[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 10 (Thursday, January 16, 2014)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E92]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            CELEBRATING THE CAREER OF MARY SUE SWEENEY PRICE

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                           HON. LEONARD LANCE

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, January 16, 2014

  Mr. LANCE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Mary Sue Sweeney Price 
for her outstanding leadership of the Newark Museum as its Director and 
Chief Executive Officer. The Newark Museum, the largest in the State of 
New Jersey, is a respected public institution that has built a national 
reputation as a museum of service to the larger community, State and 
Nation and as a leader in the collection of objects, ideas, 
innovations, artifacts and documentation that tell the story of our 
rich culture and accomplished history.
  In countless ways the Museum has grown under Mary Sue's tenure, 
expanding its holdings and exhibits on its eight-building, 80-gallery 
campus. She oversaw the restoration of the 1885 Ballantine House, the 
opening of the interactive Victoria Hall of Science and the dedication 
of Horizon Plaza, the Museum's new entrance. The education division has 
flourished, visitation and donors have grown, an international 
symposium has been initiated and groundbreaking exhibitions have 
heightened public discourse.
  Mary Sue is the recipient of numerous awards including the coveted 
Katherine Coffey Award, which is the Mid-Atlantic Association of 
Museums' highest honor for distinguished achievement. She has received 
honorary degrees from Rutgers University, Drew University, Caldwell 
College and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She has also 
attended Harvard University's Publishing Procedures Program, served as 
President of the Association of Art Museum Directors and sat on the 
Newark Arts Council. Mary Sue and her spouse, Rutgers historian Dr. 
Clement Alexander Price, have helped launch a renaissance that is 
transforming Newark, the City that they love and where they live.
  Mary Sue has been associated with the Newark Museum for the past 38 
years, including 20 years as its Director. I became a friend and 
admirer of her work as a member of its Board of Trustees. I have seen 
her intense vision and energy profoundly reshape the organization 
founded by the visionary John Cotton Dana in 1909. I thank her for her 
dedicated public service to the Museum, to the City of Newark, to the 
State of New Jersey and, indeed, to the arts and cultural history of 
the United States. I commend her for her lasting legacy of excellence.

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