Hicksville High School - Comet Yearbook (Hicksville, NY)

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place — different in its own way CMcUtiOK dat fenev clf — Jimmy Durante A great deal of study goes on in class, but HHS is as much a place of learning as study. It is a place to talk with and learn from our friends. And (left) Helen Maiers shows us. a place to be ourselves, do things we might only do at home because in many ways Hicksville High is home. V

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