Biography of Lou Modestino
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Lou Modestino has been The Enterprise's(Brockton, Mass.) Motorsports
Writer for over four decades. Since then Lou covered the northeast and
other events for Stock Car Magazine, Circle Track&Highway Magazine among
others. Modestino also spent 22 years doing out-of-state PR for the Oxford
Plains Speedway(Maine)Opens. He was at that track from the inception of the
Oxford 250 Late Model race working for both the Bahre and Liberty ownerships
at the oval. Lou has also held PR/Press Agent responsibilities at such
tracks as the Seekonk and Westboro Speedway in Mass., Lee Speedway in NH and
Thompson Speedway in Conn.
In the mid-80's Modestino began to syndicate New England Motorsports
and TV Times Columns which he still does today for various daily, weekly,
trade papers and numerous internet webpages coast-to-coast. Lou did all this
as a second job while working in a management position at the Polaroid Corp.
in Norwood, Mass. Taking an early retirement from that company in 1996,
Modestino focused on consultant work for various motorsports entities. Those
responsibilities included some close coordination with various main steam
media outlets like daily papers and TV stations. Also, marketing for various
client tracks and race teams.
Over the years Lou Modestino broadened his capability to become a lobby
and advocate for racing interests at the local, state and national level.
In 1988 Lou started Lou's Motorsports TV Calendar covering all of the racing
events airing on TV in North America. It was a US Postal Mail subscription
service then and a gradual phase in of a internet subscription. In February
of 2004 Lou's Motorsports TV Calendar changed over to a total internet
subscriber service.
Modestino grew up in the south metro-Boston area and went to area
parochial Catholic grammar and high school. Following a brief stint in the
US Navy, Lou enrolled in the University College program at Northeastern in
Boston, Mass. Later he transferred to Curry College in Milton, Mass. and
received a BA degree with a Business Major and a Journalism Minor in the
Class of 1979. Curry's alumni also includes Buddy Lazier who won the IRL
Indy 500 back in 1996. Lazier was in the Curry College Class of '86.
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