Hicksville High School - Comet Yearbook (Hicksville, NY)

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I wish to extend my best wishes to the Class of 1964. You have in just twelve short years of your education learned many things, seen a great deal, and you will remember much of your school days. What does it all mean? Only the passing years can tell you what it was all worth. You will recall many situations—in science class that experiment with sulphur, your geometry room with the proof and the triangle, your trouble in Short- hand I, and your social experiences on the Senior Trip. Each one of those situations should have taught you something. All these things will go to make you the better man. Today we live in a rapidly changing world. The boy or girl who understands these changes and makes the most of his oppor- tunities will be rewarded in the years of the future. You will face many challenges and new responsibilities in your mature life. I hope Hicksville High School and your years here will help you to hurdle them. May God bless all of you, and good luck in the future. SCHOOL BOARD—Left to right: seated: Mr. Jackson, president, Mr. Lawrence. Standing: Mr. McCormack, Mr. Kunz. (Not pictured: Mr. Bruno, Mr. Johnsen.) 17

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It seems strange to use the word com- mencement at the end of four years in high school. Completion would seem to be a more appropriate term. But that would not be life, for in this world, everything that marks an end, also marks a beginning. So it is with education. What we have learned at school, valuable as it is, is only a beginning. Whether or not you have derived all the advantages of the past four years is a matter between you and your own conscience. Up to now your work has been supervised and made as easy and beneficial as your teachers could make it. From now on you must rely mainly on yourself. Select a goal and work toward it with earnestness. Know what you want and shape your daily work toward it. Do not work aimlessly, even for a single year. The best of wishes of your teachers and friends go with you as you get ready to leave this school. May your hopes and dreams be realized to the fullest degree, and in the years to come may your achievements reflect credit upon your School. Your yearbook will become more and more meaningful to you as the years go by. The events here portrayed, the faces here photographed, the commentary here inscrib- ed will become more significant as time passes. We sincerely believe that, in a like fashion, education will also take on greater meaning. The first two decades of your life have been formative ones. It is our hope that the few years spent here at the High School have been profitable, enjoyable, and stimulating; profitable in the sense of having given direc- tion to your life and supplying the knowledge that will enable you to go on to success, en- joyable in the sense of having helped you to take your rightful place among your peers to enjoy the pleasant experiences which will never be forgotten, and stimulating in the sense of having engendered in you a belief that graduation is not an end at all, but rather a wonderful beginning of a new and exciting era for you. Having produced these, your education will serve as a base on which you can now build an interesting career, a happy life, and

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ENGLISH EARLY SESSION ENGLISH TEACHERS—Left to right: first row: Mr. David, Mrs. Priest, Mrs. Easer, Mrs. Milligan, Head of the Department; Mrs. DuBin, Mr. Crucilla. Second row: Mr. Clark, Mr. Szumigala, Mr. Benyei, Mr. Bevan, Mr. Shanley, Mr. Halowitch, Mr. Danna, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Kaufman. (Not pictured: Mr. Burrelli and Mr. Goldfarb.) LATE SESSION ENGLISH TEACHERS—Left to right: first row: Mrs. Daley, Mrs. Farrar, Mrs. Milligan Head of the Department; Miss Sherdian, Miss Edsall. Second row: Mr. Scope, Mr. Matienzo, Mr. Wellon, Mr. Katz, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Fletcher. 18