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For decades, it was easy to spot a faculty member in Materials Science at Commencement: He\u2019d be sporting a shiny bow tie fashioned out of aluminum by Bob Pond\u00a0Jr. \u201965, who co-founded the Materials Department in 1983 with Bob Green.<\/p>\n

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Bob Pond Jr. was popular among students\u00a0as the \u201cPied Piper of Metallurgy.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pond was known to two generations of Hopkins students as the \u201cPied Piper of Metallurgy,\u201d in large part owing to the lively but informative \u201cFun in Metals\u201d lecture that he gave at Hopkins and beyond\u2014to schoolchildren, alumni, and industry groups.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve given the talk 800 and some times\u2014in Japan, Canada, England, and all over this country,\u201d Pond said in a 1999 interview. \u201cIt\u2019s a real joy to tell somebody something new. A lot of engineers don\u2019t like to do this, but I found it an absolute joy. If you can teach somebody something that they\u2019re fascinated with, that they like, it\u2019s like giving a pearl to somebody who really appreciates beautiful things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pond came to Hopkins Engineering in 1947 as a lab technician after serving in World War II and working at Bethlehem Steel. He was accepted into the doctoral program but was quickly called upon to begin teaching the flood of veterans who came to Hopkins under the GI Bill. \u201cI never had time to take any courses, but I loved to teach so I really didn\u2019t mind,\u201d he said later.<\/p>\n

\u201cBob Pond was one of the best teachers at Hopkins Engineering,\u201d recalled Bob Green at the time of Pond\u2019s death in 2007 at the age of 89. \u201cHe knew all the things that are in the books, but he also knew the practical side of things from his industry experience. He was friendly and enthusiastic, and as a teacher he was very approachable and kind, even when correcting your mistakes. All the students loved him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The house in Westminster that Pond shared with his wife of 65 years, Mary \u201cDolly\u201d Wright Pond, and their six children let him take his work home. It had started as a little farmhouse, and Pond wrapped a big house around it\u2014but not before he had fashioned three laboratories, two of them underground in the backyard, where he and the kids could play with metals.<\/p>\n

With his twinkling eyes and sweetly joking manner, Pond encouraged all his students to explore and ask questions about everything. His passion for metallurgy was infectious, as evidenced by the rapt attention paid him by a group of high school students in 1987, when he wound up his \u201cFun in Metals\u201d lecture with these words:<\/p>\n

\u201cLearn one lesson. Have fun in what you do. Do it with enthusiasm! It doesn\u2019t make any difference if you\u2019re studying your French lesson or you\u2019re hitting your old man up for the car keys on Friday night. Even if you\u2019re telling a joke, do it with enthusiasm.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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