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Anderson attributes much of his success to a good work ethic formed here in Rappahannock County by his father, Loring Anderson, and to his mother, Ada Mae, who instilled in him the importance of treating all people respectfully.
“I was one of six children and we had very limited means. But we always ate well and went to school in clean cloths. By the time I was 12 I had to earn money to buy my text books, as well as my clothes,” remembered Anderson. At Rappahannock High School in the mid-60s, Anderson was more interested in making the basketball team than making great grades. And because of his family’s modest economic means, it was assumed that he was not college material and was put into the vocational track where he learned typing, shorthand and wood working—skills which turned out to be very helpful later.
Anderson reminisced. “But being told by the school’s guidance counselor that college wasn’t in my future made me determined to prove she was wrong.”
Beating the odds
Anderson’s first job out of high school was with the Interstate Commerce Com
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