Bill and his wife Valerie were closely connected with Olympic Strings Workshop, both as founders of NatureBridge and founding patrons of Olympic Strings Workshop. In fact, those students who attended in 2019-2022 will have seen the names of Bill and Valerie Anders on their scholarship announcements.

"The Anders have been dear friends of my family for over 20 years, and they saw my children grow up as we visited Orcas Island every summer to perform at the Chamber Music Festival. When I performed the Brahms Violin Concerto in Port Angeles in 2017, Bill and Valerie drove in to hear the concert and then took me to visit NatureBridge, which they had founded many years prior to give students a chance to learn about nature." 

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- Monique Mead, Founding Director of OSW