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

The final Confirmed List of Names, organized alphabetically by graduating class year, just as it will appear on the actual Memorial is what we will continue to publish from this point forward! To review the final list, please go to this month's Update in the Honoring Our Veterans tab of this issue of HixNews.

Construction of the Vietnam War Era Memorial is now complete!!! The only exception is a possible image to be added to the top of the Center Stone to make it taller. Anyone may now stop by to view the Memorial! Current photos can be seen on the Home Page of last month's issue of HixNews by clicking on the Archives tab of this issue.
The official Dedication Ceremony will be announced in the new year, at least a month before the actual date, for a day in the spring when weather should be best for an outdoor event. We only have $3,525 left in Memorial Funds and more may be needed, so it is still not too late to donate, especially since no new donations were received in October, or November.

For additional details, please see the latest Update, located on the Honoring Our Veterans tab of this newsletter.

We trust this finds you after enjoying a Very Happy Holiday Season and we wish each of you All Good Things for 2020!!

As always, should you wish to make any comments on this Update, 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

CLASS OF 1980 CLASS REUNION

August 8, 2020, 7:30-11:30 pm
Oak Room at the Heritage Club at Bethpage. 
Cost $125 includes food and drink. 
Payment info will be released soon.
Nearby Hotels include: (Book sooner rather than later)
Hilton Garden Inn Round Swamp Road
Homewood Suites Round Swamp Road
Holiday Inn, Plainview on Sunny Side Blvd
Four Points by Sheraton in Melville, Plainview on South Service Road
Any questions? Contact Sue at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

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Birthdays & Anniversaries

Memory Lane

WE ALL GET OLD IN THE END...

• I changed my car horn to gunshot sounds. People get out of the way much faster now.
• Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers. Now they drink like their fathers.
• You know that tingly little feeling you get when you really like someone? That's common sense leaving your body.
• I didn't make it to the gym today. That makes five years in a row.
• I decided to stop calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.
• Old age is coming at a really bad time. When I was a child I thought "Nap Time" was a punishment. Now, as a grownup, it feels like a small vacation.
• The biggest lie I tell myself is, "I don't need to write that down, I'll remember it."
• I don't have gray hair; I have "wisdom highlights"! I'm just very wise.
• If God wanted me to touch my toes, he would've put them on my knees.
• Last year I joined a support group for procrastinators. We haven't met yet.
• Why do I have to press one for English when you're just going to transfer me to someone I can't understand anyway?
• Of course I talk to myself; sometimes I need expert advice.
• At my age "Getting lucky" means walking into a room and remembering what I came in there for.
• Actually I'm not complaining because I am a Senager. (Senior teenager) I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 60 years later.
• I don't have to go to school or work and I get an allowance every month.
• I have my own pad and I don't have a curfew.
• I have a driver's license and my own car.
• The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant and I don't have acne.
• Life is great!
• I have more friends I should send this to, but right now I can't remember their names.
• Now, I'm wondering, "did I send this to you, or did you send it to me"?

Casale's Corner

Casale's Corner January 2020

For a couple years I've been blaming it on lack of sleep and too much pressure from my job, but now I found out the real reason: I'm tired because I'm overworked.

• The population of this country is 337 million.
• 104 million are retired and 100 million are on SSI or disability.
• That leaves 133 million to do the work.
• There are 85 million in school, which leaves 48 million to do the work.
• Of this there are 29 million employed by the federal government.
• That leaves 19 million to do the work.
• 2.8 million are in the Armed Forces, which leaves 16.2 million to do the work.
• Take from the total the 14,800,000 people who work for State and City Governments That leaves 1.4 million to do the work.
• At any given time there are 188,000 people in hospitals, leaving 1,212,000 to do the work.
• Now, there are 1,211,998 people in prisons.
• That leaves just two people to do the work.
• You, and me.
• And you're sitting at your computer reading jokes.