Bill Schubart
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Bill Schubart

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Bill Schubart has lived with his family in Vermont since 1947. Educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Kenyon College, and the University of Vermont, he is fluent in French language and culture which he taught before entering communications as an entrepreneur. He writes and speaks extensively on the media and about Vermont in fiction, humor, and opinion pieces as a VT Public Radio commentator. He is a co-founder of Resolution, Inc., a fully integrated E-commerce services partner. In 1973, he co-founded Philo Records, an independent record label producing international artists in the folk and classical field now part of the Concord Music Group and the Pleiades Music Group, a music publishing company. At the age of 26, Schubart was elected chair of the Board of Trustees of the Vermont Arts Council, the State's arts agency - the youngest trustee ever to serve as chair - and then served again at age 41. At 30, he joined the Board of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. In 1984, he became founding Chairman of the Vermont Folklife Center. At the request of then-Governor Madeleine Kunin, Schubart chaired the Vermont Statehood Bicentennial Commission, planning the celebration for Vermont's 200th birthday in 1991. He has advised many non-profit and educational organizations on a variety of cultural and technical projects including the formation of Vermont Public Radio, on whose board he served as Chair. He has taught courses at the University of Vermont in music, technology and business. He is past Chair of the Vermont Business Roundtable and recently completed a three-year term as Chair of UVM Medical Center, a 500-bed academic medical center. He currently serves as Chair of the VT College of Fine Arts, renowned for its MFA in writing programs, and serves on the Shelburne Museum board. He has been writing for most of his life and has authored eight works of literary fiction. His interests include poetry, photography, stone gardening, cooking with fire, classical and primitive music. He lives in Vermont, with his wife Katherine, also a writer. https://www.Schubart.com
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