History
Celebrating 42 years of
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1966 - 2008
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Tubbs Elementary School is located
at 3311 Bates Street in Lubbock, Texas. We are near Texas
Tech University and Lubbock Hospitals with quick access to
downtown Lubbock. Tubbs was dedicated on November 10, 1966
by Mr. Bill Kingsbury, a member of the Board of Education.
Also present were Rob Tubbs, the son of Isham Tubbs and member
of the first school class in Lubbock in 1891 and Sylvan Sanders,
the son of Minnie Tubbs Sanders who was the first school teacher
in Lubbock. There has been some discrepancy as to which person
that Tubbs Elementary is truly named for, so we recognize
both Isham Tubbs and Minnie Tubbs Sanders. Tubbs became a
Technology and Communications Magnet School in 1984. |
Minnie Tubbs
Miss Minnie Tubbs became the
first teacher in Lubbock at the age of sixteen. Miss Tubbs
began teaching formal classes in a newly constructed county
building that was intended to house the jail. While awaiting
the installation of cell blocks in 1891, Miss Tubbs began
teaching 25 students from all over Lubbock County. Minnie
Tubbs married and died at age nineteen from complications
during child birth. |
Isham Tubbs
Isham Tubbs was born on January
11, 1852. He was the son of Elisha Tubbs and Sara Elizabeth
Medford. Isham Tubbs was married on December 25, 1877 in Kaufman
County, Texas. His son, Rob Tubbs, was a member of the first
class of Lubbock in 1891. Isham Tubbs was one of the leaders
of early Lubbock. He died in 1947. The Tubbs home still stands
today and is located at 602 Fulton Avenue, in Lubbock, Texas. |
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