From: "Liston" dbliston@email.msn.com
Subject: US National Award for Excellence in Cultural Property Protection goes to MSN
Date sent: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 01:22:22 -0500
At this year’s US National Conference on Cultural Property Protection Award Dinner the
evening of 7 February 2001, in a hotel outside Washington DC, Mr. Ton Cremers is awarded
the Robert B. Burke Award for excellence in cultural property protection. He becomes the
eighth annual recipient of this profession’s highest honor in the United States.
Mr. Cremers received an engraved crystal glass flame to symbolize the spirit of
achievement and accomplishment in this profession.
Photo shows Ton Cremers with 2003 award winner KENNETH LOPEZ
The award recognizes a professional worthy of emulation by others, based on lifetime
achievement and specific project accomplishment:
* During his past 4 years Mr. Cremers conceived and developed the Museum Security
Network--an Internet website and listserv at
http://www.museum-security.org/ which has
outgrown all other national and world professional organizing and service efforts in the field
of museum and library security.
* The Museum Security Network continues to serve a limitless number of cultural
organizations and protection professionals in virtual time at the most minimum of cost.
* The work of Museum Security Network encourages improved cultural protection and
prevents and solves crimes against cultural property.
* Mr. Cremers’ determination, personal investment and modesty in providing continuous
worldwide service are a model of professional excellence without equal today.
Thank you, Ton for making this profession’s networking and
accomplishments 20th and 21st Century realities. No doubt it will be with great reluctance that
Ton would put this notice on his listserv for readers to know and appreciate. But he will do so
only to encourage each of you to conceive and develop those next accomplishments that would
make our work more effective and the world’s cultural property even safer.