Buffalo in the 70s: ‘Crisis has seasoned new superintendent’ Gene Reville

By Steve Cichon
steve@buffalostories.com
@stevebuffalo

Sadly, as one thumbs through decades of pages of The Buffalo News, it becomes clear that the Buffalo Public Schools have been in a perpetual state of crisis for at least half a century.

New fixes and hopes come and go — but one long-standing positive influence was South Buffalo’s Eugene Reville, whose 15 years running Buffalo’s schools started 40 years ago this week.