St. George's School (Rhode Island): Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

Line 102:

{{expand section|date=January 2016}}

The school was founded in 1896 by reverend [[John Diman]], a member of a prominent Rhode Island family.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quick Facts |url=http://www.stgeorges.edu/page.cfm?p=511 |website=St. George's School |access-date=March 16, 2016}}</ref>

In his "Purposes of the School", Diman wrote:

<blockquote>The specific objectives of St. George's are to give its students the opportunity of developing to the fullest extent possible the particular gifts that are theirs and to encourage in them the desire to do so. Their immediate job after leaving school is to handle successfully the demands of college; later it is hoped that their lives will be ones of constructive service to the world and to God.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mission & LeadershipStatement |url=https://www.stgeorges.edu/page.cfm?p=512 about/mission|website=St. George's School |access-date=October 2021-09-23, 2018}}</ref></blockquote>On

In 1972, this school became [[co-educational]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=How St. George’s Atonement for Its Sex-Abuse Scandals Turned Ugly|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/st-georges-sex-abuse-scandals|last=Wallace|first=Benjamin|website=Vanity Fair|language=en|access-date=2020-05-20}}</ref>

==Campus==