Regis High School 55 East 84th Street, Manhattan, New York 10028

"The best years of my life along with my years as a Marine Corps officer and pilot. At Regis I learned to think, to question, to challenge, to learn and to seek more knowledge. In the Corps I learned to lead, and to conquer fear. Together, the experiences have given me a fulfilling life through its ups and downs. May ours be the noble heart."

"I spent four challenging years at Regis and developed learning and action methods that have served me eell. The faculty is caring and the atmosphere is collegial. It is a great school."

"In January 1956 I was awarded a 72 in Latin and, because I had gotten under 75 in my previous semester, I was dropped from Regis. I never did any more than the absolute minimum necessary in all my subjects and Latin tripped me up. I deeply regret not having done more. Went on to Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey, NJ and got a 90 average im my last year and a half, doing no more than at Regis. I never learned to study because I never needed to, from grammar school on. Got my BA from Maryland after a year and a half at Holy Cross and a M.Ed. from Boston University. Often wonder what my life would be like if I had learned to work and study hard. Everything came too easy without doing anything."

"Pretty good Basketball courts. Part of NYC basketball league's. Downstairs basketball courts is very narrow tho, but good for three on three."

"One of the best educational experiences I ever had - I proceeded to go to Duke, Phd at Rice University, MD, Residency at Washington Univ. St Louis, U. of M.-Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, etc. Regis prepared me to learn. There are worse things one can get out of 4 years of HS. I never saw cheating, but I guess it goes on some everywhere (haven't there been a few cheating "scandals" at the military academies?); but I doubt there was much; our teachers really paid attention to our work, they knew what we were capable of; it would have been difficult to suddenly ACE a Final after getting 65-75% on the rest of the grades and classwork. My wife went to a very highly ranked HS in the burbs of NJ; even she admits the education I got in HS was far beyond what her school offered; And unlike the view of the writer who panned the school and students, I wasn't a great studier; played basketball (until my grades weren't good enough one semester- then I was off), and didn't graduate very high in my class ranking; but I was prepared for everything that followed. So, I'd rank it pretty highly."