Candidate: Mel Anderson

Biography for Mel Anderson, Local Secretary Candidate

I joined Chicago Mensa in 1984 after raising seven children in a seventeen-year marriage. Using my newly certified intelligence I departed the "windy city" in the midst of what I deduced would be one-too-many Chicago winters. I followed the advice of Horace Greely on direction. As a mainframe computer software "hired gun" (or contract programmer or data prostitute) I traveled the southwest for four years before landing permanently in Phoenix in 1994.

In many ways, I consider Mensa an extended family, and I am looking forward to meeting even more of my "distant cousins" next year.