Steve DiGregorio was a football icon at Princeton University and Nutley High School.
He was named NJ.com Coach of the Year in 2020 and was named NJ Educator of the Year by other organizations twice. Above, the DiGregorio family photo, from left, bottom: Steve DiGregorio, Derek DiGregorio and Nadia DiGregorio; standing: Zack DiGregorio and Aaron DiGregorio. This is the family's first Father's Day without Steve.Father’s Day usually conjures images of cringy gifts, feigned smiles as torn gift wrap reveals another tie, or families gathering for barbeques in the backyard.
Around the same time, my dad, an Italian Catholic whose last name could be mistaken for that of the heir to a frozen pizza fortune, adopted a new mantra from Jewish traditions: “Chazak, chazak, v’nitchazeik,” or, in English, “Be strong, be strong, and we will strengthen one another.” This parade of friends and family who had rallied around us before picked back up in the summer of 2021, when my dad went into the hospital for what would be the last time and when he came home on hospice care. Scores of them — from Tel Aviv to Thailand to Montana to right down the street — came to say goodbye, but more than that, to tell my dad what he meant to them.
For my whole life, my relationship with these people, people I loved and revered, has been woven through my dad. Standing in front of hundreds of people at his funeral, preparing to give his eulogy, I was consumed by the fear of not just losing my dad, but that losing him might sever my connection to some of the most special people in my life — the people who had given us strength before.
This Father’s Day, my first one without him, has taken on a new meaning, not just to reflect on my relationship with my dad but also on building back those relationships in the wake of his passing. That process has been trying, having to work past the “Are you OKs” and the “How’re you doing?” into how we can fit into each other’s lives.
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