[NJARC] Fw: [infoage] Federal Press Conference Thursday 2:30PM Camp Evans

[Ray Chase]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Fred Carl 
To: infoage at freelists.org 
Cc: Michael Ruane 
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 9:52 PM
Subject: [infoage] Federal Press Conference Thursday 2:30PM Camp Evans


Hello Everyone,

 

    The Sec. of Interior signed the designation today.  Camp Evans is a National Landmark for the home-front service and the major roll radar played in the WWII allied victory.  Congressman Smith will be holding a press conference at 2:30PM in the Marconi Hotel Lobby.   If you can make it, please do.

 

    This is very good news.  It honors the thousands of home front warriors who worked at Camp Evans to defeat the Axis powers.  As a subpost of Fort Monmouth, this honor also includes main post in Eatontown, Squire Labs., Camp Coles, Fort Handcock, the Long Branch Signal Lab. and the many temporary sites like the Shark River Hotel, the former Grossman Hotel in Bradley Beach, the Asbury Park Yards, the Avon storage facility and Jimmy Byrnes' Sea Girt Inn.  It also honors all the men and mostly ladies who worked in factories all over NJ manufacturing the radar and radio components designed by the Labs that help win the "Battle of the Laboratories" as President Truman called it.

 

   Saying 'thank you' to the thousands of home front warriors who labored in the laboratories and factories to win WWII is long overdue. 



   Thanks to the efforts of the many Camp Evans volunteers like you, Camp Evans has not faded away as predicted in 1993.  Camp Evans is now a science community center.   It holds the potential of many more years of excellent community service as the WWII Living Memorial and as a National Landmark. 



   We can inspire kids to learn science...where history was made.  



   Please mark Saturday, November 17th as our day to celebrate this happy event.  Details to follow.

 

Thank you,

Fred Carl

732 299-0894