Richard Holmes Anderson is a retired professor of Sociology, he taught in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Denver. He lives in Denver, Colorado where he and Mary Lee raised two children who also live in Denver. He is a member of Audubon Society of Greater Denver, where he earned Master Birder status. He is an Audubon Naturalist Volunteer helping with school programs and activities at the Chatfield Audubon Nature Center. He is a member First Plymouth Congregational Church, UCC where he sings in the choir, and is active in the Men’s Fellowship and the project to Reduce Gun Violence.

Hobbies and retirement activities include amateur web site builder, photography, fly fishing, fly tying and genealogy.

He has traveled with Elderhostel/Road Scholar in United States, Europe, Central and South America. He also lived in Germany (1961, part of his military assignment) and in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan (summer 1967 as a research fellow). He visited China in 1999 with a group of fellow travelers from First Plymouth.

He attended the University of Oregon where he first earned a B.A. in Biology, 1958. After service in the military and working in the neurology lab at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center in Portland he returned to the main campus in Eugene where earned an M.A. in Sociology, 1967; and was awarded a PhD in Sociology, 1971.

He has had a varied work history. As a teen in the McKenzie Valley he did farm labor, and cannery work. While at the University he had janitorial duties, and worked as an orderly at McKenzie-Willamette community hospital. Upon completion of his military service he worked for a year as a laboratory technician in the Neurology Department at the University of Oregon Medical School in Portland. His career was that of college professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Colorado at Denver.

Military service: he enlisted June 1958, completed basic training at Fort Ord, California. From Fort Ord he was sent to Brooks Army Medical Center to wait for an opening in the radiology school. While waiting a request came for a research lab tecnicion at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He served there in the Hematology lab from1958 to 1960. In March 1960 he was transferred lto Second General Hospital, Landstuhl, Germany where he served as a lab technician doing blood chemistries from1960 to 1961.

He was born Iowa and the family moved to Oregon in 1940. The next twenty year the family lived at Dexter, Springfield, Welches, Portland, Milwaukie, Walterville, Springfield. After military, he married Mary Lee and they lived in Portland, Eugene and Denver.

Personal genealogy web sites: Anderson-Holmes Genealogy, a web site hosted at Hostgator, and Anderson-Holmes-Horney-Haake Family Site at RootsWeb.

Finally, he has helped to maintain the web site for the Audubon Society of Greater Denver (see link above). He created and helps to maintain the web site for Colorado Faith Communities United Against Gun Violence.