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BobThis video would be excellent for Memorial Day! Can you put it in the June 1
issue? Sent to me by Ed Rivoire, one of our Vietnam War Era Veterans. Thanks
Joe Carfora 1962
http://newsletter.biggeekdad.com/t/i-l-ukulutt-ehrujdrr-q/
I just watched your film Hicksville Then and Now and found it quite interesting and
moving. I moved here in 1981 but My Aunt & Uncle moved here in 1949 to Spindle
Road. My next door Neighbor is the last surviving Dwyer from Dwyers Farm which was
once where Holy Trinity High School is. He is almost 91. Thanks for sharing such a nice
piece. Greatly appreciatedMichael Flanagan
Editor Noteback when the field was a potato farm, we, and several friends and me,
went the day after harvest and found many potatoes that we bagged and brought home to
our moms.
Mark Leon made a request in the April issue as to how many students graduated in the
class of 1965. Several answers are shown belowWill the actual count Please
Stand Up!
FYI, there were 1,010 students in the graduating class of 1965Diane Lepanto
Otten
Dear Buffalo Bob et alI'm just catching up on the interesting feature about memorable
travels experienced by former HHS students. Although I've been to Hawaii, Alaska, New
Zealand, Australia, Israel and the West Bank, England, Scotland, Canada, Mexico, and
Bermuda, my most memorable trip was to Haiti in January 2011, exactly a year after the
earthquake. There I joined thousands of Americans, Europeans, and people from far away
as South Africa and Korea who came to assist in the rebuilding. The devastation caused
by the disaster a year earlier was still painfully evident--collapsed buildings, piles of
rubble in the streets of Port-au-Prince, and thousands of refugees living in tent cities on
the bare hillsides. To make the setting even more threatening, I was there in the midst of
the cholera epidemic that followed the earthquake. The nine days I spent in that wrecked
country have left indelible images in my brain. It was hardly a vacation, but I'm proud of
having done my small partBill Palmer 1964
Editor notecudos to you Bill and all those volunteers from around the
globe that made the travesty in Haiti a bit more comfortable by
providing their assistance
Friday, May 12th, was Paul Pattersons birthday and he brought me flowers for
Mother's day! So I said we have to go out for your birthday, just the two of us.
We went to George Martin's Strip Steak Restaurant.
Food was fancy & delicious, we had a great waitress & met two young men who treated
us to birthday desserts. Lots of laughs and a really great night. I'm so blessed to have "my
Paul" in my lifeRosa Szendy Patterson 1961
Thank you for the card and for thinking of me. It was much
appreciatedGerry Bracero Callejas 1953
Thank you for the card and for thinking of me. It was much
appreciatedFlorence Zoubantes Composto 1953
Thanks for the anniversary card and for thinking of us. It was greatly appreciated.
Kathleen Donovan Agiesta 1958 (above shown with husband Lou
and great granddaughter Kaylee)
Thanks for the birthday card and for thinking of me. It was greatly
appreciatedKurt Stietz 1960
Thank you for the anniversary card. 53 years and we are still in love and Happy!!! We are
blessed with a beautiful family and wonderful friends. Life is goodDonald Moore &
Eileen Wieditz Moore 1963 (above shown with grand daughters).
Thanks for the birthday card and for thinking of me. It was
greatly appreciatedJudy Frimmer Dow 1963
Marlene Schoenberg ONeill 1964 & Tommy ONeill celebrating
another
Birthday for Marlene at Monkey Bar Steak & Seafood
Sharing with friends including Sherry Mallen Cauley & Dennis Cauley
(foreground)
Thank you for the card and for thinking of us. It was much appreciated.
Karen Malter Coles & Wes Coles 1965
Thank you for the card and thinking of me. It was much
appreciatedKathleen Vita Leo 1969
Hung Chow calls into work and says, "Hey, boss I no come work today, I really
sick. I got headache, stomach ache and my legs hurt, I no come work."
The boss says, "You know Hung Chow, I really need you today. What you have
is just stress pain. When I feel like this I go to my wife and make love to her.
That makes everything better and I go work. You try that."
Two hours later Hung Chow calls again. "Boss, I do what you say and I feel
great. I be at work soon. You got very nice house."
..Thank you for the card and thinking of me. It was much
appreciatedNaomi Groont Doudera 1973
I loved the birthday card. Thank you for thinking of me. It was
much appreciatedIrene Bilancia Boehm 1973
Thank you for the card and for thinking of me. It was much
appreciatedLinda Parella Ruggiero 1973
Hotel Del Coronado and going strong. I, however, never forget my Hicksville roots.
Thanks so much to HixNews for your kindnessCynthia Claus Ferguson 1974 &
George Ferguson
Thanks for the card and for thinking of me. It was much appreciatedJennifer Uihlein
1995
One night, a man receives a call from the Police. The Police tell the man that his wife was
murdered, and that he should reach the crime scene as soon as possible. The man drops
the phone, shocked, and drives 20 minutes to the crime scene. As soon as he reaches the
crime scene, the police arrest him, and he is convicted of murder. How did the police
know that he committed the crime? (Answer provided at the very end)
The 1966 Comets Rutgers Cup recipients for
a perfect season in the showcase at Hicksville High
Just spent a week in Hicksville getting ready to put the home that I grew up in on the
market. An extra special time of the trip was breakfast with classmates - Elizabeth
Austin-Allen and Elena Gomez-Prince. We had a wonderful time reminiscing about our
days at St. Ignatius...Nancy Finn Calder
Look what I found when I was cleaning out my dads stuffShari
Hinden
HenryIn the lore and nostalgia, Ive heard about Billy Joel and his time in Hicksville
High. What Ive heard is that, in fact, Joel did not graduate with his class. The story Ive
heard is that because of cutting his gym class, he did not have the sufficient number of
physical education credits to earn a high school diploma and that he simply left school
instead of trying to earn his diploma. Obviously it never hurt his musical career. The
other story Ive heard is that for what would have been his 1967 class 25th anniversary in
1992, he showed up for an event at the school and visited the Administration Office and
the credit he lost from cutting gym was waived and a new credit was given for artistic
achievement so Billy could then be awarded his high school diploma. That would make
Billy Joel a member of the class of 1992. At least thats what Ive heardRegards
Peter Arena 1973
PeterI am aware that Joel did not graduate HHS together with his classmates. I was
not aware, however, that he might have been awarded his diploma after he became
famous for his music career. But it seems plausible to me that the HHS administrators
would have done so to bolster their own standings among their peersBestHenry
I heard the story about the 25th anniversary reunion from a cousin of mine that was in the
same year as Billy Joel and knew him slightly through the local music scene. My cousin,
Dan Grumo was in a band that played in a couple battle of the bands that Billy Joels
band also participated in when he was just a kid from Hicksville. Cousin Danny said
Billy was the only one in his band that had any genuine talent. He was the source of the
story about the diploma being awarded at the re-union.
Unfortunately, I cannot ask my cousin Danny to verify the story as he passed away in
2003. I agree wholeheartedly with you that the high school and administration would
have awarded Billy Joel his diploma for the publicity valueRegardsPeter
Thanx for that info, Peter. I am sure Buffalo Bob will include it in the next issue of the
Newsletter (assuming you have no objections)Best, Henry
Sure, go ahead and print if youd like to. Im sure a lot of alumni would find it
entertainingPeter
USS Pueblo (AGER-2) was captured by North Korea forces in 1968 while on a
surveillance
mission, and had its 83-member crew held captive and tortured before being let
go into the
control of U.S. customs. Shockingly, the USS Pueblo remains docked in North
Korea and
serves as an attraction for visitors.
Watching Dancing With The Stars and enjoyed Nancy Kerrigan who is as graceful
on the dance floor as she was on the ice. I thought there was quite a resemblance
between Nancy and Kim Delaney who played Diane Russell on NYPD Blue
Kim Delaney Nancy Kerrigan
InsideJames Madison
Inside!...Virginia Cabbe Reinhardt
1964
Funny but I've worked with a lot of Europeans and they would always point out I was
doing it wrong. LOL so in US insidein Europe outsideSelena Hildebrandt
Inside Americanoutside BritishCourtenay Gilmore
Just like the reverse single quotes and double quotes in British and American writing
James Madison
Besides the major battle today is it one or two spaces after a sentenceJames
Madison
I learned to read by setting type - upside-down and backward. I was trained to always put
any form of "ending" punctuation (period, queston mark or exclaimation point) inside
"quotes" (quotation marks), brackets or "toenails" (parentheses.) If I made a composition
error with pencil and paper, well, that's why God created the eraser. If I made a
composition error with type, it had to be reset and hopefully was caught in the proof
phase, not the press run!
Jay Weber 1970 (shown above at family BBQ in July of 1958)
Who invented the back-up sensor that is now a standard feature on all new cars?
I bet you think it was Ford, maybe GM, how about Chrysler? No,
then, how about Mercedes Benz?
The back-up sensor warns the driver before the rear bumper
actually comes in contact with something.
Surprisingly, it was not developed by modern automotive
engineers using the latest technology. Recently, it was disclosed
that the first to develop the back-up sensor was in fact a simple
Chinese farmer.
His invention was simple and effective. It emits a high-pitch
squeal when the back of the vehicle approaches a solid object,
getting louder the closer it becomes. Here's his first
prototype . . .click on link below
https://lh5.googleusercontent. com/-esGe0xRKPq4/VFHFxp4tzDI/
AAAAAAAAF_I/wDtZm2PXI0A/s2560/ 1414645187530.jpeg
Almost all of us has had a pet in our lives who actually controlled
our existence. I had a special pet who did just that and now he is
gone
So sorry babe. I've been there too many times. I feel for yaBruce Danielsen
June 8 will be the fifty year anniversary of the attack on the USS Liberty where 34
Americans were brutally murdered and they will be remembered by family, friends
and shipmates.
A ceremony at the mass grave in Arlington will again take place as it has been held
for many years. The mass grave contains the remains of six killed on that fateful
day. Below was taken in 1987 showing Angela Wieman, who worked Liberty
Plumbing Supply, with Buffalo Bob Casale and also helped with public relations of
the Liberty Veterans Association. See video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYjvOhuFr5g
Angela Wieman and Buffalo Bob
USS Liberty Memorial Memorial in Rochester on Lake
Ontario
Public Library Grafton, Wisconsin
Thanks to Larry Broyles and the people of Savannah, TN for the dedication of
the USS Liberty bench in their beautiful Veterans Memorial Park. I was
honored to be a part of this dedication of my ship and murdered crew members.
Those aren't raindrops on that bench, it is almost 50 years of tears.
Dear Barbara Bowen Orr (HHS Class of 1955)We have received an email request from
Alice Cobb Hirsch, who attended Hicksville High in 1953 (and would have graduated in
1955). Alice would like to contact you (see her email request, below).
If you would like to make contact with her, please email her at (Concealed) (yes, that is
an email address in Germany where she now lives)Best regardsHenry
Lichtenstein editor
I received an e-mail that a classmate from 1956 wants to get in touch with me- I tried to
contact her but the e-mail was incorrect. Would you check it for me & forward to me
thanks
Barbara Bowen Orr 1955 (Barb is in the festive Christmas sweater)
BarbI don't see anything wrong with the addressing. If you get a rejection of the email
for Alice Hirsch, forward that error message email to me and I'll try to figure out what the
problem isBest Henry
I've tried 3-4 times & the e-mail is undeliverable-if she contacts you again could you
check her address thanksBarb
Try it one more time, but this time include me in the cc: field so I can see what the
problem is. And your friend's name is Alice Cobb Hirsch, not Alice Cobb Herschel.
Henry
AliceWhat a nice surprise to hear from you. Can you believe I'm living in Minnesota
after my husband retired from the Navy following 22yrs of uninterrupted service. He was
a carrier pilot for 5 yrs then became a Supply officer. We have 5 living children.
Hopefully we can keep in touch & catch on the many years since High SchoolBarb
Hi BarbLong time no see, or hear and its all my fault. Believe it or not, when I think
of the years I spent at Hicksville schools (1948 -1953), I often think of you. We kids
from Plainview were bussed back and forth to Hicksville. This meant we arrived at
school around 8 am and were picked up around 3.35 pm. No problem as such except that
it meant it was difficult to participate in extracurricular activities and during school hours
we were confined to the
grounds.
Anyway, one day we were at school for several class hours, then told we could go home.
Great but strange because normally, if a teacher became ill or whatever, a substitute
teacher filled in. In this case, I would have had to hang around school for four or so
hours until the school bus came. You came to the rescue. You invited me to go home
with you and you prepared lunch for us. If I close my eyes, I can see you frying eggs
very professionally. Thank you Barb or Bobbie as I used to call youAlice
Hi HenryThank you so much for making the connection with Barbara and not giving
up!! I have been living in Germany since 1970 and feel quite at home here because the
area in which I live in Schleswig Holstein reminds me of my childhood days when living
on the edge of the
Hempstead Plains. I was born in Hicksville, lived on the line between Hicksville and East
Meadow from 1940 until l944, then in Plainview until 1953.
I was devastated when my family moved to East Hampton in 1953 and then to Waterloo
in "Upstate NY " in 1959 just before I left for Hamburg Germany on a fellowship. For
me, the Hicksville area is "Heimat", a German word that denotes the relationship of a
human being toward a certain spatial social unit. It is often expressed with such terms as
home or homeland, but it has been alleged that the word has no English equivalent.
Hicksville does equate to Heimat!!!
My Great Great (GG) Grandparents, the Steers, settled in Plainedge in the 1840s; GG
Grandparents, the Rowehl, in East Meadow in the 1850s and GG Grandparents, the
Wetterau in Hicksville in 1867.
My Grandpa Wetterau had Miss Farley as a teacher when he attended Nicholai Street
School. Both my parents attended Hicksville High for awhile. My father and his sister
were driven to Hicksville by taxi for a year or two from North Massapequa before being
sent on to Hempstead. My Dad had a Mr. Horne as a biology teacher and received an
achievement medal from him. Mr Horne was my science teacher in the 7th grade. I could
go on and on. But I will spare you that. Thanks again HenryAlice Cobb Hirsch
I recently discovered Hicksville Patch in the internetNotices concerning the vote on the
Hicksville School Budget 2017-18 and it immediately caught my attention. Nearly 135
million dollars!!!! Several weeks ago my younger brother found copies of documents
that our Grandfather Wetterau had made before presenting them to Mr. Evans for
inclusion in the Gregory Museum. According to these notes, his own grandfather, George
William Wetterau, had come to Hicksville in 1867, established a bakery on the corner of
Broadway and Cherry Street and helped establish the first school in Hicksville. In 1885-
1886, Daniel Wetterau, son of George William, was school tax collector. The school
budget for that year was $ 913.70 and the tax rate was 70 cents per $100 of assessed
value.
Dear HixNews...Not looking for Thomas Brennan anymore. I have reason to believe he is
deceased. Thanks for the listing...Walter Scauzillo
Editor notefound some information after a little research
Thomas Brennan
Name:
So, Hicksville Class of 67, your 50th Reunion is shaping up for the weekend of
October 13 to October 15, 2017. So far we have about 100 paid for attendees. It will
be a Gala weekend with Friday afternoon walk at Jones Beach, Saturday tour of the
High School, Home Coming Game and Banquet. The banquet (held at the Joseph
Barry Knights of Columbus, 45 Heitz Place, Hicksville). It will have a cocktail hour
followed by a buffet meal with a variety of hot chafing dishes, carving station, pasta
& salads (there will be something to please herbivores, carnivores and pescetarians),
as well as, an open bar (soda, beer, wine and alcohol).
Check Facebook Class of '67 Reunion page.
[https://www.facebook.com/events/1023523544362415/ ].
For a copy of the flyer IM me or Mark Virgilio your email address.
And dont forget the reunion website
Dolphins Fishing
https://biggeekdad.com/2017/05/dolphins-fishing/
L.A. Shag
https://biggeekdad.com/2017/05/want-dime-back/
Not dumbtotally freakin stupid and its hard to believe they are
American and they were schooled in this country!!!
https://biggeekdad.com/2017/04/dumb-americans/
George Carlin
https://biggeekdad.com/2014/04/modern-euphemisms/
Beautiful Tulips
https://biggeekdad.com/2017/04/beautiful-blooming-tulips/
On this day 47 years ago, May 5th, 1970, I returned from Vietnam. We
landed and arrived at Fort Lewis, Washington under protest, unaware of what had
happened at Kent State University. The welcome home was not what we were expecting,
to say the least. My arrival at Kennedy Airport was no better. After all the years that have
gone, by this day will always be a sad memoryDan Rysanek 1967
Thank you for your service ( I know its not enough, but its the least I can say). It was a
terrible time for those of you coming home. I remember someone on my block was
coming home and my father (a WWII Vet) thought it would be a nice gesture for
everyone to hang out a flag to welcome him home. Very few homeowners actually went
along with the suggestion. It was so sadLynne Lombardi 1971
Hyperlink to Hicksville High Mega Reunions 2000 & 2007 (793 views)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXo7KBz3u7jaisFnbyAeyxQ
Hyperlink to 1964 Fifty Year Photo Gallery Before Reunion (568 Views)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYvmyVX7uks
Hicksville High School 1963 Fifty Year Reunion Preview (716 Views)
https://www.youtu be.com/watch?v=2fU5MjCjHCQ
Hicksville High School Class of 1971 Forty Five Year Reunion July 2016 (500 Views)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwOxEtcuVVQ&t=1783s
Hyperlink to Great Lakes Pensacola Bremerhaven Cyprus USS Liberty Skaggs Island (62 Views)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDr6-Bbn4_o
Hyperlink to Hicksville Military June 2015 (345 views)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_26pgnSICM
Hyperlink to HHS 1955 Multi Year & Fifty Year Reunions (201 Views)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5pOS4jwFJ0
Hyperlink to look at Buffalo Bob Casale early and in the Navy (99 Views)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S77NTog-dbE
1963 Hicksville High School Fifty Year Reunion Preview (82 views)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiZKQMzoYi0