About Us: Board of Directors
Dick
Schubert
(Treasurer and Co-founder)
Dick Schubert has served in leadership positions in law, business, government
and the non-profit sector. He currently serves as Senior Vice President of
the Executive Coaching Network and Washington representative and founding
board member of Management & Training Corporation. In addition, he serves
as Chairman Emeritus of the International Youth Foundation, Vice Chairman
and founding board member of the Leader to Leader Institute, formerly known
as the Drucker Foundation, Chairman of the board of Nazarene Compassionate
Ministries, Inc., member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Principal
in the Center for Excellence in Government. He is a member of the Executive
Committee the friends of the Czech Republic and a founding board member of
the Friends of Zambia. Mr. Schubert was born in, and attended public school,
in Trenton, New Jersey and graduated cum laude in 1958 from Eastern Nazarene
College in Quincy, Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Mr. Schubert graduated from Yale Law School in 1961 with a Bachelor of Law
degree and immediately joined the legal staff of Bethlehem Steel’s Labor
Relations Division. In 1966 he was promoted to Assistant Manager of the division.
In March 1970, Mr. Schubert accepted an appointment as Executive Assistant
to Under Secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson. A year later, he was nominated
to be Solicitor of the Department of Labor by President Nixon and was confirmed
by the U.S. Senate.
Mr. Schubert returned to Bethlehem Steel in February 1973 as Assistant to
the Vice President for Industrial Relations, but was then nominated by President
Nixon to be Under Secretary of Labor. He served for 21 months.
In April 1975, Mr. Schubert returned to Bethlehem Steel as Assistant Vice
President for Public Affairs. He was elected Vice President for Public Affairs
in December 1976, then President and Director of the corporation on January
31, 1979. A year later he was elected Vice Chairman and served in that capacity
until his resignation in June 1982. Mr. Schubert served as President of the
American Red Cross from January 1, 1983 until May 31, 1989. Mr. Schubert then
served as President and Chief Executive Officer of The Points of Light Foundation
from December 1990 until July 1995.
Eastern Nazarene College awarded Mr. Schubert an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree
in June 1975. He served on the College Board of Trustees for twenty-five years,
as the Vice Chairman of the Board and/or President of the Alumni Association
for much of that time. In June 1983, he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws
degree from Allentown College St. Francis de Sales. In May 1986, Mr. Schubert
received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Muskingum College in New
Concord, Ohio and an Honorary Doctor of Humanics from Springfield College
in Springfield, Massachusetts. In May 1988 he received an Honorary Doctorate
degree form Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Schubert currently resides in McLean, Virginia with his wife, Virginia
Austin Schubert.
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