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DIRECTOR QUITS DELGADO POST
Mrs. Thurman to Leave for Boston Job
Mrs. Sue M. Thurman, director of Delgado Museum, announced Saturday that she has accepted an appointment to see as director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Mass.
The same announcement was made by the Boston Institute's president and trustees. 
Mrs. Thurman said that she is to go to Boston as director no later than January, 1962. As in the custom of the institute, she will also serve as an ex officio member of its board.
The director came to Delagado Museum in 1958 under a three-year contract. Three members of the museum's board of directors recently resigned in protest to the board's decision to offer Mrs. Thurman a one-year extension of her contract.
SENDS LETTER
In a letter to members of the Delgado board, Mrs. Thurman said:
"My acceptance of the Boston offer is based upon many factors- the primary ones are the professional challenges involved and the enthusiasm of the Institute's board in feeling that my directorship will make further contribution to the Institute's progress. 
Reluctance to leave New Orleans has caused this to be a ver difficult decision to make. I have grown extremely fond of the Delgado Museum, its leaders, its staff, our many friends here and the wonderful city itself.
"After very considerable deliberation, I have concluded that the end of this period can actually bring the museum to the completion of the first major phase of its reorganizational efforts. Although the muesum will still 
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-Photo by Jean Seidenberg.
MRS. SUE M. THURMAN
need many, many things- this is one measure of its vitality- it will have reached a stable condition and a creditable level of operations.
GOALS URGED
"Another professional director, given the same sort of widespread support which it has been my pleasure to receive, will certainly be able to help bring the museum to suitably higher levels of quality and service. I am now confident that the Delgado Museum really can reach whatever level of operations New Orleans wants it to reach, and at whatever rate is made possible by support.
"As we now approach the final months of my directorship, allow me to review my conviction that the element of continuity towards defined purposes is a major strength which local boards bring to the institutions which they head. The present very high level of interest among the members of the Delgado board reassures me that this transition will be handled with the greatest of care. It is my feeling that we should now work towards the attainment of the various standard improvement which are under way; complete our several current special projects; and continue basic planning for the future."
At the Institute, Mrs. Thurman will succeed Thomas M. Messer who resigned to accept the position of director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York city.