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Goddard Winterbottom, World Bank Official, 80, Washington Post

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Feb 19, 2010, 3:29:33 PM2/19/10
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/18/AR2010021805433_5.html

Goddard Winterbottom World Bank Official

Goddard Winterbottom, 80, chief of the World Bank's editorial and production
division from 1975 to 1991, died Feb. 2 [2010] at Casey House hospice in
Rockville. He had esophageal cancer.

Mr. Winterbottom, a North Bethesda resident, was an editor in Washington at
the National Academy of Sciences in the 1950s, followed by a career in New
York teaching drama and acting and directing off-Broadway. From 1967 to
1972, he was an associate editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica in Chicago.

Goddard Williams Winterbottom was born in Providence, R.I., and graduated in
1947 from the private Northfield Mount Hermon school in Massachusetts.

He was a 1951 graduate of Harvard University and received a master's degree
in speech and drama from Catholic University in 1957.

He was a past board member of the Silver Spring Stage and a recipient of the
Theatre Lobby's Mary Goldwater Award for excellence in the Washington
theater community. His memberships included Washington Area Secular
Humanists and National Capital Area Skeptics.

His wife, Ann Burwell Winterbottom, died in 2004.

Survivors include two sons, Ian Winterbottom of North Bethesda and Colin
Winterbottom of Washington.

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Adam Bernstein

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Feb 23, 2010, 12:46:56 PM2/23/10
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Correction:

The February 19, 2010, obituary for Goddard Winterbottom incorrectly
reported the name of a surviving son as Ian Winterbottom. He legally changed
his name to Ian Goddard.


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