Worcester Academy - Definition and Overview

Founded in 1834 as the Worcester County Manual Labor High School, it did not change its name until 1847. The school moved to its current location on Union Hill in Worcester in 1869.

Worcester Academy was all-male from its founding until 1856, and again from 1890 to 1974. It has been coeducational since.

It is a member of the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council.

Notable alumni

Notable alumni of Worcester Academy include

• Eli Thayer 1840, founder of the Oread Institute
• Edward Davis Jones 1873, co-founder of Dow Jones
• Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor 1893, founder and first editor of National Geographic magazine
• Clarence Dillon 1904, co-founder of investment bank Dillon, Read and Company
• Charles E. Merrill 1904, co-founder of Merrill Lynch
• Cole Porter 1909
• General Norman D. Cota 1915
• William Toomey 1957, gold-medal winning decathlete in the 1968 Olympics
• Abbie Hoffman
• Mark Fidrych

External links

• Worcester Academy official site (http://www.worcesteracademy.org/)
• Worcester Academy's official history page (http://www.worcesteracademy.org/about/history/)
• Worcester Academy history (http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/Education/WorcesterAcad_copy.html)