Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the Asia Pacific Organisation of ICOM, I would like to
express my sincerest condolences to the family and friends of the late
Roger Wulff. His services and committment to museum security were
immeasurable. He was exemplary in the way he facilitated, along with ICMS
colleagues, the participation and capacity building networks for museum
security personnel from the Asia Pacific.

Please read the note below from David Liston and circulate it.

Amar
--
Professor Amareswar Galla
Director of Studies
Graduate Programs in Sustainable Heritage Development
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 0200, AUSTRALIA

Chairman, Asia Pacific Organisation, ICOM
Email. [log in to unmask]
http://rspas.anu.edu.au/heritage



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Mr. Roger Wulff, owner of the newly opened The Red Jaguar Resort in San
Ignacio, Belize, former President of the International Committee for Museum
Security, International Council of Museums 1991-1993, and President of Museum
Consultants Int., passed away there Saturday morning, 12 July 2003, from
apparent heart failure, in the presence of his wife Gerry, on the way to the
hospital. Roger pioneered international museum non profit consulting, museum
security trade shows at the Smithsonian and ICOM-ICMS (‘the first one ever
held
in the USSR’) and museum value engineering.

Roger and Gerry moved to Belize several years ago from Washington, DC, from
their Dupont Circle townhouse where he maintained an international museum
consultancy that stretched from the States to Dubai and Jordan, to Brasil, El
Salvador and Japan and Russia. Roger was historical researcher, designer,
general contractor and craftsman for historic houses, and had raised
thousands
in travel scholarships for developing country museum security professionals
through the Smithsonian Institution National Conference on Cultural Property
Protection and the ICOM-ICMS trade shows. Roger took the helm of the
international museum security committee on the death of Robert Burke, icon of
museum security in the US, American Association of Museums, at the
Smithsonian
Institution and at ICOM.

Roger’s education in security and museum work culminated at George
Washington University and the University of Maryland, and entrepreneurship
with
his Museum Bookstore and International Craft Boutique website. Most recently,
Gerry was active with the American Association for University Women and Roger
considered himself the ‘advance team’ for museum security in Central
America and
Belize. He has nephews in Tennessee and cousins in New York State but he
will be
interred in San Jose Succotz, ‘this little village that embraced us both’ as
Gerry relates. For Roger’s love of Cuban cigars and Indian motorcycles, he
would
like to be remembered the next time you hear a cycle rev up or smell a good
cigar.

About the future, Gerry writes ‘I will decide when the time is right and
let you know’ but she unfortunately lost her address book. Please tell our
friends that I will be all right. I will get through this and go on as I
must.”
Please help Gerry fill in her new address book with some of their long lost
friends. Mail there will take some time. Gerry buried Roger Thursday “with a
tiny U.S. flag and his ICMS pin on his lapel.”

Mrs. Geraldine Schepker Wulff
General Delivery, San Ignacio Post
Office
Cayo, Belize, C.A.

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Voice:
501-823-2757

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