CLINT GARDNER is President of The Norwich Center, an organization formed in 1977 to sponsor projects of voluntary service that would help to build peace between nations that had become estranged from each other. In 1981 the Center became the base for US-USSR Bridges for Peace, a program of Russian-American citizen exchanges that were carried out between 1983 and 1994. More recently, in 2002, the Center provided the start-up base for the project Building Bridges: Middle East-US.
After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy and Dartmouth College (where he was class of 1944), Clint did graduate work at the Sorbonne in the fields of Russian history and culture. Since the 1960s he 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 Clint was an artillery officer who landed in Normandy on D-Day. He was twice awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in action. Later, in May 1945, he was put in command of the just-liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp. He left the army as a captain.
In Berlin, during the “airlift” period of 1948-49, Clint was Managing Editor of Die Neue Zeitung, the newspaper published for the German public by American military government.
In 1956 Clint and his wife Libby founded Shopping International, a mail order and importing company specializing in handicrafts, which they continued to manage until 1979.
Clint is the author of three previous books: Letters to the Third Millennium: An Experiment in East-West Communication (1981), Between East and West: Rediscovering the Gifts of the Russian Spirit (in Russian, 1993), and D-Day and Beyond: A Memoir of War, Russia, and Discovery (2004).
