One of Martha's dreams was to establish a comprehensive music school for students of all ages and all instruments. The purpose of the school would be to provide music education with a professional faculty and staff, the best facility, equipment and technology, and to deliver that instruction within a caring and nurturing environment. She has accomplished this.

Music education provided within a healthy environment enhances the development of children's minds and spirits; therefore, it is appropriate that this endowment be given to honor Martha. She has devoted her life to others by sharing her talent and her faith. Due to her tireless effort in teaching music, her ability to communicate with others, and her devotion to God and family, Stubbs' Music Center has been successful.

Martha was reared in Calvary, Georgia, along with her twin sister and older brother, by Ernest Higdon Herring and Grace Gainey Herring. From an early age she began to study piano and knew that she wanted to share her talent and Christian faith with others. She graduated from Cairo High School and attended Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. Her degree in Church Music includes an emphasis in both piano and organ.

As she approached her twenty-fifth year of teaching, adjudicating, consulting, and being a leader in professional music organizations, Martha wanted to give more back to the community that had been so good to her. The results was the founding of the Stubbs' Educational Foundation, Inc.

The Board of Directors of Stubbs' Music Center was pleased to establish the first endowment of the Educational Foundation in honor of its founder, Mrs. Stubbs.