{"id":560,"date":"2021-06-07T18:48:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T18:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/branfordsportshalloffame.com\/inductee\/leonard-cupie-tamsin\/"},"modified":"2021-09-27T18:46:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T18:46:09","slug":"leonard-cupie-tamsin","status":"publish","type":"inductee","link":"https:\/\/branfordsportshalloffame.com\/inductee\/leonard-cupie-tamsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard “Cupie” Tamsin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Throughout his lifelong residency in Branford, 2000 Branford Sports Hall of Fame inductee Leonard \u201cCupie\u201d Tamsin provided a blue-print for many in the town to follow, on teamwork, reliability, honor and pride.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Born November 6,1919, he attended Branford school and graduated from Branford High School in 1937.\u00a0 Working while in school was common during the era, and after graduation he joined Nutmeg Steel until the War broke out.\u00a0 He served in the U.S. Airborne from 1942 to 1945.\u00a0 He joined U.S. Steel after the war retiring in 1980 after 39 years of service.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While in the military, he was an exhibitionist jumper for Prime Minister Winston Churchill in England and was part of the Camp McKall Dedication in North Carolina and enlisted at Fort Devins, Massachusetts.\u00a0 He won numerous awards including: Combat Infantry Badge, two Bronze Stars, two Purple Hearts, four Battle Stars, and two Presidential Unit Citations.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 During the 1940\u2019s, Cupie\u00a0 was a member of two football teams in Branford, the Branford Laurels and the Branford Rams.\u00a0 An avid bowler, Cupie competed in many Branford leagues and won four league titles.\u00a0 In May of 1942, he won the Doubles Title in the state tournament with partner Arthur Doolittle,\u00a0 with a national record of 850 for a six game set. While with the Laurels and Rams, he was a teammate of current Hall of Fame inductees William Panaroni (1988), Walter Tamulevich (1990), James Barba (1995), and Paul Ward (1996) and coached by Nick Weted (1988), and Stan \u201cSocko\u201d Sokolosky (1990).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0A forty year community service man to the Branford Fire Department as a volunteer, Cupie has been married to Dorothy Raiola since October of 1948,\u00a0 recently celebrating their 53rd wedding anniversary.\u00a0 He\u00a0 is the father to three children: Michael, Mark, and Leonard, Jr.<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":561,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/branfordsportshalloffame.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inductee\/560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/branfordsportshalloffame.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inductee"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/branfordsportshalloffame.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/inductee"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/branfordsportshalloffame.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/branfordsportshalloffame.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}