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Mission
and Vision
The Media Communications
Association-International (MCA-I) reaffirms our commitment to increase
awareness of mission critical functions of media communications
professionals and to support - in every stage of their career - those
engaged in the
profession. MCA-I's Strategic Plan, focusing association efforts
through 2010, comprises three key initiatives: cultivation of
partnerships; establishment of an industry university and online
library and building a voice for the industry.
These
initiatives are underway with deliverables
starting this year and a culmination to these efforts to come well
before the end of the decade. They are works in progress, and we
welcome your participation.
Next Meeting: Join us at our "kick off" meeting in September!
(Information will be posted here.)
Past Meeting:
Year-end
Wrap Party
Tuesday,
June 15
Our year-end wrap party was held at a unique and
special place in communications history: InfoAge
is the best-kept historical secret in New Jersey – but it shouldn’t be!
A number of MCA-I members and friends came and discovered its many
facets for themselves!
InfoAge encompasses a huge range of science and communications history:
it began as the site of Marconi’s
transatlantic
wireless station in 1914 and later became home of the Signal
Corps where historic advances in communications technology
took place. Along the way, it served as the first campus of King’s
College; as a cold-war technology research center and was the
birthplace of radar and of satellite weather-tracking among many other things.
In its current incarnation as
the Information Age Science and Learning Center it’s the home of
multiple museums including the New Jersey Antique Radio Club’s Radio Technology Museum
and the National
Broadcasters’ Hall of Fame. Come browse through historic broadcasting and receiving equipment; see original documents and period
photos in many areas of interest; discover history in some of the very
buildings in which it was made. InfoAge has applied for status as a World War II Living Memorial. This is a one-of-a-kind place in our
state, national and technological history.
Our meeting began, as usual, at 6:30 PM. But InfoAge can keep you
fascinated for hours, so we extended the invitation for those who would
like, to arrive early (and miss the
traffic!) Doors
opened early at 4 PM with “early arrival” tours of the InfoAge campus;
our
regular meeting began with light food and sodas at 6:30,
installation
of new chapter officers followed at 7:30, followed by tours of the
Radio
Technology Museum and other areas of the museum complex including the
Vintage Computer Museum. It was an enjoyable and unique window
into history, an evening of meeting with fellow moving image
professionals, and a chance to discover this hidden
piece of technological history.
InfoAge is located at 2201 Marconi Road, Wall, NJ 07719. It’s just off
exit 7 or Route 18 and only a few miles from the Garden State Parkway.
Directions
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