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Science-History Center volunteers at work to give Camp Evans a future
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On Saturday, April 29, 2006 the
advance team of Lucent Technologies
and the New Outlook
Pioneeers, the Penn-Jersey
Chapter 132, came to Camp Evans.
The team prepared the telephone exchange building (9059) so the many
Pioneers who will volunteer during the Lucent Global Days of Caring
(GDOC) will be able to work more
effectively in helping InfoAge create three
classrooms in this building that helping win WW2 and the cold war in
supporting the Signal Corps radar laboratory communications.
The WWII telephone operators who worked in this building has secret
clearance and handled the switching of important war-time telephone
traffic.
The major challenges were removing the
trash and telephone equipment gutted by BRAC contractors and to remove
a wall added in the 1970s to create a backup battery room.
The Pioneers delivered excess workbenches that have found a new home in
the InfoAge computer and radio repair shop in the Marconi hotel
basement.
The New Outlook Pioneers ... caring and volunteering to help
create a place to teach science and history with telephony.
Thank you !!
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Some of the trash left in the telephone exchange building - 9059 future
classroom 1 and entrance foyer.
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Volunteers begin the
removal of the frame of the rotary dial switch that existed in
classroom 1. As the lights were not working spot lights were used.
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In
room 2 the remains of a gutted Northern Telecom electronic switch are
removed. The rack in the photo on right is the
telephone truck line connection point for the entire Camp.
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The
team attacks the backup battery room and a breakthrough is made.
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Going, going, GONE! Classroom 3 is created.
The results of a day of labor by
dedicated New Outlook Pioneers.....
Tons of debris removed from the building.
Classroom 1 - clean and ready for
further repairs and painting.
Classroom 2 - essential equipment left, clean and ready for repairs to
sheetrock and lighting.
Classroom 3 - Wall removed, clean and ready for painting.
(L-R) Bill
Jones,
Jonathan Clark, Tom Jones, Rob Mitchell, Jeanette Walker,Ted Ferguson,
Calvin
Credle(Co-coord), Dietra Seruby,
Gregory Curry, Lynn Hatch(Coordinator), Roger
Ackerman, Verginia Ferrara,
Allen Andreatch.
(Morris Wrubel, not pictured) – Also, Pioneer Life Members
Jack Wilson & Max Desonne not pictured.
The InfoAge Global Days of
Caring Advance Team
Lucent
Technologies and the Penn-Jersey chapter 132 of The New
Outlook Pioneers ...
caring and
volunteering to help create a place to teach science and history with
telephony.
Page updated May 31,
2006
page created May
15, 2006
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