Berlin High School - Mascoutin Yearbook (Berlin, WI)

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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

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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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Ferry sinking kills 1 80 The sinking of the English Channel ferry Herald of Free Enterprise,” which left some 180 people dead, Best Statistics From The Harper's Index Book: • Percentage of American women who consider themselves pretty: 13% • Percentage of American men who con- sider themselves handsome: 28% • Number of people who try unsuccess- fully to get President Reagan on the tele- phone each year: 175.000 Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan Summit provides thaw The third story on the top-10 list, with 2,929 points, was the three-day summit meeting of Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev in December. The leaders of the two superpowers signed a treaty to ban medium-range nuclear missiles and proclaimed it a historic turning point. The two shared trumpet fanfares, artillery salutes and champagne toasts, and wound up calling each other “Ron and “Mikhail.” Most liberals praised the treaty; many of the president's fellow con- servatives denounced it. peerless Fred Astaire died, leaving a sured legacy of dance on film. Best Quote On Women By A Man Kenny Rogers, on his wife's career as an interviewer, in New Woman: ho was it who said, “A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality”? Best Quote On Men By A Woman Farrah Fawcett in Glamour: The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think. Peace plan proposed The Central American peace plan, which was designed to end insurgencies in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala. Stock market plunges The $500 billion market collapse of Black Monday, Oct. 19, the worst market panic of mod- ern times, seemed to catch even Wall Street ex- perts by surprise. In retrospect, analysts noted the bull market had been slipping since it peaked in late August. Stocks prices, in fact, began fall- ing sharply in the week preceding the crash when the government reported the nation’s trade deficit had worsened, triggering worries about inflation and the dollar. A British frigate escorts an oil tanker Gulf war drags on AIDS cure still sought Current Events 23