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.


HICKSVILLE VIETNAM WAR ERA MEMORIAL - PROJECT UPDATE

We are most pleased to report that Bill Walden, our Hicksville Coordinator and Project Treasurer, is making a rapid recovery from last month's heart surgery and is surprising his doctor with how quickly he is recovering! So, we are back to normal and our full monthly Update, appears in this month's Honoring Our Veterans tab of the newsletter, as it has appeared in the past.

A total of $675 was donated in the month's of March and April, bringing total available funds to begin Memorial construction to $17,857. At this time, we are also pleased to announce that Project Team member, Terry Wallace, himself a Vietnam War Veteran, with artistic talent, has agreed to head our construction committee and will be coordinating his efforts with both Bill Walden and myself. Terry will round out his committee over the next month, with the goal of having the Memorial unveiled at the Jerusalem Avenue School Memorial Gardens on Veteran's Day, 2018.

Your donations are still vitally needed to complete this project! Details regarding how to donate are in the Monthly Update, as mentioned earlier in this note, where you can also view the links to the Confirmed and Unconfirmed Lists of Names for the Memorial. Please continue to tap your check books for this effort.

Plus, should you have any new information to report for either list, particularly in filling in the missing data blanks on the Confirmed List, please email 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

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.


main.h4Pat Koziuk Driscoll: 1938-2009

In May of 2009, Hicksville Newsletter, and the community lost a true friend who worked diligently on providing former alumni with much sought after nostalgia. Pat, who graduated Hicksville High in 1956, was affectionately known as an editor of the Hicksville Newsletter. She compiled most of the material that was included in each issue of HixNews and spent countless hours copying and pasting information on multiple pages.

HixNews started out as a two or three page email that was sent to some 100 or so readers. Eventually, it evolved into a multi-page newsletter that placed onto its own website and was supported with many special features. It was fortunate that Pat saw many of the changes that surfaced over the years.

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main.h7Most probably never knew Pat was not in the best of health because she was never looking for sympathy or an "attaboy!" She didn't complain but just kept going like the energizer bunny. Pat shared time with her Florida pals shopping and fraternizing despite needing special consideration over the years. Pat spent most of her last year on oxygen 24/7.

She loved her portable transportation (a golf cart) that provided the mobility she lacked because of her dependence on oxygen. Her death created a void that exists today.

Pat's efforts brought many hours of joy to HixNews readers who waited patiently each month for tidbits of information. Pat, along with Linda Piccerelli Hayden, a 1960 graduate, were the pioneers of HixNews. They spent many hours scouring through emails from former students gathering information that was typed into an email and sent out the beginning of each month.

main.h8Pat was surrounded by family when she was summoned by a higher authority. This was not at all unusual because family was her life. She spent many hours enjoying those she loved most.

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