Bill Pond

Education

Bachelor of Science, Whitworth College, 1941; postgraduate, Washington State University postgraduate, U. Washington postgraduate, U. Oregon postgraduate, University of California, Davis.

Career

Superintendent parks and recreation, City of Renton, Washington, 1946-1949; supervisor recreation division, Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission, Olympia, 1949-1955; superintendent parks and recreation, Tualatin Hills Pk. and Recreation District, Beaverton, Oregon, 1955-1959; director parks and recreation, Sacramento (California) County, 1959-1968; director deputy general services, Sacramento County, 1980-1984; Executive officer, National Recreation and Pk. Association, Washington, 1968-1972; acting executive director, Sacramento City-County Housing Authority, 1972; administrator, Sacramento County Cmty. Development and Environmental Protection Agency, 1973-1980; acting executive director, North Highlands Recreation and Pk.

District, 1984; executive director, Sacramento Science Center-Junior Museum, 1985-1988; interim executive director, Sacramento Museum History, Science and Technology-Discover Museum, 1996-1997.

Achievements

• Bill Pond has been listed as a noteworthy museum executive, director by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board of directors Sacramento Symphony Association. Board directors, past president SacramentoSymphony Chorus, Sacramento Junior Museum. Active inner city project Sacramento Campfire Girls.

Chairman recreation and leisure services committee Cmty. Planning Council; active United Crusade Allocations Committee. Member Concerned Citizens for Conservation Education, Save the American River Chairman's Association Sacramento Area Ridesharing Committee.

Member National Recreation and Pk. Association (Pacific N.W. District advising committee, Pacific S.W. Dist advising committee), American Pk. and Recreation Society, National Conference onState Parks, California Pk. and Recreation Society, Sacramento Horsemen's Association (citation), Sierra Club, Audubon Society M C.