Howard Warren Ottoson

Background

Ottoson, Howard Warren was born on September 18, 1920 in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, United States. Son of John Henry and Hilma Marie (Johnson) Ottoson.

Education

Bachelor of Science, University Minnesota, 1942; Master of Science, University of Minnesota, 1950; Doctor of Philosophy, Iowa State University, 1952.

Career

Chairman department agricultural economics, U. Nebraska, Lincoln, 1956-1966; Bert Rodgers professor, U. Nebraska, Lincoln, 1965; director, dean, U. Nebraska, Lincoln, 1966-1979; assistant vice chancellor, U. Nebraska, Lincoln, 1979-1981; vice chancellor, U. Nebraska, Lincoln, 1981-1982; executive vice president, provost, U. Nebraska, Lincoln, 1982-1985; professor agricultural economics emeritus, U. Nebraska, Lincoln, since 1985. Consultant USDA, Washington, 1961, 64, Agency for International Development, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1962,Colombian Institute Agriculture, Bogota, 1970. Member USDA Policy Advisory Committee on Feed Grains, Washington, 1966-1968.

Chairman Great Plains Agricultural Council, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1971, 79. Board directors Farm Foundation Board, Chicago, 1977-1985.

Achievements

• Howard Warren Ottoson has been listed as a noteworthy economist, academic administrator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Pelican lakes : a history of a Minnesota Community
  • Land Use Policy and Problems in the United States

Membership

President Lincoln Council Churches, Nebraska, 1958-1959, Nebraska division United Nations Association-United States of America, Lincoln, 1977-1978. Chairman Mayor's Advisory Committee on Taxation, Lincoln, 1991. Member Nebraska Commission on Local Government Innovation and Restructuring, 1996-2000.

President Pelican Lakes Property Owners Association, since 2000. Served to lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946, PTO. Member of League of Women Voters (board director Nebraska 1993-1999), International Association Agricultural Economists (travel fellow 1958, 1964), American Agricultural Economics Association, Open Forum (president 1991-1992), Norden Club 1985-1987, Pelican Lake Property Association 2000-2001, Farm House, Fifty-Fifty Club, Phi Delta Kappa, Gamma Sigma Delta, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Alpha Zeta.

Interests

• Avocations: golf; skiing. Woodwork; Civil War history. Gardening.

Connections

Married Margaret Jane Featherstone, October 22, 1944. Children— Keith Richard, John Howard, David Thomas.

Father:

John Henry Ottoson

Mother:

Hilma Marie (Johnson) Ottoson

Spouse:

Margaret Jane Featherstone

child:

John Howard Ottoson

child:

Keith Richard Ottoson

child:

David Thomas Ottoson