Lynne serves on the Longwood College Foundation Board and Dot, honored last year as one of 54 who have been named distinguished alumni, served on the advisory board that built the Rawls Library in Courtland, and on the Rawls Library Board of Directors. Dot is also a past member of the Longwood College Alumni Board and a founding member of the Southampton Memorial Hospital Board of Directors.
  At 55, Dot (now 72), developed serious allergies that required her to give up management of the company. Her husband and Lynne took over. After 10 years, H. J. retired and Lynne became president.
  The sisters bring different skills to the business and have pressed forward to modernize the company. Sandra, as executive vice president, brought the company into the computer age after working as a business analyst with a Richmond bank. The company now operates with 40 computer terminals. When she started, the company did not take credit cards. "Our customers were so thrilled when we started,” she recalls.
  Marketing, advertising and product management are under Lynne. "We have never used an outside marketing agency,” Sandra says.
  The strength of HUBS is the quality. "We've been in business 45 years. Our product is quite good," Sandra says of the peanuts that practically sell themselves despite stiff competition that has developed since the Hubbards started their company. People who receive HUBS as gifts often write for more but the company never sends catalogs to its gift list. They consider that a "no no" which their customers appreciate. Nor do they sell their mailing list or buy lists.  

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