Fentress Gardner ’37

Longtime Foreign Service executive and world traveler Fent Gardner died Mar. 19, 1999. He is survived by his wife, Hedwig, daughter Gwen, sons Darien and Axel, and seven grandchildren. His daughter Eve predeceased him.

Fent prepared at Andover. He left Princeton early and graduated in 1938 from Rollins College. Next came being a student farmer in Holland (1939-40) and five years in the Army as a major in the European Civil Affairs Division. He was a military governor in Karlsruhe, Germany, and then spent 31 years in the Foreign Service, traveling to Pakistan, Africa, India, Nepal, the former Soviet Union, and Scandinavia. He retired in 1972 to spend most of his time bio-dynamic farming on 350 acres.

Fent was a founding father of the Rudolf Steiner Farm and involved in the development of the Waldorf School Pedagogy, a day school for kindergarten through high school, and the Hawthorne Valley School.

The Class of 1937