Hicksville High School - Comet Yearbook (Hicksville, NY)

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Less than ten years ago boys in the senior high were sent home for wearing blue jeans to school and less than five years ago girls were sent home for wearing any type of pants. Now a good major- ity of students wear jeans. T-shirts and work boots (below) almost daily. The casual dress gives students the freedom to come and go on bicycles, the most popular of which seem to be ten speed foreign racers. inorkel storm jackets were one of the more practi- al fads during the cold winter mon