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This contribution to the Festschrift is a lightly edited transcript of a short speech made at the Celebration of Warren Horton's Distinguished Career held at and hosted by the National Library of Australia on 26 March 2004--four months after his death. (1) My brief was to speak on Warren's commitment to helping young librarians.
For the record, this was the second of three formal celebrations of Warren's contribution to his chosen profession. The first took place within the Aurora (2) community in February 2004, and the third happened on the Gold Coast in September 2004 in conjunction with ALIA's Biennial Conference.
Warren Michael Horton AM. He might well have begun with: Good evening comrades ...
It is a curious thing that a man so highly feminised (thanks to Fran Awcock (3) for the phrase) would so often use such a masculine form of greeting. And it was a curious thing that a man so consistently attired in Director-General's robes would in the Aurora context choose frequently to open them to reveal the person within. Larger than life in the library; life-size in Aurora.
Jean Whyte, writing in Harry Bryan's encyclopaedia in 1989, (4) described him as 'active in…
Source: HighBeam Research, Celebrating Warren.(Warren Horton)