Anthony Toomer Porter, an Episcopal priest, to educate boys orphaned during the Civil War.

As modern school facilities began taking shape across the Ashley River on the property donated by the railroad, classes met at the old Porter campus.

On October 25, 1867, while in Magnolia Cemetery, mourning the death of one of his sons, Anthony Toomer Porter, rector of Holy Communion Church, became convinced that he should start a school.

Porter Military Academy boasted a naval program, including several surplus Navy vessels.

Porter also claimed one of the first high school football teams, one of which in a 1913 scrimmage held the Citadel to a 0 to 0 score.

[6] Gaud, born in Canada, had a master's degree from the University of Chicago, and had been headmaster of Lawrence Academy in Groton, Massachusetts.

The number of his students ranged from ten to eighteen, and these were divided into two grade levels in his one schoolroom, one class studying while the other recited.

R. Bentham Simmons, a survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor; French teacher Charles Winter, a refugee from Hungary; and Admiral Florence, who taught math.

The school lacked athletic facilities, but Grimball at first used the East Bay Street playground, especially for touch football and for softball, at recess and for voluntary extra sports on Monday and Thursday afternoons, and later took boys out to practice on his tennis courts on James Island; soccer was also added to the activities.

Her first classes were held in the dining room of her Broad Street home, but she had a small classroom building constructed at the rear of her property.

"[4] Founded in the early 1970s by Linda O'Quinn and her daughter Anna, the pre-school quickly became known for its personality and southern charm.

Today the O'Quinn School is an important part of Porter-Gaud, maintaining two campuses on James Island and in Mt.

[7] From 1972 to the early 1980s, physical science teacher and athletic advisor Eddie Fischer sexually abused at least twenty students at Porter-Gaud and nineteen at other Charleston, SC schools.

Both Principal James Bishop Alexander and Headmaster Berkeley Grimball then helped Fischer to get a job at another private school, where he continued to abuse.

Neither Principal Alexander nor Headmaster Grimball were ultimately convicted, as each died prior to the court concluding.

The film suggests the suicides of six graduates of the 1979 class were due to the mental impact of being sexually abused by Fischer.

[11] The colluding culture of the school with board members ignoring persistent pleas to be heard by one victim, who wrote to all the board members who never responded or discussed it, revealed that these young victims were trapped within a culture where the surface of respectability had to be maintained at all costs.