Great! Good job. Looks Herve was the good guy after all.
Bob and Heather Price wrote:
>
> I did a little sleuthing on the 'net. It's interesting to see the local
> paper's slant on the controversy (This is from the Stanstead Journal --
> http://www.stanstead-journal.com/mainframe.html )
>
> STANSTEAD MUSEUM DIRECTOR
> QUITS BEFORE CONTRACT ENDS
>
> ROSS MURRAY
>
> STANSTEAD, QUEBEC | Three and a half months short of the
> end of his contract, the director-curator of the Colby-Curtis
> Museum in Stanstead resigned last week.
>
> The president of the Stanstead Historical Society, Aileen
> Desbarats, said in a faxed statement that "there are
> irreconcilable differences" between the board and Hervé
> Gagnon.
>
> The society board had already informed Gagnon that his
> contract would not be renewed once it expired at the end of
> May.
>
> The resignation came last Tuesday following a meeting of
> Gagnon and the board Monday.
>
> Can't take anything away
>
> Gagnon was reluctant to comment on his resignation,
> saying he did so for personal reasons.
>
> "I want to pursue something else. It's not the end of the
> world," he said.
>
> Besides working at the museum, Gagnon has also been
> teaching at the Université de Sherbrooke. He said his
> work-load there has increased. He has also applied for
> other jobs.
>
> "I don't regret anything," he said. "I don't think anyone can
> take anything away from me."
>
> The Colby-Curtis Museum has been rife with on-again,
> off-again turmoil over the last four years. In 1995,
> director-curator Sylvia Bertollini resigned after a conflict
> with the board. Last year, the society's president, Louise
> Abbott, and vice-president, Rosemary Miller, resigned
> without offering any public explanation. Gagnon's
> resignation comes at the end of three years of stormy
> relations with the board.
>
> Into this lion's den will come a familiar face to the region's
> historical and museology scene. Desbarats said in her
> faxed statement that Monique Nadeau-Saumier has agreed
> to act as interim director of the museum for one year
> starting June 1.
>
> Nadeau-Saumier was involved in the acquisition of
> Carrollcroft seven years ago. She is also the past director
> of the Eastern Townships Research Centre and the Musée
> des Beaux Arts de Sherbrooke.
>
> "We intend to put together a strong search committee to
> review the requirements of the job and find a new director
> for the museum," stated Desbarats.
>
> Just call me Nancy Drew...
> (or Heather Price, Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, MI)
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