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 Vietnam War Era Memorial - PROJECT UPDATE

Donations reached $5,100 in March, a $400 gain over February against our needed goal of $25,000 to build and maintain the Memorial. The number of donors has improved to a total of 32 people, couples and companies or organizations. If everyone reading this note donated at least $10 to this worthy cause, just think where we could be! Please also remember, all donations are tax deductibile! We are continuing an alphabetical list of current donors. To view it along with details you will need to mail in your donation, please see our monthly UPDATE in the Honoring Our Veterans section of this issue of HixNews.

There were no new entries in March to either the Confirmed or Unconfirmed Lists of Names and the Confirmed List continues to stand at 1,894. We continue to need the help of all readers to fill in missing data on the Confirmed List and to help us qualify the names shown on the Unconfirmed List.

As in the past, when you visit this month's UPDATE, please remember that clicking on the two links near the bottom of the page will bring you to the complete Confirmed and Unconfirmed Lists of Names as of the end of March. And, If you have any new information to send us, please email it to me at 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, Project Coordinator

In March '2015, the Hicksville Vietnam Era Veterans Memorial Fund reached $5000 in donations which is about a quarter of what is needed to bring the memorial to life. The committee would like to thank everyone who has donated up to now. Many of the donations received are accompanied by a short note expressing the individual's support and encouragement regarding the project. Below are some of the notes that have accompanied the donations.

Semper Fi
Bill Walden

Thirty Year Reunion - Class of 1985

When: Saturday, August 8, 2015
Time: 7:00pm - 12:00am
Where: Memorare Caterers, 2183 Jackson Ave, Seaford, New York 11783

Everything Finalized!! We are booked and ready to PARTY!! Our reunion is all set, we have a talented band of Classmates, a wonderful DJ and photographer, excellent food, top shelf open bar and choice of bottled beer....and we have 5 hours to enjoy each others company, reconnect and have a BLAST!!The cost per person is $95, including all fees, taxes, gratuities and a few dollars towards decorations, balloons, etc. We have opened a separate bank account, so please make checks or money orders payable to Janette Marvelli and send them to PO Box 771, Holbrook, NY 11741. (Returned check fee will apply)Please include a note with your check telling me the names of the people you are paying for and an email address so we can send you a confirmation that I have received it! The deadline to pay is July 3rd. There will be no 'tickets' as we will have a check in list when you arrive. There will be NO PAYING AT THE DOOR!! Pay in advance or you will not be allowed to attend!

We have also reserved blocks of hotel rooms with a check in date of 8/7 and check out 8/9 (you can adjust it accordingly when you call) at the Plainview Holiday Inn (516) 349-1240 for $139 +tax a night for a choice of a king bed or 2 doubles and the Bar Harbour Best Western, (516) 541-2000 for $112 +tax a night, which is the closest hotel to the caterer, in Massapequa Park. Also gives you a choice of King or 2 double beds. When you call these hotels, you must mention that you are part of the Hicksville High School 30th reunion to get that rate. These rooms will be released July 7th, so book as soon as you know you are attending! If the reserved rooms fill up, we can always extend the block for more rooms at those rates.

There are also many other hotels in the area, we checked out tons, lol. The Hicksville Econolodge (516) 433-3900 is great if you just need a bed & a shower and they are the cheapest (it is not as seedy as it once was lol) and the Four Points Sheraton in Plainview, if you want it all, can be reached at (516)694-6500. We do not have rooms reserved there, call them for further info.

Again, if you know of anyone that might not be aware of this wonderful event, spread the word! Cannot wait to see you all!! Start making plans to be there!

The big 40 - let's celebrate!

When: Saturday, August 1, 6 pm - 10 pm
Where: Northport Yacht Club, 11 Bluff Point Rd, Northport, New York 11768
Price: $80/per person

Hors d'oeuvres and dinner. Cash bar.

Make out checks to HHSReunion75. Mail to:
M Pape
62 Juniper Road
Kings Park, NY 11754

See you there!!

The Newsletter

Photo Gallery

Thanks to Roe Marchese Genovese class of 1961 for the following:

Path-Laying Machine

The Internal Mechanism of a Watch by Patek Philippe, Considered the Finest Watchmaker in the World

Sunset and Eclipse Happening at the Same Time

Algodones Sand Dunes Curvy Border Fence in Southern California

Melted Glass in a Fire Damaged Building

A Child's Skull Before Losing Baby Teeth

You Won't Believe How Accurate GE's New CT Scanner Is

Intricate Colored Pencil Drawing of a Wave

This Eggshell Has More Than 20,000 Holes Drilled in It

Sverd i fjell Giant Sword Monument in Norway

 Present Day Manhattan Versus What It Would Have Looked Like 600 Years Ago

 Cool Idea for a Bridge

This Is What Space Mountain Looks Like With the Lights On

Cabbage Geometry

The Fukang Meteorite

Human Vision (Top) vs. Cat Vision (Bottom)

 A Cabinet Carved to Look Like a Digital Glitch

 Grass After a Lightning Strike

This 3D-Printed Cast Uses Ultrasound to Heal Bones 40% Faster

Bridge Over Icy Water

Fireworks, When the Camera Refocuses During the Explosion

Birthdays & Anniversaries

Memory Lane

Then and Now Pics

1958

Casale's Corner

By: Richard Lederer

About a month ago, I illuminated old expressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology. These phrases included don't touch that dial, carbon copy, you sound like a broken record and hung out to dry. A bevy of readers have asked me to shine light on more faded words and expressions, and I am happy to oblige:

Back in the olden days, we had a lot of moxie. We'd put on our best bib and tucker and straighten up and fly right. Hubba-hubba! We'd cut a rug in some juke joint and then go necking and petting and smooching and spooning and billing and cooing and pitching woo in hot rods and jalopies in some passion pit or lovers' lane. Heavens to Betsy! Gee whillikers! Jumpin' Jehoshaphat! Holy moley! We were in like Flynn and living the life of Riley, and even a regular guy couldn't accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill. Not for all the tea in China!

Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when's the last time anything was swell? Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes and pedal pushers. Oh, my aching back. Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore. Like Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle and Kurt Vonnegut's Billy Pilgrim, we have become unstuck in time. We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, "I'll be a monkey's uncle!"  or "This is a fine kettle of fish!" we discover that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent as oxygen, have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards.

Poof, poof, poof go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind. We blink, and they're gone, evanesced from the landscape and wordscape of our perception, like Mickey Mouse wristwatches, hula hoops, skate keys, candy cigarettes, little wax bottles of colored sugar water and an organ grinder's monkey.

Where have all those phrases gone? Long time passing. Where have all those phrases gone? Long time ago: Pshaw. The milkman did it. Think about the starving Armenians. Bigger than a bread box. Banned in Boston. The very idea! It's your nickel. Don't forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper. Turn-of-the-century. Iron curtain. Domino theory. Fail safe. Civil defense. Fiddlesticks! You look like the wreck of the Hesperus. Cooties. Going like sixty. I'll see you in the funny papers. Don't take any wooden nickels. Heavens to Murgatroyd! And awa-a-ay we go!

Oh, my stars and garters! It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter had liver pills. This can be disturbing stuff, this winking out of the words of our youth, these words that lodge in our heart's deep core. But just as one never steps into the same river twice, one cannot step into the same language twice. Even as one enters, words are swept downstream into the past, forever making a different river.

We of a certain age have been blessed to live in changeful times. For a child, each new word is like a shiny toy, a toy that has no age. We at the other end of the chronological arc have the advantage of remembering there are words that once did not exist and there were words that once strutted their hour upon the earthly stage and now are heard no more, except in our collective memory. It's one of the greatest advantages of aging. We can have "archaic" and eat it, too.