Eric Joseph Simeon (1918–2007), was an Indian school educationalist. He was the

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of some of the distinguished schools of India from 1960s to the mid-1980s. He served as the headmaster of

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The Doon School The Doon School (informally Doon School or Doon) is a Selective school, selective all-boys Private school, private boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, which was established in 1935. It was envisioned by Satish Ranjan Das, a lawyer ...

and

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, then Defence Minister of India, to head the first

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of India. It was the beginning of his educational career when he became the Founder Principal of

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. He served there for seven years till his retirement from the Indian Army in 1967. From 1967 till 1970, he was the headmaster of La Martiniere School for Boys, Calcutta. After his tenure at La Martiniere he joined

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. After his retirement from Doon, his last project was the headmastership of

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. On 15 May 2007 he died of

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