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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Hicksville High School Class of 1984

Come join in celebrating our 30th Reunion. Let's Make some new memories with old friends or remember some old ones!!!Date: July 26, 2014

Where: The Melville Marriot, 1350 Walt Whitman Road, Melville NY 11747
Time: 7pm-Midnight
Cost: $125 per person
Included: A 5 hour open bar, Buffett dinner, DJ, lots of laughs and dancing.

Payments will be taken until July 1, 2014!
***A raffle drawing will be held for the first 100 people who purchase tickets!***
"2" winners will be chosen to receive their ticket price back!****
So be part of the raffle, get your payments in fast!
Payment options: checks or cash can be mailed or dropped off to either....

• Jemine DePrimo, 204 Alexander Ave, Nesconset NY 11767
• Donna Greiner-Fisher, 11 Dante Ave, Hicksville NY 11801

Last option PayPal payments can be made with link HERE.
For anyone wanting to make hotel reservations at the Marriot you can contact:
Ileen Milmam at (631) 673-4398
Room rates are $145.95 a night. A block of rooms are being held under "Hicksville class of 84 reunion" (Make sure to mention this)

*We could use some help by ALL......

We are trying to collect old photos. So if you have any to share please email them to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and please send, also, to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Bob would love to help make a presentation concerning your reunion. Bob would also love to have pictures from the night of the reunion.Also, if you, or anyone you might know, has changed an address in the last 20 years, please email that info to same email address.And last: PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD TO ANYONE YOU SEE NOT ON FaceBook.

A HUGE TURN OUT WOULD BE WONDERFUL! We had over 450 at our 10 year; let's beat that!!! Feel free to share this event, for any other classes or those that wish to join us!Invites will also be mailed out....until then if you are mailing a payment in or PayPal...if you can mail or email us the below info when making payment.

If you would like to fill out a Biographical Sketch of your life, please send me a note. Buffalo Bob Casale from HixNews (that's the Hicksville Newsletter that is published each month at hixnews.com) will send you a printable form to fill out to send back to him. Your sketch will be included in the appropriate section of the newsletter.

Visit 64.hixreunion.com for details and reservations

Dear Buffalo Bob,

Last week I met with Bob McDevitt who heads up the Levittown Vietnam Memorial Plaque effort after learning he lived near me in Florida . What a coincidence! Bob shared their final plaque with me, which I'd appreciate having published in HixNews' July 1 issue.

Thanks to a member of their Project Team who read an issue of HixNews, you put me in touch with them to confirm three Levittown residents who were killed in action (KIA) that appear on our List of Confirmed Names, as they attended Hicksville High. Since their list of names includes the high school attended, you can see who they are by referring to the attached list Bob gave me.

I also shared our work with Bob. They will have the attached list turned into a plaque for presentation and display at the Levittown Historical Society Museum, but after hearing of our work may also consider a Memorial Stone to be displayed somewhere in Levittown. During the Vietnam War Era, Levittown had four high schools; Island Trees, Memorial, MacArthur and Division and a total of 37 people who paid the ultimate price in that war appear on the plaque to honor them. Bob told me that sometime after the baby boom generation, Levittown Memorial was closed, as the remaining three high schools are now sufficient to accommodate the current population.

Best regards,
Joe

Hicksville Vietnam War Era Memorial - PROJECT UPDATE

NEWS FLASH !!! Official IRS approval was received verbally in June for our not-for-profit (NFP) Fund Raising Account! As soon as we receive the formal letter from the IRS, we will open our bank account to begin receiving donations for construction of the Memorial.

Three new names were added in June for a new total of 1,886 names on the Confirmed List. Unfortunately, very little progress was made during the month on the Unconfirmed List of Names and we urgently need the help of the HixNews readership to verify whether or not the 186 people on this list qualify to be included in the Memorial and to continue to assist us in filling in 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 tab 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

Ancient city of Ephesus Seicuk Turkey

Ancient city walls in Dubrovnik, Croatia

Angkor-Wat, Cambodia

Australian War Memorial, Canberra

Bayon Temple, Cambodia

Church of Our Savior in St. Petersburg, Russia

Church of the Sacred, Barcelona, Spain

Cristo Redentor Statue in Rio de Janiero, Brazil

Gettysberg, Pennsylvania

Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California

Golden Temple Harmandir, Amritsar, India

Great Cathedral and Mosque in Cordoba, Spain

Great Wall at Mutianyu, China

Lincoln Memorial and the Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC

Machu Picchu

Milan Cathedral Duomo, Milan, Italy

Petra World Heritage, Wadi Musa, Jordan

Sheikh Zayed Grand, Abu Dhabi

Shwedagon Pagoda, Rangood, Myanmar

Siena Cathedral, Siena, Italy

St. Peter's Basilica

Taj Mahal

Teotihuacan World Heritage, San Juan, Mexico

The Alhambra, Granada, Spain

Birthdays & Anniversaries

Memory Lane

You Know You're From Hicksville If

I remember Willie, the Chef at Milleridge Inn, yelling at me for not getting back fast enough from the Bakery with the Cinnamon Bread mini-loafs (because I stopped to eat one on the way). Also making the French fries at Wetson's and life guarding at Cantiaque Park . Another job, folding sweaters at National Shirt Shop while my friends were trying to get me into Sid's Pants.
Ray Gamble, Holy Trinity, 1971

Where did you work to earn a couple of extra scheckles ($$$) to supplement your allowance, if you got one?

Crown Bakery...a couple of afternoons a week, Saturday night, and Sunday morning until 12:30 (so I could leave and go to the 12:45 mass at Holy Family)
Marianne Carine Hoerner 1968

Millerirdge Inn Bakery and Confectionary. Best job ever.
Geralyn Connolly Shaw 1980

I remember listening to my eight track tapes in the parking lot at the Milleridge Inn before I had to go into work, then going in the back by the kitchen.
Sharon Aboulafia Mitacek 1974

Botto Brothers Hardware on Broadway and Courtesy Drugs in Mid Island Plaza . Love the Botto family! L&H
Patty Fagan Ryan, Holy Trinity, 1981

Our first grandchild, Blake is graduating high school tonight...can't believe it!
Robyn Murphy Olson 1967

I remember standing on line for A Hard Days Night with other screaming Beatles fans.
Angela Pascarella Pasini 1967

Me too -- and we rushed the stage screaming. Stupid! It was just a movie screen. Silly teenage girls yet a great memory.
Carol Greenstein Epstein 1971

Saturday afternoon matinee...35 cents. Also, saw, but didn't hear, A Hard Day's Night at Hicksville .
Ray Gamble

Aww!Memories
Eileen Toscano 1959

$1 cartoon and 2 movies!! We bought donuts on the corner to eat during the movies...
Linda Schairer Maksym 1973

Sat thru two showings in a row of Hard Days Night at that theater and couldn't talk for three days from screaming so much!
Jeannie Kaplan Toplin 1969

It's now a church --go figure !!!
Christine Vitiello Madigan

Best donut shop still on the corner.
Cheryl Gries Brown 1972

House of Donuts on Corner of East Marie Street

It wasn't a donut shop when I went to the movies there. It used to be Ray's Luncheonette. Burgers, egg creams, great tunes on the juke box, pinball and a pool table. Great hang out!
Gary Killen 1972

Remember the Pawn Shop next to the Theater?
Ray Gamble

Remember the army navy store next to the Hicksville movie theater ? Best window shopping ever; switch blade knives, canteens, binoculars, old comic books, no end of junk. And I remember seeing Elvis Presley in kissing cousins at the Hicksville movie theater. It was air conditioned and the first place you went on a hot summer might. Maybe 1964?
Jack Platt

Angelo the tailor?
Cheryl Gries Brown 1972

Yup.
Donna Howe Cavallo

Went there as a kid. Every week in the summer had a Disney movie.
Cheryl Krzeski-Ombres

Saw Night of the living dead and Jaws
Gabi Spyridon, Clark High School , 1975

Spent many Saturday's there!!
Geri Mclaughlin-Walker

Yup, that's the place! Worked there in the winter of '69-70.
Judy Wilhelm

Many memorable times there!
Maria Gargano DiPasquale 1983

I saw "A Hard Day's Night" four times in a row here (same day)!
Cathy Macbride 1968

I remember a hard days night...
Fran Ramundo-Smith 1969

Casale's Corner

A doctor entered the hospital in hurry after being called in for an urgent surgery on a little boy. He answered the call ASAP, changed his clothes & went directly to the surgery block.

He found the boy's father pacing in the hall waiting for the doctor. On seeing him, the dad yelled, "Why did you take all this time to come? Don't you know that my son's life is in danger? Don't you have any sense of responsibility?"

The doctor smiled & said, "I'm sorry, I wasn't in the hospital & I came as fast as I could after receiving the call. And now, I wish you'd calm down so that I can do my work."

"Calm down?! What if your son was in this room right now, would you calm down? If your own son dies now what will you do??" said the father angrily.

The doctor smiled again & replied, "this conversation is costing precious time. Let me go save a life."

The surgery took some hours after which the doctor went out happy. He saw the father in the waiting room and said, "Thank goodness your son is saved!"  And without waiting for the father's reply he carried on his way running. "If you have any questions, ask the nurse!!"

"Why is he so arrogant," the father asked? "He couldn't wait some minutes so that I ask about my son's state," the father said when seeing the nurse several minutes after the doctor left.

The nurse answered, tears coming down her face. "His son died yesterday in a road accident," she said. "He was at the burial when we called him for your son's surgery."

"And now that he saved your son's life, he left running to finish his son's burial."

MORAL: "Never judge anyone superficially..... because you never know how their life is & what they're going through.