Every school needs an Aaron Lubin, or so says the former principal of one where Lubin is a frequent advocate. "Everybody needs a mentor. Everybody deserves a Mr.
Lubin," says Felicia Hobbs, who retired as principal of Little Rock's Gibbs Magnet Elementary in 2016. "He helped me work through things and he gave me confidence, and he would bring in all kinds of resources for our school -- not just materials, but also human resources." Lubin, 80, started volunteering at Gibbs more than 28 years ago.
"They call me an ambassador," he says. Tina Greenwood "inherited" Lubin when she was hired as principal following Hobbs' retirement. "He welcomed me at the door," Greenwood says.
"He was right there, asking what I needed and what he could do." Lubin started a business, Executive Recruiters Agency, in 1974, shortly after arriving in Little Rock. He used his professional know-how to help guide Hobbs and Greenwood through staffing and other concerns at Gibbs.
"He has connected us with the Rotary Club, and they are supposed to start a tutoring program in the fall, where they're going to be working with kindergarten, first- and second-graders who are not on grade level, because, you know, under the LEARNS Act, if they aren't on grade level by third grade they will have to repeat the grade," says Greenwood of Lubin, past president of Rotary Club 99. His volunteer role covers myriad tasks. He works one-on-one with students on reading and math and, several years ago, he helped lobby city offi.
