The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-06

War Chaplain
 Key, American lawyer and song writer, who was the composer Of the official national anthem "The Star Spangled Banner"
 Father Anderson needs no in. trOduction to the soldier boys for he was with them in the front lines, and he needs none to any of the seven hundred odd str- vivors of the ill-fated White Star liner, Titanic, which sank after colliding with on iceberg on her maiden voyage in April. 1919. Father Anderson was Q passeng- CT on the Cunard liner, Carpa- thia, which raced to the scene of the terrible disaster, and he played e promient part in doing everything humanly possible to care for the terror.stricken men, women and children taken from the life-boats.
 Roger Brooke Fancy Anderson was born at Baltimore. Maryland, Jan. 4th, 1878. the son of Winfield Scott and Mary Monica Camp boiD Anderson. His parents wSee natives of Baltimore and died there, his mother in 1881, and his father in 1886, leaving him on orphan ct the age of eight.
 Roger received his early educa- tidn in 6 little school connected w.th Mount Calvary Episcopal church at Baltimore. Tho classes were taught by Sisters of Ale Saints. |. Later he entered the public grammar school and graduated in June, 1893. .. He spent tho next four years at Bal- timore College. r. After leav- ing this institution of learning he studied Latin and Greek un- der the private tutorship of the late Morris Sutphen. ~. Tn 1900 he graduated with a Bach elor of Artg Degree from Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore. His early ambition was to become e priest and he subse- uuently enrolled ct the General Theological Seminary ct New York City, graduating in 1903. On June 18th of the same year he was ordained to the Diaconate by Bishop Paret ct Baltimore. He then went to St. Johns Episcopal church ct Rox- bury, Boston, Massachusetts, where he served as a cuate until January. 1905. On April 1oth, 1904, while he was ct St. Johns, he was ordained to the priest- hood by Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts. After his de. parture from St. Johns, Father Anderson entered the Novitate of the Order of the Holy Cross in the Holy Cross Monastery at West Park, New York. In March. 1907, he made his profession, or, in other words, took his life VOWS. He devoted much of his time preaching at missions. yet spent six years teaching mountain boys at St. Andrews school in Tennes- see.
 Tn April, 1918, he was granted permission to go overseas as chap lain with the U. S. Mobile Hos- pital No. 39, which, incidentally. was the Yale unit. For eight months, or until the Armistice was signed, he was right up in the front lines with the boys in the mud-splattered uniforms. They all had great respect for Father Anderson. He fortunate ly escaped being wounded or gassed although @ sniper's bullet barely missed him his first day at the front. The deadly missile whistled by his forehead as he walked along a highway.
 After the Armistice, Father An- derson was ordered to London, where for the next eight months he served as Senior Chaplain of the American forces in England.
 On the one hundred and tenth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, Feb. 18th, 1919, he was commissioned a cap- tain. He arrived back in the United States in July of that year.
 In 1882, 9 years after making his profession at the Holy Cross Monastery, Father Anderson was dispensed from his VOWS. and took up parish work. He assisted in the Church of St. Mary by the Sea. at Point Pleasant, New Jer- sey, for a while, and then went to St. Elizabeth church, at Phll- adelphia. In July, l034, he became priest in charge at Trinity church here. and on Dec. lst, le34. was appointed rector. succeeding Rev. Henry Baldwin Todd.
 Father Anderson weighs 16o pounds and is six feet, one and three-quarter inches tall, with blue eyes and snowy-white hair. He characterizes his neighhors here as being very friendly and believes Waterbury Is one of the most delightful cities he has ever had the pleasure of living in. :. Father Anderson is fond of sports, especially football. He likes religious and classical music. Mo- ton pictures Ike #rhe Tale of Two cities" entertain him. His favorlte pastimc is solving cross- word puzzles. For relnxation l,e g,pnfnre tn rpad detective efOf~