Board Members

These Kaukauna High School graduates serve on the Kaukauna Alumni Foundation Board of Directors.

Jean Promer

Jean Promer 1964 KHS graduate has been involved with the Alumni Association since 1984. She began as co-editor of the Alumni News and has served as the recording secretary. She organizes the first mailing to alumni in February and keeps track of Rally ticket sales and seating. Jean contacts all of the class correspondents for the anniversary classes and is a correspondent for her own class of 1964. She officially became a board member 4 years ago

Janet Lenz Sager

Graduated 1984
Joined the board 2021
Kaukauna is home. I was raised here and raised my family here. Being a Ghost is in my blood as I now teach in Kaukauna.

Brian Roebke

KHS Class of 1980
Near lifelong resident of Kaukauna
Profession: Editor, Times-Villager and Wrightstown Area Spirit newspapers School associations:
Kaukauna High School Papyrus adviser for 17 years
President, Kaukauna Youth Basketball
Director of Basketball Operations, Kaukauna Boys Hoops Club
Community involvement:
Veterans Memorial Park Committee
Kaukauna K9 Committee

Giovanna Feller

KHS Class of 1967
Lifelong resident of Kaukauna
Profession: children’s librarian at Kaukauna Public library for 35 years now retired.
Organization involvement over last twenty years.
St Paul Elder Services care council
Kaukauna Alumni Foundation Board of Directors
Board of Directors for Life Tools Foundation
Kaukauna Planning Commission for City of Kaukauna
Kaukauna School Board (14 years) recently retired from this position. (President of school board for 9 years, Chairmen of Policy committee for 14 years)
Current school committee for redesign of school district logo.
Various other volunteer for many community events

Betsy (Diedrich) Brooks

A 1991 graduate of Kaukauna High School, I now live in the community with my husband and three children: Harrison, Tenley, and Reese. After high school, I earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Marian University and worked for Merrill Lynch in Milwaukee. When my husband and I decided to return to the area, I went back to school and earned a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh; I continued my education by earning a Master of Arts in English. I have been teaching English for 15 years, and for the past three years, I have proudly been teaching English at Kaukauna High School.

Ellyn Verbeten Sachs

Born and raised in Kaukauna.
I attended Holy Cross Grade School, graduated KHS Class of 1960, graduated Spencerian Business College, Milwaukee, in 1962.
Married classmate Doug Sachs September 2, 1963. We have two grown children and three grandchildren who all reside in the Neenah/Oshkosh area.
Employed thirty years in the Neenah Joint School district, retiring as Executive Assistant to Superintendent of Schools and Board of Education Secretary.

Kelly Kelly

Graduated 1995
Joined this organization in 2009

Carla Borree Zacharias

I graduated from the class of 1958 and have lived in Kaukauna all my life, and have been a board member for 15 plus years. My two boys live in this area and I am a proud grandmother of five and great grandmother of four girls. I exchanged my ATV keys for dance shoes. Following Rockabilly bands and Ballroom dancing.