{"id":10,"date":"2016-08-10T17:54:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T17:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/?p=10"},"modified":"2016-08-10T17:54:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T17:54:30","slug":"joe-lucier-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/2016\/08\/10\/joe-lucier-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Lucier \u201950"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Creating a culture of philanthropy as a family affair. Photo courtesy of Chattman Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Joe Lucier \u201950 was a postgrad stu\u00addent before there was a term for it. Having graduated from high school in Northampton at the age of 16, he decided to attend Williston Acade\u00admy for two more years. He returned in 1977 with his wife, Priscilla, a 1950 Northampton School for Girls (NSFG) graduate, to inject new vitality into the school\u2019s develop\u00adment efforts. Together, they raised four children at Williston\u2014and also raised the bar for giving.<\/p>\n

You were on the varsity football team. What game do you remember most? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Loomis. I was very good at allowing big boys to push me back. But as they pushed me back, I could pull them to one side. I would tell the quarterback which side to send the ball. We\u2019d make yardage anytime we wanted. I\u2019d say to Tommy, \u2018Right.\u2019 And a guy would come at me and I\u2019d pull him to the left, and, zoom. I always remember our coach who said, \u2018Gee, you don\u2019t seem to be hav\u00ading any trouble out there today, Joe.\u2019<\/p>\n

You said you paid your way through Williston. Where did you work? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I used to work at the A&P in Northampton. I could walk in there and work anytime I wanted. When I was playing football, I didn\u2019t work. The manager would put my time card with his and didn\u2019t want me to lose my status. He would plug me in for so many hours a week and pay me. I was a good worker. I worked for them for 11 years.<\/p>\n

Did you attend school dances with NSFG? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I used to go to NSFG on the week\u00adends and go to a dance. My wife was going to school there as a day<\/p>\n

student at the same time, but I never met her. We met at UMass. She was the president of Kappa Kappa Gamma and I was in Phi Sigma Kappa, and we finally met our senior year. We got married a year later. We\u2019re celebrating our 60th wedding anniversary. What\u2019s the secret? I married the right woman.<\/p>\n

When you began working at Williston, how did you change the way the school approached development? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I asked people to ask people. We made a rule that no one would be asked to be on the Board of Trustees until we got a financial commitment from them. That changed the giving pattern of the board tremendously. If the board isn\u2019t interested in the success of the school, who the hell is? Then we started working on Reunion classes. We\u2019d get people to make $1,000 gifts, and at that time it was a major gift.<\/p>\n

How did it feel to receive a Distinguished Service Award in 2004? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I was pleased because they thought I had done a good job. I used to look at that chart of [other recipients and] I never thought I would be on it. It was a great gift to me. Also, I want you to know, my wife [Priscilla] was in the office and she ran the office. She was a big item in that office. I got the rewards, but she was the person running the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Lucier \u201950 was a postgrad stu\u00addent before there was a term for it. Having graduated from high school in Northampton at the age of 16, he decided to attend Williston Acade\u00admy for two more years. He returned in 1977 with his wife, Priscilla, a 1950 Northampton School for Girls (NSFG) graduate, to inject new … Continue reading Joe Lucier \u201950<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}