Horace Bristol Pond
Horace Bristol Pond | |
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| Born | 1882 |
Horace Bristol Pond (born 1882) was an American business executive, philanthropist, American Red Cross personnel, World War II prisoner, and an expatriate in Manila, Philippines.
Early life
[edit]He was born in 1882.
Career
[edit]Political
[edit]H. B. Pond arrived in the Philippines in 1902 to work as a government stenographer.
Commercial
[edit]He joined Appleby Nauman, rose through the ranks, and became President of Pacific Commercial Company, then the largest company in the Philippines.[1][2][3]
He was also a leader in the American community, a member of many socio-civic and cultural organizations, and a founding Director of the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippine Islands.[4][5][6]
In 1934 he headed a committee of American and Filipino businessmen that attempted to convince the United States government to continue free trade with the Philippines.[7][8][2]
He was a member of the Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines.[9][permanent dead link]
Red Cross
[edit]In 1918 he became the first civilian president of the American Red Cross Philippine Chapter[3] founded in 1917.[citation needed]
Cultural
[edit]He was President of the Metropolitan Theater Company which built the Manila Metropolitan Theater.[4][5]
He was also among the top patrons and financial supporters who kept the Manila Symphony Orchestra existing and performing.
Incarceration
[edit]Pond was incarcerated by the Japanese at Santo Tomas Internment Camp where he was a member of the internee government.[6][7][8]
Bibliography
[edit]- Center for Internee Rights, Inc., ed, 2002, Civilian Prisoners of the Japanese in the Philippine Islands, Paducah, Kentucky: Turner.
- Gleeck, Lewis Edward, Jr. (1912–2005), The Manila Americans (1901–1964), Manila: Carmelo & Bauermann, 1977.
- ___, Over Seventy-five Years of Philippine-American History: The Army and Navy Club of Manila, Manila: Carmelo & Bauermann, 1976.
- Stevens, Frederic Harper[permanent dead link] (1879-1982), 1946, Santo Tomas Internment Camp, New York: Stratford House.
References
[edit]- ^ Short but significant news bit on Pond in the American Chamber of Commerce Journal, October 1938, page 11, with photo of Pond.[1] Archived 2016-06-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Wheeler, Gerard (2 April 1996). "THE AMERICAN MINORITY IN THE PHILIPPINES DURING THE PREWAR COMMONWEALTH PERIOD" (PDF). Asian Studies: 366. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
- ^ "Comité International de la Croix Rouge - History" [International Committee of the Red Cross - History]. Aid Watch. Observatoire Action Humanitaire. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
- ^ "History". I am MET. Archived from the original on 2016-06-01. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
- ^ "Keeping the memory of the Old Girl alive". Philippine Daily Inquirer. 31 July 2000. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
- ^ Photograph of Santo Tomas Internment Camp supervisors and monitors, including Horace Pond, sixth from left.
- ^ Reference to Horace B. Pond[permanent dead link] 's Prisoner of War Record.
- ^ See: reference to Horace B. Pond in Only A Matter of Days: The World War II Prison Camp Diary of Fay Cook Bailey.