I enjoy them, thoroughly. They're a neat bunch of kids with practically no exceptions. They're very courteous and grateful. She greets each one with a heart-felt hello and visits a minute or two, when there's one or two to spare. She also gets to know first-year students as quickly as anyone and soon knows when their letters or packages are incorrectly addressed.
Mommas send packages, grandmas send packages.
Hubbard often drives to work early from Florence , the town where she was born and raised, simply because there are things to do. She works double-duty at Christmas and sorts Valentine's Day cards well into the night to ensure no hearts are broken by missing missives. Not by her, anyway. Having raised four children and now indulging four grandchildren, Hubbard notices who gets what mail from home. She says one student, the first in his family to go to college received letters every day and packages several times a week.