Congratulations. I hope you enjoy your new ventures. I have very much
valued your input on museum-l, and hope you will continue to share your
thoughts with us. Loved the Shakespeare quote - very apt!
Pat Miller
At 08:07 AM 1/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Today I close my career of public service which began on a part-time basis
>in 1957. I thought I would briefly share my thoughts at this moment with
>you.
>
>It is a very difficult time to work in the heritage field. For years now,
>we - wherever we live and work - have continuously been asked to do more and
>more with less and less. However, I must say that, when I began to work in
>museums, I was awestruck by how much museum people, working ridiculously
>long hours, for niggardly pay and little institutional thanks, accomplished
>so very much. Today, I am just as impressed. What an incredible bunch of
>people to work with and how successfully you have coped with the
>ever-tightening corporate belt!
>
>We at the War Museum have been very fortunate in recent years, as it looks
>like we finally may get a new museum. But even if we don't, we have a Chief
>Operating Officer (and acting CEO) who has worked wonders to get us more
>funding and vastly improved central services. However, few museums have been
>so fortunate.
>
>We in museums and historic sites, are like the soldiers in what is surely
>one of the greatest classics of war literature in English - or any other
>language - Shakespeare's HENRY V:
>
>"Let me speak proudly. Tell the Constable
>We are but warriors for the working day.
>Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirched
>With rainy marches in the painful field,
>And time has worn us into slovenry.
>But, by the Mass, our hearts are in the trim."
>
>and so it is with all of you.
>
>Thank you for all the help and support you have given me in so many ways,
>and I hope I have been able to return some of it. Over the past few weeks, I
>have received messages conveying best wishes on my retirement from Russia,
>Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, Australia,
>New Zealand, the USA and across Canada and I am deeply grateful - and
>equally humbled by them all.
>
>But I will not really be gone. As soon as John Chadwick hooks me onto
>MUSEUM-L from home, I will be back in touch, as a consultant to the heritage
>community. You can reach me at: [log in to unmask]
>
>Thanks for everything and my best wishes for continued success in the
>future!
>
>Harry
>Harry Needham
>Canadian War Museum
>
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>
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