Dub Nash, grandson of the late John Peace, for whom UTSA’s library is named, visits the JPL with his grandmother, Ruby Peace.
Family Legacy
The grandson of UTSA hero John Peace attends UTSA
[ This article originally appeared in the UTSA newsletter The Discourse in November 1980 ]
It’s not every college student who studies in a library named for his grandfather, but UTSA freshman Dub Nash falls into the category. The 19-year-old Nash is the grandson of the late John Peace, for whom UTSA’s John Peace Library is named. A San Antonio attorney and a member of The UT System Board of Regents when UTSA was established, Peace subsequently became chairman of the board.
He donated to UTSA an extensive collection of books, maps, and documents dating from the Spanish colonial period of Texas up to 1824, the Mexican period from 1824 to 1836, and the period up to annexation.
Nash registered for classes at UTSA this fall [1980] after having graduated from high school in Nacogdoches in 1979. “I decided to wait a year before going to college,” he explains. “First, I wanted to find a career that I really wanted to go into.”
Nash now thinks that the oil business may be the field for him. “Last year I worked for my uncle, Gordon Johnson, who is the president of Bayside Petroleum, and I really became interested in it,” says Nash, who worked with the company’s land manager. “We were based in San Antonio, but we traveled to oil fields all over the state.”
Nash is taking geology and calculus courses and plans to major in geology. While attending UTSA he is living with his grandmother, Ruby Peace. Although Nash was born in New York City, he says he has spent much of his life in San Antonio, where he attended Alamo Heights High School.
Naturally, Nash had heard a lot about the university from his family. His uncle, John Peace Ill, graduated from UTSA in 1976. Nash says that eventually he would like to move near the campus. He also is looking forward to the development of the university’s tennis team, which he would like to join.