{{More citations needed|date=June 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = George William Bond | image = George W. Bond of LA Tech IMG 20150727 0010.jpg | image_size = 175px | office = 8th President of Louisiana Tech University | term_start = May 18, 1928 | term_end = June 1936 | preceded = John R. Conniff | succeeded = Edwin Sanders "E. S." Richardson | birth_name = | birth_date = April 6, 1891 | birth_place = Summers<br /> Washington County<br />Arkansas, USA | death_date = {{death date and age|1974|5|14|1891|4|6}} | death_place = Fayetteville<br />Washington County | resting_place = Fairview Memorials Gardens in Fayetteville | spouse = Mary Elizabeth Bost Bond | children = No children | parents = William Elijah and Martha Irene Simpson Bond | occupation = College president; Professor | alma_mater = University of Arkansas<br /> University of Chicago }} '''George William Bond''' (April 6, 1891 – May 14, 1974) was president of two public universities in Louisiana, Louisiana Tech in Ruston and Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, in the first half of the 20th century.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
==Background, education, and early life== Bond was born in Summers in Washington County in Northwest Arkansas<ref>''The Ruston, Louisiana, Daily Leader'' reports that Bond was born in Summers, Arkansas</ref> to William Elijah Bond (1864-1953) and his wife, the former Martha Irene Simpson (1866-1940). He graduated from Cincinnati High School in Cincinnati in Washington County near Fayetteville, Arkansas.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
Bond served in the United States Army during World War I.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} He attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and University of Chicago, from which he obtained a master's degree in 1923.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} Bond married the former Mary Elizabeth Bost (1898-1997), also a native of Summers. She was a Latin teacher.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
==Academic career== Bond first taught in the towns of Springdale and Cane Hill, which are also in Washington County. He moved to Bauxite, where he was superintendent of the public schools in Saline County in central Arkansas.<ref name=rdleader>''Ruston Daily Leader'', June 17, 1936, pp. 1, 4</ref> He next served as a principal in Texarkana.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}<ref>It is unknown if Bond was at Arkansas High School in Texarkana, Arkansas, or Texas High School in Texarkana, Texas. Both were operating at the time he was a principal.</ref>
In 1924, he relocated to Ruston, Louisiana to become an education professor at Louisiana Tech.<ref name=rdleader/> He was selected as the university's eighth president, serving from 1928 to 1936. While president, he continued to work on his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He resigned from Louisiana Tech before completing his terminal degree.<ref name=rdleader/>
Two weeks before leaving Louisiana Tech, Bond broke 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 Tech.<ref>''Ruston Daily Leader'', June 3, 1936, p. 1</ref>
''The Minden Herald'' in Minden, Louisiana, reported in 1936 that Bond left Ruston to enroll in the doctoral program at Columbia University in New York City.<ref>"New Tech President Richardson", ''Minden Herald'', August 21, 1936, p. 6</ref>
From 1944 to 1945, Bond was the acting fourth president<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.selu.edu/about/overview/history/ |title=A Brief History of Southeastern |publisher=selu.edu |access-date=August 5, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723023858/http://www.selu.edu/about/overview/history/ |archivedate=July 23, 2013 }}</ref> at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.selu.edu/admin/rec_reg/university_catalogue/2007-2008/general/pdf/general_info.pdf|title=Historical Sketch of the University|publisher=selu.edu|access-date=August 5, 2013}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==Later years== In later life, Bond and his wife Mary Elizabeth lived in Searcy and Fayetteville, Arkansas, where they engaged in gardening, travel, and entertaining.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} They were members of the Presbyterian Church.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} He also was a member of the Masonic lodge. Mary Elizabeth was widowed and survived her husband by 23 years, continuing to live in Fayetteville. Both are interred there at Fairview Memorial Gardens.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} {{Portal bar|Biography|United States|Education}}
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==External links== *[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84362270 George W. Bond], Find-a-Grave *[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84362288 Mary Elizabeth Bost Bond], Find-a-Grave {{s-start}} {{succession box | before=John R. Conniff | title=8th President of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana | years=1928–1936 | after=Edwin Sanders "E. S." Richardson }} {{succession box | before=J. Leon Clark | title=Acting 4th President of Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana | years=1944–1945 | after=Gladney Jack Tinsley }} {{s-end}} {{Louisiana Tech University presidents}}
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