page_title: Porter-Gaud School
section_title: Notable faculty
hierarchical_section_title: Porter-Gaud School / Notable faculty
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context_page_description: The Porter-Gaud School is an independent coeducational college preparatory day school in Charleston, in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Porter-Gaud has an enrollment of some 1000 students, comprising an elementary school, middle school, and high school, and is located on the banks of the Ashley River. The school has historic ties to the Episcopal Church.
  Porter-Gaud was formed in July 1964 from the merger of three schools: The Porter Military Academy, the Gaud School for Boys, and the Watt School. The legal name of the institution remains The Porter Academy.
  The Porter Military Academy was formed in 1867 by Anthony Toomer Porter, an Episcopal priest, to educate boys orphaned during the Civil War. Established on the scholastic philosophy of William Augustus Muhlenberg as the Holy Communion Church Institute in 1867, the school was later known as Porter Academy and eventually Porter Military Academy. Porter hired John Gadsden as the academic principal. Gadsden was prepared in Muhlenberg's famous school on Long Island and brought "The Doctor's" successful principles to the new school in his home-town of Charleston.
  William Steen Gaud established the Gaud School in 1908.
context_section_description: Hervey Allen – author from Pennsylvania; works include: Anthony Adverse, Israfel, Action at Aquila, and The Forest and the Fort
  DuBose Heyward – author best known for his 1924 novel Porgy; co-author of the non-musical play adapted from the novel, which became the foundation of George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess
  Benjamin Hutto – music director and choirmaster at the school during the 70s through the 90s, during which time the Porter-Gaud Choir recorded several albums
  Wyndham Meredith Manning – member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
caption: The second gates of Porter Military Academy (now at the new campus)
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