Elizabeth A. Hubbard
Elizabeth Hubbard has always enjoyed reading, research, and writing. She co-authored several scholarly journal articles on the use of gaming and simulations in the education. Most recently, she has developed online curriculum for virtual learning. She has co-authored and published several books with her father, George U. Hubbard. Elizabeth holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and a BA from Brigham Young University - Hawaii.
George U.
Hubbard, PhD, MS, BS
Born in 1928, George Hubbard was born into and grew up privileged. He wasn't privileged the way most people think of privilege - financial wealth - he was privileged to grow up where education and culture were prized above money. The son of a university president and beloved educator who created a cultural Mecca in North Central Texas, George literally sat at the feet of luminaries such as Robert Frost, Amelia Earhart, Edna St.
Vincent Millay, Lily Pons, Eleanor Roosevelt, and many, many more. From these internationally renowned icons, George learned the art of storytelling and the thrill of adventure and exploration.
George loved unhurried road trips. He took great pleasure in wandering the back roads of the Old West; in taking ten mile detours off the Interstate to some obscure historical market; in combing through small local museums and libraries to unearth the facts behind myths and legends then bringing to life riveting histories of little-known people, places, and animals.
Through his writings, Hubbard provides true and entertaining glimpses into the characteristics and escapades that made them great - their hopes, their dreams, their schemes, their successes, and their failures.
He found the mid-19th Century and early 20th Century an especially exciting time in the Old West, and Hubbard's stories focus on that excitement.
Award-winning and bestselling author George U. Hubbard spent his life as an educator. Writing was his avocation.
After completing his tour of duty in the United States Army during the Korean War, George taught junior high school mathematics briefly before being recruited by corporate America at the dawn of the computer age.
IBM lured him away from Lockheed, but after 32 years teaching and training both IBM employees and clients, he retired to focus on his true passions - writing and academia. He retired again from Texas Woman's University where he taught statistics.
George holds a PhD from the University of North Texas, an MS - Statistics from Stanford University, and an MS and BSEE from The University of Texas. He is the author of numerous newspaper, magazine and journal articles books.
John R.
"Jack" Hubbard
A native Texan who earned all of his degrees at The University of Texas, John R. Hubbard, better known as Jack, was a naval aviator during World War II. His life after the war as an educator. In 1950 he received a PhD in History from the University of Texas. He then taught at Louisiana State University, Tulane, and Yale. He joined the U. S. State Department going to India for four years with the Education Division of the Department's Agency for International Development.
In 1969 Jack accepted a position at the University of Southern California (USC) as Vice President for Academic Affairs. He spent the decade of the 1970s as President of that institution before retiring in 1980. He continued teaching British History at USC until he was 91 years old taking a one year sabbatical to serve as U. S. Ambassador to India from December 1988 - November 1989. John R. "Jack" Hubbard passed away on August 21, 2011.
As a naval aviator from 1941 - 1946, Hubbard served first in the Atlantic and then in the Pacific where he was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross and three Bronze Stars.
After the war, he continued his service as a naval aviator in the Naval Reserves from 1946 - 1956.
In the fall of 1948, Hubbard spent his two weeks of active duty flying in the Berlin Air Lift - the largest humanitarian aid mission the world had ever seen and the first major battle of the Cold War.
As a historian, Hubbard understood the importance of incorporating personalities, activities, and interpersonal relationships into his story for it is only through this integration that the audience can begin to grasp the enormity of the world stage on which his story is played out, where the dichotomy of the invincible champion of freedom and the mantra that there may be no tomorrow belie the caliber of men with whom Jack served.
Besides telling a gripping story that makes for fascinating reading, his memoirs also provide a helpful understanding of the times and events beyond that found in most history books.
John R. "Jack" Hubbard wrote his memoirs on a manual typewriter as he sailed around the world on a freighter in the 1990's. In the twilight of his life, Jack handed his rough manuscript to his brother, George, with the request that it be edited and published under George's direction.
