'All you really need is heart:' Great run for 'Damn Yankees' cast and crew

Peter Reiser ’84, who has 22 years of experience in Jesuit education, including six of those here at Canisius, has been named dean of students at Canisius High School, Principal Andrea Tyrpak-Endres announced Monday morning.

Reiser was the director of college counseling at Canisius from 2000 to 2006. He has spent the last 16 years at Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora, Colorado.

The Mr. Canisius Award is presented annually to the graduating senior who, in the estimation of his peers, epitomizes all that Canisius stands for. 

Read the reflections written by the 2022 finalists about their time at Canisius and what it means to be a candidate for this award. 

We mourn the loss of Friedman, who was the first female full-time teacher at Canisius High School.

The Buffalo native and Nardin graduate taught at Canisius from 1970 to 1977 and was also the first female lay faculty member at CHS; she helped establish the fine arts program at Canisius.

The following Canisius students achieved excellence by earning placement on the Honor Roll for the third quarter of the 2021-22 school year.

The GAMBIT silent auction is open!

Check out hundreds of awesome items, from a signed Josh Allen authentic Buffalo Bills helmet to an embroidered CHS dog sweater (dog not included :-) ).

The auction runs through Saturday night, when hundreds will gather at CHS for GAMBIT XLVII.

"You've gotta have heart ... all you really need is heart. ... When the odds are sayin' you'll never win ... that's when the grin should start."

Congratulations to the grinning cast and crew of "Damn Yankees," who seemed to take manager Van Buren's advice after they endured several Covid-related delays and switched musicals in the middle of the rehearsal schedule (!) ... only to respond by putting on a great show for three evenings last week in our historic Scaccia Auditorium.

A special dress-down event on St. Patrick's Day capped off a very successful Lenten Mission Drive by Canisius students.

More than $5,500 was raised in two weeks, marking the drive's highest total in five years. The Lenten Mission Drive, as it has for the last decade, benefitted two fellow Jesuit schools in Micronesia, located in the western Pacific Ocean: Yap Catholic High School and Chuuk Xavier High School.

OPENING THIS WEEK: Canisius High School presents our musical, “Damn Yankees."

Performances are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in our historic Scaccia Auditorium. Tickets ($12.50 adults, $7 students) can be purchased at the door starting at 7 each night.

We mourn the loss of Dr. Pinkel, who was a pioneer in cancer treatment and the first director of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

“Donald Pinkel introduced the word 'cure' to cancer,” said Dr. James Downing, current president and CEO of St. Jude.

Read our 2017 CHS Today story on his legacy.

The CHS Black Student Union hosted Darius Pridgen and the Power to People Show at Canisius.

Pridgen, the Common Council President and the senior pastor at True Bethel Baptist Church, joined with co-host Marc Pope for an on-air discussion with CHS students about the Black Student Union, life at Canisius and the students’ future plans.

Read "From the President's Office" by President Fr. David Ciancimino, S.J., from the Winter edition of CHS Today magazine. 

Upon completion of our accreditation process with the New York State Association of Independent Schools, Larry Frye, chair of the visiting team and the Head of School at The Harley School in Rochester, began his report to the faculty and staff with what he referred to as the highest compliment a visiting team can make: “You are who you say you are."