2010 Year End Letter
We are heading into another year, 2011 and I am filled with hope that of all the years, since 1996 when the Sayville Historical Society attempted to save the Telefunken/US Navy/MacKay/ FAA site in West Sayville, this will be the most productive. For starters, we are starting negotiations with the Town of Islip for exhibiting space in the Ockers House, a wonderful building on Montauk Highway in Oakdale. This would give us a home, and permit us to exhibit the artifacts we currently own, form active research, publications and acquisition groups.
Our December meeting will be devoted to Long Island Radio/TV Day, our fourth year working with WCWP, CW Post College. This is a fun day, everyone who has taken part in it has said the same thing, Keep it Going. And this our new website is up and running. Thanks to Neil Heft for a great job.
More than ever we need all you radio people out there. Whether you work in amateur radio, broadcasting, TV, worked for RCA, MacKay, Press Wireless, the US Navy, Coast Guard or Army etc. we need you to come into what is still the ground floor of this historical society. It is our opportunity to keep radio and television in the hearts and minds of all Long Islanders. Come on Board.
Thank you to everyone who came to the October meeting at the LI Maritime Museum. Several of the jobs necessary for running Radio/TV Day at the Tillis Center have been taken on, and we started to outline our museum exhibits. Next month we will have a Board Meeting from 10am to 11am, and then we will have a guest speaker. I hope to see many of you there.
We took a look at the space we may have in the Ockers House in Oakdale, and it will give us a great chance to show just what we can contribute to the history of Long Island. Aside from the exhibit space, we will have a research library, something we have been working on for years.
Constance A. Currie, President