# @canisiushs on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C_6YVHmzf0d
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- **Posted:** 2024-09-14T21:11:51.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Canisius High School (@canisiushs) — https://gondola.cc/canisiushs

## Caption

Here’s a photographic look at how we celebrated the newest feature of our expansive campus and the proud alumnus who made it possible as CHS hosted the ribbon-cutting and dedication of the Madden Center for Global Learning. 

The striking and innovative new addition to 1180 Delaware Ave. was funded by a $2.5 million gift by 1967 CHS graduate and South Buffalo native Michael Madden, who is the founder of the private equity investment firm BlackEagle Partners.
 
“Canisius changed my life,” said Madden, who applied for and received a scholarship to attend CHS, as his family was unable to afford tuition with his steelworker father on disability. Madden also helped fund his own tuition by working as a delivery driver after school.

“The dedication today is handing to you all, my successor students ... a key, in terms of a center for global learning," he said to CHS students near the end of last Friday's Mass of the Holy Spirit in Scaccia Auditorium. "It hopefully will give you access to scholars and programs around the world throughout the Jesuit community and elsewhere.”

Following the Mass, a ribbon-cutting was held and the Madden Center was formally dedicated by Assistant to the President Fr. Richard Zanoni, S.J. with our Ignatian Scholars in attendance. 

The ceremony also had good friend and CHS Trustee Ken Kencel ’77 as well as family members speak to Madden and attendees via the 1500-foot facility's giant video conference screen. 

Read more at our Facebook page.

Families interested in seeing the Madden Center first-hand and learning more about the excellence only found in a Jesuit education at Canisius – ranked as Buffalo's “Best Catholic School” by Business First – can reserve their spot in our Open House on Sun. Oct. 6 or Mon. Oct. 7 via canisiushigh.org/openhouse

This place is special. Let us show you why.

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