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The advanced curriculum allowed Anderson and a number of his comrades to leave the Adirondack-Florida School after their junior year. Following a year at Andover, he won acceptance to Yale. Today, Anderson speaks with deep pride about the top-tier education he received at the Adirondack-Florida School, and the school’s focus on creating service-minded leaders even back then. “No question you got a good education,” Anderson said. “When JFK made that statement about do more for your country than you do for yourself, he was stealing Ransom’s words. He didn’t invent that.” Anderson’s passion for his school drove him for the next seven decades. SPRING 2018 Ransom Everglades LOG 9 “He approaches everything in a very quiet manner. He does things in a very gentlemanly reserved, behind-the-scenes way. I think that is why Harry is very respected and beloved. It’s not the Harry Anderson show. It’s about his deep love for the school. Whenever the school needs him, he is there. ” – Eric Buermann ’69 Harry Anderson ’38 during his years at the Adirondack-Florida School. In center of photo at left. In far right of photo at right. Photos from archives.