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Title: Roy A. Anderson Papers
Dates: 1909-1995
Collection Number: Consult repository.
Creator:
Anderson, Roy A.
Extent:
10 boxes
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2203
Fax: (626) 449-5720
Email: lgarcia@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Language of Material: The records are in English.
Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information,
please go to following
http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=554 .
In order to quote from, publish, or reproduce any of the manuscripts or visual materials, researchers must obtain formal permission
from the office of the Library Director. In most instances, permission is given by the Huntington as owner of the physical
property rights only, and researchers must also obtain permission from the holder of the literary rights. In some instances,
the Huntington owns the literary rights, as well as the physical property rights. Researchers may contact the appropriate
curator for further information.
[Identification of item], Albert R. Hibbs Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
The collection was a gift from Betty B. Anderson, Roy’s wife, delivered to The Huntington Library on 23 June 2011.
Roy Arnold Anderson (1920-2003) was born on 15 December 1920 in Ripon, California. He was one of six children born to Carl
Gustav Anderson and Esther Marie Johnson, Swedish immigrants. Anderson enlisted in the United States Navy during World War
II and worked in the Naval Intelligence Division in San Francisco. A certified public accountant, Anderson earned a Bachelor
of Arts in Economics in 1947 and Master of Business Administration in 1949 from Stanford University where he was elected to
Phi Beta Kappa. He was called back into service during the Korean War and served in the Naval Cost Inspection Service, assigned
to Westinghouse Electric as a resident cost inspector, where he also worked following the war as an accounting manager.
Anderson joined Lockheed Missiles and Space Company (LSMC) in 1956 as a staff accountant and advanced to Assistant Director
of Financial Operations and Director of Financial and Management Controls at LMSC’s Space Systems Division. He left briefly
between 1960 and 1961 to serve as the finance division manager at Ampex Instrumentation Products Company, but returned to
the Lockheed-Georgia Company, of which he became Director of Finance in 1965. In 1967 Anderson was appointed the C-5 Deputy
Program Manager. He was named Treasurer of Lockheed Corporation in 1968 and was elected Vice President and Controller in 1969,
Senior Vice President-Finance in 1971, and Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer in 1975. He was named Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of Lockheed Corporation in September 1977, when political and financial scandals threatened the company’s
future. Lockheed’s profits and reputation grew steadily during his tenure; he retired in December 1985 and continued to serve
on the Board of Directors until 1990 and as a consultant to the corporation into the 1990s.
Anderson was awarded numerous industry and civic honors. The California Manufacturers Association named him Manufacturer of
the Year in 1984 and the same year the National Security Industrial Association selected him to receive the James Forrestal
Memorial Award for his leadership in the promotion of understanding and cooperation between industry and government. In 1985
the Los Angeles Council of America Boy Scouts presented him with the Good Scout Award and Polytechnic Institute of New York
awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering, and in 1986 Pepperdine University awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Laws.
His volunteer activities included chairmanships of the Greater Los Angeles United Way, Los Angeles Music Center, Los Angeles
World Affairs Council, and Salvation Army. He was also an active alumnus of Stanford University, serving as co-chair of the
centennial campaign from 1985 to 1992 and as a member of the Board of Trustees from 1988 to 1990.
He was a member of both the National Association of Cost Accountants (NACA) and the National Association of Accountants (N.A.A.),
and was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc. (AIA).
He married Betty Boehme on 10 June 1948; they had four children, sons Ross and James, and daughters Karyn Anderson and Debra
White. He died on 18 October 2003 at his home in La Cañada at the age of 82.
The Roy A. Anderson Papers, 1909-1995 (10 boxes) document the career and life of Anderson during the second half of the twentieth
century, and the early history of Lockheed Corporation from the early 1900s into the 1990s. The collection is divided into
two series, Lockheed Corporation and Personal, with the bulk of materials concentrated in the Lockheed Corporation series.
The bulk of the collection consists of photographs, correspondence, clippings, and ephemera. The collection is especially
rich in photographic prints of early Lockheed aircraft, employees, and customers. The collection is small; as such, it does
not document the detailed activities of the Lockheed Corporation.
The collection consists of the following series, described in detail within this document:
Series 1: Lockheed Corporation, 1909, 1911-1913, 1918, 1927-1931, 1933-1935, 1938-1939, 1942-1944, 1946-1947, 1951, 1953,
1957, 1960-1961, 1963, 1967-1983, 1985, 1987-1990, ca. 1991, 1993, 1995, n.d.
Series 2: Personal, 1951, 1954, 1957-1958, 1960, 1973, 1975, 1978-1979, 1984, 1986-1988, 1990, 1992
Arrangement
A detailed container list is available through the Manuscripts Department.
Anderson, Roy A.
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation--History
Lockheed Corporation
Lockheed-Georgia Company
Lockheed Martin
Lockhhed Missiles and Space Company
Standford University
Aerospace Industries--United States
Aircraft
Aircraft accidents--United States
Aircraft industry--United States
Aircraft industry--United States--History--20th century
Airplanes
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calf.)
California--Hisotry--20th century
Audiocassettes
Clippings
Documents
Ephemera
Letters (correspondence)
Photographic prints
VHS