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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The next General meeting of the Hicksville Historical Society will be on September 23, 2014, at 7:15PM in the Community Room at the Hicksville Library. Jessie Doyle will present once again a DVD of a 16MM film of the 1935-1936 Hicksville Football Field Club. Narrated by Paul Klement, you can see old cars, houses on 4th street and the crowds that attended the games. Many recognizable names from Hicksville's past. If you missed this before DON'T MISS OUT THIS TIME!!! Refreshments will be served.

Bob Koenig
President
PO Box 443
Hicksville NY 11802

For additional information, contact Bob @ This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Visit 64.hixreunion.com for details and reservations

Hicksville Vietnam War Era Memorial - PROJECT UPDATE

While IRS approval was verbally received 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.

One new name was added in August for a new total of 1,889 names on the Confirmed List.

We received help in August from Jim Rubins, president of the Class of '67, in contacting the Veterans from his class who were still missing needed data to complete their Memorial listing. We have since heard from a number of them and continue to make good progress in this area. If we can get other class presidents and/or reunion committees to provide us with contact information on the Veterans in their respective classes who are still missing data, we can get this task completed. At the same time, we still urgently need the help of the HixNews 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, email what you have to me at, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

A Happy Labor Day Weekend and end of summer celebration to all!

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

The Newsletter

Photo Gallery

Earthrise

Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan and John Young of Apollo 10, while orbiting the moon, close
to its surface (but not landing), saw the earth appear above the lunar horizon.

The sight moved Stafford to radio to Houston : Charlie, we just saw an earthrise and it's just got to be magnificent!

 Between moon and earth, the astronauts of Apollo 10 had this view of the most moving sight in all of space: the cloud-swirled orb, flowing blue with oceans that holds all life known to exist. The west coast of North America is shown below through the cloud patterns.

Edwin Aldrin's picture taken by Neil Armstrong

Saturn V soars skyward

3 day open season on white-winged doves brought out 10,000 shotgun wielding Texans

Dah!!! What's a telephone booth???? Is that where you buy cell Phones???

Motorcycle race across the Mojave Desert

A dormant Arizona volcano

Albert Einstein and J. Robert Openheimer both world renown Physicists

Conserving furrows in Colorado soil

Ice cream solves all issues

Curious toddler inspects, up close, one of her grandmother's dolls

Japanese snow monkey on Honshu

The "King" of the jungle catching some Z's

TKetch rigged fishing boats in Bay of Biscay The ketch style is a designation of a sailboat assigned by a naval architect.

Cop asks kid to leave the path of a parade. Bill Beall of the Washington Daily News won the Pulitzer prize for this photo.

Dwarfed by a soaring span of sandstone carved by water and wind, Navajo Indians tend their flock of sheep in Monument Valley on the Arizona-Utah border.

After plunging 86 floors from the observation deck of the Empire State Building, an attractive 23 year old lies peacefully atop the crumpled sedan she struck on West 33rd Street.

Birthdays & Anniversaries

Memory Lane

Various Images From the Past

Casale's Corner

How to Dance in the Rain

It was a busy morning in the emergency room of the neighborhood hospital.  Around 8:30 an elderly gentleman in his 80's arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He said he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am.

I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an hour before someone would to able to see him. I saw him looking at his watch and decided, since I was not busy with another patient, I would evaluate his wound.

On exam, it was well healed, so I talked to one of the doctors, got the needed supplies to remove his sutures and redress his wound. While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor's appointment this morning, as he was in such a hurry.

The gentleman told me no, that he needed to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife. I inquired as to her health? He told me that she had been there for a while and that she was a victim of Alzheimer's Disease.

As we talked, I asked if she would be upset if he was a bit late. He replied that she no longer knew who he was, that she had not recognized him in five years now.

I was surprised, and asked him, 'And you still go every morning, even though she doesn't know who you are?' He smiled as he patted my hand and said, 'She doesn't know me but I still know who she is.'

I had to hold back tears as he left and goose bumps popped up on my arm, and thought, that's the kind of love I want in my life.'

True love is neither physical, nor romantic. True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been and will be. With all the jokes and fun that are in e-mails, sometimes there is one thing that comes along and presents an important message. This story is worthy of sharing.

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything...they just make the best of everything they have. 'Life isn't about how to survive the storm but how to dance in the rain.