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Wentworth - By - The - Sea, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, will be the scene of '36 reunion festivities; the class will leave for Portsmouth this morning and expects to return for lunch tomorrow...
...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, and was their first headmaster...
...Order sent him back to Rhode Island, to set up shop just nine miles from St. George's. In the School of St. Gregory the Great (Portsmouth Priory), Father Hugh proved he could do for Catholics what he had done for Protestants. The school now has 120 boys, 20 masters (more than half of them monks). Though he retired as headmaster in 1942, until recently Father Diman taught the course in "Christian Doctrine...
Died. Charles William Anderson Scott, 43, British war (I) ace who thrice broke the England-Australia flight record (1931-32-34); winner of the Harmon Trophy as the best aviator of 1934, winner of the 1936 Portsmouth-Johannesburg air race; by his own hand (gunshot); in Germany...
...leading editorial to religion. The editorial writer for the occasion is not a Timesman but an Anglican parson: 53-year-old Canon Spencer Leeson, who recently gave up the $16,000-a-year headmastership of illustrious Winchester College (prep school) to become a parish priest in one of Portsmouth's worst-blitzed areas. Said the Times leader...