Barnard, Chester (Irving) (1886-1961)

US businessman, public official, and foundation executive. Barnard was head of the Pennsylvania and then New Jersey Bell companies, 1922-48, president of the United Service Organizations for National Defense , 1942-45, and director of the National War Fund, 1943-46. After World War II he was a US representative on the Atomic Energy Committee and the chair of various science foundations. His later reputation derives from his books, The Functions of the Executive (1938) and Organization and Management (1948).