Background
Stone, Shepard was born on March 31, 1908 in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Simon W. and Anna (Gold) Stone.
Institute executive journalist
Stone, Shepard was born on March 31, 1908 in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Simon W. and Anna (Gold) Stone.
AB, Dartmouth College, 1929. Postgraduate, University Heidelberg, 1930. Doctor of Philosophy, University Berlin, 1933.
Professor h.c, University Berlin, 1978. Doctor honorary, Free University Berlin, 1954. Doctor rer. policy h.c, University Basel, Switzerland, 1967.
Stone joined the New York Times in 1933, but in 1942 joined the United States. army and was active in wartime intelligence work. He served in Military Government in 1945, establishing a press in the American Occupation Zone in Germany. He rejoined the Times in 1946, but in 1949 returned to Germany, having been recruited as Assistant Director of Public Affairs for Occupied Germany by the newly appointed High Commissioner John Jay McCloy.
He was subsequently promoted to Director.
On McCloy"s departure, Stone returned to the States as Director of International Affairs at the Ford Foundation, serving from 1952 to 1967. From 1967 to 1974, he was President of the International Association Foreign Cultural Freedom.
In 1974, Stone went again to Berlin in a role as first director of Aspen in Berlin, a partner institute to American non-profit organization, the Aspen Institute. He remained there until retirement in 1988.
He was a participant in many of the Bilderberg and Pugwash conferences.
Served from lieutenant to lieutenant colonel, G-2 headquarters, 1st Army Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Member Council Foreign Relations New York City Clubs: Century (New York City).
Married Charlotte Hasenclever, August 15, 1933. 1 child, Margaret Ann Stone Jennings.