Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School is a public

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located in

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. The high school serves a regional school district comprising the city of

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, and the surrounding towns of

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, Swansea and Westport. The school has an enrollment of over 1,400 students and offers vocational-technical education in 18 different programs. The school also includes the ''Diman Regional School of Practical Nursing'', offering post-graduate education in the field of

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. Diman received national attention in January 2018, when then-

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gave the

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's response to

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’s

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from the school’s automotive shop. Massachusetts’s 4th congressional district, which Kennedy represented at the time, includes the school.

History

The school was founded in

as Diman Vocational School in 1912 by Reverend John Diman, a then Episcopal minister who had previously started Diman School for Boys (later renamed St. George's School) in Middletown, Rhode Island. Rev. Diman later converted to Catholicism, became a Benedictine monk, and helped found

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. The ''Diman Regional Charter'' was established in 1963 to expand the area of the school's enrollment to include the surrounding towns of Somerset, Swansea and Westport, Massachusetts. The current campus on Stonehaven Road in Fall River opened in 1968.

Vocational programs

Diman currently offers 18 vocational shop programs to students, which are as follows: *Advanced Manufacturing (formerly Machine Tool Technology) *Automotive Collision, Repair, and Refinishing *Automotive Technology *Building and Property Maintenance *Business Technology *Carpentry-Cabinetmaking *Culinary Arts *Dental Assisting *Drafting *Electricity *Electronics *Graphic Communications *Health Assisting *HVAC/R (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration) *Medical Assisting *Metal Fabrication & Joining Technologies *Plumbing *Programming and Web Development

Notable alumni

The below are considered distinguished alumni of Diman and are members of Diman's "Alumni Hall of Fame": * Emeril Lagasse - (1977) - Celebrity chef. * William A. Flanagan - (1998) - Mayor of Fall River from 2010–2014.

Athletics

After an almost 30-year hiatus, Diman re-introduced football to the school in 2005. Diman's athletic teams compete at the Division 3 level of

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athletics, and at Division 3 for football. They compete in the

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, which is the largest athletics conference in Massachusetts, with 18 schools. In 2013, the Diman football team won the Mayflower League Championship for the first time in school history. In the process, they also qualified for the MIAA Division 6 State Playoffs. The Bengals won their first round match-up against Upper Cape, but eventually lost the following week to a powerful Millis/Hopedale cooperative team. The member schools of the Mayflower League are as listed below. ''Mayflower League'' * Avon High School, Avon *

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, Fall River * Blue Hills Regional Technical High School, Canton *

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, Harwich *Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School, Fall River * Holbrook Jr/Sr High School, Holbrook * Nantucket High School, Nantucket * Norfolk County Agricultural High School, Walpole *

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, Bourne * West Bridgewater High School, West Bridgewater * Westport High School, Westport ''Former Members'' *

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, Edgartown * Saint John Paul II High School, Hyannis * Chatham High School, Chatham *

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References

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