Newsletter for the Alumni and Friends of
Hicksville High School Hicksville, New York

The Editors:
Buffalo Bob Casale '61	Linda (Piccerelli) Hayden '60
Pat (Koziuk) Driscoll '56	Bob (Gleason) Wesley '61

Contributing Editors: Bob Gillette & Walter Schmidt

Webmaster: Roger Whitaker

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Update for 1964 Fifty Year Reunion - Saturday September 13, 2014

Below is a list of those attending the Reunion as of 30 July 2014

Some great news!  I arranged this evening for live musical entertainment for our reunion banquet on Saturday evening, September 13th. We will have Tommy Sullivan providing us with four hours of great music and fond reminiscence as we travel back in time to our teenage years in good old Hicksville. Tommy is not only a Hicksville graduate (class of 1963) but also one of the original members of the Brooklyn Bridge. Tell your friends and old classmates not to miss this reunion. We need video cameras/regular cameras going all night to forward to Buffalo Bob so he can make for us the greatest recording of this once-in-a-life event. Tommy is also trying to contact two of our former teachers, Mr. Muratore and Miss Kumpicas who attended last year's class of 1963 reunion.  By the way, I want to give credit where credit is due to Joe Pratt and Mark Seybert who helped get me in touch with Tommy last night.

We now have to get those who are attending on September 13th to vote on the menu. If you go to http://64.hixreunion.com , there is a suggested menu with a variety of potential dishes to choose from. The menu is on the bottom of the opening page. I'm asking my fellow classmates to email me what they feel should be the best menu to have on September 13th. 

If anyone wants a kosher meal instead of the menu we eventually will agree on, I can arrange for that. Please let me know by late August whether you want a fish, chicken, or other kosher meal. Holiday Inn will order it and it will be delivered on Friday, September 12th, kept in a refrigerator until the next night and then warmed up for you.

I'm finalizing early next week (7/28), a DJ who will play many memorable songs from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. That still leaves ordering name tags/buttons,  T-shirts, memorabilia like custom mugs, and for those classmates who plan to attend the Home Coming Football game a  banner telling everyone  there who is cheering Hicksville onto victory!?  

If you want a specific size T-shirt, please let Joe Platt or me know ASAP.

Joe Platt currently is the only person helping me organize this event. I could use more help especially with getting decorations, gathering old photos for displaying that evening, etc. We need volunteers to divide our 840 graduate list into smaller groups then going online to track more of them down and get them to come.

We will need volunteers at both the "Meet and Greet" event on Friday evening and the Saturday evening banquet to take pictures and videos of those classmates attending. Buffalo Bob has been generous to offer to make a You Tube presentation of our reunion but we need help gathering material to email to him.

I would like to copy what the Class of 1963 did at their reunion but having a trivia contest on Hicksville 's past. I have some of the questions and answers that they used. I need several volunteers to setup this fun event.

The class of 1963 actually had two of our former teachers come to their reunion. We need a few volunteers to go on google and other online sources and possibly track down some of our former teachers who are still alive and willing to attend our reunion.

Sincerely
John Maniec
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Hicksville Vietnam War Era Memorial - PROJECT UPDATE

While IRS approval was received verbally in June for our not-for-profit (NFP) Fund Raising Account, we are still waiting  on their formal letter of approval.  As soon as the formal letter is received, we will open our bank account to begin receiving donations for construction of the Memorial.

Two new names were added in July for a new total of 1,888 names on the Confirmed List.  While we received  a boost in progress in July on the Unconfirmed List of Names, thanks to the efforts of Bob Casale, we still urgently need the help of theHixNews readership to verify whether or not the still unconfirmed people on this list qualify to be included in the Memorial.  We also still need your help to continue completion of still missing data from the Confirmed List of Names.

To view the complete report on the Memorial's progress, please see this month's update by clicking on the Honoring Our Veterans page of this newsletter.  Clicking on the two links near the bottom of the update will bring you to the complete Confirmed and Unconfirmed Lists of Names as of the end of June.

Please remember, if you have any new information to send us, my email address is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

On behalf of the Project Team,
Joe Carfora, HHS 1962