Early Life and Education
Andersen was born in Logan, Utah but mainly grew up in Virden, New Mexico. He served a mission in the North Central States Mission, which covered basically the northern great plains states. He then studied at Gila Junior College (now Eastern Arizona College) and Brigham Young University. After this he worked in Phoenix where he met Shirley Hoyt, whom he married in the Salt Lake Temple in 1943.
Andersen then received a law degree at Stanford University and also did advanced legal studies at Harvard Law School.
When the BYU Training School closed in 1968, Dr. H. Verlan Andersen met with a group of other BYU professors and parents with the intent of establishing a private school. They desired to have their children's academic learning enhanced and enlightened by principles of morality, religion, liberty and patriotism. The founders purchased an L.D.S. chapel in Pleasant Grove, Utah, and opened American Heritage School (Utah) in 1970 with 80 students enrolled.
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