Time Machine Trip to March 1962

 

Kaukauna Times - March 1962

By Lyle Hansen

March 9, 1962

Kaukauna Girl Scout Troop 323 members are shown baking cookies at Hartjes Electric as part of the golden anniversary of scouting. Susan School takes the tin of cookies from the oven. With her are Pamela Nytes, Susan Donnermeyer, Jane Simon, Jane Walker (partly hidden) and Carolyn Van Lanen.

 

Officers of the Thilco Management Club for 1962 are Marvin DeBruin, Secretary; Glen Vandehey, vice president; John Mau, president; and Bruce Carlson, treasurer.

March 14, 1962

The Fox River is free of ice from the lake to Green Bay. This breaks last year’s record of river openings by about twenty-four days.

March 16, 1962

Construction has begun in Kaukauna on a combination church-school building that will be the first unit of an eventual third parish in the city of Kaukauna. The new $200,000 building will be put into use next fall as an annex to St. Mary's school, but it will bear the name of St. Aloysius, the name chosen by Bishop Bona for the parish it will eventually serve.

Msgr. John J. Sprangers funeral services will be held at St. John church, Little Chute, where he served for forty years up to his retirement in 1956.  He died at the age of 88.

March 22, 1962

Representing the junior class this year at the 1962 prom will be the duty of John Whitman. JoAnn Peebles will reign as queen at the festivities on the night of April 27.

March 28, 1962

Groundbreaking took place last week for the new St. Aloysius parish school building.  Father Peter Salm turned the first earth. Present at the ceremony were Victor Haen, trustee; Robert Huelsbeck, general superintendent of Charles Gambsky Company Inc., general contractors; and Sylvester Schmidt, Architect.

Eagle Scout awards were bestowed on two youths at St. Mary’s Troop 27 at a recent Blue and Gold Court of Honor. Wallace Mooney, at the left oversaw the presentations. With their son Tom are Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Cleveland, center, and with their son, Jared are Mr. and Mrs. Raymond DeBruin.

 

Kaukauna high school JUNIOR VARSITY SQUAD - Top row: Richard Driessen, Dan Van Dyke, Jim Brown, Dan Biese, Joe Mayerl. Center row: Jim Kahler, R Hurst, Jim Niesen, Ron Straus, Coach Kobin. Bottom row: Don Straus, Rich Stegeman, Gary Weigman, Les “Buddy” O’Brien.