The Coast Star
November 24, 2005

By Fred Carl
Page 2

Volunteers help effort
to restore Camp Evans.

Young volunteers from Wall High School, Wall students enrolled in the Naval Junior Reserve
Officers Training Corps, and volunteers acting through New Jersey Resources [above] pitched in
and helped paint and clean up facilities at Camp Evans recently.

By Fred Carl

On Wednesday, Nov. 16 two groups of Wall students gave InfoAge at Camp Evans some very welcome help.

Many people with different skills are needed to volunteer to give Camp Evans its new future as an educational center that will inspire students to consider technology careers and to honor the service of veterans.

The first group of students came to learn more about Camp Evans' history and create posters for InfoAge.

Sue Parsons and George Carr, educators at Wall High School, brought Mrs. Parsons' eighth-period graphic-arts class for an escorted tour.

The students saw the New Jersey Antique Radio Club Radio Museum in the former Marconi Station Chief Engineer's cottage and the World War II Memorial photo exhibit in the Marconi Hotel.

The exhibit has dozens of World War II artifacts, reproduced World War II posters, and dozens of posters showing how Camp Evans personnel and equipment contributed to the war victory.

InfoAge is looking forward to the works the talented graphic-arts students will create to help InfoAge communicate its message.

In the evening, New Jersey Natural Gas [NJNG] sponsored its second community service event at Camp Evans.

The company is always ready to support the community. Through its Volunteers Inspiring Service In Our Neighborhoods program, NJNG employees and retirees, along with families and friends, volunteer thousands of hours to community service each year. NJNG employees and retirees teamed up with Wall students enrolled in the Naval Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps

[NJROTC] to paint the Marconi Hotel dining room.

Over 30 NJROTC cadets, lead by Student Operations Officer Leila Gerencser and escorted by Capt. Jim Steinbaugh, painted the former World War I Naval Radio Station mess hall.

During World War I, the site was operated by the U.S. Navy as the key wireless-communications link to Europe.

The station was under the command of Capt. A. Hoyt Taylor. Work done in secret in Wall Township by the Navy would change wireless technology. Capt. Taylor and the team he formed in Wall relocated to Washington after the war. His team developed radar for the Navy. Camp Evans was the Army's radar-development center during World War II.

Now the site of the InfoAge Science-History Center, the NJROTC cadets and NJNG volunteers gave the large room a good coat of white paint. Given all the rollers and paint brushes in action at once, some paint ended up on people rather than the walls.

After cleanup, NJNG employees Kathy O'Connell, Tom Hayes and Lynn Bryan treated the NJROTC cadets to a pizza dinner.

Community volunteers, like Mrs, Parsons' class, the NJROTC cadets and the NJNG volunteers, are accomplishing good work by using creativity and resourcefulness at Camp Evans.

This is giving historic Camp Evans a future in education that honors its past and inspires students to make their future better by learning about technology.

Other organizations are invited to help. Call InfoAge at Camp Evans at 732 280-3000.

To see more photos of the ROTC and VISION volunteers at work click here
To see how good the finished dining room looks click here.
To see photos of NJNG first VISION visit click here.

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The Coast Star November 24, 2005

The Coast Star
November 24, 2005