Berlin High School - Mascoutin Yearbook (Berlin, WI)

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athletes excel in I 987 Track — The season opened with Berlin's boys winning their own relays for the fifth time in the past six years. The Indians -and Winneconne clashed head-on several times Berlin won the Seymour Invitational,. Winneconne the ECC (displacing Berlin) while both teams tied for the Ripon Invitational. Berlin won the ECC boys freshman-sophomore title. Wild Rose boys won the Wrestling — Berlin completed its fjrst perfect (10-0) dual meet season since 1964 en route to the ECC championship. Omro, Ripon and Wild Rose won regular season tournaments, while Berlin took the ECC tournev with six champs. Cross Country — Drum and Geer dominated this sport from start to finish. Geer led the Ripon girls to their third straight ECC title and Drum led the Berlin boys to their second straight. The same two teams with the same individual results repeated in the WIAA regional runs, before each team placed second in sectional. Then both runners capped their outstanding seasons with a Class B State championship, as Geer's Tigers placed second and Drum's Indians sixth. Softball — Berlin beat Ripon to create a four- way tie in the ECC between the Indians, Tigers, Hortonviile and Little Chute.. Thomoson takes over Republican Tommy Thompson's administration as governor. Thompson spent most of his first year battling with a Democratic- controlled Legislature in an at- tempt to enact new legislation regarding welfare, tourism, and business. Enrollment is cut The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh cut enrollment by more then 200 students in the fall of 1987, the first decrease in five years. Odds on gambling The story began with the voters’ approval at a referendum in April and continued through the slimmer as state lawmakers wrote, re-wrote and negotiated a lottery bill that could he passed in both houses. Several officials said the appoint- ment of five people to the State Lottery Board in December indicated that the lottery would begin operating in 1988. The Legislature was still working at year’s end on the pari-mutuel racing bill. First snow storm is a dandy! Local Events 21

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LOCAL NEWS The Brewers jumped out of the start- ing blocks with a major league record tying and new American League stan- dard 13-0 record to begin a campaign. There was Paul Molitor's 39-game hit- ting streak, the fifth longest in modern day history, the longest in the American League since Joe DiMaggio's record 56 game streak in 1941. New tpeed limit Top 10 of '87 1. Ripon Jacket locates in Berlin 2. Controversial purchase of Gelhar property 3. Berlin Terrace completed 4. National By-Products expands 5. New pressbox completed 6. Scott Drum wln3 state title 7. Community factory outlet opens 8. Berlin teacher gets McAuliffe fellowship 9. Overhead traffic signs draw criticism 10. Doug Warner brings Shriner parade to Berlin Voyager at EAA More than 400 people watched as the re- cord-setting aircraft Voyager arrived in Oshkosh this summer for the Experimental Aircraft As- sociation's annual convention and fly-in. Proxmire will retire Wisconsin's elder statesman ended months of speculation as to whether he would run for a sixth straight U S. Senate term with his Aug. 27 retirement an- nouncement By bowing out of the 1988 election, The Demo- cratic Proxmire left the first wide-open race for his seat in more than 18 years. GIVE YOURSELF A HUG-BUCKLE UP m 11 a imxxxm It’s Our Law Seat belts mandatory The enactment of a mandatory seat belt law during the Legislature's October session 20 Local Events

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We Will Remember 1987 for . TOYS r i 4 I G.I. Joe Pogoball Barbie ALF doU Pictionary Cabbage Patch LI Silver Hawks Nintendo Enter- tainment System ENTERTAINMENT In 1987, the last major star of “The Wizard of Oz,” rubber- legged “Scarecrow” Hay Bolger, died at 83, Lt. Col. Oliver North is sworn in U.S. arms deal probed By JI'LES I.OII AP Special Correspondent The Iran-Contra hearings, which shook an administration and — briefly — made Oliver North a household name, ranked as the top news story of 1987 in a year-end poll of Associated Press member newspaper editors and broad- casters. TV evangelist falls TV evangelist Jim Hakker engaged in a motel room tryst back in 1980 with a church secretary, Jes- sica Hahn, then 21, and allegedly paid her hush money to keep the affair quiet. Bakker was defrocked and his PTL ministry was turned over to another TV evangelist, Jerry Falwell. Later the ministry filed for protection under the bankruptcy laws, and Ms. Ilahn sold her story — with nude pictures of herself — to Playboy magazine. Best Quote By Madonna in Veir Woman: You know what I wish for the Ayatollah Khomeini? I wish he would die and come back as a woman— under his regime. OCT. 25 — Minnesota Twins defeat St. Louis Cardinals in seventh game of World Series. GOOD THINGS ABOUT GROWING UP IN THE ’AOS 22 Current Events technology, cars, TV, computers, music, microwaves