Retired Brig. Gen. Lawrence Boyd Anderson, who served as vice chairman of the board of the Air Force Association—now the Air & Space Forces Association—and the last chairman of the board of the Aerospace Education Foundation, died Feb. 6. He was 89.
Anderson served in the Department of Defense for 33 years, retiring in 1995 as a Brigadier General in the Air Force Reserve, where his last duty station was as the mobilization assistant to the commander of the Ogden Air Logistics Center, Utah. He retired from the civil service at Ogden in 1994, where his last assignment was as chief of the manpower and organization office.
On Active-Duty, Boyd served in Air Force Systems Command at Hanscom Field, Mass., as well as in an airlift group, fighter group, and fighter wing. He assisted in the transition from the F-105 to the first F-16s in the Air Force Reserve. As a member of the Ogden command section, he was involved in managing support of the F-4 and F-16 fighters and the Minuteman and Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missiles, as well as materiel support for reconnaissance, training devices and conventional munitions. As the manpower director for AFMC at Ogden, he justified and allocated some 21,000 manpower authorizations.
Boyd “served as the last chairman of the board of the Aerospace Education Foundation (AEF) and led the evolution of the foundation to the current AFA Education Council (AEC),” said retired Brig. Gen. Bernie Skoch, chairman of the board of AFA. AEF and AFA were parallel organizations until they were consolidated in the mid-2000s.
“His tenure as Chairman of the AEF was marked with expansion of programs and an increase in scholarships. He served for a number of years as a National Director on the AFA Board of Directors. Prior to his AEF leadership position, he served for many years as an AEF Trustee, Rocky Mountain Region President, Utah State President, and UTE-Rocky Mountain Chapter President,” Skoch said, adding that Boyd’s leadership and vision “impacted all levels of AFA.”
Outside of AFA, Boyd chaired the Utah Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve; was the Utah State President of the Reserve Officers Association; a member of the Ogden-Weber Chamber of Commerce and the Utah Defense Alliance Board of Directors. He served as an advisor to the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce’s Military Affairs Committee and was a member of the Board of the Dee Shaw Stewart Museum at the Ogden Eccles Dinosaur Park.
Boyd received the Department of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service in 2002.