Hello,  

I just awoke this morning, having had a dream about a little girl with pigtails with whom I was friends in elementary school.  Her name was Judith Frimmer and we went to P.S. 79 in the Bronx.  She lived on Creston Avenue.  

I Googled her name and it led me to this site where I see she submitted an item earlier this year.   

Would you mind forwarding this message to Judith and letting her know that she's thought of fondly by someone from the old neighborhood.   

Thanks very much, 

Louis Pike 

The message was forwarded to Judy. Ed.

I do not know if the bakery subject has been exhausted, but I recall a bakery in the "A&P" strip shopping center on Old Country Road across from OCR elementary school. Do I win a complimentary seven layer cake if this one hasn't been named yet?

Ken Marcus '67

RE: http://community.webshots.com/ user/Koziuk

You are so fortunate to have your old family albums. I don't know whatever happened to mine. Somewhere in our moves, they disappeared and I often wish that they would turn up. Wishing for a miracle.

    I had a laugh looking at the old pix of Hicksville. If I were to go there now, I may as well be on the moon as everything seems to be changed so much. I see the old movie theater is now a church. I remember that on each side of the entrance was a doorway that led upstairs. On one side there was a clothing manufacturer and on the other side there were offices. I worked in one of the offices; it was a collection agency and was my very first office job. The firehouse was directly across the street and at noon they would sound the siren and I would leap a foot off the chair. I knew it was coming but it caught me by surprise every day. 

    Someday, I'll take a trip down there and take a look for myself. There are some people who are giving me the hint that it's a trip that's long overdue, so maybe soon. 

    Pat (McCarthy) Schwalbach, '56

The home on the NE corner of Kolmer and Princess was owned by the Gish family, the SE corner was owned by the Ryberg family, I hope that helps.

Fred Heck, '70

I look forward to finding Hixnews in my mailbox each month. The December issue was especially poignant, with the sad news about the untimely death of Nicky Larkin and the nice reprise of Hicksville history by his brother Tom. Having been away from the Island for many years, I especially appreciated the photos of Broadway. It was amazing to see how little the buildings had changed from what I remembered (even though many now house new businesses). The Church of Christ, at 105 Broadway, where Nicky, Tom, and I were members of the Youth Group, has received quite a facelift, though the building's lines are still easily identifiable.

Tom, like you I am a history buff. About a year ago we finally got around to starting a historical society in the small but historic Virginia community where I now live. We have a somewhat eclectic website, on which have been posted a number of things I've written about the history of West Point. If anyone is interested, the address is www.hswpva.org. The enclosed photos are, I suppose, somewhat historical as well.

Bill Palmer (Class of '64)

West Point, VA

The Sign-A-Rama building was also the location of Mr. Curt Unverhau's drug store.  Elsbeth Unverhau Creutz was his daughter and one of my best friends is Karin Creutz Weyer, Mr. Unverhau's grandaughter.  Elsbeth was an HHS graduate and Karin and I graduated in 1954.  Her sister Janet Creutz Anderson graduated in 1955. 

Dr. Elwood Curtis, the dentist, had his office above the drug store. Dr. Curtis had prize roosters he used to "show" at the Mineola Fair.  Funny, how you don't forget some things.  Curtis' home on W. Cherry Street became a restaurant for several years.  Not sure what is there now as I don't get down that way much.  Mostly Broadway area. 

Huettner's Furniture store moved diagonally across from Unverhau's and became a department store on the south side of Marie Street (across from Bahrenburg's) which would be to the "camera's" left.  After the widening of Broadway, the block from Marie Street to Nicholai Street remains void of buildings as it once was.

As I'm writing this, I just thought of the newspaper store on the corner of Broadway and the south side of E. Marie Street - BRESNICKS.  Arnold Bresnick was in my class.  Name just came to me.  They say it is the short term memory that goes first!

Ellen (Boos) Bruwer, '54

Hi guys, you are doing a great job with the HixNews.  I love getting it in my inbox.  One of the few messages I actually read.  One letter in this last December 2008 issue referred to comments by Mr. Arnold & Mr. Buttice, my old music teachers.  But I couldn't find said comments anywhere and would surely like to read what they have to say.  Am glad that they are still alive.  Could you send me the page or issue that contains their comments?  I have deleted these issues after I read them and cannot look back to find them.  Thanks so much.  You have a good holiday season and keep up your good work!

Stephanie (Schlegel) Manning, HHS 1968

Davis, California

Please add me to your email list for your newsletter.  
 
Kathy Richards Dernoga, class of 1972. I live in PA. Date of birth October 16. Husband, Michael. 

Thank you.  

 I also noticed that someone is looking for Bobby Becker, class of 1972. He still lives in Hicksville, 100 Underhill Ave. I don't know an email address or telephone number. He may also be a member of the Hicksville Fire Department.  
 
Kathy Dernoga 
Interiors by Kathy 
www.interiorsbykathy.com

I enjoy the newsletter every month. It brings back so many good memories and also helps me remember things I forgot when I read the stories and see the pictures. As soon as I get my scanner working again I will send the fifth grade class picture I had from fifth grade at Old Country Road School. I also have, as soon as I remember where I put it, the 1961 Senior Class Picture from our Washington DC. That year we broke it up into two trips. We stayed on a boat, but for some reason I can't remember all the details. If someone has a good memory of that trip it would be good to hear some details to jog my memory. Some of the people on my trip were Art Clemenz, Peggy Giles.  
  
One quick story that always sticks out in my mind: One day I wore a white shirt, white pants, white bucks and a black belt to school. Everybody called me the Good Humor Man that day. You know I didn't wear those clothes anymore. 
  
Thanks again for all you do and for continuing the hard work to make this happen every month. 
  
Bill Canham Class of 1961

[New reader] Heather (Donlon) Kaley. Heather didn't graduate from HHS, but she lived in Hicksville all her life until she moved to Florida a couple of years ago. Heather is my niece and my sister, her mother Martha (Canham) Donlon, '56 and father William Donlon both graduated from Hicksville, but both her parents have passed away. 
  
Thanks 
Bill Canham, '61

My name is Mitchell Egan, graduated 1960 from Hicksville High, presently living in SR, CA beautiful wine country.  I would like to try and find Neil Lensky 1960 and Robert Nadell 1960.  Also, great work on the newsletter to all of you. [I'm] ready for the 50th.

Thanks,

 Mitch Egan

By this time Mitch and Robert should have reconnected. Ed.

 Though you might like to know the approximate date of the bank mural photo. It is late spring or early summer of 1910. The Linden tree is in bloom and the car license plate is from 1910. I collect license plates and have one of these.

Carl Probst, 1959

New service in today's Newsday with a link that I will include here. May be a useful link from Hixnews. Carl Probst, 1959 

http://www.longislandindexmaps.org/ 

I was reading about the tornado - someone thought it was on New Bridge Road.  Well, it might have come that way, but it sure did hit the Carvel store and Dr. Berkowitz place.  I know, I went thru it about 1 minute before it hit! 
Kathy (Koziuk) Hannaman, '60.

Re:  Matt Brucker's ride for MS 
  
Dear Matt, 
  
Thank you for your letter in the Hixnews Newsletter.  I appreciate you riding for Multiple Sclerosis back east.  I have MS and contribute and raise funds for the Walk for MS each April out here in Tacoma, WA.   
  
Thanks again for your support, 
Chet Nichols ('58)

Thank you very much. I can not tell you how much I enjoy the news letter. It has already put me in touch with an old friend, and college fraternity brother, from Nassau Community College days, Santo Carfora. I enjoy the letters, and recognizing some of the names of some of the cheer leaders from the football days of 62-63, though I rode the bench most of the time from injuries. (Gave me more opportunities to make friends with the girls, and get in trouble with Coach Grantham....Hi to Cathy Cassidy, Barbara Philips and Nancy Englert, my favorites at the time).

You guys revive my long time memory, for which I used to depend on my old friend Larry Trubinski, rest his soul. God Bless and Happy Holidays to all my HHS bretheren. The picture is me, my youngest, who's 21 now and my 3 year old grand daughter by my other daughter.

Joe Platania, '63

To Mike Regan and the rest of the 3d MARDIV;

  I want to say Thank You Mike. It's a long time over due I suppose. I was stationed in the MAC V compound in HUE, Viet Nam during the '68 TET Offensive. It was you and the rest of the 3D that came to our rescue and relief.  When those tanks roled in and the ANTOS tracked vehicles rumbled along the street, it was a sweet sound for this Army Lt and his Signals outfit isolated and surrounded in the compound. Your Physics is a bit heady for a History Major, but your valor and service does an old man's heart good. And to know a Hicksville Grad came to my rescue, makes it even better,

Joe Platania '63

Recently, Hicksville High School graduates Joe Ingino, 67 (left, President of Nassau County Chapter#82 of Vietnam Veterans of America) and Bill Walden (right, Commander of the Hicksville Veterans of Foreign Wars) met New York Congressman Steve Israel at the Air Power Museum in Farmingdale. They were there to hear Congressman Israel speak about veterans benefits.

Keep up the good work.

Respectfully submitted

Bill Walden, 65

Hi...
This is Lois (Levy) Calame. I would love to get e-mails of the Hicksville High  Newsletter.
Not much time right now to tell you much about me. I live in Merrick with my two cats, Harry and Delia.
Have been married twice, divorced the first time and widowed 9 years ago.
I have three children,  Donald, a published author and producer, screen writer.
Robert, an artist and Camille, a social worker who blessed me with three beautiful grandchildren.
I am retired and don't have time right now to go into the many things I have been doing.
 Lois

Hi Bob:

Thanks for the E-mail. I am a periodic visitor to Hixnews.com and I always enjoy it. It would be great if you would E-mail me when you do the newsletter updates. I am attaching an update of my Classmates bio and would appreciate notification of when you publish it.

By the way, those photos of your family, Hicksville then and now, and those old class pictures you post in Classmates are fab, keep up the good work!

I understand that there has been some though among alumni to display the names of alumni Vietnam War vets in the vicinity of the plaques bearing the names of WWI & WWII veteran alumni in front of the old high school, then middle school building on Jerusalem Avenue. Did that ever become a reality?

After graduating Hicksville High School, I attended Hofstra University, graduating with a BA in Biology and a commission as a 2nd Lt in the US Army. I served eight years in the Army, including two tours of duty in the Republic of Vietnam. I left the Army to go into law enforcement. I spent the following 28 years as a criminal investigator in the Bureau of Veterans Affairs and in the US Department of Commerce. In 1999, I retired with 36 years service to the US government.

Since retiring, I have been a substitute teacher and have earned a Massachusetts Educator's License to teach high school Biology. I like to garden, train dogs, and in the summer, I am a docent, volunteer teacher, at the Roger Williams Park Zoo, in Providence, RI.

My wife, Hope, and I have been married for over 43 years. We have a son, a daughter and five grandchildren. We live in Dartmouth, MA, our home situated on an acre yard.

I'd love to hear from people with whom I went to high school.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to you and your family.

Your friend,
Steve Alfieri, '60

Hi, especially to the class of '56! 

Have just finished shooting a comedy clip called "Old People News," (OPN)! You can catch me as "Lorna Ludwig," Home & Health Reporter, reporting on the wondrous benefits of Peroxide! For those of you that remember the radio show, "Let's Pretend," Arthur Anderson, the gentleman playing the male anchor, worked on "Let's Pretend" from the age of 12 until he was a soldier in WWII! Go to: Old People News

How exciting to find a WEB site devoted exclusively to Hicksville High School Alumni. 

I am a 1960 graduate from Hicksville High. I then attended California Polytechnic College, which is now California State Polytechnic University. I majored in applied mathematics and minored in physics. I graduated in 1965 with a BS, received a commission as a 2LT from ROTC, and entered the service in August of 1965. I spent a year in military schools and at my first duty station at The Red River Army Depot. I was assigned to a specialized

Ordnance Company that was to move to central Germany and support our NATO forces in the cold war. After eighteen months with the Ordnance Company I was reassigned to a General Staff position with the Deputy Chief of Staff for logistics, Hqs US Army Europe, in Heidelberg Germany. I rotated back to the states in July of 1969 and separated from the Army back into civilian life. I was married at the time to a woman whose roots were back in Texas, so back to Texas we went, and have been here ever since. 

I have been in the "Computer Business" since 1969. I am currently working for an IBM mainframe outsourcing company and work with their Direct Marketing Services group. I process mailing lists for various clients who mail mostly catalogs. 

I am part of a group of Hicksville High graduates(John Goodell, John Hannon, Pete Wells, Jim Edwardson, Peter Henneberger, Robert Oehler, Bill Allen, and yours truly Ron Rocek) who have stayed in touch with each other and meet every three years. We will be meeting again next fall here in Dallas. The group, until recently, was made up of eight HHS graduates. We are now one short as Jim Edwardson was killed in a general aviation accident a couple of years ago. 

I didn't see a visitor's directory where we can contact old acquaintances via email. 
Thank you for your efforts.

Ron Rocek, '60 

PS. Bob Casale, my folks bought your house on 14 Edgewood Dr in the late 60's.

Holidays should be a joyous time but for some who have lost spouses like myself or loved ones it can be a difficult time. Thank heavens for family because with all the love our families and friends give us it helps from feeling lonely! Memories help and so do seeing our grandchildren's joy. I celebrate Hanukah and Christmas having one son-in-law that is Italian. Hanukah and Christmas to me means seeing my family together and enjoying one another. My best friend, my Puggle Noah reminds me of the simple things in life we sometimes forget about. May our New Year bring us a better year for all with health, happiness, a better economic future for all! 
Warmest Regards, 
Shelly Baron (Heyman) from Naples, Florida, '61

Hi Bob,

I received your message, and would love getting your newsletter.

I got married to my high school sweetheart soon after graduation. We have three children: 42, 40 and 36, and five grandchildren; 18, 11, 9, 2 1/2 and 3 mos.

I worked as a medical office manager and my husband was a Long Island Railroad Engineer.

We are both retired now and we live in Las Vegas and love it.

Our two daughters live here, our oldest with her husband and our youngest along with her husband and three girls.

We've been out here almost twelve years. We go back to NY generally once a year, our son, his wife and two children are still on Long Island along with other family and many friends. We keep ourselves busy with our grandchildren, volunteer work and going out to shows, spending time with friends, going out to dinner, and other Vegas activities. 
I will look forward to hearing from you and maybe other classmates too!!

Karen Paris (O'dell) 1964

This was the first I have heard about the newsletter. Please include me. 
After high school I went to Mercy Hospital in Rockville Center for school to become a Radiological Technologist. After graduation, I worked at Central General Hospital in Plainview. But my love of the beach became more important. I moved to Sarasota, Florida and worked for a group of Radiologist's. I loved being near the gulf. I met my husband on Venice beach. After 35 years of Florida and being to close to Hurricane Charlie we moved to Winston Salem, North Carolina. I forgot how much I enjoyed the change of seasons. 

Keep up the good work and thanks for the memories 

Shelley Grether Evans 
Class of 1965

Thanks for posting the Photo Album on Classmates.com of "Downtown Hicksville 1966".....I hadn't looked at it before! Sure brings back memories!

AND THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK YOU DO ON HIX NEWS!

Jim Rubins '67