Presidents of the College of the Holy Cross:
Most Rev. Joseph N. Dinand, S.J.
Nineteenth and Twenty-First President of Holy Cross
1911 - 1918 1924 - 1927
Joseph N. Dinand was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 3, 1869. He attended Boston College High School and Boston College. After his third year at Boston College he entered the Society of Jesus in August, 1887.
He made his philosophical and theological studies at woodstock College MD and was ordained a priest in 1903. Rev. Dinand's first assignment was to St. George's College, Kingston, Jamaica, W. I. as teacher and Dean of Studies. Recalled to the United States, he was named President of Holy Cross in October, 1911. During this tenure of office he built Beaven Hall. For the next six years he was Assistant to the Provincial of the Maryland-New York Province and then in 1924 named again President of Holy Cross. Before leaving Holy Cross he built the splendid library that bears his name.
In 1927 he was made Vicar Apostolic of Jamaica and Bishop of Selinus. Three short years he labored as Bishop of this Caribbean island when sickness forced him to resign. He spent the remaining years of his life as Spiritual Father of Weston College where he died on July 29, 1943.