Maggie Schubart

(Islands Institute Advisory Council)

Though I am launched into my ninety-second year, I am becoming aware of new insights constantly,many of which would have been very valuable fifty,sixty or seventy years ago. Culture - the arts, music can be the most persuasive communication between people.That conviction was the goad to my starting what became the Transformation Group here on the island several years ago, and it filled me with delight to see Caffyn's concept of the Islands Institute, for she was realizing on line what we were groping for in those pre-computer days.

I do have a BA ,(class of 39, College of New Rochelle), but the experience of sharing life with my architect husband and bringing up six children,contributed more penetration and understanding of the challenges of the cosmos, of society, of human beings than classes or laboratories. During the Civil Rights days i n the US,we were active in inter-racial projects and drives to register African-American voters. Overlapping those efforts was anti-Viet Nam War activity. We moved to Canada in 1968 to give our five sons the chance to say yes or no to military service. Working towards food sustainability ,and affordable housing are part of my picture at present in addition to more recent menaces to peace, justice and civil rights.

See Maggie's 1996 vision of a technologically-empowered, creative global community in which she writes, "With the sophisticated technology at our disposal, we can devise modes of truly communicating instead of merely circulating more and more information." http://islandsinstitute.pbwiki.com/f/Schubart.pdf (3MB)