Arthur D. Bond was an All-American football player for the

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Tigers, a

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, and vice president of the A.P. Green Companies. Bond was born in Perryville, Missouri, on March 4, 1902, to Samuel and Ida Doerr Bond. He attended Perryville High School, where he was captain of the

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team in 1918 and 1919, as well as participating on the Tuba staff, in the History Club and as a member of the

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team. Bond attended the

, where he received his

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in 1925. Bond continued his athletic exploits at Missouri. He was a member of the 1922-1924

teams, and was a teammate of future Tiger

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. As captain of the Missouri Tigers in 1924, he led the squad to the Missouri Valley Conference championship. He also

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in track as a hurdler and sprinter. For two years, he was named to the Missouri Valley Conference all-conference team as a halfback, and was also an honorable mention

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n. For his outstanding scholastic and athletic achievements, he was selected as a Rhodes Scholar. In 1928 he graduated from

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, Oxford, England, with a degree in

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. He also attended the

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for one year. Bond was a member of the

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social fraternity,

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honorary, and Blue Key, an honorary University of Missouri service organization. He was married in 1930 to Elizabeth Carlyle Green of

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. Her father, A.P. Green, founded A.P. Green Refractories Company, a

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manufacturer and a major employer for many years in Mexico. From 1928 to 1967, Bond was associated with the A.P. Green Company, starting in the sales department and working his way up. From 1937 to 1942, he was in the export department. He became a vice-president of the company in 1939, and after 1942 was director of foreign sales. In 1945 he was elevated to director of foreign subsidiaries and after 1947, Bond directed the international division of the A.P. Green Company. He had been a member of the Green Company Board of Directors since 1932. Bond was appointed by

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Forrest Smith in 1949 to the State Board of Training Schools. He served three terms in the 1940s as a member and president of the Missouri Association of Fairs and Agricultural Expositions. He was a colonel on the staff of Governor Forrest C. Donnell, and was a member of the World Trade Advisory Commission and the International Relations Committee of the National Association of Manufacturers. He was an active member of the

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, and of the Missouri Alumni Association. He had two children,

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Kit Bond and Arthur D. Bond, Jr. Bond died in June 1983, at the age of 81.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bond, Arthur D. 1902 births 1983 deaths People from Perryville, Missouri University of Missouri alumni Missouri Tigers football players American Rhodes Scholars Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni American manufacturing businesspeople 20th-century American businesspeople