Joseph Anderer

Joseph Anderer was transferred into the NROTC program at Georgia Tech in 1943 and was subsequently commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He returned to Georgia Tech in 1946 and graduated with a BME degree in 1947 and added a BIE degree in 1948. He then began his engineering career with the Atlantic Refining Company, and in 1956 he joined the American Viscose Corporation as head of their textile development laboratories. In 1964 he joined the Celanese Corporation and became executive vice president of textile marketing in 1966. In 1969 Mr. Anderer joined Revlon Corporation as a director and president of their worldwide cosmetics and fragrance operations, and in 1973 he became a director and president of M. Lowenstein, who had substantial worldwide textile interests. In 1978 Mr. Anderer formed the Grendel Corporation of Greenwood, South Carolina and bought the Warren Corporation of Stafford Springs, Connecticut. He served as Chairman and CEO of both textile companies until his retirement in 1987.

Mr. Anderer continues to serve as a director of several public and private corporations as well as a number of nonprofit foundations, including president of the Northern Textile Association and a trustee of the American Museum of Textile History. He served on the Georgia Tech National Advisory Board for six years and was its chairman in 1982. He was also a member of the Mechanical Engineering Advisory Board in 1983 and 1984 and has been an active member of the New York Georgia Tech Club for many years. In 1996 he was inducted into the Georgia Tech College of Engineering Hall of Fame.

Mr. Anderer lives in Naples, Florida and Wolfeboro, New Hampshire with this wife of 55 years, T'Lene Brinson Anderer, formerly of Savannah. They have three children and four grandchildren.