Hicksville High School - Comet Yearbook (Hicksville, NY)

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Presenting 1957 COMET Annual Publication of Hicksville High School PRINTED BY THE HICKSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL VOCATIONAL PRINT SHOP

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FOREWORD High school years are the happiest years of your lives — so adults tell us. Somehow, at graduation time, when suddenly there comes the pain of parting, the awakening to the advent of new worlds to conquer, new prob- lems to face, we can begin to believe that perhaps these were the hap- piest years.” • Yearbooks serve but one purpose —to recreate in after years the happy times we had when we were younger. Like all yearbooks we expect that this one will still be thumbed over by grandchildren who will laugh at their hairdo’s and the quaint activities of our age. Time and space are eternal! The staff of this year’s Comet prefers to let Time march on. The staff has, therefore, chosen space for its theme. In these modern times scientists foresee in the Atomic Age the possi- bilities of interplanetary travel. Spacemen, rocket ships, flying saucers will all become real rather than imaginary. A whole, new world of worlds will open for us — just as graduation opens individual new worlds. We bring you this Comet with the hope that it will always recall the fond memories and the happy times that live on, no matter how Time and Space may affect our lives.

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HICKSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL PRINTERS These are the vocational printing students mainly responsible for printing this year- book. First we want to thank the senior class for giving us the opportunity to learn from such an ambitious project as the “Comet”. It might be mentioned here that there are few if any schools who actually print their own annual. It has been our aim to print more and larger photographs, to make the book as large as possible and break even in cost (no profit). Richard Graul (left) plate making, stripping, copy coordinator, proofreading and makeup. Joseph Joosten (back of Mr. Adams, printing instructor) production foreman, his job being to organize, check, give instructions; iron cut all production kinks. Roland Wenner (by the linotype) proofs, advertisment composition and presswork. Thomas McCarthy (right of linotype) linotype composition of ads and copy. Edward Emmel (at center press) plate making and offset press printing. John Brochart, James Perry and Roger Cooney handling the school production printing to free the yearbook boys to devote thousands of work hours to this project. William Norman (at varitype) set copy by varitype, made up offset pages, stripped, ran offset press. William Christian (at offset press) offset pressman, work done coordinator, plate making, negative stripping. James Knipfing, offset press, ads on letterpress and making up of ads. Raymond Scobee (not present) linotype composition and school production printing. We have to add the names of James Aragoncillo, Walter Nygren, Gary de Felice, David Bourque and Stanley Harbison to this list as great help on the “Comet”, you can find their pictures and jobs on page 138. Their are many other time consuming jobs in this project that are too technical to enumerate at which all boys willingly helped.