Linda Fleury by Maike and Megan
Linda Fleury (Thorp) (student in the early 1960's)
Life after High School
After high school, I went to Everett Community College for two years and I got an associate art AA degree. Then I went to Central Washington University in Ellensburg and got a bachelor’s of science in education, and I married Glyn in ’68 and started teaching third grade at Eastgate Elementary in Bellevue; I taught for about two years. Then I got pregnant with Ryan and had him on January 5th, 1972. Glyn went to dental school at the University of Washington, then Chris was born December 26, 1972 and Glyn graduated in ’73, and then we all moved to Port Coquitlan, British Columbia in Canada. Glyn took his dental board exam so he could be a dentist in Canada and then later got his license to practice in Washington. Anna was born in Canada in ’74 and we moved to Samish Island, Washington, we will have been there 38 years this spring! Wow how time goes by! Nathan was born in ’75. In 1980, our church started a Christian school so I taught there for seven years. After that I worked off and on at Glyn’s dental office, helping out where I was needed. I was mostly home when I stopped teaching because I was busy raising kids and creating a home. And for the last ten years, Glyn and I have been going to Arizona in November and April, taking care of and leasing out the property we own in Mesa.
Life at CHS
Life at CHS when I attended there was not near as exciting as it is today, let me tell you! I was pretty much a good student; I had my nose in the books. For me, I took classes for college. That would be chemistry, algebra, Spanish. I didn’t date, as I didn’t have any interest in it. I wanted to go to college.
Honestly, we didn’t care about the important events that happened. It’s nothing to what you’re dealing with nowadays. A big event was the assassination of John F. Kennedy, of course, and the 1964 earthquakes. In history classes, it was mostly memorizing dates and events. We didn’t talk about what happened in the newspaper. But I sure would have loved to have a class where all we did was talk about what was happening in the paper! It would have been great to analyze and discuss what was going on! The teachers really didn’t bring it up. It was kind of far away for us and didn’t affect us directly, so we just acted as if nothing had happened.
The excitement over sports seems to be the only thing that hasn’t changed. Football and basketball were the biggest ones. Pep rallies were every Friday before a game and the school would replace one class with the rally. And they alternated between which periods they cut. One week, first period would be cut. Then the next week, second period would be cut. And so on and so on. The rally was always at the end of the day.
Girls were definitely not allowed to play on sports teams. We had our own club where we would stay after school and play against other girls, non-competitively. We could letter in that club but no, we never got to play on an official team. And, actually, (this is kind of odd), when we played basketball we had to have a certain number of our team on one side of the court, and the rest on the other. We were not allowed to cross the line to the side we weren’t assigned. And we could only bounce the ball once or twice. Apparently, sweating was not very ladylike. It was quite boring really!
On the weekends, I did the same things I did in the summer, I would go get the English reading list for the upcoming year and get started on it! I usually spent a lot of time in the library, browsing books and checking them out. I wasn’t much in high school… I was your basic student who didn’t skip class. Most kids on the weekend went to a dance on Saturday nights in Everett. But I couldn’t really tell you…I was at home reading!
I actually went to two school dances, however, but definitely not with a date I went to the Senior Ball, and my parents were my date because they were chaperones! I also went to the Sadie Hawkins dance. I went to the senior graduation party, but I don’t know if that counts. We had it at the Everett Country Club and it was very fun.
Life after High School
After high school, I went to Everett Community College for two years and I got an associate art AA degree. Then I went to Central Washington University in Ellensburg and got a bachelor’s of science in education, and I married Glyn in ’68 and started teaching third grade at Eastgate Elementary in Bellevue; I taught for about two years. Then I got pregnant with Ryan and had him on January 5th, 1972. Glyn went to dental school at the University of Washington, then Chris was born December 26, 1972 and Glyn graduated in ’73, and then we all moved to Port Coquitlan, British Columbia in Canada. Glyn took his dental board exam so he could be a dentist in Canada and then later got his license to practice in Washington. Anna was born in Canada in ’74 and we moved to Samish Island, Washington, we will have been there 38 years this spring! Wow how time goes by! Nathan was born in ’75. In 1980, our church started a Christian school so I taught there for seven years. After that I worked off and on at Glyn’s dental office, helping out where I was needed. I was mostly home when I stopped teaching because I was busy raising kids and creating a home. And for the last ten years, Glyn and I have been going to Arizona in November and April, taking care of and leasing out the property we own in Mesa.
Life at CHS
Life at CHS when I attended there was not near as exciting as it is today, let me tell you! I was pretty much a good student; I had my nose in the books. For me, I took classes for college. That would be chemistry, algebra, Spanish. I didn’t date, as I didn’t have any interest in it. I wanted to go to college.
Honestly, we didn’t care about the important events that happened. It’s nothing to what you’re dealing with nowadays. A big event was the assassination of John F. Kennedy, of course, and the 1964 earthquakes. In history classes, it was mostly memorizing dates and events. We didn’t talk about what happened in the newspaper. But I sure would have loved to have a class where all we did was talk about what was happening in the paper! It would have been great to analyze and discuss what was going on! The teachers really didn’t bring it up. It was kind of far away for us and didn’t affect us directly, so we just acted as if nothing had happened.
The excitement over sports seems to be the only thing that hasn’t changed. Football and basketball were the biggest ones. Pep rallies were every Friday before a game and the school would replace one class with the rally. And they alternated between which periods they cut. One week, first period would be cut. Then the next week, second period would be cut. And so on and so on. The rally was always at the end of the day.
Girls were definitely not allowed to play on sports teams. We had our own club where we would stay after school and play against other girls, non-competitively. We could letter in that club but no, we never got to play on an official team. And, actually, (this is kind of odd), when we played basketball we had to have a certain number of our team on one side of the court, and the rest on the other. We were not allowed to cross the line to the side we weren’t assigned. And we could only bounce the ball once or twice. Apparently, sweating was not very ladylike. It was quite boring really!
On the weekends, I did the same things I did in the summer, I would go get the English reading list for the upcoming year and get started on it! I usually spent a lot of time in the library, browsing books and checking them out. I wasn’t much in high school… I was your basic student who didn’t skip class. Most kids on the weekend went to a dance on Saturday nights in Everett. But I couldn’t really tell you…I was at home reading!
I actually went to two school dances, however, but definitely not with a date I went to the Senior Ball, and my parents were my date because they were chaperones! I also went to the Sadie Hawkins dance. I went to the senior graduation party, but I don’t know if that counts. We had it at the Everett Country Club and it was very fun.