[2] Regis High School was founded in 1914, through the financial bequest of a single (originally anonymous) benefactress, Julia M. Grant,[a] the widow of New York City mayor Hugh J.

and, with a stipulation of strict anonymity, gave him an envelope with the money needed to start a school to educate Catholic boys.

[8] The Owl, the school's newspaper, interviewed Central Intelligence Agency leak case prosecutor and alumnus Patrick J. Fitzgerald in 2006.

[11] Regis is home to teams in basketball, baseball, soccer, volleyball, golf, ultimate frisbee, and track and field.

Construction on the three-story-high, 1700-seat auditorium was delayed due to World War I preventing the import of the desired Italian marble to be used.