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

To contact the editors, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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HICKSVILLE VIETNAM WAR ERA MEMORIAL - PROJECT UPDATE

January brought us one new donor and one new name to add to the Confirmed List of Names. However, total donations were at an all time low. I don't think the problem was Holiday spending, since last January we received $755 in new donations and passed the $10,000 milestone in total.

Total donations are now $17,942, about 72% of our $25,000 goal to build, place and maintain the Memorial.

With 171 donors, we have still received donations from less than 10% of the HixNews readership. So, if many of you who have yet to donate can spare as little as $10, we can easily achieve our goal. Please remember, all donations are tax deductible.

An alphabetical list of donors through January, along with details you will need to mail in your donation, can be viewed in this month's MEMORIAL UPDATE in the Honoring Our Veterans section of the newsletter.

The additional new name brings the The Confirmed List of Names to a new total of 1,911. When you visit this month's detailed UPDATE, please remember that clicking on the two links near the bottom of thepage 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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

We sure hope the new year is off to a good start for each and every one of you!!

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

Hicksville High School class of '67 Reunion is being planned. But this is the Big One: 50th Reunion. It will be at the Joseph Barry Knights of Columbus, Hicksville. We are starting early to give people time to make plans.

Click here to see the attached flyer for a description of what's in the offing for the weekend and the registration form.

We are asking people to register early and spread the word, Comets '67 to reunite again.

The Newsletter

Photo Gallery

Once famed Palatka Metamora Lucas New Line paddle wheel steam boat, cruising along the Ocklawaha River, Florida, 1902

Gold's Curio Store, Santa Fe, New Mexico, circa 1897

Glacier Point and South Dome, Yosemite Valley, 1898

The Lobby, Old Faithful Inn, Yellowstone Park, ca 1897, still open

The Arcade, Cleveland, 1901, still open for business

The Old South Church, Boston, 1900. built in 1729

St. Charles Street, New Orleans, 1900

Bright Angel Trail, Grand Canyon, Arizona, c. 1902. You can still find the same trail

Salt Air Pavilion, Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1901. Burned down in 1925.

Carmel Bay near Monterey, California, 1900. No word on whether this tree is still standing.

South View, Hotel del Coronado by the sea, California, 1899. Still Open!!!

The Boardwalk, Atlantic City, 1900

Birthdays & Anniversaries

Memory Lane

God's Plan for Aging

Submitted by Kathy McDonald Corey 1960

Most seniors never get enough exercise. In His Wisdom God decreed that seniors become forgetful so they would have to search for their glasses, keys and other things thus doing more walking. And God looked down and saw that it was good.

Then God saw there was another need. In His Wisdom he made seniors lose coordination so they would drop things requiring them to bend, reach & stretch. And God looked down and saw that it was good.

Then God considered the function of bladders and decided seniors would have additional calls of nature requiring more trips to the bathroom, thus providing more exercise.  God looked down and saw that it was good.

So if you find as you age, you are getting up and down more, remember it's God's will. It is all in your best interest even though you mutter under your breath.

Nine Important Facts To Remember As We Grow Older:

#9 - Death is the number 1 killer in the world.

#8 - Life is sexually transmitted.

#7 - Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

#6 - Men have 2 motivations: hunger and hanky-panky, and they can't tell them apart. If you see a gleam in his eyes, make him a sandwich.

#5 - Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks, months, maybe years.

#4 - Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital, dying of nothing.

#3 - All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

#2 - In the 60's, people took LSD to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.

#1 - Life is like a jar of jalapeno peppers. What you do today may be a burning issue tomorrow. 

Casale's Corner

For All Who Need to Know Everything

Thanks to Joe Carfora, Class of 1962

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for Blood Plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times. Oh , go ahead ... I'll wait.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes or shark attacks. (So, watch your Ass )

You burn more calories sleeping! than you do watching television.

Oak trees do NOT produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The King of Hearts is the only King WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Since Venus is normally associated with women, what does this tell you?

That women are going in the 'wrong' direction...!

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning...

Most dust particles in your house are made from DEAD SKIN!

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.  So did the first 'Marlboro Man'. 

Walt Disney was afraid OF MICE!

PEARLS DISSOLVE IN VINEGAR!

The ten most valuable brand names on earth:

Apple, Coca Cola, Google, IBM, Microsoft, GE, McDonalds, Samsung, Intel and Toyota, in that order.

It IS possible to lead a cow upstairs ...  but, NOT downstairs.

A duck's quack doesn't echo,  and no one knows why. 

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least Six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

(I keep my toothbrush in the living room now!)

And the best for last...Turtles can breathe through their BUTTS! 

(I know some people like that,don't YOU?) 

So...Remember, knowledge is everything, so pass it on and go move your toothbrush! 

And stop folding that DANG PAPER!

Life is not perfect. Life is not easy. Life is good.