Clark Hubbs

Cathy, I'm so sorry to hear of Clark's passing. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

Clark Hubbs was an important part of my education and served on my thesis committee when I attended UT in the late seventies. He was a great educator with a real zeal for fishes, and I should add, their sexuality. He reinforced many aspects of what I would now call the strange wonderfulness of things biological. I am saddened at his passing, but very aware of the legacy he has left on UT Zoology and the study of ichthyology, not to mention his many students, co-investigators, and...

I did not make it to see him as I planned before he passed, as he would have expressed it, died. It was on my schedule, no excuse as to my sin. As not quite the earliest of his students, he was a decade older than me, seemingly able to live forever.
Perhaps that is my excuse, poor as it is for someone as influential on me as he was.

Clark Hubbs helped me on more ways than I can mention, as a grad student and later in my life. I worked one summer for him tending his aquaria - the small paycheck saved my life! - and for 4 years as a TA in Comparative Anatomy. I miss him now as I did after I left UT in 1958. Clark was a great teacher and researcher. I remember one spring when when we left Austin and drove to the Texas-Louisiana border and for 3-4 days were waterlogged the entire time - we seined for fishes at every...

I came to Texas to study ichthyology under Clark Hubbs as a graduate student in the 1970s. Since then I have spent my entire career trying to teach biology to undergraduates. It was Dr. Hubbs who made it clear to me that one can care deeply for students and yet demand the best from them. I owe him.

During our years in Austin from 1978 to 1987 my late husband, Robert, and I appreciated knowing Clark as a fellow member of the Congregational Church. Ichyhyology was a closed book to us but we enjoyed Clark's dry humour and appreciated his scholarship. From thousands of miles away my thoughts and prayers are with Cathy and the family.

I was one of Dr. Hubbs former PhD students and earned my degree from him in 1986. I served four years as his teaching assistant for the Comparative Anatomy class and it gave me profound impacts on the same course later I taught at University of Kentucky and from which I was awarded The University Great Teacher Award in year 2000. My success in that class reflected how Dr. Hubbs impacted my career development as a teacher as well as a scientist.
It is too pity that now I live more than...

Dr. Hubbs was chair of Zoology when I was hired as a staff member in 1981. He often came to my office in Patterson labs after his early lunch with his faculty colleagues, to watch & play bridge with us during our lunch. I have a picture of him with my bridge playing friends, which was giving to me as a retirement gift in 2002. It is over my desk right now. He was so very friendly, funny, honest and fair, along with his brilliant research and teaching. I have thought very fondly of him,...