Background
Bond was born in Summers in Washington County in northeastern Arkansas, to William Elijah Bond (1864-1953) and the former Martha Irene Simpson (1866-1940).
Bond was born in Summers in Washington County in northeastern Arkansas, to William Elijah Bond (1864-1953) and the former Martha Irene Simpson (1866-1940).
He graduated from Cincinnati High School in Cincinnati in Washington County near Fayetteville, Arkansas. Bond served in the United States Army during World War I and attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and University of Chicago, from which he obtained a master"s degree in 1923.
Bond taught in Springdale and Cane Hill, also in Washington County, before he became a superintendent in Bauxite in Saline County in central Arkansas, and a principal in Texarkana. He then relocated to Ruston in 1924 to become an education professor at Louisiana Technology He served as Technical"s eighth president from 1928 to 1936.
While Technical president, he continued to work on his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago but resigned from Louisiana Technical before completing his terminal degree.
Just two weeks before he left the Technical presidency, Bond broke the ground for the new $421,000 administration building, known first as Leche Hall after Governor Richard Leche and then renamed for John Ephraim Keeny, the sixth president of Louisiana Technical.The Minden Herald in Minden, Louisiana, reported that Bond left Ruston to enroll in the doctoral program at Columbia University in New York City. From 1944 to 1945, Bond was the acting fourth president at Southeastern in Hammond.
The Bonds died, twenty-three years apart, in Fayetteville and are interred there at Fairview Memorial Gardens.
He was a member of the Masonic lodge.