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SETH BONDER
Pages 36-41

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... He enrolled in the City College of New York to play basketball, but left soon after as an innocent victim of its 1951 point-shaving scandal. After driving a truck in New York for a while, he enlisted in the Air Force and took advantage of a program that allowed enlisted men to apply to flying school.
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From page 38...
... VRI grew over the next three decades to eventually employ over 400 professionals in Ann Arbor, Texas, and Washington, DC. Seth and his colleagues at VRI developed a variety of novel mathematical models to represent military operations and -- most important to him -- used the insights from these models to inform decision making about national security issues at the highest levels.
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... He founded the Bonder Group and contributed to, led, and participated in studies sponsored by the National Academies, serving on the NRC Board on Army Science and Technology as well as the Army Science Board and a variety of academic and healthcare boards, and provided consultant services to the Department of Defense up until his untimely death. One critical hallmark of Seth Bonder's unique and farreaching contributions to operations engineering was his insistence on addressing real problems using applicationdriven theoretical developments.
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... He generously endowed fellowships at the Ohio State University and the University of Michigan and established and funded two INFORMS scholarship programs, for applied operations research in military applications and in health services. In the last decade of his life, after leaving behind the pressures of running a multimillion-dollar enterprise, Seth Bonder found many ways to relax and enjoy life.
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