J. Max Bond Sr.; Founding President of University of Liberia

J. Max Bond Sr., 89, a retired official of the Agency for International Development and founding president of the University of Liberia. A native of Nashville, Tenn., Bond joined the State Department in 1944, then left to serve as dean of education at Atlanta University from 1947 to 1950. He then returned to the State Department and was sent to Monrovia, Liberia. He helped found Liberia’s university, serving as its president from 1950 to 1954, when he joined the International Cooperation Administration, a forerunner of AID. He retired in 1966. In Washington on Sunday of cancer.