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  1. Career

  2. See also

  3. References

  4. Further reading

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| honorific_prefix = Lt. Col.
| name = Eric Joseph Simeon
| image =
| image_size = 150px
| image size =
| alt =
| alma mater = B.A., M.A.
University of Allahabad
| caption = Eric Simeon with the former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 1918
| birth_place = Allahabad, British India
| death_date = 15 May 2007
| death_place = India
| nationality = Indian
| other_names =
| known_for = Headmaster of La Martiniere Calcutta (1967-1970)
Headmaster of The Doon School (1971-1979)
Headmaster of Cathedral and John Connon School (1979-1986)
| occupation = Scholar, Academic, Schoolmaster
}}Eric Joseph Simeon (1918–2007), was an Indian school educationalist. He was the headmaster of some of the distinguished schools of India from 1960s to the mid-1980s. He served as the headmaster of La Martiniere Calcutta, The Doon School and Cathedral and John Connon School.[1]

Career

In 1949, then Capt. Eric Simeon — a Corps of Signals officer — was posted at the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College,Dehradun.

Later, in July 1961 when stationed in Delhi — he was summoned by V. K. Krishna Menon, then Defence Minister of India, to head the first Sainik School of India. It was the beginning of his educational career when he became the Founder Principal of Sainik School, Kunjpura. He served there for seven years till his retirement from the Indian Army in 1967.[2]

From 1967 till 1970, he was the headmaster of La Martiniere School for Boys, Calcutta.[3] After his tenure at La Martiniere he joined The Doon School as its fourth headmaster. He was the first Indian headmaster at the Doon School and became one of the longest serving headmasters in Doon's history with a tenure spanning almost a decade.[4] After his retirement from Doon, his last project was the headmastership of Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai.[5]

On 15 May 2007 he died of lung cancer.

See also

  • Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College
  • The Doon School
  • Headmasters of The Doon School

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lmbcal.ac.in/the-principalscalcutta/?phpMyAdmin=8b2e01046db06eec6af53f4e166d9462 |title=The Principals of La Martiniere for Boys, Calcutta | Official Website of Lamartiniere for Boys, Kolkata, India |publisher=Lmbcal.ac.in |date= |accessdate=2012-03-05}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/05/16/stories/2007051615082000.htm |title=National : Lt. Col. Eric Joseph Simeon dead |publisher=The Hindu |date=2007-05-16 |accessdate=2012-03-05}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lmbcal.ac.in/history/la-martiniere-schools/ |title=La Martiniere Schools | Official Website of Lamartiniere for Boys, Kolkata, India |publisher=Lmbcal.ac.in |date= |accessdate=2012-03-05}}
4. ^http://www.doonschool.com/images/weekly_pdf/14%20march%2009.pdf{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/schooled-for-life/32471/ |title=Schooled for life |publisher=Indian Express |date=2007-06-02 |accessdate=2012-03-05}}

Further reading

  • [https://archive.is/20121219012747/http://fullcirclebooks.in/content/chhota-hazri-days-doscos-yatra Chhota Hazri Days: A Dosco's Yatra] by Sanjiv Bathla, Rupa & Co., 2010 {{ISBN|978-81-291-1694-9}}.
  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=oFRF6vs5algC&q=Doon+School&dq=the+doon+school+sixty+years+on+pushpinder&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=5#v=snippet&q=Doon%20School&f=false The Corporeal Image] by David McDougall, Princeton University Press, 2006, {{ISBN|978-0-691-12156-7}}.
  • [https://books.google.com/books/about/Doon_the_story_of_a_school.html?id=NEdmQgAACAAJ&redir_esc=y Doon, The Story of a School], IPSS (1985) edited by Sumer Singh, published by the Indian Public Schools Society 1985.
  • [https://books.google.com/books?q=Constructing+PostColonial+India:+National+Character+and+the+Doon+School, Constructing Post-Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School] by Sanjay Srivastva, published by Routledge 1998 {{ISBN|0-203-98027-1}}.
  • The Doon School – Sixty Years On, edited by Pushpinder Singh Chopra, published by the Doon School Old Boys' Society in October 1996
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