Dolan, Isiah Thomas, Notre Dame football, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, former President George W. He recently began writing a regular political column entitled "Mondays with Mike," which is strongly liberal in orientation.įavorite Lupica targets include the New York Yankees, (and will often state their massive payroll in most of his articles) James L. Lupica writes several sports columns during the week for the Daily News, as well as a signature Sunday column, "Shooting from the Lip," which features a traditional column followed by a series of short, acerbic observations from the week in sports. He has also written for Golf Digest, Parade, ESPN The Magazine, and Men’s Journal, and has received numerous awards including, in 2003, the Jim Murray Award from the National Football Foundation. Lupica wrote "The Sporting Life" column at Esquire magazine for ten years beginning in the late 1980s, and currently writes a regular column for Travel + Leisure Golf. He first came to prominence as a sportswriter in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. In 1974 he graduated from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. In 1964, he moved with his family to Nashua, New Hampshire where he attended middle school and subsequently Bishop Guertin High School, graduating in 1970. Patrick's Elementary School through the sixth grade. Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared by visiting was born in Oneida, New York where he spent his pre-adolescent years, having attended St. His spot in the hearts of his family and friends will be filled forever. He made everybody who ever knew him better. He didn’t just make the country better by fighting for it as a young man. Bene Lupica is also survived by a sister-in-law, Gina, and a brother-in-law, Anthony DiVeronica of Canastota, N.Y.įinally, Bene Lupica was everything an American is supposed to be. They will miss him the way his surviving family will, Mike and his wife Taylor and their children and new grandchild, Susan and her husband Michael Galardi and their children. He had enduring friendships in Nashua with the Fisher family, the Stewart family, the Burke family. He was everything a father is supposed to be, and grandfather, everything a husband is supposed to be. He was married to the former Lena Jane Logiudice for 72 years. When he came back from the war, he was still working for the government as a logistics officer, finishing his career at Hanscom Field in Bedford, Mass. Somehow, she says, they all seemed to organize around her father, because Bene Lupica loved family the way he loved his country. His daughter Susan remembers her sons’ summers with their Grammy and Papa at Nashua Country Club and remembers the large, joyous family gatherings before that with all of her first cousins back in upstate New York. He loved his faith and loved his family most of all. In all ways, he was a member of the Greatest Generation. By the time he was 20 years old, after never having been more than 40 miles from Sherrill growing up, he was a bombardier in Liberator B24s, flying 31 missions over Europe in 1944 and ’45 out of the 165th Bombardment Group and 783rd Bombardment Squadron. This was a life of kindness and grace and endless good cheer. It was often said that you knew when he was in the Grill Room, because everybody in there was smiling. It is fair to say that there was never a more popular member of the club than Bene Lupica. They were fixtures there for over a half-century, as Bene served on various committees, most notably his time as one of the most popular golf chairmen in the club’s history (it allowed him to brag on his one hole-in-one on the second hole), and arguably best bridge player NCC ever had. He and Lee were still honorary members of Nashua Country Club at the time of his passing. Later he was a father to his two children, Mike and Susan, and grandfather to Mike’s children, Christopher, Alexander Bene, Zachary, and Hannah and Susan’s two sons, Matthew and Josh.Īnd then six days before Bene’s 99th birthday, he greeted his first great-grandson, born to his grandson Christopher and his wife, Kim, and named Charles Michael Lupica. He was a son and brother and friend to anyone ever lucky enough to know him. His is an American life worth knowing about, from the time he grew up as one of 10 children in Sherrill, N.Y. in Nashua with his wife, Lee, died peacefully on the morning of March 27 with his wife at his bedside, two months after he had celebrated his 99th birthday. Benedict Lupica, who lived for 58 years on 7 Ohio Ave.
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