Hicksville Vietnam War Era Memorial UPDATE

Fund Raising:  March and April donations totaled $675, with four new and two repeat donors.  Total donations have now reached $18,732, almost 75% of our $25,000 goal. 

The total number of donors is now 177, still a very small percentage of the nearly 2,000 readers of HixNews.

After IRS filing deductions reported last October, our bank account is now at $17,857.

Donations remain below 10% of HixNews readership, so if many of you who have yet to donate will spare as little as $10 for this worthy cause, we can achieve our needed goal very soon.  

Remember, your donations are tax deductible.  Just follow the simple instructions below.  Your generosity will be very much appreciated.

Donation checks should be made out to:
Hicksville Vietnam Era Memorial Project

And should be mailed to:  

Hicksville Vietnam Era Memorial Project
c/o William Walden
245 West 9th Street
Deer Park , NY 11729

An alphabetical list of current donors appears at the end of this monthly update.

We began accepting donations in October, 2014, upon achieving tax-exempt status from the IRS.  In the 31 months that have passed since then, donations have averaged $604 per month, with approximately $3,400 raised in 2014, $6,200 in 2015 and $8,300 in 2016. Raising an additional $7,100 in this new year will achieve our final goal, but 4 months into the new year we have only raised $810, way behind our needed rate to complete the Project!

As you can easily see, monthly donations have greatly lost momentum and any amount you can spare, even as a repeat donor, will be truly appreciated.

We are extremely pleased to report that Bill Walden is making a very rapid recovery from heart surgery last month!  We are also very happy to report that Project Team member, Terry Wallace, himself a Vietnam Veteran, who has an artistic background, has agreed to chair our construction sub-committee. Terry should finish organizing the rest of his committee, which will coordinate with both Bill Walden and me, with the goal of having the Memorial completed and on-site at the Jerusalem Avenue School Memorial Gardens by Veteran's Day, 2018.

The Confirmed List of Names remains at 1,911 with no new names added in March, or April.  Slight progress was made on the missing data additions for many names.  We continue to need help from all our readers here!!

As a HixNews reader, please help us by reviewing both lists when you select the "click here" options near the bottom of this update.  To save you time, just look for names from your class year and other years you may be familiar with, as a reference and see if you have a new name or some missing data on existing names to email to us.  Class years, where known, are specifically shown and missing data is marked in red, to make it easy for you to see what's needed.

The Unconfirmed List was created to specifically insure we don't leave anyone behind from earlier class years (the 1940's and 50's) who served during the Vietnam War Era and deserve recognition.  Please see if you can help us establish if these folks served during the Vietnam Era (Vietnam Era dates are shown in the "Memorial Qualifications" section below).

Memorial Qualifications:  Overall Qualifications for the Memorial were displayed monthly in this report for a long time and have not changed.  If you are a new reader, please check a January, 2015 or earlier issue of HixNews for qualifications.

Here's what we continue to need from each person reading this to do:

Please click on the following link to review the Confirmed List of Names: Click here

Please click on the following link to review the UNCONFIRMED List of Names: Click here

If you know of someone who is not listed, or if you have information we are still missing, please email what you have to Joe Carfora at jcar4a@aol.com.    Please use the information contained on the current list as a guide for the data needed to complete a name's listing.

Alphabetical List of Current Donors

A hearty Thank You to all of our donors!!  As noted earlier, 177 donors have enabled us to achieve a donation total of $18,732 so far.  Following is the list of donors, as of the end of April, 2017:

Ackerman, Dr. Helen R.

Andersen, Chris

Annucci, Dianne C.

Arroyo, Ann & Frank

Babenzien, Suzon (Cohen)

Backman, Stephan

Beltrani, Frank & Frances

Bemberis, Ivars & Jeannette

Bergholtz, Janet

Berlenbach, Jr., John & Betty

Bernett Family

Best, Theresa & Joseph

Boris, Joan & Joseph

Brigandi, Arleen

Brophy, Donald R.

Brophy, Michael (In Memory)

Budinich, Patricia & Richard

Burke, John & Lois

Calandrillo, Anthony

Callejas, Ruben & Aramilda

Canham, William & Rita

Carey, Jr., Daniel

Carfora, Joe & Sharon Ann

Carfora, Santo & Jeanne

Casale, Robert

Castagna, Denise & Anthony

Catanzariti, Gregory & Anne

Chiappone, Dolores & Robert

Cheeseman, Robert & Lorraine

Cohen, Dr. Howard

Colasuonno, Steven

Connelly, Linda

Convery, Harold

Corley, Karen

Cowell, Paul

Cuoco, Gail

Cullen, Michael

Davis, Cheryl (Proffe) & William

Degnan, Ryan & Karyn

Degnan, Shawn & Robyn

Degnan, Walter & Karen

Dethlefsen, Barbara (Bieniewicz)

Dolan, James & Maryann

Dunne, Patrick & Barbara

Faraone, Ed

Feinsilver, Rhona Appelman

Fernbach, Stephen & Nancy

Fippinger, Gary & Karen

Fischer, Frederick & Barbara

Fox, John & Joan

Fulco, Philip & Valerie

Fuchs, Michael

Furgiuele, Peter & Martha

Galke, Douglas & Mary

Gallo, Francis & Frances

Gavin, Thomas

Germain, Joseph & L. Diane

Germain, Michael & Elizabeth

Giaccaglia, Susan

Giannelli, Edward & Angela

Gill, Thomas & Margaret

Gordon, Eve

Gowrie, Karen

Happel, Neal & Helen

Hearon, Philip

Henningsen, Charles & Charla

Herfel, Jr., Paul & Alcira

HFD Hook & Ladder Company 1

Hicksville Class of 1965 Reunion

Hicksville High Fundraiser - 4/15/16 (cash donations)

Hicksville High School Alumni Foundation

Hicksville Veterans Memorial Committee

Hilton, Patricia & William

Hoffer, Richard & Patricia

Huber, Gene & Jo Ann

Imbrie, Carolyn

Ingino, Joe

Jaworski, Brad

Jones, Robert & Marianne

Katz, Carol

Kaye, Nancy & John

Koziuk, Francis & Kathleen (Day)

Krummenacker, Michael

LaFeir, Len & Catherine

Lake , Robert & Robin

Lehmann, Ethel & George L.

Lembke, Arthur & Dorothea

Levitin, Patricia

Levitt, Samuel J. (In Memory of brothers Eugene, WWII & Milton , Korea )

Libert, Elaine M

Lichtenstein, Henry.

Listort, Dennis

Lynn, Sidney

Maas, Brian

Maas , Brian (In Memory of brother Palmer)

Madden, Mark & Barbara

Manelski, Stephen (In Memory of brother Thomas)

Maniec, John

Masciello, Michael

Masone, Robert & Marleen

McCallion, John & Janet

McCormack, Ronald M. (In Memory)

McIsaac, Rev. Robert M. & Margaret

Melody, Michael & Susan

Menghi, Ed & Jo Ann

Milich, Ellen & Joseph

Moos, Sanford & Marta

Morton, Thomas & Francis Neri

Mucchiari, Jean

Muller, Ray & Maryanne

Mullin, Thomas & Wendy

Neely, Judith

Oehler, Robert A.

Olivari, Irene & Lawrence

Olsen, Glen & Maureen

Osborne, Edward A.

Osborne, Richard

O'Shaughnessy, Ellen H.

Otten, Robert & Leslie

Peluso, Robert J., Jr.

Pietras, Robert & Victoria

Pizzariella, John & Katherine

Pizzo , Lorraine

Pohl, Kenneth & Rosemary

Polanski, Christopher & Barbara

Polit, Robert & Mary Ellen

Plonski, Anthony J., Jr.

Plonski, Anthony J., Jr. (In Memory of brother, Robert)

Probst, Carl

Proia, Mildred

Pugarelli, Frederick

Quinn, Kevin & Kathleen

Recine, Vincent & Mary

Reid, Maureen & George

Rigdon, Alice

Rivoire, Edward & Patricia

Rizzo, Joyce E.

Rocek, Ron

Rossi, Denis

Roth, Doris & Julie

Rothschild, Paula

Rowan, Elke & Donald

Rozos, John

Rozos, Michael & Sharon

Rycar, Judith

Sacks, Darlene

Sandler, Marcia & Howard

Schilling, Leona & Cliff

Schlosser, Joseph & Jennifer

Schrimpe, Donna

Schultz, Dale & Dee

Sheil, Linda

Sherburne, William & Marcia

Silbert, Linda & Alvin

Siracusa, Lou

Smith, Stephen & Lenore

Starpoli, Joseph & Janet

Steedman, Thomas & Margaret

Stevens, Paul & Denise

Strafer, Kenneth J.

Thomas, Mark & Karen

Thurer, Robert & Shari

Tranchina, John & Carol

Traub, Richard

Uusitalo, Leonard W.

Van Buren, Carolyn (Fischer)

Volpe-Browne, Dorothea

Walden, William

Wallace, Terence K.

Warshawsky, Peter W.

Weiss, Harvey & Shirley

Williams, Robert

Wink, George W.

Winkel, Fred & Barbara

Winkel, Martin

Woodcheke, Michael & Denise

Woods Realty (Harold Woods)

Zabbia, Luke & Grace

Zeier, Ronald

Thank you!!