Bonds served in several White House political appointments under the administration of President Harry S. Truman, including Assistant Executive Secretary of the President's Commission on Higher Education, Chief of Reeducation and Training under the Department of Labor, Education Consultant to UNESCO, and training director of the Atomic Energy Commission [REF].
Beyond this, Bonds served as the State Commissioner of Education for Arkansas and as Dwight D. Eisenhower' Chief of the U.S. Educational Mission to Egypt.