Forest Windham “Woody” Horton Jr.
PASSED ON DECEMBER 7, 2017
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Windham “Woody” Horton Jr. (Age 87)
Forest Windham “Woody” Horton, Jr., beloved father and grandfather, died of
natural causes in his home in Washington, D.C., on December 7, 2017. Dr.
Horton was born in California, and he graduated from the University of
California at Berkeley in 1951 and received a Masters degree from UCLA in
1952. He then received a teaching and research fellowship at Columbia
University in New York for one year, and following that entered military
service for three years, serving in the Army Counterintelligence field.
Following his military service he became employed as a government civilian
employee at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) at Redstone Arsenal in
information technology, serving in the Werner von Braun missile program,
where he learned to program and operate the early IBM mainframe computers.
He was married following government service at ABMA and moved to Washington
DC where he became employed in the IT field in a succession of Federal
agencies, including GSA, USIS, USAID, State, EPA, BOB (now OMB) and the
Executive Office of the President, where he served as IT director of
foreign trade programs (STR). His last regular assignment with the Federal
Government was as Studies Director for the Federal Paperwork Commission,
where he authored the Information Resources Management (IRM) report.
He then went overseas for the State Department, USIS and USAID, serving in
the Africa bureaus of those agencies for several years. He ended his
overseas Federal Government duty as the USAID IT director in Saigon,
Vietnam. Following retirement from the US government, Dr. Horton studied
at IMD in Switzerland, received a doctorate from the University of
Lausanne, and was eventually nominated to be Executive Assistant to the
American Ambassador to Germany. He also simultaneously served as the
American consular officer for the State Department in Lausanne, while there
attending school, serving in that role as a U.S. Diplomat.
He then was hired by the University of Maryland to teach at American
military bases overseas, and following teaching overseas, he returned to
the US and was employed as a consultant by the National Commission on
Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), where he authored a number of
studies identifying and prescribing a central leadership and management
role for libraries and librarians in information management activities,
including information literacy.
Finally, after fully retiring from the U.S. Government arena, he was hired
as a consultant by UNESCO to prepare studies in information policy and
information literacy. He also served on the PGI (Program for General
Information) Council for a brief time. He remained active in the
information literacy field the rest of his life.
Dr. Horton has authored 40 books, or major US Government reports, or
international reports, including one fiction work (The Technocrats), many
of which have been translated into foreign languages. He also authored
several hundred articles for scholarly journals, newspapers, and magazines,
in his fields of primary interest – IRM, Information Literacy, knowledge
management, and the role of the CIO.
Dr. Horton is survived by two daughters, Tina Horton LaForce of Damascus
Maryland and Ingrid Lisle of Frederick Maryland, five grandchildren, and
one great-grandchild. He was preceded in death by his ex-wife, Karin
Horton, who passed away on November 27, 2017. Services for Dr. Horton will
be held on Saturday, December 30, 2017, at 4 p.m., at Advent Funeral &
Cremation Services located at 7211 Lee Highway, Falls Church, VA.
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We are creating a memorial display for the IASL 2018 Conference in
remembrance of Woody Horton and James Henri.
Please email me your photos and stories of Woody at Katy.Manck@xxxxxxxxx
Elizabeth Greef has been collecting photos and memories of James; look for
her memorial article in the upcoming IASL Newsletter.
Thank you for helping us honor the legacy of these two men as we share
their life and work with conference attendees.
**Katy Manck
IASL President
