Spring 1942

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) was an internationally prominent writer, thinker, and management expert who published more than forty books. He created the concept known as management by objectives. From 1971 to 2002, Dr. Drucker was the Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont Graduate University. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest US civilian honor.

Robert Frost (1874–1963) was one of the leading American poets of the twentieth century and a frequent contributor to VQR. The author of more than twenty books of poetry, he won the Pulitzer Prize four times, for New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (1924), Collected Poems (1931), A Further Range (1937), and A Witness Tree (1943). He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his work and read “The Gift Outright,” first published in VQR, at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961.