[1][2] Bunger was a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Georgia Academy of Science, was a member of professional fraternity Alpha Chi Sigma and honor societies Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and Pi Lambda Epsilon.
Bunger was deeply involved in the creation of an industrial process for the economical production of flax with help from researchers at the Engineering Experiment Station and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
[5] Bunger had been involved in the creation of Georgia Tech's Engineering Experiment Station;[6] after its first director, W. Harry Vaughan, left for a higher-paying job at the Tennessee Valley Authority in December 1940, Bunger was named acting director of the station.
Less than a year later, Bunger died suddenly on August 15, 1941 while visiting Minneapolis, Minnesota.
[1][3][7] Georgia Tech's Bunger-Henry building is named after Harold Bunger and Arthur V. Henry.