A native New Yorker, born on the Lower East Side, Lubin had attended local public schools in the city before enrolling at Pace.

From 1961 until his death in 1983 Joseph Lubin was a member of the Pace University board of trustees.

In 1955 his alma mater awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Commercial Science.

Lubin House, a private club on East 61st St., has been Syracuse University's New York City base since 1964.

[5] Two years before he died, Lubin presented Pace with the largest single donation ever received from an individual, a land trust fund that over a fifteen-year period would amount to $7.5 million.