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Fund Raising:
We added one new donor in July, 2018 with a donation of $100.
Current total donations are now $35,013, with a net total of
$34,138 in our bank account after past IRS filings.
The total number of donors is now at
196. All donors
(individuals, couples and groups) are listed alphabetically at the end
of this update. While we have surpassed our
funding goal, please know if you have yet to donate, you can still
become part of the Memorial as any additional funds will be used for
donations to Veteran's Charities and possibly scholarships for worthy
HHS students going on to college. So,
if you have not donated and can spare as little as $10 for this worthy
cause to recognize your fellow alumni who served our Great Country, we
will very much appreciate any amount you can spare. Remember, all 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 And should be mailed to: Hicksville We began accepting
donations in October, 2014, upon achieving tax-exempt status from the
IRS. $3,400 was raised in
the remaining 3 months of 2014, $6,200 in 2015, $8,300 in 2016 and
$16,488 in 2017. The new
total well surpasses our $25,000 goal and expectations!
We owe this result to all our donors who have helped achieve
it over the past 3+ years!! We are now putting all our efforts into
constructing the Memorial. Some
concern has been expressed about the weather in November (Veteran's
Day; 11/11/18), so the committee will discuss moving the Memorial
introduction to a warmer month, perhaps in conjunction with Memorial
Day, 2019. One
new name was added to the Confirmed List of Names in July, bringing our
total list to 1,929 names! No
new progress was made this month on the missing data for a number of
names, but one name from the Unconfirmed List was conclusively
disqualified. We
can still use 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 that 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, or have reviewed the qualifications
before and want to remind yourself of them, please check a January, 2015
or earlier issue of HixNews by
going to the Hixnews archive
section on the website. Here's what we need from each person reading this update 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 in the Confirmed List as a
guide for the data needed to complete a name's listing. Alphabetical List of Current Donors A heart felt Thank You to all of our
donors!!
As noted earlier, 196 donors have enabled us to achieve a
donation total of $35,013!! Following
is the list of donors, through July, 2018: Ackerman, Dr. Helen R.Andersen, Chris Thank you!!
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