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 ____________________________________________________ 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. Email: [log in to unmask] Voice: 501-823-2757 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Change ICOM-L subscription options, unsubscribe, and search the archives at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/icom-l.html