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Wound Up Where He Needed To Be

Posted 9/10/18

Mark Cannizzaro, president of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, always knew he wanted to be a public servant: a Firefighter.

After his high school English Teacher called his mom to school to urge him to go to college, he agreed, on the condition he could also take the Firefighter exam. After graduating from SUNY Cortland, he worked for four years as a Physical Education Teacher in Staten Island. He left teaching in 1990 to go into the Fire Academy; and he stayed for four days.

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