On Thursday May 2, 2013 at the annual business meeting, we bid a fond farewell to our good friend
and Past President Ron “Huggie Bear” Anderson
on the eve of his retirement and the beginning of
his new life in Arizona.
For those of you who don’t know Ron, he was the
2001 FCIAAO President and the person who first
recruited several current and former board mem-
bers, including me. Therefore, it seemed only fit-
ting that he install me as President at what is
likely his last conference.
Ron has been in the real estate and
appraisal in-
dustry for over 44 years, most recently serving as
the Deputy for Appraisals for the Honorable Pam
Dubov, the Pinellas County Property Appraiser.
Ron garnered the nickname “Huggie Bear” several years ago for the BIG and frequent bear hugs he
gave his friends.
Pinellas County shared with me a tradition that
Ron enjoyed during the Property Appraiser’s an-
nual ice cream social. Ron would walk around the
room with a can of whipped cream and ask if some-
one wanted any on their ice cream. If they did, he
would reply “say when” while squirting the
whipped cream into their bowl. As the sundae
grew higher and fuller, the (usually) new and un-
suspecting employee would shout “Stop! That’s
enough! No more!” to which Ron would innocently
reply, “But you didn’t say when!” He loved that
people would fall for this every year, redefining the
term “thy cup runneth over” for the Pinellas County
Property Appraiser’s family.
Family is what Ron has become to many of us, and
it is with a full and appreciate heart that we wish Ron and his family Godspeed and blessings in their
new life in Arizona.
Thanks for the memories “Huggie Bear”!
Article Contributor: Neil “Nick” Nikkinen, FCIAAO President
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Summer 2013 Newsletter of the FCIAAO
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others
throw at him.”
- Sidney Greenberg
A SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO A GOOD FRIEND
