Clinton C. Gardner

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Since retiring from the business world in 1979, Clinton Gardner has been writing, lecturing and organizing conferences in the fields of Russian culture and philosophy, fields in which he had studied at the Sorbonne after graduating from Dartmouth College in 1947. Since 1991 he has been President of The Transnational Vladimir Solovyov Society, a group of Russian and Western scholars concerned with education in these fields. He is also President of The Transnational Institute, an organization which, from 1990 through 1993, sponsored some of the first business management seminars taught by American businessmen in Russia and other Soviet republics. The Institute is currently developing an Internet web site called "Russia on the Web."

From 1981 to 1994 Mr. Gardner was President of East-West Bridges for Peace, a pioneering organization in the field which came to be called "citizen diplomacy." During the 1980s and early 1990s "Bridges" sponsored over a hundred citizen exchange projects, which brought over 800 citizens of the USSR to visit their counterparts in the US, while sending over 1200 Americans on visits to the USSR. "Bridges" partners in organizing these exchanges included the Russian Orthodox Church and various institutes in the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Since the 1960s Mr. Gardner has been engaged in editing and publishing the works of the social philosopher Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, about whom he has also lectured in the United States and Europe.

During World War II Mr. Gardner was an artillery officer who landed in Normandy on D-Day. He was twice awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in action. Later he was Executive Officer of the military government team that took charge of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp upon its liberation—and served as the commander of the camp during the first month, when most of the West European prisoners were sent home.  In Berlin during the "airlift" period of 1948-49 he was Managing Editor of Die Neue Zeitung, the newspaper published for the German public by American military government.

In 1956 Mr. Gardner and his wife Elizabeth founded Shopping International, a mail order and importing company specializing in handicrafts, which they continued to manage until 1979.

Mr. Gardner is the author of three books:

Letters to The Third Millennium: An Experiment in East-West Communication (Norwich, VT: Argo Books, 1981)

Between East and West: Rediscovering the Gifts of the Russian Spirit (in Russian; Moscow: Nauka, 1993) 

D-Day and Beyond: A Memoir of War, Russia, and Discovery  (Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2004). Click on that book's name to read Chapter 1 and obtain ordering information. Publication is scheduled for May 2004.