Hervé Gagnon's museum is in the Eastern Townships of Québec, an hour's drive
south of Montréal.

I very much doubt that any member of his board of directors has a computer,
let alone subscribes to MUSEUM-L and I find it inconceivable that he might
have resigned as a result of having posted two relatively innocuous messages
to this list.

From previous postings Hervé made to the list, I had the impression of a
continuing debate on the future of the museum between Hervé and his Board.

I wish to note that I have written to his museum three times over the past
year, inviting them to develop a partnership agreement with the Canadian War
Museum and to join the more than 130 museums, historic sites and other
institutions to which we will be offering a variety of small exhibitions for
FREE, as well as participation in other joint projects. I have not had so
much as an acknowledgement to any of them. Draw your own conclusion!!!

Martyrdom in the cause of MUSEUM-L? Come, now.

Harry Needham
Special Advisor - Programme Development
Canadian War Museum
330 Sussex Drive,
Ottawa, Canada
K1A 0M8
Voice: (819) 776-8612  Fax (819) 776-8623
Email: [log in to unmask]

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> From:         Boylan P[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To:     Museum discussion list
> Sent:         Sunday, February 21, 1999 8:36 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      HERVE  GAGNON'S DEPARTURE - Previously Volunteer horror
> stories
> 
> Robert:
> 
> I see what you mean in your two comments about the posting concerning Dr.
> Herve Gagnon's departure from his museum.
> 
> However, I read the posting by Harry Isbrucker on behalf of the President
> and Board of Directors of the Stanstead Historical Society (where's
> that? - somewhere in Canada according to Herve's address) rather
> differently.
> 
> I suspected immediately that Herve's very recent "resignation" (if
> that's what it really was) less than a week after his contributions to the
> "volunteer horror stories" series was directly connected to his comments
> about the confusion of volunteer and Board roles and Board and Director
> roles in an un-named museum - but plainly his own.
> 
> Perhaps we now have our first martyr to the Museum-L cause?
> 
> For those wanting to look back the (really excellent) searchable Museum-l
> archives gives Herve's first contribution  to the "volunteer horror story"
> file as Monday 1 February 1999 at 13.21h.  If you then follow the "same
> author forward" button on the header you will find two more the same day
> and a further horror story on Wednesday 3 February. Alternatively you can
> use the search engine on the archive's home page.
> 
> For those who have forgotten the Museum-L web archive is at:
> 
>         http://home.dc.lsoft.com/archives/museum-l.html
> 
> Patrick Boylan
>