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HYDE COLLECTION DIRECTOR RESIGNS, SEARCH COMMITTEE WILL BE FORMED

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GLENS FALLS, N.Y. — Bernard Brown, chairman of the Hyde Collection’s Board of Trustees, has announced that the museum’s director, Randall Suffolk, has resigned. Suffolk will leave in late May to take the position of executive director at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Okla.

A search committee will be formed to look for Suffolk’s successor. Brown said, “Randy has enthusiastically led the museum through an important stage of its development and my fellow trustees and I wish him every success at The Philbrook Museum of Art. We look forward to the challenge of identifying a new director who will embrace our vision of The Hyde of tomorrow.”

Suffolk joined The Hyde in 1995 as curator, was promoted to deputy director in September 1998, and appointed acting director in September 1999. The Board of Trustees appointed Suffolk the seventh director in March 2000 and he has led the museum in that capacity for the past seven years.

“My time at The Hyde has been a blessing. At almost every turn I’ve been afforded opportunities to grow personally and professionally; to work alongside a uniquely dedicated and talented staff; and to witness the transformation of an organization because of their efforts and those of the trustees. This has been home for 12 years and leaving this institution and this community will not be easy,” Suffolk said.

During his tenure museum attendance has climbed by 50 percent and membership by 41 percent; the museum also acquired historic Hoopes House (an adjoining property that previously belonged to a Hyde family member), built a 6,600-square-foot facilities addition, and completed the award-winning exterior restoration and interior renovations of Hyde House.

The Hyde Collection is at 161 Warren Street. For information, 518-792-1761 or www.hydecollection.org.