WILLIAM W. ANDERSON ’50

WILLIAM W. ANDERSON, 86, the former president of the Somerset Press in New Jersey, died June 20, 2015. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and received his degree with honors. From 1951 to 1953 he served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Since 1954, he was employed at the Somerset Press since 1954, beginning as the sports editor for the Somerset Messenger Gazette, then manager of the Princeton Shopping Center News, and later as executive vice president of the Somerset Press printing operation. He continued as president after the company was sold to Forbes, Inc., retiring in 1989. In 1990 he was appointed court administrator for Bridgewater Township, then purchasing agent and later administrator for the division of golf management for the Somerset County Park Commission. Always involved in his community, he was one of the original partners in radio station WBRW in Bridgewater. He was a commissioner of the Somerset County Park Commission for 25 years, past president of the Raritan Valley Country Club, the Somerville-Raritan Exchange Club, and the Somerville Jaycees, as well as serving on the Board of the Somerset Valley YMCA, as past chairman of the Somerville Advisory Board of Security Savings and Loan, and as director of the Somerset Savings Bank. An avid golfer, in 1963 he won the N.J. State Golf Association Amateur Championship, in addition to other championships. His wife of 58 years, Josephine Nagrodzki Anderson, survives, as do two daughters, two grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.