While in high school Frenchy made four letters in soccer, two in basketball, four in swimming, and four in lacrosse. In 1923 "Frenchy" won the coveted award in Brooklyn as the "Most Perfect Boy" in an annual contest. During "Frenchy's" years at Rutgers he made freshman numerals in football, basketball, swimming, and lacrosse and was captain of both the basketball and swimming team his freshman year. After his freshman year he dropped swimming, but won three letters in football, basketball, and lacrosse, captained the lacrosse team his senior year and the year 1931 he was the highest scorer in the nation in lacrosse. "French" played mid-field on the 12-man teams and switched to attack after the teams were cut to 10 men. He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity while at Rutgers and was a definite outstanding figure on the New Brunswick campus.

After graduating Frenchy played four years with the Crescent Club, started officiating almost immediately, helped organize and start lacrosse in the high schools on Long Island, as well as starting and coaching a team at St. Francis College in 1934.

"Frenchy" became District Chief Referee in 1956 for the New York Area and in 1958 took over as Chief Referee for the USILA. He has undoubtedly refereed longer than any man and has done an outstanding job organizing officials' associations and upgrading the officiating throughout the whole country. He has worked more Army-Navy games and North-South games than all the other officials put together. After Dinty Moore gave up editing the Lacrosse News, "Frenchy" took it over and ran it for five years and did an excellent job.

Since graduating from college, "Frenchy" has held only two positions, working for Bacharach Rasin Company from 1935 through 1941 when he became Director of Athletics at the Green Vale Country Day School on Long Island, a job that he holds at the present time. "Frenchy" was a corporal in the U. S. Army from 1943 to 1945.

On August 23, 1953 "Frenchy" married Claire Gelinas and they have one son, Joseph John, born December 1953. The Julien Family now resides at 5 Donaldson Place, Roslyn Heights, Long Island.

Undoubtedly "Frenchy" is one of the outstanding lacrosse men of our generation and has given untiring efforts in working for the game in all its phases and especially in one of the most important departments, that of officiating.

It is therefore with the greatest of pleasure and honor that we present this certificate of membership in the Lacrosse Hall of Fame, the highest honor in the lacrosse world, to Joseph J. Julien.