Elizabeth Powell Bond (January 25, 1841 – March 29, 1926) was an educator and social activist who was the first Dean of Women at Swarthmore College.

[4] Like many Quakers, she held strong views against slavery and was a suffragist, peace activist, and temperance reformer.

[2] In the early 1860s, she ran a boarding school for three years out of her parents’ house, with the student body including both African-American and Catholic children.

[2][3] In 1865, after training with the physical culture advocate Diocletian Lewis, Bond became the first instructor in gymnastics at Vassar College.

[1][2] In the early 1870s, she briefly headed up the Free Congregational Sunday school in Florence, Massachusetts,[3] returning in 1885 to become the resident minister for a year.