Nancy Flood and Sande Hubbs
Nancy Flood, Board Member
Nancy is a local gal having grown up in Lafayette. She attended Lafayette Elementary School and Acalanes before receiving her college degree and teaching credential from San Francisco State. Before her retirement she taught Kindergarten at Burton School and Montecito School (both now closed) and then at Springhill School until her retirement.
Nancy is from two local historical families, the Lamps and the Floods. The Lamps arrived from Germany in the 1850’s, living first in San Francisco, then in Moraga, before settling in Lafayette. Nancy’s great-grandfather, Philip Lamp, built a hotel in Lafayette on the site of the current Wells Fargo Bank (on the corner of Mt. Diablo Blvd. and Moraga Rd.). He rented out the property and the family lived in the hotel. The Floods came from Ireland and lived in the Bay Area before purchasing property in Happy Valley off Los Arabis Drive. Jennie Bickerstaff was Nancy’s grandmother’s teacher.
Nancy and her Aunt Genevieve were asked to become members of the Lafayette Historical Society at its inception in the early
Nancy has been on the Board off and on since then. She has served as Vice President and is currently the Secretary of the Board.
She is constantly intrigued with local history and is excited about the space our society now occupies allowing the community to learn of its history.
Sande Hubbs, Volunteer
Sande has lived in Lafayette off and on since the 1930’s. She attended Lafayette Elementary School in the 5th grade and then moved to Los Angeles with her parents. They returned to Lafayette in 1947 and purchased property on Upper Happy Valley Road from Robert McNeil who owned and ran the Pioneer Market. Sande lives in that same historic house today.
After college at UC Berkeley, Sande worked as a nurse. She then left Lafayette and purchased a bed and breakfast in Ione in the Gold Country. That house was built in about 1863. Sande moved back to Lafayette in the 1980’s to be near her mother who lived to be 100 years old.
She is a great addition to our volunteer staff in the History Room and is currently organizing archival files.
Visit the History Room on any Tuesday afternoon to visit with both Sande and Nancy for a bit of Lafayette History!
-Mary McCosker
Here is a thought–since there is such excellent information as to the history of our city and our name-sake, General Lafayette of Revolutionary War fame, why not have two links on this site to those sites?
History of Lafayette
Who Was Lafayette?