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

The Newsletter

Photo Gallery

Thanks to Roe Marchese Genovese and Tony Genovese for the following.

'The cat without fear''

Hotel Four Seasons Bora Bora

 Conservatory of Music in China

So, embrace the zebras

Kiss in Paris

Each year in February, the sun's angle is such that Horsetail Falls waterfall lights like fire. Yosemite , USA

Houseboat - Iceland

Panda scared after the earthquake in Japan embraced the leg of a policeman.

Kalapana , Hawaii where the lava meets the sea

Beijing Airport by night

Two year-old Chimpanzee feeding milk to Aorn, a small tiger 60 days old.

Ducks tend to follow throughout life what is seen first at birth, whether or not their mother.

Highway in Japan with snow around more than 10 meters high.

Spectacular rice fields in China.

Austria 's Green Lake is a beautiful park in winter. The snow melts in summer and creates a very clear lake.

Undersea tunnel linking Sweden and Denmark.

The world's highest swimming pool is located in the skyscraper Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.

Amazing lightning storm over the Grand Canyon

Baby Chameleons

Beautiful image of a panda bear helping another

"The road to Heaven" - a place in Ireland where every two years the stars align with the road.

World's Largest Swimming Pool in San Alfonso, Chile.  More than 1,000 yards long.

 Crystal Palace - Madrid

Heaven's Gate, Zhangjiajie Tianmen Mountain - China

The Northern Lights - Alaska

Llamas after fleecing

White owl .

The famous "Rosa Moss Bridges" - Ireland

Eiffel Tower.  Romantic and beautiful - Paris, France

Road to Hana - Maui , Hawaii

Restaurant hanging - Belgium

Sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart

There are animals with more sensitivity than many people

Fireman giving drink to a baby Koala in Australia fires

Amazing view of Manhattan , New York , from above

Frozen bubbles in the Canadian Rockies - Canada 

Spiral cloud in the sky.  An Iridescent Cloud in Himalaya.  Phenomenon observed on October 18, 2009

View of the semi-submerged cataract - Hawaii .

Northern lights over the Rocky Mountains in Canada

A pink lake due to the harmless bacteria of Retba Lake, north of the Cap Vert peninsula of Senegal

This dog saved her puppies from a fire at home, and put them safely in one of the fire trucks

Birthdays & Anniversaries

Memory Lane

Long Island has the best

The things we missed the most when we moved to Virginia was the deli's and bakeries!!!
Liz DeCarlo

Indubitably! Got boar's head here; found good pizza; but as for bakeries and bagels, no such luck. Brueggers and Manhattan Bagel come close but not near enough to me. Southerners think Lenders Bagels and Papa Johns are the bomb. Yuck!
Mike Ryan

No slice anywhere has the taste of a DANTE of Hicksville PIZZA
Karyn Endres MacDonald Class of 1973

You are so right Karyn. My family ordered pizza from them EVERY friday night!!! Also hooked on the potato salad from the German deli right before getting on the Northern State and LIE.
Barbara Rose Murello Econ 1973

George & Julius' deli in the Allied shopping center. My brother was hooked on their potato salad!
Marianne Carine Hoerner 1968

Hank & Madeline's deli (next to Grand union) was the best.
Tony Russo

And we can't forget Long Island had the best Diners!
Christine Shea LoMonaco 1981

Yep, miss them all
Eugene Reeser

Just by posting this you're killing me! I miss all of it!!!!!
Jim Wittenborg

This is so true I now live in SC and let me tell you the Pizza and bagels can never compare.
Laurie Ladogana

You are so right! Every time someone asks me what I miss about NY it's always the FOOD!!
Geri Mclaughlin-Walker

I now live in New Jersey and still think diners on Long Island are better!
Chris DiBiase

Yes!
Cathy Macbride

Can't argue that from here in Baltimore.
Ken Kopher

and we had the best Chinese food, too!
Teresa Shufelt Williams

Oh yeah...
Gary Killen

Now I'm hungry!!!!
Joanna Capper Osterman

I close my eyes and I can smell all the good stuff...Long Island was a great place to be a kid.
Steven Coleman

Don't forget Zorn's !!!!!!
Nancy Rosen

Dante's...... Nuff said.
Gary Killen

Dante's was heaven!
Teresa Shufelt Williams

My cousin once drove from Flint, Michigan to Hicksville just to have a Dante's Veal Parm Hero...was the best sandwich I've ever had.
Steven Coleman

Agreed...I love the response I am getting from this post!
Barbara Rose Murello Econ

Well you had the bagels, we have to work on the rest. LOL
John Lauro

Seeing lots of mentions of Dante's. I left in 66 and don't recall that pizza store. I do remember N&J on Broadway. Had to climb steps to get there. Thinks they had a bus that would cook pizzas on site for special events. Cut-Rite bakery had the best hard rolls, crumb cakes. And Scheiner's drug store made great egg creams at the fountain. I treasure my growing up in Hicksville and the memories that are part of who I have become.
Mike Ryan

Barb, I think you need a visit to NY
John Lauro

PEOPLE, the best PEOPLE..
Patti McCormack Corley

And BARS TOO...
Bill White

My family loved Dante's. We used to take home tins of baked ziti. Yum!!
Cathy Macbride

I forgot to mention Chinese food. I am now in Arizona and the food here sucks!!! They have no idea what good food is. I miss a good mom and pop bagel and deli. No good bakeries. We have supermarket bakeries but nothing compares. I want to eat the screen looking at all this great food.
Christina Markey

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