Hall of Honor
Anson, arguably the best basketball player in Caltech's men's basketball history, scored 1199 career points, a standard that stood as a school record for 43 years and is the fifth most ever by a Beaver player. Fred was the captain of the 1954 SCIAC Championship team that went 14-7. He led the league in scoring all three years that he was eligible to play on the Varsity, as freshmen were ineligible. Honored as a three-time first team selection, Anson averaged 20.7 points his sophomore, junior and senior years. If not for his paper route as a youth, having Caltech alum JB Forester as his physics teacher at Mark Keppel High, and earning one of six LA Times Scholarships that allowed him to attend Caltech, Anson would never have made his way to campus. Upon graduating from Caltech, Anson earned a graduate degree in Chemistry at Harvard, and returned to Caltech in 1957 joining the Chemistry faculty and eventually becoming the Division Chair of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from 1984-1994.
