Hicksville High School Hicksville, New York
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| Buffalo Bob Casale '61 | Linda (Piccerelli) Hayden '60 |
| Pat (Koziuk) Driscoll '56 | Bob (Gleason) Wesley '61 |
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People Looking for People
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SAVE THE DATE!
Saturday, October 6th, 2012
Class of 1962 50-Year Reunion
7PM -12AM HOLIDAY INN, Plainview , N.Y.
Please be sure Karen Hubner Jenkins has your current e-mail address (
Our Reunion Website 62.hixreunion.com
Hicksville Vietnam War Era Memorial - PROJECT UPDATE
While only 6 new names were added in February for a new total of 1,771, good progress continued in filling in missing data for many of the people on our List of Names. Work also continues to make the Memorial a reality by paving the way with local officials and other dignitaries we must enlist and in making various additions and choices for the design work that has been done so far for the Memorial's planned bronze reliefs.
Our objective remains not to miss anyone who meets the qualifications and deserves to be included in the Memorial and you can still help us make this happen. Please see the full update in the Honoring Our Veterans section of the newsletter for further details.
On behalf of The Project Team,
Joe Carfora, HHS '62
The Newsletter
Photo Gallery
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Birthdays & Anniversaries
Birthdays
- 1: Fred Fulco (TX); Carol (Snyder) Ferguson (FL)
- 2: Tom Steedman; Diane (Basse ) Brown
- 4: Den Collins (L.I.); Joan (Brandt) McHugh (L.I.)
- 5: Ed Grams (AZ); Helen (Penner) Ackerman (FL)
- 6: Ron Smith (CO); Cheryl (To er) Mulholland (HX); Michele (Jordan) Kowalski
- 7: Sonya (Teresko) Fluckiger; Tom Gill (HX)
- 8: Dan Knieter
- 9: Jackie (Odell) Carter (FL); Beverly (Fetz) White (NC); Howard Bell
- 10: Anne Marie Wright (NY); Carolyn (Wood) Imbrie (AZ)
- 11: Gary DeFelice (FL); Karen Kelly-LaCarrubba
- 12: Vickie Penner Whitaker (IL); (Sister) Maureen Schrimpe IHM (MD); Cathy (Rowan) Doll (Germany)
- 13: Julia White (FL); Lisa Weller-DiBartolomeo (FL)
- 14: Lynn (McMorrow) O’Riordan (L.I.); Anton Mure (L.I); Jacci (LaSalle) Gallucci (NY); Lois (Sinisi) Endsley (L.I.)
- 15: John Ostroski (FL)
- 16: Steve Baum (PA); Carolann (Luisi) Sale o (HX)
- 17: Albert A. Reeder Jr.
- 18: Chris Andersen (HX); John Ennis; Al Sypher (FL)
- 19: Donald Thompson (L.I.); Joe Milich (CA); Craig G. Bruckner (HX)
- 20: Rick Campbell; Mike McGregor (PA)
- 21: Frank Ventrello (UT); Carol (Ofenloch) Tranchina; Jennifer Bell friend (FL)
- 22: Arthur Romeo (L.I.)
- 23: Joyce (Gabrielsen) Casale (GA)
- 24: Betty Sue (Gardner) Brunell (AL); Jed Schaiman
- 25: Jeff White (CA)
- 26: Valerie (Palmer) Towsley (NY)
- 27: Janis (Bartle ) Wood (HX)
Anniversaries
- 3/01/19??: Dona and Eric Malter (NY)
- 3/??/1959: Helen (Wicks) and Ed Boudreau (NY)
- 3/01/1975: Michele (Lauer) and Bob Bader (L.I.)
- 3/02/2003: Pete and Jennifer Foster (FL)
- 3/08/1975: Lisa (Dorais) and Robert Wissler (WV)
- 3/09/1984: Lorin (O’Neill) and Edward Coakley (NC)
- 3/15/1942: Fred and Sonya Fluckiger
- 3/18/19??: Anna May (Powers) and John (Jack) Riddell (AZ)
- 3/21/1970: John and ?? D’Antonio (GA)
- 3/21/1971: Harvey and Judy Olitsky (GA)
- 3/21/1971: Walt and Esther Schmidt (L.I.)
- 3/22/1969: Dave and Janet Baldwin (FL)
- 3/22/1985: Lisa (Weller) and Bob DiBartlolomeo (FL)
- 3/23/1968: John and Linda Mirro (CO)
- 3/25/1967: Susan (Schwartz) and Jerry Serlin (PA)
- 3/26/1988: Pat and Linda Quinn (NY)
- 3/27/1976: Susan (Weber) and Steven Fishkin (L.I.)
- 3/27/1993: Diane (Harvey) and Steve Anderson (TX)
- 3/28/1970: Vi (Mathon) and Bill Reilly (TX)
- 3/29/1952: Milton and Joyce Shoob (L.I.)
- 3/29/1970: Marilyn (Schwab) and Alan Zaretsky (NY)
- 3/29/1989: James and Maureen Shubert (NC)
Honoring our Veterans
FLASHBACK TO WORLD WAR II
Although now 79 years of age, he began creating his first boat in 1948, when he was only 17. He uses a razor blade, tweezers and sandpaper to carve the pieces and boxes, then sticks his completed product together with balsa wood glue. In total. more than 650,000 matchsticks were used to create an amazing collection of 1,300 scale models. Even 1,200 aircraft made even more realistic appearance to dress the decks of aircraft carriers
German Wehrmacht General Anton Dostler is tied to a stake before his execution by a firing squad in a stockade in Aversa , Italy , on December 1, 1945. The General, Commander of the 75th Army Corps, was sentenced to death by an United States Military Commission in Rome for having ordered the shooting of 15 unarmed American prisoners of war, in La Spezia, Italy, on March 26, 1944. (AP Photo)
Gaunt and emaciated, but happy at their release from Japanese captivity, two Allied prisoners pack their meager belongings, after being freed near Yokohama, Japan, on September 11, 1945, by men of an American mercy squadron of the U.S. Navy. (AP Photo) 
Aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, one year after the atomic bomb blast shows some small amount of reconstruction amid much ruin on July 20, 1946. The slow pace of rebuilding is attributed to a shortage of building equipment and materials. (AP Photo/Charles P. Gorry)
A Japanese man amid the scorched wreckage and rubble that was once his home in Yokohama, Japan . ( NARA )
Red Army photographer Yevgeny Khaldei (center) in Berlin with Soviet forces, near the Brandenburg Gate in May of 1945.
A P-47 Thunderbolt of the U.S. Army 12th Air Force flies low over the crumbled ruins of what once was Hitler's retreat at Berchtesgaden, Germany, on May 26, 1945. Small and large bomb craters dot the grounds around the wreckage. (AP Photo)
Hermann Goering, once the leader of the formidable Luftwaffe and second in command of the German Reich under Hitler, appears in a mugshot on file with the Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects in Paris, France, on November 5, 1945. Goering surrendered to U.S. soldiers in Bavaria , on May 9, 1945, and was eventually taken to Nuremburg to face trial for War Crimes. He was sentenced to death by hanging, but committed suicide by cyanide ingestion the night before he was due to be hanged. (AP Photo)
Many of Germany 's captured new and experimental aircraft were displayed in an exhibition as part of London 's Thanksgiving week on September 14, 1945. Among the aircraft are a number of jet and rocket propelled planes. Here, a side view of the Heinkel He-162 "Volksjaeger", propelled by a turbo-jet unit mounted above the fuselage, in Hyde park, in London . (AP Photo)
Memory Lane
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Casale's Corner
CHILD HERO:
CALISTA M. PIERCE
by Jenifer Pierce from Pennsylvania
Calista knows how much her brother struggles to do the things most kids can do with ease. She also knows how much he loves being able to go to Special Olympics competitions and how great he feels when he wins an award. She has wanted to become an official Special Olympics volunteer ever since he started participating in the program in 2005.
Calista decided that since she is only 7 and too young to be an official volunteer right now, she would try to help out in another way. When she found out that our local Special Olympics program lost their largest fundraising event and was worried about having the funding to be able to take athletes to competitions, she came up with her own unique plan! She decided to make and sell crafts to help fundraise for the program. Since December 2006, she has spent over 100 hours making and selling her crafts and has raised $440.00 for the program thus far. She continues to make and sell her crafts every chance she gets and says that her goal is to raise $3000.00! She also donated 40 bowling picture frame magnets to be given out as awards at the Crawford County Special Olympics bowling party! She named her project Calista Cares and has a website in the hopes of getting the word out and raising more money for Crawford County Special Olympics.
Not only has she done all of this, but since the age of 5, Calista has helped out as much as she possibly can at all of the Special Olympics events she goes to. Whether it be keeping scores in bowling, timing during track and field, ball chasing during the softball throws or simply cheering on the athletes, she has been ready and willing to lend a helping hand! She is her brother's biggest cheerleader both in and out of competition! She is an amazing little girl who spends many hours working on her crafts and is constantly trying to find more places to sell them. She never expects anything in return; she just wants to bring in as much money for the program as she possibly can to make sure area athletes can continue to compete! She has been an inspiration to her family, friends and Crawford County Special Olympics!
