[1] He describes always having been interested in electrical engineering, and ending up at Purdue by luck, recounting that "My high school principal's son was interested in engineering at Purdue... One day they were going for a visit to campus, and they asked me if I wanted to come.
[4] Bond was a student leader at Purdue during the time when the civil rights movement was in full swing.
He appointed Bond to a steering committee, which organized the first national effort to increase minority participation in engineering.
[2] Bond remembers "When you would go to class, you would never see another Black student from the day you entered Purdue until you graduated.
At the time, the land-grant university was involved in the notorious Knight v. Alabama lawsuit, in which the plaintiff class, joined by the U.S. Justice Department argued that the State of Alabama's system of public university funding is a violation of equal rights.
As dean, Bond played a pivotal role in meeting the nine-year challenge.