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...they usually did, the 22 Benedictine monks around the hollow square of tables ate their simple noon meal in silence. But then, since it was a special occasion, they broke out the good Priory port, to toast the eldest of their number. It was the Rev. Dom John Hugh Diman's 83rd birthday. It was also a memorable fortnight for him. Last week his old school, St. George's (Episcopal), one of the top U.S. prep schools, celebrated its 50th year. This week another of his old schools, Portsmouth Priory (Catholic), marked its 20th. He founded both...
Sirs: TIME erred in stating only Dr. Peabody remains "of the generation of schoolmasters who built the U.S. private preparatory-school system" [TIME, Feb. 8]. Seventy-nine years old, long good friend and obviously contemporary of Groton's Peabody, Rev. Dom J. Hugh Diman, O.S.B., founded distinguished St. George's School in Newport, R.I. After his conversion, and subsequent ordination as an English Benedictine, he became prior of the Benedictine monastery in Portsmouth, R.I. At that time Father Hugh founded the School of St. Gregory the Great (Portsmouth Priory School). Portsmouth may become the first Abbey school...
...Reverend John Byron Diman, headmaster of St. George's School, will conduct morning prayers in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock. No seats are reserved...
...Reverend John Byron Diman, headmaster of St. George's School, will conduct morning prayers in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock. No seats are reserved...
...Reverend John Byron Diman headmaster of St. George's School, will conduct morning prayers in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock. No seats are reserved...