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:''For the Major League Baseball player, see Tony Lupien'' Ulysses John Lupien was an American government official and business executive who served as Massachusetts' director of civil service and city manager of Lowell, Massachusetts. ==Early life== Lupien was born in Cochituate, a neighborhood in Wayland, Massachusetts. His parents were of French descent and were brought to the United States from Canada when they were infants. He was named "Ulysses" because of his grandfather's admiration for president Ulysses S. Grant. He began working at the age of 14, shoeing mules at the Metropolitan Water Works. After about six months he was given a job swinging a sledgehammer and was later promoted to a pick and shovel crew. He later worked in construction as a concrete mixer and as a shoe packer for a shoe manufacturing company. Lupien also played semipro baseball while working and attending school. After graduating from Wayland High School, Lupien attended Harvard College. He worked as way through school as a tutor. While at Harvard, Lupien was unable to play for the school's varsity athletic teams due to his status as a semipro baseball player.〔 He graduated from Harvard in 1906.〔 After graduating, Lupien worked at the General Electric plant in Lynn, Massachusetts. During World War I he was in charge of construction at the Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard in Sparrows Point, Maryland.〔 Lupien later worked as a teacher and athletic coach at the Lowell Textile Institute. Courses taught by Lupien included electrical engineering and physics. While he was at the Institute, Lupien also acted as a contractor on the school's construction projects, which included additions to the school and installing a power plant.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ulysses J. Lupien」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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