Horace Rowan Gaither

Horace Rowan Gaither, Jr. (1909 – April 13, 1961), known as H. Rowan Gaither, was a San Francisco attorney, investment banker, and a powerful administrator at the Ford Foundation. During World War II, he served as assistant director of the Radiation Laboratory at M.I.T. In 1948, he helped found the Rand Corporation and served as a trustee until 1959. [http://www.rand.org/about/history/] , [http://www.rand.org/about/annual_report/1996/admin/trustees.html] He was hired by Henry Ford II to help set the priorities of the Ford Foundation in 1947, chairing the study committee that wrote the "Report of the Study for the Ford Foundation on Policy and Program." [http://www.fordfound.org/elibrary/documents/0113/toc.cfm] He was later president of the Ford Foundation. He is best remembered today as the author of the controversial 1957 Gaither Report on the vulnerability of American defense. He died in 1961 of lung cancer. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,872298,00.html]