Werner H. Fornos (1933-2013)
MSA SC 3520-13276
Biography:
Born Werner Horst Farenhold in Leipzig, Germany, November 5, 1933. Attended public schools in Newton, Massachusetts; University of Maryland, B.S., 1966. Three children. Died January 16, 2013, in Basye, Virginia. Buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.
General Assembly:
House of Delegates, Anne Arundel County, 1967-70.
Private Career and Other Public Service:
Employee of Pan American World Airways. Served, in U.S. Army,
1964-68. Deputy assistant manpower administrator of the U.S.,
1966.
Delegate, 1967 Constitutional Convention of Maryland. Chair,
Non-Partisan
Voter Registration of Anne Arundel County, 1966. Director, Bureau
of Field Services. President, Population Institute. Member,
Young Democrats of Anne Arundel County; Sigma Delta Chi; Ruritan Club;
Kiwanis Club of Annapolis; National Press Club. Chair, Advisory
Board,
Southern States Farm Cooperative. President, University College
Alumni
Association. Vice-president, Community Chest of Anne Arundel
County.
Selected as Annapolis' Young Man of the Year, 1968, and as one of
Maryland's
Five Outstanding Young Men, 1968. Humanist of the Year Award of
the American Humanist Association, 1991. United Nations Population
Award, 2003.
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