The Bond Club of New York

Winston Churchill

Walter Cronkite

Colin Powell

The Club hosts a number of quality events each year with an emphasis on providing noteworthy speakers, programs of educational interest, and good fellowship gatherings.

The tradition of having outstanding leaders address the Bond Club began close after its founding in 1917. That year, a group of young bond traders assembled to help the U.S. Treasury promote the sale of Liberty Bonds. The relationships they forged in the effort evolved into The Bond Club of New York, Inc.

In the 1920s and 1930s, speakers of unequaled historical stature addressed our membership, which by then had expanded to include investment banking, securities and banking professionals. Pershing, Byrd, Roosevelt, Churchill, LaGuardia, Willkie, Kettering, and Harriman are some of these early stellar speakers.

In the later years, other notable personalities graced our meetings: Halsey, Dulles, Eisenhower, Goldwater, Nelson Rockefeller, Bush, Lindsay, and Rohatyn. Most recently orators include Jack Kemp, Robert Dole, David Rockefeller, Dan Rostenkowski, Walter Cronkite, Colin Powell, and Jack Welch.

Today, in addition to providing a forum for discussion of ideas vital to our industry and to the global economic picture, the Bond Club is committed to furthering economic education. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of our flagship publication, The Bawl Street Journal, is contributed to the SIA Foundation for Economic Education, the national sponsor of the Stock Market Game. This initiative teaches students about the American free enterprise system and the capital formation process.

The Officers and Board of Governors sincerely hope you'll join us to each of our events. We promise you thought-providing discourse in our finest tradition. And, of course, don't miss our Annual Field Day at Sleepy Hollow Country Club.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Jack Welch