Time Machine Trip to June 1988

June 1, 1988

Delaware North Corporation, based in Buffalo, New York, has announced that it has an option on 100 acres alongside Highway 41 and Highway 55 and is considering building a dog racing track on the site. That will mean an estimated 300 full and part-time jobs.

Rev. Msgr. Mark Schommer, a native of this city, is marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordination today June 1. A celebration at a Jubilee mass will be at noon on Sunday, June 5, at St. Mary's church, Kaukauna.  

June 3, 1988

Kaukauna Advancement Association members have named Michael Utech as the new managing director of the KAA.

Athletes from Kaukauna High School will mix it up this weekend at the best of the best from Wisconsin in the 1988 WIAA track and field state championships. Participants from KHS are Barb Huss, Mike James, Carrie Dusenbery, Mike Zimmerman, Marc Lankey, Tony Wyngaard, Sara Zimmerman, Justine Schmidt and Judy Lenz.

June 7, 1988

Karla Miller, a native of Kaukauna, was formally offered a position as head varsity girls’ basketball coach at Kaukauna High School. Miller would become the fourth coach in the history of the sport at KHS. She replaces Ken Vander Velden, who resigned after the 1988 season – when the Ghosts won the Fox Valley Association championship. Miller is a 1982 graduate of Kaukauna High School and a graduate of the University Wisconsin Stevens Point.

Rachel Greiner, six-month old daughter of Jack and Debby Greiner, Kaukauna, won the 1988 Wisconsin Baby Pee Wee state pageant held in Madison on May 22. 

June 9, 1988

Scott Hansen shaded Jim Weber by less than a car length to win the Fox River racing club 25-lap feature last week Thursday at the Wisconsin International Raceway south of Kaukauna.

June 16, 1988

Jeff Gosz was selected the Most Valuable Golfer for Kaukauna High School from the 1988 season. Gosz had a 41.1 average during the recently completed season.

June 21, 1988

Alumni from ten states converged on Hollandtown this past Saturday for the 49th reunion of former Kaukauna High School classmates. Annual KHS alumni Association June get together was attended by 550 alumni. 

A rural Kaukauna man was found inside his destroyed pickup truck shortly after 1 PM Friday. Killed in the accident was Harold Zittlow, 24, of highway ZZ. He was alone in the vehicle, which was discovered in the woods off Highway ZZ.

Barb Huss was honored as the Most Valuable Athlete of the 1988 varsity girls track and field team at Kaukauna High School.

June 23, 1988

Mike James was chosen as the Most Valuable Athlete of the 1988 varsity boys track and field team at Kaukauna High School.

June 28, 1988

Army Corps of Engineers of set the lake levels and flows from mid-May through this week are worse than ever before. Due to the lack of rain and low lake levels, is considering several options following a meeting last week with River and Lake water users. Kaukauna utility manager Ernest Mullen said that the drought has resulted in lower river flows producing a record low and Hydroelectric generation.

Jennifer Schwalenberg, the reigning Miss Wisconsin Teen USA, will leave for San Bernardino, California, Tuesday, July 5, to participate in the Miss Team USA national pageant on July 25. Jennifer will be competing against some 51 other contestants for the national title. Jennifer, 17, is a senior at Kaukauna High School.

Members of the 1988 boys golf team at Kaukauna High School: Kneeling front row are Andy Wolf, Scott Kelly, Adam Althaus, Paul Kaufman, Jon Wenninger, Brian Soczka and Head Coach Pete Benson. In the back row are Andy Cronin, Brian Schneider, Jeff Gosz, Sean Jordan, Jeff Schmitt, Todd Biekkola and Kevin Dorn.