Webmaster John via email –
calendar@InfoAge.org
for setting up the google calendar and many other web improvements.
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 tonight.
10) Joe G. has sold some of the old car parts a friend gave me to
benefit InfoAge. Thank you Joe.
11) 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.
12) Thank you to Joe G. for setting up the glass front 72" tall cabinets
for the Wall Township archive room. Thia way we can keep the bound
issues of the Wall Herald and other items of the town and Old Wall
Historical Society safe for research by residents.
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) Thanks to Dan J. we got to meet and present InfoAge to the
committee at CDW, Eatontown. They are considering a corporate volunteer
day at InfoAge.
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.
These Sunday was busy with lots of visitors and families. A car group
visited. On site were Dave Sn., Harry K., Bob Forte and others in the
NJARC museum. Steve G., and Joe G were all over the place as usual.
Jeff F. had the MARCH exhibit open. Neil N., Dan L. and had the NJHDA
shipwreck museum open. Dan is training Jake D to be a docent. Dan J.
and sons were in the computer deconstruction lab. JoAnne and Cicely
were in the lobby.
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
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
InfoAge Meeting, Wednesday, March 17.
Hello Everyone,
Meeting tonight. Major topic - the winter and this last storm has
really hurt the roofs of the H-building sections we have not re roofed.
We counted over 100 puddles in the buildings. What can we do?
The bald eagle presentation by the State of NJ endangered species office
has been postponed.
Hope to see you tonight.
*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
Meeting tonight. Major topic - the winter and this last storm has
really hurt the roofs of the H-building sections we have not re roofed.
We counted over 100 puddles in the buildings. What can we do?
The bald eagle presentation by the State of NJ endangered species office
has been postponed.
Hope to see you tonight.
*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, March 10, 2010
InfoAge Meeting, Wednesday March 10.
Hello Everyone,
We will have a Wednesday 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 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.
* 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.
So much is going on I can not keep up... Plus my regular job is killing me.
Great events - Good Progress - Great press coverage
-----------------------------
1) The NJARC auction was excellent. Many radio items of which we have
duplicates of or do not have room to store have found new homes with
persons who will care for them. Hopefully, they will become family
collectibles. Much work was needed by many persons to make the auction
a success. First, thank you to Ray Chase for his leadership, his team
and the Estes Brothers. Ohio residents, Richard and John Estes, once
again drove to NJ to donate their expertise as professional auctioneers
to help us along. Thank you to Ray & Edith, Toby was in the kennel,
John D. and Steve R. were at the front table, Marsha S. and Edith were
at the check out table. A number of persons helped set up the room,
helped prepare the auction lots and with the auction itself. Forgive me
for omissions, I recall seeing Dave S., Richard L., Steve G., Sal, Aaron
and others running about. Food was arranged by Mike G. via our friends
at the Country Kitchen. Ray, does not have a final number yet, but he
keeps teasing me with emails with a number around $6,000. Thank you,
we can use the money...
2) Congratulations to Dan L. and a thank you to the Monmouth County
Historical Commission. The commission awarded us a grant to repair the
structural damage to three WWII wooden structures. This will enable us
to have 9029, 9031 and 9034 ready for the next steps...electric, HVAC,
insulation, sheetrock and some paint. In the past the commission has
helped us replace the roof on the TIROS building and repair the roof
damage to the 9006 WWII addition. Chairman Mike R., Dan L. Karin C. and
I attended the award meeting to thank the commissioners.
3) Thanks to Steve M., Chairman Mike R., BOT vice-chair Claire F.
guidance from Jeff S. of Congressman Smith's office we have filed an
Appropriations request. If we get this money, this will 'save the
day'. We will be able to stop the water leaks and fix the roof damage
to the remaining H-buildings, re roof 9013 and 9004. A leaking roof is
the cancer of historic buildings. The funds will also enable us to put
HVAC, repair the electric and plumbing in 9010 B, C, and D. We have
two bids for the HVAC in 9010 D and are looking for more to get the best
price/value.
4) The weather has be a major challenge this year. Snow was cleared
due to the many nasty storms. Thank you to Mike G. for the equipment.
The operators: Mike G., Steve G., John T., Joe G., Pete R., Kyle B. and
other did a great job with our plows, gas snow throwers and human
powered snow shovels. The parking lot was so clean only the painted
lines were left. Thanks to Nels who managed the work, made equipment
repairs and even called in reinforcements. This saved us lots of money
and we did not have to ask Wall Township Public Works for help. They
had the entire town to worry about. Dan J., Kyle B., DJ and others have
begun clearing the dozens of tree limbs that fell due to the snow.
Let's keep our fingers crossed that there are no March snow falls.
4) The lights in the TIROS building, 9162, are all re-wired and the lens
covers are back in place on 75 lights. Yes, seventy-five ceiling
lights. The room looks nearly identical to the April 1960 photos
published in National Geographics magazine. We have made the ceiling
sheet rock repairs. The first coat of joint compound is on. Plumbing
next. We moved lots of stuff out of the building to our main campus.
The TIROS anniversary is April 1st and the birth of hurricane tracking
the 9th. We will celebrate on Sunday the 11th at 2 PM. Sadly, no one
from NASA, NOAA, the weather channel or news 12 have replied to any
emails asking for a speaker. So we will us in house resources.
5) In 9032 the EW room is all ready. John C. spent hours in the room
doing preparation for the exhibit.
6) The restored WWII restrooms in 9032B & C passed inspection by our
Wall Township building inspector. Thank you to Steve G. and Mark C. of
C & H Plumbing for meeting the inspector.
7) The Monroe Township Veterans Council will be visiting with 25 WWII
Vets. Ray C. is coordinating this.
8) Able, Michele and the Blossom volunteers are breaking all records
with enhanced museum attendance thanks to the Disney ticket program.
Able and Michele are spending lots of time sorting and inventorying the
donations for foster children ‘Care-packs’ and the many excellent
programs Blossom hosts. One evening I left them at 10 PM and they
worked until 4 AM. This effort has brought us more supplies than we
could have imagined. Blossom has reached an amazing milestone and
accomplishment. They have supplied Care-packs to every DYFS office in
the state of NJ, plus additional care items for foster children. This
is an amazing accomplishment.
9) We have a number of Eagle Scouts at work. Alex Lo's project to
repair the exterior of 9029 was approved by council. Zack visited on
Sunday with his plans to expand our river front trails to Watson Road.
We hope the council approves his proposal.
10) BOT member Bob G. is making great progress on The Book. Bob has
better resolution digital copies of the photos he has selected for
publication. Thank you to helpers like BOT member Larry Tormey for the
editing.
11) Dan L. has created a set of Edward Henderson posters for a traveling
exhibit. They are on display in Wall townhall.
12) Dan L. reminds us your articles for the next InfoAge Marconigraph /
InfoAge Signaleer are due by midnight March 31st .
13) If you do not know, we have a bald eagle nest on Camp Evans. Net,
please honor the 'Endangered Species Area' signs and give the eagle
family room to raise young.
14) Remember to send your calendar entries to Webmaster John via email –
calendar@InfoAge.org Thank you to John
for setting up the google calendar and many other web improvements.
15) 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 committee met on Monday.
16) Joe G. has the hotel copies working again. Thank you Joe.
17) 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.
18) We took deliver of six large glass front 72" tall cabinets for the
Wall Township archive room. Thia way we can keep the bound issues of
the Wall Herald and other items of the town and Old Wall Historical
Society safe for research by residents.
19) Thank you to Able, Michelle and Bella for washing and cleaning the
9093 hallway. Also to Steve G. for straighting the 9093 office. We all
need to make an effort to keep 9093, the hotel lounge and other public
places looking better.
20) 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.
These past two Sunday was super busy with lots of visitors and families.
On site were Dave Sica, Dave Sn., Phil V. Ray & Edith C., Marsha & Jerry
S., Harry K.and others in the NJARC museum. Steve G., John T., and Joe
G were all over the place as usual. Jeff F. and Evan K had the MARCH
exhibit open. Neil N., Dan and Terry L. had the NJHDA shipwreck museum
open. Able & Michele R., Bella R., Jake D. and conscripted visitors
were sorting, inventorying and moving the hundreds of Blossom
donations. Dan J. and sons were in the computer deconstruction lab.
JoAnne and Cicely were in the lobby.
I know I missed lots of folks and work actions - sorry. The last two
weeks were also crazy. Good crazy with good progress
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
732 299-089
We will have a Wednesday 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 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.
* 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.
So much is going on I can not keep up... Plus my regular job is killing me.
Great events - Good Progress - Great press coverage
-----------------------------
1) The NJARC auction was excellent. Many radio items of which we have
duplicates of or do not have room to store have found new homes with
persons who will care for them. Hopefully, they will become family
collectibles. Much work was needed by many persons to make the auction
a success. First, thank you to Ray Chase for his leadership, his team
and the Estes Brothers. Ohio residents, Richard and John Estes, once
again drove to NJ to donate their expertise as professional auctioneers
to help us along. Thank you to Ray & Edith, Toby was in the kennel,
John D. and Steve R. were at the front table, Marsha S. and Edith were
at the check out table. A number of persons helped set up the room,
helped prepare the auction lots and with the auction itself. Forgive me
for omissions, I recall seeing Dave S., Richard L., Steve G., Sal, Aaron
and others running about. Food was arranged by Mike G. via our friends
at the Country Kitchen. Ray, does not have a final number yet, but he
keeps teasing me with emails with a number around $6,000. Thank you,
we can use the money...
2) Congratulations to Dan L. and a thank you to the Monmouth County
Historical Commission. The commission awarded us a grant to repair the
structural damage to three WWII wooden structures. This will enable us
to have 9029, 9031 and 9034 ready for the next steps...electric, HVAC,
insulation, sheetrock and some paint. In the past the commission has
helped us replace the roof on the TIROS building and repair the roof
damage to the 9006 WWII addition. Chairman Mike R., Dan L. Karin C. and
I attended the award meeting to thank the commissioners.
3) Thanks to Steve M., Chairman Mike R., BOT vice-chair Claire F.
guidance from Jeff S. of Congressman Smith's office we have filed an
Appropriations request. If we get this money, this will 'save the
day'. We will be able to stop the water leaks and fix the roof damage
to the remaining H-buildings, re roof 9013 and 9004. A leaking roof is
the cancer of historic buildings. The funds will also enable us to put
HVAC, repair the electric and plumbing in 9010 B, C, and D. We have
two bids for the HVAC in 9010 D and are looking for more to get the best
price/value.
4) The weather has be a major challenge this year. Snow was cleared
due to the many nasty storms. Thank you to Mike G. for the equipment.
The operators: Mike G., Steve G., John T., Joe G., Pete R., Kyle B. and
other did a great job with our plows, gas snow throwers and human
powered snow shovels. The parking lot was so clean only the painted
lines were left. Thanks to Nels who managed the work, made equipment
repairs and even called in reinforcements. This saved us lots of money
and we did not have to ask Wall Township Public Works for help. They
had the entire town to worry about. Dan J., Kyle B., DJ and others have
begun clearing the dozens of tree limbs that fell due to the snow.
Let's keep our fingers crossed that there are no March snow falls.
4) The lights in the TIROS building, 9162, are all re-wired and the lens
covers are back in place on 75 lights. Yes, seventy-five ceiling
lights. The room looks nearly identical to the April 1960 photos
published in National Geographics magazine. We have made the ceiling
sheet rock repairs. The first coat of joint compound is on. Plumbing
next. We moved lots of stuff out of the building to our main campus.
The TIROS anniversary is April 1st and the birth of hurricane tracking
the 9th. We will celebrate on Sunday the 11th at 2 PM. Sadly, no one
from NASA, NOAA, the weather channel or news 12 have replied to any
emails asking for a speaker. So we will us in house resources.
5) In 9032 the EW room is all ready. John C. spent hours in the room
doing preparation for the exhibit.
6) The restored WWII restrooms in 9032B & C passed inspection by our
Wall Township building inspector. Thank you to Steve G. and Mark C. of
C & H Plumbing for meeting the inspector.
7) The Monroe Township Veterans Council will be visiting with 25 WWII
Vets. Ray C. is coordinating this.
8) Able, Michele and the Blossom volunteers are breaking all records
with enhanced museum attendance thanks to the Disney ticket program.
Able and Michele are spending lots of time sorting and inventorying the
donations for foster children ‘Care-packs’ and the many excellent
programs Blossom hosts. One evening I left them at 10 PM and they
worked until 4 AM. This effort has brought us more supplies than we
could have imagined. Blossom has reached an amazing milestone and
accomplishment. They have supplied Care-packs to every DYFS office in
the state of NJ, plus additional care items for foster children. This
is an amazing accomplishment.
9) We have a number of Eagle Scouts at work. Alex Lo's project to
repair the exterior of 9029 was approved by council. Zack visited on
Sunday with his plans to expand our river front trails to Watson Road.
We hope the council approves his proposal.
10) BOT member Bob G. is making great progress on The Book. Bob has
better resolution digital copies of the photos he has selected for
publication. Thank you to helpers like BOT member Larry Tormey for the
editing.
11) Dan L. has created a set of Edward Henderson posters for a traveling
exhibit. They are on display in Wall townhall.
12) Dan L. reminds us your articles for the next InfoAge Marconigraph /
InfoAge Signaleer are due by midnight March 31st .
13) If you do not know, we have a bald eagle nest on Camp Evans. Net,
please honor the 'Endangered Species Area' signs and give the eagle
family room to raise young.
14) Remember to send your calendar entries to Webmaster John via email –
calendar@InfoAge.org
for setting up the google calendar and many other web improvements.
15) 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 committee met on Monday.
16) Joe G. has the hotel copies working again. Thank you Joe.
17) 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.
18) We took deliver of six large glass front 72" tall cabinets for the
Wall Township archive room. Thia way we can keep the bound issues of
the Wall Herald and other items of the town and Old Wall Historical
Society safe for research by residents.
19) Thank you to Able, Michelle and Bella for washing and cleaning the
9093 hallway. Also to Steve G. for straighting the 9093 office. We all
need to make an effort to keep 9093, the hotel lounge and other public
places looking better.
20) 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.
These past two Sunday was super busy with lots of visitors and families.
On site were Dave Sica, Dave Sn., Phil V. Ray & Edith C., Marsha & Jerry
S., Harry K.and others in the NJARC museum. Steve G., John T., and Joe
G were all over the place as usual. Jeff F. and Evan K had the MARCH
exhibit open. Neil N., Dan and Terry L. had the NJHDA shipwreck museum
open. Able & Michele R., Bella R., Jake D. and conscripted visitors
were sorting, inventorying and moving the hundreds of Blossom
donations. Dan J. and sons were in the computer deconstruction lab.
JoAnne and Cicely were in the lobby.
I know I missed lots of folks and work actions - sorry. The last two
weeks were also crazy. Good crazy with good progress
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
732 299-089
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
InfoAge Meeting, Wednesday, February 17.
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 check and to send events to
calendar@InfoAge.org to have them posted on the planning calendar.
- Radio Repair Clinic, Sat, Feb 20th, 0900, all day, 9032 A Section,open to the public - Contact Ray Chase
- Sunday, HH2010 planing meeting #2 with Nels and Judy - time?
- Monday, Feb 22nd InfoAge BOT meeting 4 PM in Marconi Hotel.
- 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 (tentative - subject to change).
- April 1st & 9th TIROS 50th anniversary. We are loking toward Saturday the 3rd for our ceremony.
- 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
-----------------------------
1) The best show clearing in all of NJ was at Camp Evans. IT was
cleared twice due to two nasty storms. Thank you to Mike G. for the
equipment. The operators: Mike G., Steve G., John T., Joe G., and ??
did a great job with our plows, gas snow throwers and human powered snow
shovels. The parking lot was so clean only the painted lines were
left. Thanks to Nels who called in reinforcements to remove a giant
snow pile and some touch-up.. Nels cleared the Diana site for an OMARC
event.
2) We have a Camp Evans history videos on YouTube.com thanks to Ryan L.
and John B. who created a page on our site to link to YouTube. Norm and
Ryan L. will be targeting Frank O., and his Apollo Computer for the next
set of videos. We will soon add a virtual Frank the Nasa Computer
expert to virtual Ray the radar expert and virtual Fred the Camp Evans
historian to our PC based videos.
3) We are making progress rebuilding the old 2” wide blinds – thanks to
Matt O. and Steve G. for getting the supplies. This Sunday, Matt and
Jim Orgill wrote procedures and took photographs for a 'How-to-rebuild
blinds". If we rebuild the binds in 9032 A-C we will save nearly $6,000
in costs. If we could buy replacements in the same old ugly wide style
the cost would be $300 per window = $27,000 for the A - C. Big savings!!
4) The lights in 9162 are all re-wired. We need to get going. We lost
two weekends due to the snow. We have the covers to replace and some
ceiling sheet rock repairs. The TIROS anniversary is April 1st.
5) In 9032 the EW room is all ready. Bob P. will be replaced the light
fixtures in this room and others.
6) The restored WWII restrooms in 9032B & C may be checked by the
building inspector tomorrow thanks to Steve G. and Mark C. of C & H
Plumbing.
7) The Monroe Township Veterans Council will be visiting with 25 WWII
Vets on Wednesday, April 27th . We need to have a nice tour for the
gents. Ray C. will firm up a date with them. Ray did you call them?
8) Matt Orgill's Eagle Ceremony went excellent on Sunday the 7th (the
6th was snowed out). Mike G. had the dining room looking as good as
new. He hand stripped the wax buildup and re-waxed the floors.
Amazing. I read a letter of congratulations for Nels and Judy W. to
Matt. Our hope and Mike G.'s hope is this will be the first on many
Eagle Court of Honor ceremonies at InfoAge.
9) Able, Michele and the Blossom volunteers are breaking all records
with enhanced museum attendance thanks to the Disney ticket program.
Michele is spending lots of time sorting and inventorying the donations
for foster children ‘Care-packs’ and the many excellent programs Blossom
hosts. This effort has brought our more supplies than we could have
imagined. Blossom has even helped the local DYFS office with the
supplies donated.
10) Future Eagle Scout Zack visited on Sunday with his plans to expand
our river front trails to Watson Road. We hope the council approves his
proposal.
11) This Sunday, Jim Orgill, Bill Kortenhouse, Steve Makrinos., and I
were guests of Monarch Energy Associates (aka Mike Golub) at the 47th
Annual Monmouth County Republicans Lincoln Day Dinner. We enjoyed a
great time and great food with Mike and Kathy G. BOT members Steve
M., Claire French and I did our best to update our supporting
republicans friends on InfoAge's excellent progress. We gave out our
cards and newsletters. It was great to update Congressman Chris Smith
and tell him to look for our Earmark request. We got to see InfoAge
volunteer Assemblyman Dave Rible. State Senator Sean Kean told Mike G.
the bill to name Camp Evans the state of NJ WWII living memorial is
almost ready. We got to see former assemblyman Steve Corodemus. Steve
was the host of our 2005 WWII Living Memorial Dedication. We also got
to see Mike Fitzgerald the former head of the original Marconi Park
Reuse advisory committee. His committee (including our BOT members John
Truhan and Claire French with the urging of our BOT chairman Mike Ruane)
recommended Wall Township give InfoAge a chance to save Camp Evans back
in 1994. We got to meet new Freeholder John Curly as well as a number
of current and former Freeholders who have supported us over the years.
We did our best to meet as many person we thought could help us. Thank
you Mike and Monarch Associates for putting us in the same room as all
these key persons.
12) Thank you to BOT member Steve Makrinos for preparing our request for
federal funding (earmark) for Congressman Smith's consideration.
13) BOT member Bob G. is making great progress on The Book. Bob and I
will be working to find better resolution digital copies of the photos
he has selected for publication. Thank you to helpers like BOT member
Larry Tormey for the editing.
14) Congratulations to Dan Lieb for successfully preparing, submitting
and winning a Monmouth County Historical Commission Grant for InfoAge.
The ceremony is on Feb 22nd at the Hall of Records - 7 PM. Great job
Dan! The matching funds will repair structural damage to the frames of
WWII wood structures 9029, 9031 and 9034.
15) NJARC had a great meeting in 9032A. Thank you to President Richard
for giving me a few minutes to say thank you to the group, for all the
progress they have brought to InfoAge / Camp Evans.
They have grown with us from the cottage 9003 to the NJARC Radio
Technology Museum packed with artifacts. They are now poised for
expansion into the 'H' buildings. A NJARC advance party has already
colonized a storage room in 9010A.
16) Dan L. has created a set of Edward Henderson posters for a traveling
exhibit. They may visit Wall town hall.
17) John B., and the website committee are looking at Joomla.
18) Another great history find and win by Ray C. A WWII technical
manual was offered on ebay. A photo of IFF equipment had some buildings
in the background. On close examination they turned out to be 9017 and
9037.
19) Steve R. and members of the archive committee are working on an
Archive policy for InfoAge. Thank you to Steve for his leadership in
this effort. Steve also cataloged the set of Marconi drawings donated
to InfoAge by the Sarnoff Library. We hope to add them to our
finding-aide on our website.
20) Thank you to John T. and Joe G. for continuing to catalog our
handreds of Camp Evans drawings.
21) Dan L. reminds us your articles for the next InfoAge Marconigraph /
InfoAge Signaleer are due by midnight March 31st . Thank you rot Frank
O. for the TIROS story
22) Remember to send your calendar entries to Webmaster John via email –
calendar@InfoAge.org Thank you to John
for setting up the google calendar and many other web improvements.
23) 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 committee will be starting on outreach soon.
24) Blossom and OCAPA are teaming up to organize the second InfoAge Flea
market and stuff sale. Details to follow.
25) Our web committee is taking shape under John B’s technical
leadership. John, Steve G. and Michele have begun looking into using
Joomla to enable more persons to contribute to our web content.
26) Thanks to Joe G. for working on getting us an improved copier. We
hope to get the old copier up and running soon.
27) The NJARC members are agreeable the help find information on the
industries in the1945 list of NJ companies who earned the Army-Navy E –
award . We hope to contact them for a donation in honor of their WWII
accomplishments.
These past two Sunday was super busy with lots of visitors and families.
On site were Dave Sica, Dave Sn., Phil V. Ray & Edith C., Marsha & Jerry
S., Harry K.and others in the NJARC museum. Steve G., John T., and Joe
G were all over the place as usual. Jeff F. and Evan K had the MARCH
exhibit open. Neil N., Dan and Terry L. had the NJHDA shipwreck museum
open. Mike G., was getting ready for the Eagle court of honor and
plowing. Able & Michele R., Bella R., and conscripted visitors were
sorting, inventorying and moving the hundreds of Blossom donations.
Dan J. and sons were in the computer deconstruction lab. Jim and Matt
O. plus new volunteer Jake D. were working on the blinds. JoAnne was in
the lobby. Norm and Ryan L. were delivering video updates. I know I
missed lots of folks - sorry. The last two weeks were crazy. Good
crazy with progress.
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:
- Saves an incredibly historic site
- Honors WWII Signal Corps and Honor Front veterans
- Helps education by inspiring kids to learn science
- Furthers the development of a NJ Shore tourist destination.
- Will create full and part-time employment
- Improves property values in the North Wall and Shark River area.
- 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
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