Hicksville High School Hicksville, New York
| The Editors: | |
|---|---|
| Buffalo Bob Casale '61 | Linda (Piccerelli) Hayden '60 |
| Pat (Koziuk) Driscoll '56 | Bob (Gleason) Wesley '61 |
To contact the editors, email
People Looking for People
We've taken a new approach to this section. It's been re-organized by Henry Lichtenstein as an online spreadsheet. Rather than publish the list here, it's now available below. If you have found the person you are looking for, please let the editors know so the name can be removed from the list. If there's someone you're looking for, just send your request and we'll be happy to add it to the list. If anyone knows these folks, send an email to:
HixNews Subscribers Name & Class List
We have an organized online spreadsheet that presents our current membership: available below. If you wish to add, subtract, or modify an entry on this list, send an email to:
Robert Edward Gleason Wesley, 1943-2010
Five years ago, February of 2010, was when the music stopped for Bob Wesley. An accomplished musician, Bob had a radio show in Dannemora, New York that aired weekly. Along with a co-host, Frank, the duo made music that the community really enjoyed. He loved music and travelled to local hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living facilities and performed for the residents free of charge.
His passing saddened many. Bob "partied hard" over the years and realized his activities would tell its toll eventually. He survived open heart surgery only to find himself spending time in the hospital for a string of illnesses that did eventually cut his life short, too short.
I remember fondly the time he travelled from Dannemora to Long Island to visit me. What would be the last time, this visit included us making a trip to New Jersey to visit with Linda Piccerelli who along with Pat Koziuk were the original editors of HixNews. Bob was instrumental in taking the Hicksville High Newsletter from ancient times into the new world. The website he established exists today and many can thank Bob for his vision of what future issues of the newsletter should be.
His daughter, Heather and granddaughter, Rebecca remember Bob as a warm, wonderful person who they miss every day.
Buffalo Bob Casale
Hicksville Vietnam War Era Memorial - PROJECT UPDATE
With moving into a new house and the Holidays in late December, I was not able to provide readers with a project update for the January 1 issue of HixNews, so this report covers progress over the past two months.As you may recall, tax exempt status for the project was achieved in mid-October of the past year and our project bank account has been open since late October. So far, just under $3,400 has been collected against an overall goal of $25,000. Only 18 people or groups have contributed thus far and 3 very generous donors make up 70% of the amount collected!
Bill Walden, Commander of Hicksville's VFW Post and a long standing member of the Project Team, is in charge of our fund raising efforts. So far, while many readers have expressed interest in the Project and have complimented the hard work put into it, very few have made a donation to help make it happen. With the Holidays behind us, we sincerely hope more readers will review this month's UPDATE in the Honoring Our Veterans section of this issue of HixNews for detailed information on how to send a donation to the Memorial Fund. Please remember, any amount you can spare is a tax deductible donation that will enable us to construct, erect and maintain the Memorial once it is in place.
Three new names were added during the December/January period to the Confirmed List of Names, which now stands at 1,893. We still need the help of all readers to fill in missing data on the Confirmed List of Names and to help us qualify the names shown on the Unconfirmed List.
Our appeal continues. As Jim Rubins did for the Class of '67 last August, 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 we are still missing data for, we can get this task completed.
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 January. And, If you have any new information to send us, please email it to me at
On behalf of the Project Team, I wish all of you good health and prosperity in this new year!
Joe Carfora, HHS 1962
Project Coordinator
