Hicksville High School - Comet Yearbook (Hicksville, NY)

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TO THE CLASS OF I960: As you approach the threshhold of tomorrow, be it business, armed services or college, al- ways give it your best. Be truthful, trustworthy, and industrious. Take pride in doing an honest job. Meet opportunity when it comes toward you. If you wait until it passes, you will never catch it. What is opportunity? It is the chance to do something, to achieve something, to climb out of the rut, to be somebody of value in the world. Every day means opportunity, every hour means possibility of good work. Say to yourself. 'The world is full of opportunity; seize it and hang onto it.” If you find happiness in the path of life you follow; if you are concerned with the welfare of your fellow man, then success will crown your efforts. THOMAS HORNE Assistant Principal TO THE CLASS OF 1960 Along with the wishes for the future happi- ness usually offered to the graduating class, I feel the need to introduce a more solemn note to this group. Every class has its own personality. Wherein does yours differ from others? You certainly have your share of scholars, musicians, athletes, and artisans as have had other groups, and yet there is a difference. Could it be that you intuitively feel the weight of your responsibility in the future of mankind? Could it be that yourealizethat never before has so much destructive power been available to the civilized world? Could it be that in your sound judgment rests the outcome of the crises we find ourselves facing? Perhaps your class person- ality stems from external factors over which you have had little or no control. Now you begin to feel your strength. Now you begin to take the reins in tour own hands! Act wisely, the future is yours. WILLIAM FEIGIN Assistant Principal - 7

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Today all of us are interested in preserving a way of life. We call our way of life'-Democracy. Is 'our way of life a method of preserving merely the status quo and satisfying ourselves with a negative attitude toward change? You have spent these very formative years of your life in this High School. It has come to mean many things to you. I sincerely hope that it has meant a 'way of life’. May this 'way of life not be identified with merely the ability to create ease or amass a fortune, but the ability and desire to help others. Your education here with us has added greatly to your self improvement and I hope it will open many gates to future improvement. You have, while here, talked much about individual freedom. Re- member, the exercise of such freedom is limited by laws, customs, pre- judices and, in general, by all restrictions that enable a country such as yours to exist in the world today. Go forth, firm in the belief of 'our way of life and bring happiness to yourself and others. May God be with you always, and when in the future at times you stop to ponder, think kindly of us. Leon J. Galloway Principal - 6 -

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BOARD OF EDUCATION From left: Herbert H. Johnsen; Robert D.P. Eaton; Allen S. Carpenter, Pres- ident; Walter W. Schreiber; Jerome G. Zettler, Vice-President; David Hurwitt; Robert E. Goodrich. Dr. Wallaco E. Lamb Superintendent of Schools Mr. Donald Abt Assistant Superintendent for Instruction