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September 12, 2002
After
80 years eight books from the Marconi Belmar Station Electrical Library
return to Camp Evans to become part of the Infoage Archives and library.
Thanks to Mr. John Etter, W2ER, who
saved the books from the Riverhead RCA Library when that station was closed
in the 1970s. Mr. Etter worked with radio pioneers, such as Dr. Harold
Beverage and Dr. H. O. Peterson, who worked at the Belmar Station during
its wireless days. He presented the books to Infoage to preserve
them as the only artifacts of the original station we have other than the
grounds and buildings.
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July 30, 2002 SHERIFF
OXLEY SENDS INMATES TO CLEAN AND RESTORE HISTORICAL NEW JERSEY
SITE The landscape around the old historic
Marconi cottages is improved!!!
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July 23, 2002 Pentagon
Officials visit Camp Evans at Congressman’s Smith’s Request. At
the Congressman and Wall Township's request Penagon officials come to Camp
Evans for a fact-finding visit.
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April 3, 2002 Camp Evans Historic
District entered onto the National Register of Historic Places!Hooray!!!The
official letter arrived today.A quest begun in 1974
by the Army and forgotten has been completed by Infoage volunteers! We
submitted a completely rewritten nomination in 1998 to the state of
NJ, the state approved it in 1999, the
Army Federal Preservation Office would not process it, in 2000 we entered
a protest to the Keeper of the National Register, the Army stated they
would process the nomination in writing in July of 2001. During
the over 18 months the Army Federal Preservation office was in control
of the nomination, they lost the nomination, photos, maps etc. multiple
times. Infoage spent over $300.00 replacing missing parts and mailing
them to the Army so the process would move forward. What a waste
of our funds! Finally in February 2002, Mr. Fatz, the Army
Federal Preservation officer signed the nomination. The kind
staff of the Keeper of the National Register office proceesed the application
as quickly as possible once Mr. Fatz signed and forwarded it. Why
did this have to be this dificult? Camp Evans is so historic the
approval should have been a 'Slam dunk'. See
article in the Asbury Park Press.
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April 2, 2002 The National Park Service
Approved our application for the Camp Evans Historic District. We
had to make extensive changes to the application. Originally submitted
as separate requests for areas B and C of Camp Evans, the NPS required
us to rewrite the application for the entire historic district as a single
request. We did it, they approved it! The application
has been forwarded to the Department of the Army for their review and acceptance.
The updated application contains 109 pages of narrative, over 204 photos,
36 architectural drawings, 8 color diagrams, a survey and hundreds of additional
hours given by dedicated volunteers working to save Camp Evans and give
the site a new and historically appropriate new use..
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February 25, 2002
Congressman
Chris Smith's visit to the concept center of Infoage Science-History
Center at Camp Evans encourages volunteers.
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On January 25, 2002 the commanding General of Fort Monmouth, General
William Russ, appointed a talented and long-time supporter of establishing
an education center at Camp Evans. May we introduce Dr.
CONSTELLA HINES-ZIMMERMAN, our Fort Monmouth Science and Technology
Liason to Infoage. Thank you, General Russ!
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November 12, 2001 NO SHORT
CLIMB - This
video in development by Professor Robert Johnson of
Framingham College, was reviewed at Rutgers University. The
IEEE History Center sponsored the review. The excellent work was
given excellent reviews by History of Technology facility.
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October 27, 2001---
Camp Evans is a work site for "MAKE A DIFFERENCE
DAY" and what a difference our volunteers made at the Wireless Station
Manager's Residence.
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July 18, 2001--- The National Broadcasters Hall of
Fame arrives at Camp Evans. Thanks to the
this historic collection will be saved! This is the North American
Vans Line Truck at the Camp Evans security office. The collection
is safely stored away. 
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June 14-17, 2001 Infoage is a part of 'Salute
to the Armed Forces Weekend".
We
set up a display with historic photos, our Camp Evans site model, and gave
out information. We brought Marconi Wireless, WWI Navy history, and
Signal Corps history for Fort Monmouth families to see!
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May 22, 2001 Here they are! The binders with our National
Park Service application for areas B and C of Camp Evans before they were
mailed for review. Even though our web updates have slowed in
the past months...we were busy!
The application contains 80 pages of narrative, over 180 photos, 28 architectural
drawings, a survey and hundreds of hours given by dedicated volunteers
working to save Camp Evans and give the site a new and historically appropriate
new use..
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The news is the Wall Township Committee, on March 14, 2001, endorsed
our application to the National Park Service to apply for the no cost transfer
of the Camp Evans historic district under the historic surplus property
program. We have been busy working on this application . This
is a major step in our efforts to preserve Camp Evans and give it a vital
and historically compatable reuse as a science-history center. Since
1912 engineers did lots of science and made lots of history at the site.
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Project Diana
scientist - Dr. Walter S. McAfee is listed in 'Little Know Black History
Facts' booklet distiributed by McDonald's Corporation. The story
is on page 12 of the purple booklet, 'Who
calculated the speed of the moon?' by Dr. Henry Louis Gates of Harvard
University. See our Project Diana page...for
technical details. Fort Monmouth honored the late Dr.
McAfee by naming a building after him. Also available in on this
site:
02/06/1994 Interview
of Dr. Walter S. McAfee by Robert Johnson Jr. , An Oral History
of African-Americans and the Development of Radar Defense Technology at
Fort Monmouth, New Jersey 1940-1959. On File, Monmoth County Library, CECOM
Historical Research Collection, InfoAge at Camp Evans Collection.
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InfoAge Volunteers from NJARC, QCWA, NJHDA, Franklin Township
Boy Scouts and friends salvage materials from
the New Brunswick Marconi Transmission Station in Franklin Township.
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John Marchetti, one of a small
group of scientists who labored at Camp Evans in a top secret laboratory
during the 1930s and '40s on electronic equipment, returns to take a tour
and discuss his work there.
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See Bob Judges Marconi Miniature on the 1999
White House Christmas Tree
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For 24hrs, to celebrate Marconi's 125th birthday, Camp Evans
was a wireless station on April 24, 1999. Preparing for the Marconi
100th anniversary our member organizations: OMARC and the QCWA
contacted
nearly 1000 different wireless operators.
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Our member organizations: NJARC and GSC cleaned up leaves,
branches, and helped trim the hedges at Camp Evans on Saturday the 17th
of April. Thanks!
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Thank You CABLEVISION TV-34 and John Szelega. We were
a guest on John's 'THINK ENVIROMENTALLY' program. John ran
our 10 minute promotional video. The progran has been running most
of April.
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Sad news... Jack DeWitt head of Project Diana passed
away on Monday the 25th of January 1999.
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The January 28,1999 Fort Monmouth Region Outreach Forum was
an excellent event. Thank you to General Nabors, Dr. Connie Zimmerman,
and Dr. Frank Curcio for inviting INFOAGE to this event. A special
thank you to Dr. Peter Burnham of Brookdale College for sharing his vision
of a 'Communiversity' at Camp Evans and to General Hilsman of the National
Science Center for the encouragement for our efforts.
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Thanks to the NJ Historic Trust, NJ Office of Historic Preservation
and Monmouth County Historical Society for touring Camp Evans on Dec. 15,
1998. CAMP EVANS...ITS NOT SECRET ANYMORE!
Well, OK most of the work done here after 1985 is still
classified.
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Thanks to the NJ Science Teachers Association for the booth
at their convention at the NJ convention center in Somerset. We met
the most motivated science teachers in NJ and showed them Bob's model of
their future association headquarters.
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The QCWA setup a one day radio/wireless station on November
21, 1998 at Camp Evans in the old Marconi Hotel...
They are getting ready for the October weekend when the
Army gives INFOAGE the Keys during the 100th Anniversary of Marconi
in America event.
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Visit Scott's TV page to see details of the October 9th dedication of the
Binghamton Marconi Tower
We were there! We introduced a number of radio historians
to Wall's Belmar Station.
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welcomes first busload of students 90 years to the day the first piece
of property was purchased for the Belmar High-power Wireless Station, aka
Camp Evans.