Time Machine Trip to May 1982

 

Kaukauna Times – May 1892

By Lyle Hansen

May 4, 1982

SR. Debbie Kramer, a 1980 Kaukauna High School graduate, is now serving with the US Navy in Norfolk, Virginia. Recruit Kramer completed Boot Camp at Orlando, Florida in October 1981.   

 

Preliminary steps are underway to find locations for a possible new post office in Kaukauna. This has been done through a contract with the postal services St. Paul, Minnesota field office. Management said that the post office construction project was “a good possibility.”

Mark Kalupa, senior vice president, North American Sales and Marketing for Tenneco Automotive, has been named Rallymaster for the Kaukauna High School Alumni Association’s June Rally at Van Abel’s Hollandtown. Mark had graduated from Kaukauna High School in 1947.

 

May 6, 1982

Karla Miller was selected as the Most Valuable Player on the varsity girls’ basketball team at Kaukauna High School for the 1981-82 season. Miller was also a unanimous choice by the league coaches to the first team all-conference unit in the Valley Association.

Frank Kantelberg, of Kaukauna, received a first-place medallion in the VICA Skill Olympic Trials held at Western Technical Institute, La Crosse.

As far as known to date Mrs. A. J. Nagan, Kaukauna, is the oldest person living here, who was born in this city. She will mark her 95th birthday anniversary on June 12th. The former Maude Rademacher was the youngest in a family of three children. Her family had operated a grocery store and live at which is now Sasnowski Garage on Lawe Street, She lost her mother when she was six and her father had died several years before. She was raised by her aunt and uncle two blocks away.

The Bottom Half, a popular jeans and sportswear store on Wisconsin Ave. was gutted by a fire Tuesday evening. An electrical short circuit was believed to have been the cause of the fire. Don Grissman, owner of the shop, said he plans to remain in business, but has made no decision yet as to whether he will rebuild at that location or buy or build elsewhere.

May 11, 1982

Even mayor Ronald Van De Hey is now convinced that the city, with help from Outagamie County, will have to replace the Wisconsin Ave lift bridge. The mayor had been skeptical of the necessity of spending money on a new span and said he wanted one final survey to be made of the canal span.

The new Kaukauna High School Hall of Fame members were introduced at the 16^th Annual all-sports banquet held at the high school. Left to right Jerry Kroll, Asher Shorey, Francis Gerow and Gene Noonan.

May 13, 1982

The Kaukauna Area School District will become one unified district as of the beginning of July, switching from the now dissolved city district. Governor Dreyfus this month signed a bill dissolving the city districts, which principally give these districts more authority over how they spend money.

Kaukauna native Jim Viaene has been selected to be one of the 12 wrestlers represented the United states on a culture exchange wrestling tour of Japan and Korea. Viaene is a sophomore from the University of Wisconsin Superior and competes in the heavyweight division.

 

May 17, 1982

Sister Mary Leonard Stephens will celebrate her Golden Jubilee as a Dominican nun on Sunday, June 20, at Holy Cross Catholic Church.

Mrs. John (Anna) Deno, Kaukauna, will mark her birthday anniversary on Thursday, June 24th. She will be 102 years of age. Mrs. Deno was born in the town of Woodville and moved to Kaukauna 68 years ago. She and her late husband had operated a feed and seed store here for 42 years. Mrs. Deno is a charter member and stockholder of the F&M Bank of Kaukauna and longtime member of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Kaukauna.

May 18, 1982

Staff Sergeant Jeffrey C. Elf, USMC, 26, who was in transit from Virginia to California, died Sunday, May 16th, as result of a motorcycle accident in Outagamie county. Alf had come home to Kaukauna to visit with his family.

John McMahon has given himself a birthday present last week. After cutting the cake to mark his 68th year, he cancelled his last stamp at the Kaukauna post office. McMahon retired from the U S Postal Service after 31 years serving continuously at the Kaukauna post office.

Midshipman Third Class Jim G. Trettin is presently on leave in Kaukauna after having completed his first year at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. 

 

May 20, 1982

Kevin Lenius was selected as the Most Valuable Player for the 1981-82 Kaukauna high school varsity wrestling season. Lenius was one of two KHS grapplers to qualify for the public high school state wrestling tournament in Madison this spring.

Brian Roebke, a native of Kaukauna, recently completed his second season has student manager of the Northern Michigan University men’s basketball team. The 1980 graduate of Kaukauna High school is a business education major. The Northern Michigan University basketball team is two-time defending NCAA Division II Great Lakes regional champions.  

 

May 27, 1982

New church bells, presented to Saint Aloysius parish by the family of Donald Dietzen, were blessed and rung for the first time before mass on Saturday, the 2nd anniversary of his death. Dietzen, in whose memory the bells were given, had lost his life on May 22nd, 1980, at the age of 47, in a highway accident while working on a road work crew for Outagamie at the intersection of highway 41 and JJ north of Kaukauna. Left to right, are Frank Dietzen, father of Donald, Chris Dietzen, a son, and wife Sue, Alanna, Michael, Arlen, Mrs. (Kathy) Dietzen and Father Donald Fuller. 

 

St. Mary’s 8th grade boys’ basketball team had a league record of 6-6 during the 1981-82 season. Left to right front row, Rick Gloudeman, Eric Bigelow, Jamie Kilgas, and Scott Lamers. In the back row are coach Mike Coenen, Scott Tennessen Gary Hermsen, Pat VanderLoo, Jon LaPlant, Chris Amerson and head coach Gary Wierschke.