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

The very unfortunate passings within our Project Team last month and difficulty in gaining new input from team members during the current Holiday Season, leaves us with little to report this month, with the exception of a promise to regroup in January to get the Memorial built in 2019. Should any of our local Long Island readers wish to join the Project Team to help complete Memorial construction, please drop me an email ,along with the best phone number to reach you, at the address noted below.

If you will click on the Honoring Our Veterans tab in this issue you will find a small correction on the area school attended and high school class for one of our KIA's that was discovered by a HixNews editor, along with the usual links to the Confirmed and Unconfirmed Lists of Names for our Vietnam War Era Veterans.

Some previously missing information has been filled in once again on the Confirmed List of Names and we continue to urgently need reader help in filling in a lot of still missing information by sending me an email with any data you are aware of.

As always, should you have any new, or missing, information to report for either List, or, should you wish to comment on the Project's status, please email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
I hope all readers are enjoying a Super Holiday Season and we wish you All Good Things for 2019!

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

Make sure to visit Memory Lane this month. Featured are some photos from the 2nd Mega Reunion from March of 2007.

We hope you will visit the Photo Gallery this month and see the Carfora family with their extended family in Colorado for the holidays.

The Newsletter

We regret that this edition of the Hixnews newsletter has been lost and is no longer recoverable.

Photo Gallery

The Carfora Family

Some Photos From Trip To Colorado

Birthdays & Anniversaries

Memory Lane

F L A S H B A C K

These pictures are from the second Mega Reunion that was held in March of 2007.

Casale's Corner

The beauty of a language and the art of constructing the words of the language significantly lead to their meaning.  This is not a case of twisting, but of the refined manner of presentation by witty minds.  A good case for reference - Lawyers!

One evening, after attending the theater, two gentlemen were walking down the avenue when they observed a rather well dressed and attractive young lady walking ahead of them.   One of them turned to the other and remarked, "I'd give $250 to spend the night with that woman."Much to their surprise, the young lady overheard their remark, turned around, and replied, "I'll take you up on that offer."She had a neat appearance and a pleasant voice, so after bidding his companion good night, the man accompanied the young lady to her apartment.

The following morning, as he prepared to leave, the man gave her $125. She demanded the rest of the money, stating, "If you don't give me the other $125 I'll sue you for it."  He laughed, saying "I'd like to see you get it on these grounds."Within a few days, he was surprised when he received a summons ordering his presence in court as a defendant in a lawsuit.  He hurried to his lawyer and explained the details of the case.  His lawyer said, "She can't possibly get a judgment against you on such grounds, but it will be interesting to see how her case will be presented."

After the usual preliminaries, the lady's Lawyer addressed the court as follows:  "Your honor, my client, this lady, is the owner of a piece of property, a garden spot, surrounded by a profuse growth of shrubbery, which property she agreed to rent to the defendant for a specified length of time for the sum of $250.The defendant took possession of the property, used it extensively for the purposes of which it was rented, but upon evacuating the premises, he paid only $125, one-half of the amount agreed upon. The rent was not excessive, since it is restricted property, and we ask judgment be granted against the defendant to assure payment of the balance."

The defendant's Lawyer was not only surprised but also impressed and amused by the way his opponent had presented the case.  Naturally, his defense was somewhat different from the way he originally planned to present it.   He rose to the occasion!

'Your honor," he said, "My client agrees that the lady has a fine piece of property, that he did rent such property for a time, and a degree of pleasure was derived from the transaction.  However, my client found a well on the property around which he placed his own stones, sunk a shaft, and erected a pump, all labor performed personally by him.  We claim these improvements to the property were sufficient to offset the unpaid amount, and that the plaintiff was adequately compensated for the rental of said property.  We, therefore, ask that judgment not be granted.

The young lady's lawyer answered, "Your honor, my client agrees that the defendant did find a well on her property. However, had the defendant not known that the well existed, he would never have rented the property.  Also, upon evacuating the premises, the defendant removed the stones, pulled out the shaft, and took the pump with him. In doing so, he not only dragged the equipment through the shrubbery but left the hole much larger than it was prior to his occupancy, making the property much less desirable to others. We, therefore, ask that judgment be granted."

In the Judge's decision, he provided for two options:  "Pay the balance $125 to the plaintiff, or have the equipment detached from its current location and provide it to the plaintiff for damages."The defendant wrote out a check immediately.