SC. vice president and dean of the College of Alabama A&M University. chairman of the department of agribusiness and assistant professor of that department at Virginia State College In Petersbuyq. VA. nry Ponder is also an economist of national and International renown. He has served as a consultant for and on special assignment to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Philadelphia National Bank. Chase Manhattan Bank. the Irving Trust Co. and Omaha National Bank. Dr. Ponder also serves on the Bishop Desmond Tutu Southern Africa Refugee Scholarship Fund committee. In 1986. he was chosen as one of the "One Hundred Most Effective College Presidents in the United States." On behalf of all Nashvllians. Dr.