Dino Anthony Galiano died on May 22, 2025 surrounded by family at his home in Provincetown with the Tchaikovsky violin concerto, his favorite, playing softly in the background. The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 92.

A teacher of history and driver’s education, Dino was 32 when he was appointed principal, then the youngest in the state, of Nathan Hale-Ray High School in Moodus, Conn. He was vice principal of Bacon Academy in Colchester, Conn. when he retired in 1991.

His wife, Angie, said Dino was a compassionate educator who went to work an hour early every day when there would be a line of students waiting to talk to him.

Dino and Angie bought a condo in Provincetown in 1985 and became permanent residents in 1992, following the death of her mother. Although “they never looked back,” said Angie, she did have the proviso that they go to the theater in Boston every two weeks. But they found much to do here.

They quickly became “worker bees” with Allan Gallant at Drag Bingo and at the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House as dealers at Casino Night. Poker was one of Dino’s favorite activities as was clamming on the Provincetown flats. He was so adept that Tony Jackett, then Provincetown’s shellfish warden, told new clammers having difficulty to go see Dino and he’d show them what to do.

After settling in Provincetown, travel became another passion for the couple. Establishing a base in Barcelona, Spain, Dino and Angie traveled to every continent except Antarctica. Hiking was an essential part of their adventures, especially in France and in Italy, where Dino’s father was born. They hiked the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, scaled the highest peak in the French Eastern Pyrenees, and visited China and Japan.

Dino was born in New York City on Aug. 23, 1932, one of five children of the late Antonio and Emma Della Porta Galiano. His father was a tailor and his mother a housewife. When Dino was seven, the family abruptly moved to Rockland, Maine, Angie said, because his father’s company was being pressured to unionize by activists including Ethel Rosenberg, who was later convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. Ironically, in Maine Dino became a caddy at the Samoset Resort, where he carried the golf bag of the judge who presided at the Rosenberg trial.

Dino graduated from the University of Maine at Orono and earned a master’s degree and doctorate from the University of Connecticut.

Angie said she met her future husband in 1972 at the Hartford Board of Education, where she was an intern. He was married to Audrey Koritsky, with whom he had three daughters. Dino and Angie reconnected in 1979, after his marriage broke up, and he brought her and her mother to Provincetown for Thanksgiving. They fell in love with the air and the scale of the town, she said. They married in 1980 in Puerto Rico. A poker friend, Ginny McKenna, said that he always referred to Angie as “my bride.”

Dino was a gentleman who was both progressive and traditional and who honored the simple pleasures of life, said his daughter Lisa. She added that he was a very good cook, especially of his mother’s tomato sauce. He wasn’t afraid to die, said Lisa, because he always said he’d had a long and lovely life.

His daughter Deborah said he loved opera as well as country and western music, but most especially the violin concertos of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. She said he volunteered to chaperone her Girl Scout troop, the only man to do so, and taught them all to march.

He is survived by his wife, Angie, of Provincetown; his daughters, Deborah and husband Herbert Davis of Provincetown, Lou Durocher of Wethersfield, Conn., and Lisa Galiano-Kratz and husband Geoff Kratz of Wilton, Conn.; his grandchildren, Becca Davis, Madeline Kratz and husband John Roberts, Trevor Kratz, Kevin Durocher, and Kyle Durocher and wife Kara; and a great-grandson, Payson Durocher.

Dino was predeceased by his siblings Francis, Delores, Leonard, and Giacomo.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations in Dino’s name go to any Provincetown nonprofit. A celebration of his life is being planned for the early fall.