National Engineers Week Magazine has a feature entitled National Engineers Week Presents the New Faces of Engineering   In February, 2009 it featured Lieutenant Commander William F. Bundy, Jr., La Salle Academy Class of 1997 and United State Naval Academy Class of 2001. 

Lieutenant Commander Bundy, who in the 1997 La Salle Academy yearbook was chosen as the senior male most likely to succeed, currently serves aboard the fast attack submarine USS HAMPTON (SSN 767).  He was nominated for the feature by the U.S. Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program.

The article as published follows:

“Lieutenant Commander Bundy graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with a degree in Systems Engineering, and from the Wharton School of Business with a Master of Business Administration.  He is currently Chief Nuclear Engineer of the USS HAMPTON. 

He is responsible for the safe management, operation, maintenance, and administration of the nuclear reactor complex, habitability equipment, structural components, and electrical systems onboard the two billion dollar submarine.  This means he is responsible for all of the required equipment to sustain life inside of a steel tube.  As one can imagine, this includes: electricity generation; oxygen production and distribution; carbon dioxide/monoxide removal equipment; potable water generation and supply and waste removal components.

Comparatively, he is responsible for all of the facilities necessary to manage all aspects of a small, modern, city; not to mention simultaneously being directly responsible for the lives of all the sailors onboard while, on a daily basis, driving the ship in harm's way.  His responsibilities are defined; however, they are endless.”

The 1997 La Salle yearbook, in its Most Likely to Succeed selection, described the future Lieutenant Commander thusly:  “Will has been awarded The Society of Women Engineers Book Awarded, has been named a national Achievement Semi-Finalist and is also a member of the Varsity Football and Lacrosse Teams.  We know that Will  . . . will be successful in whatever he chooses to do.”  Looking back, it was a very prophetic comment.

While at La Salle, Bundy was also in the National Honor Society, the Calculus League and the Rhode Island Math League.