Robert Anastas (born 1934) is a former
hockey coach and teacher at
Wayland High School from Hudson, Massachusetts. Anastas was an All American Football and Ice Hockey player for
American International College. He was drafted by the then
Boston Patriots
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in 1960. After his sports career he joined the Framingham, Massachusetts school system where he was awarded the "Massachusetts Teacher of the Year".
Anastas founded Students Against Drunk Driving, now
Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD), in 1981 following the deaths of two students in nonrelated
drunk driving
Drunk driving (or drink-driving in British English) is the act of driving under the influence of alcohol. A small increase in the blood alcohol content increases the relative risk of a motor vehicle crash.
In the United States, alcohol is invo ...
accidents. SADD developed into the leading anti-drunk driving program for high school students with over 20,000 chapters in high schools North America, Europe, and New Zealand.
Robert Anastas retired as Founder and Executive Director of SADD, taking the Students Against Driving Drunk name with him. The acronym SADD, which he allowed to be used, continues and is known as Students Against Destructive Decisions although it is not affiliated with Robert Anastas.
References
External links
Students Against Destructive Decisions
Living people
People from Hudson, Massachusetts
Sportspeople from Middlesex County, Massachusetts
American activists
1934 births
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