<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><B>Richard LeBlond, Former President Of S.F. Ballet</B><P>Allan Ulrich, SF Chronicle<P>Dr. Richard E. LeBlond Jr, the San Francisco Ballet's visionary former president and the architect of the company's international profile during the past two decades, died Tuesday at his farm in Sebastopol. He was 76.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P><B><A HREF="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/11/30/MN131374.DTL" TARGET=_blank>The Chronicle page</A></B>