March 2024: Volume 24 - Issue 6

Newsletter for the Alumni and Friends of Hicksville High School - Hicksville, New York

Dear Readers,
We hope you enjoy our latest issue. If you are looking for the Article Pages the link has been relocated to the top right of your screen. You can use the links to navigate to other articles. We are in the process of writing an article about working at Sears in Hicksville. Please share your memories with This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Please send us your article and year of HHS graduation. Besides Sears, article contributions are welcome! We would love to hear from you!
 - Your HixNews Team

PIXville Sports

 Wayne Sternberger, Class of 1971

Editors' Note: What follows is the history of PIXville in the words and pictures of Wayne Sternberger in what he has called Hicksville High School Behind the Camera.

I graduated from Hicksville High School in June 1971. There are a few pictures of me from my time at HHS and HJHS, but they are few and far between. This was largely due to me taking pictures of everyone else. I had a couple of cameras, lots of film, and a basement darkroom. And, because this was long before the world was colorized, my photos were black and white. Fortunately for me, the memories are still in vivid color.

I was on the audio-visual squad in Jr. High and High School, so I was also behind the projector, on the PA system, and making copies of handouts and tests. I was at sporting events, pep rallies, dances, class elections, school board meetings, and other parts of our HHS existence. While we all witnessed the world changing, I had the photographic “evidence.” And I wanted to share some of that in the form of photos that I unearthed while sorting through more than 50 years of what I call collectibles and my wife (Shari Stockinger Sternberger, HHS ’71) would call clutter. These photos didn’t make it into the yearbook—for good reason—yet probably have meaning for many of us.

I suppose our parents expected school to provide academic and vocational preparation for our futures primarily. We were more likely to embrace school for the social and extracurricular activities. I want to share some of the memories I captured in the pictures I took. While they reflect a small, finite period in the history of HHS, I’m sure that HHS classmates of all ages can share the nostalgia.

 The pictures that follow spotlight sports. All forms of sports were practiced and competed during the school year, including cheerleading. We got psyched for big games at pep rallies. 

A Tour of Hicksville's Veterans' Park

Submitted by John Maniec, HHS Class of 1964

Editors' Note: John Maniec recently returned to Hicksville and created this narrated video of the Veterans' Park. It is located at the site of the former high school/junior high school and now middle school on Jerusalem Avenue. Thank you, John, for sharing these memorials with those of us who now live far from Hicksville.

Click below to watch the video

Etcetera for March 2024

Are you turning 75 this year? Contact Ken Marcus, HHS 1967, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for registration information for the 75th Birthday Party to be held October 19, 2024.

People Looking for People

From Ben Kiker: Hello all, I am not an Alumni, but I have a request from my 80-year-old Mother-in-law Joan Piciullo, Hicksville Class of 1962. She is looking for information or contact with a classmate whom she was fond of. His name is Joseph Walsh, and he is also in the class of 1962. Thank you in advance for the opportunity. (Editor's Note: This was originally published in the Hicksville High School Alumni page on Facebook.)

In Memoriam - Names are listed by class on our website. These are recent submissions. Click the name to open the obituary.

 Ann Samoray Brown, Class of 1961,  passed away on February 15, 2024

Doreen Reinhardt Alexander, Class of 1977, passed away from cancer on February 26, 2024.

John F. Geiger, Class of 1969, passed away on September 9, 2011.

 This is a separate reunion from the multi-class reunion that is planned.