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Dear Sir,
I will be grateful if you publish the enclosed in your issue and oblige.
With many thanks and kind regards,
Yours sincerely,
(Prof. Newman Fernandes)
Principal
Peter Drucker In Memoriam
As a tribute to Peter Drucker the Father of Modern Management, the Department of Commerce, St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa, is organizing a half day memorial programme on 15th December, 2005, at 11:15 a.m., in the College Hall.
Peter Ferdinand Drucker was born on November, 19th, 1909, in Vienna, and was educated there and in England. He received a doctoral degree in Public International Law at Frankfurt University in 1931. He moved to London in 1934, where he worked as an economist for a bank. In 1937, he moved to the United States where, in the 40s, he became a regular contributor to Harpers Magazine. He undertook his first project for General Motors which later resulted in the publication of his landmark book The Concept of the Corporation (1945).
He joined the faculty of New York University in 1950, as Professor of Management and in 1960 received the Presidential Citation the Schools highest honour. He began a 20 year tenure as monthly columnist for the editorial page of Wall Street Journal. Beginning in 1971, he taught a course for Mid-career Executive at Claremont Graduate School in California which named its Business School after him. He maintained active teaching and consultancy activities at Claremont throughout the 80s and taught there right upto, 2002. He is survived by his wife Doris, four children and 6 grand children.
Among Druckers many honours include Business week title of Most Enduring Management Thinking of our Times, Forbes Magazine which featured him in 97 on its cover under the headline Still the Youngest Mind and President George W. Bush awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002.
The keynote address will be delivered by Fr. Romualdo DSouza, from Goa Institute of Management Studies, Ribandar. The programme will consist of presentation on Peter Druckers life, milestones in his career, management concepts and theories put forward by him, tributes from world leaders, industrialists and other renowned personalities. It will end with a panel discussion conducted by Mr. M.A. Sundaram and Fr. Romualdo DSouza.
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