After a 25-year career in business, since 1981 Clint Gardner has served as President of East-West Bridges for Peace and related organizations that have sponsored Russian-American citizen exchanges and conferences. With his wife Libby, in 1956 he founded Shopping International, a national mail order company that sold handicrafts which the Gardners bought on regular world-wide buying trips. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Dartmouth College (class of 1944), he studied Russian at the Sorbonne in 1948 before accepting the position of Managing Editor of the US Military Government's newspaper, Die Neue Zeitung, in Berlin.