While at Harvard, Lupien was unable to play for the school's varsity athletic teams due to his status as a semipro baseball player.
[4] His duties as public relations director included passing on the qualifications of job applicants, which were then divided into between 200 and 250 types of work.
He sought to eliminate the practice of job selling in the state civil service and pledged to hire the best person, regardless of race, religion, or political affiliation.
[4] One such controversy involved the Lowell School Committee voting to bypass Lupien's recommendation for the position of school attendance officer, a disabled veteran who had scored a 72 on the civil service test, in favor of a woman who had earned a higher score (90), as the committee had asked only for a list of female candidates (the school system already had a male attendance officer and wanted a female officer as there was a majority of female students).
[6] After his term ended, Lupien returned to Pacific Mills as the consulting director of public relations.
He remained involved in Lowell politics by delivering a weekly "State of the Nation" radio address.
On July 24, 1954, Lupien announced his candidacy for the Massachusetts Senate seat in the 1st Middlesex District, which included his hometown of Chelmsford as well as most of Lowell.
He faced incumbent Senator Paul A. Achin and former Lowell City Council candidate Joseph N. Herbert.
According to Fred A. Simmonds of The Boston Daily Globe, Lupien's candidacy was viewed by some as a test of strength in his effort to return to Lowell politics.
[3][4][8] His great-grandson is wrestler and actor John Cena,[13] and his great-granddaughter is computer scientist Natalie Enright Jerger.