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January 2003
Volume 3 Number 4
HAPPY 2003!
January Birthdays
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2
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Tony Toscano, 1959
Eileen Walter Toscano, 1959
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3
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Muriel Maas Froehlich, 1955 (L.I.)
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8
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David Teitel, 1968
Lisa Calma Fritz, 1968
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9
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Arlene Andrade Sahadachny, 1957 (FL)
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15
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15 - JoAnn Gorman, 1960
15 - Susan Spector, 1962 (CA)
15 - David Spector, 1966 (FL)
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18
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Robert Spector, 197? (HX)
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27
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Mary O'Shaughnessey Cleary, 1961 (L.I)
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Belated Birthday Wishes: December 18 - Carol
Wills Erlwein, 1959 (NY & FL)
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Anniversaries
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January 13, 1968 - Eileen (Casale) and Jim Mahan
(NV)
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Trivia Quiz
A Brief History of St. Ignatius
Loyola Church
News and Notes
Memories - Summer of 1961
Links - Updated and Reprinted
Trivia Quiz
Trivia Number 1
Andorra, Liechtenstein and Monaco are all considered:
Commonwealths
Principalities
Confederations
Republics
Trivia Number 2
In legend, Lady Godiva rode naked through this English
town:
Plymouth
Leeds
Birmingham
Coventry
Trivia Number 3
The Gulf of Bothnia and the Gulf of Finland are located
on what sea?
Adriatic
Celtic
Sargasso
Baltic
Trivia Number 4
From a place in this country, you can spot both the
Atlantic and Pacific
oceans:
Costa Rica
Alaska
Brazil
Cuba
Trivia Number 5
Which country is incorrectly matched with its capital
city?
Denmark - Copenhagen
Portugal - Lisbon
Greece - Athens
Belgium - Vienna
Trivia Number 6
What country was once known as New Holland?
Zambia
Canada
Australia
Nigeria
Answers
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A Brief of St. Igatius Loyola R.C. Church, Hicksville,
N.Y., USA
Births, deaths, and marriages are important dates to
us all. However, to those that have celebrated these
events at St. Ignatius Loyola Parish in Hicksville,
NY they are all a part of a long history.
August 21, 1859 the cornerstone was laid for a 25 by
50 foot church that had the capacity of 100 persons.
Thanks to the generosity of Henry and Elizabeth Pasker,
who deeded two lots to the Church, the Parish of St.
Ignatius Loyola had its first structure with a resident
pastor. That pastor's name was Father Ignatius Theodore
Goetz. This Church served the parishioners for 32 years.
In 1891 it was moved to make way for a new edifice.
It served as a Parish Hall for 15 more years until it
was taken down to make way for the first school.
Interesting note, in 1872 the Sunday collections averaged
between three and four dollars and Seat Money was often
paid with a bushel of potatoes or vegetables enough
to supply meals for a few days.
The Church grew by leaps and bounds and on July 4th
1891 the cornerstone was laid for a new Church measuring
40 x 96 feet with a spire 110 feet high. It had a seating
capacity of 400. It was then that the Pastor, Father
Lawrence Fuchs decided that the Church should have a
new bell weighing 755 pounds to give a strong new voice
to St. Ignatius for the Community.
Note the names of the donors; Henry C. Stolz, William
Braun, Sebastian Braun, Valentine Lottermann and August
Scheiber. Many of these families had a long history
in Hicksville, there many be some decendents there today.
If you are a decendent of the original members of The
Church, from present on back to 1859, the Hicksville
Newsletter would like to hear your memories or passed
on memories of St. Ignatius Loyola or as affectionately
known by some "St. Iggy's", Let's hear from
you.
Linda Piccerelli Hayden, 1960
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News and Notes
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Well, The Glass Menagerie Winter concert for 2002
is history, and the reviews are in. This was undoubtedly
our best effort to date. For those of you who made
it there, you know what a wonderful time it was.
And for you who didn't make it, (and you know who
you are), the next best thing is here. The concert
CD's are now available at the incredibly reasonable
price of $10.00. If anyone would like a copy for
themselves or for gifts, please contact me via e-mail
and order as many as you want.
Send me a check, money order, travelers cheque,
cash, euros, whatever, for $10.00/disc and a Dollar
for each disk for postage.
I will do my very best to get them out to you before
Christmas, but if you really need them, you might
want to consider 1 or 2 day delivery which would
cost a bit more. Let me know, we'll work it out.
David Teitel, 1968
Whoseboat@aol.com
(Editors' note: This was received 12/19 but you
may still contact David and he will tell you where
to send your remittance.)
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Helen Penner Ackerman, 1956 sends a link to an
interesting article about Hicksville and cancer:
http://www.efg.org/pr5.nsf/newsdocs/5F20F59C4313C93E85256B91004F2CE0?Open
Document
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Memories - Summer of 1961
by Bob Casale
My thoughts drift back to the summer of 1961.
Registration for Troy State College in Alabama was finalized.
During the latter part of August, I would journey south
to start college. My thought was to get some needed
cash for the school year, so I took temporary employment
that summer at O.E. McIntyre, the mail order house on
Cantiague Rock Road in Hicksville. The only problem
was that they were only hiring temps to work the "GRAVEYARD
SHIFT." It was less than exciting, but it was only
temporary.
One evening, just after our break, someone discovered
a cache of material that had been misplaced. This stuff
was important and it was scheduled for production several
days earlier, but the temporary misplacement screwed
things up. They worked drastically to change several
machines that collated items that were put into envelopes
for mailing. My job would have been to move the material
into position so it could be readied for the machines.
Their efforts were envious, but the time for a shift
change was approaching rapidly. The machines were readied
just as the night shift ended, so my monstrous job was
relegated to someone on the day crew. I was "SAVED
BY THE BELL!"
At the end of most shifts, regardless of being tired,
several of us would journey to the Empire Diner for
breakfast. One morning, I walked in and said good morning
to a waitress whose name I cannot remember. She stopped
me in my tracks and said an eerie thing to me.
"Bobby," she said. "You're not going
to believe this but there was a guy in here 15 minutes
ago that was a "DEAD RINGER" for you."
I found that hard to believe, but they say there is
someone, somewhere, that is your clone.
The reason for the above is an introduction to words
that have entered the English language via strange avenues.
Those capitalized words have an origin and it's interesting,
to say the least. Centuries ago, England was tiny and
getting overpopulated, and they began running out of
places to bury people.
It became necessary to dig up existing coffins. Once
this was accomplished, they would take their bones away
and reuse the graves.
In reopening the coffins, they found that one of every
twenty-five had scratch marks on the inside. It was
then realized that they had been burying people alive.
So they began tying a string around the buried person's
wrist that led up through the coffin to a bell that
was hung near to the gravesite. The person inside the
casket could ring the bell if he or she awoke. Someone,
of course, would have to sit out in the graveyard to
listen for any bells. Hence the "GRAVEYARD SHIFT."
In this way, they would know if someone were to be "SAVED
BY THE BELL" or was indeed already a "DEAD
RINGER."
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Trivia Answers
Answer to Trivia one...Principalities
Answer to Trivia two... Coventry
Answer to Trivia three...Baltic
Answer to Trivia four...Costa Rica
Answer to Trivia five...Belgium - Vienna
Answer to Trivia six...Australia
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Links - Updated and Reprinted
Pat Koziuk Driscoll, 1956, FL
Linda Piccerelli Hayden, 1960, NJ
Bob Casale, 1961, HX and PA
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