Alpha May Bond Jr. ’52

Alpha May Bond Jr. ’52 passed away in Macon, Georgia, on January 7. He was born July 12, 1930, in Dumont, New Jersey, and graduated from Tenafly (New Jersey) High School in 1948. At Dartmouth he graduated cum laude with a philosophy degree in 1952. Al then attended Columbia University in New York City, earning a master’s in philosophy. Al was accepted into the U.S. Navy’s officer candidate school in Newport, Rhode Island, from which he graduated in in November 1953. He was honorably discharged in 1954 and served the balance of his obligatory time in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. After his stint in the service, he spent four years in Thetford, Vermont, teaching in a private academy. Al then headed back to Georgia, where he was accepted at Emory University as a doctoral student in sociology. In 1961, after completing his classes in sociology, he was hired as an instructor at Mercer University in Macon. He received his doctorate from Emory in 1963 and taught there for several decades. His first marriage to Adrienne Moore, mother of his three oldest children, ended in divorce. Al later married Susan Maxwell, with whom he had three children. Al was predeceased by son Ernest. He is survived by Susan; children Alpha, Thomas, Lawrence, Alice, and Julia; 16 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.