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

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A Hall Mother checks to see that Mi- ' chael Cook has a right to be where he is or go where he’s going. v, 1 » i m . i - • v V, V V. - ■ .... • • ' , •’ j , 4f • j, ,v ■ ■ . - ■A, . I • • J i| . - • . •'.’ ill 4. t «.• I ' . .••' ■ 1 , I y »1 - v . . . •» •»•% • ' '» V : ; T1 N SI .IV : o, •; C v O T . »- ««st . V-V vr . LW w lit :' li; ■ 3v, V f VVVv’ Danny Koebel is faking it now but the alarm does get pulled for no reason sending a few thousand students out into the rain, or cold, and rarely, the warm sunshine. L . X ■ •. V ’c • ♦ • » • 1 — a