Linda Lamprecht by Ronald Pangan
Edited by Christy Rukstalis
Linda Lamprecht (Woodward)
Class of 1985
Linda Woodward Lamprecht went to Cascade from 1981 to 1985. She is the second youngest in her family, and all of her siblings went to Cascade as well. Also all four of her children went to or are attending Cascade High School.
My parents moved into the house they live in now the night I was born, in Everett, so they have been here all those years and all five if their kids went to Cascade. After graduation I left for eight years in between, and my husband went to college and then we moved to California for a few years, then we moved back here. We have four children, and all four went to cascade. Our youngest Erica Lamprecht, she told me not to embarrass her, she's there now, but yep our other three graduated.
I was a cheerleader for three years at cascade. I didn't play sports, I just cheered for them. It was only three years because freshmen couldn't be cheerleaders. So I tried out in front of the school. Back then (I don't know if they have it now) they had a JV cheerleader squad. You had to be a sophomore before you would be varsity your junior and senior year. So that's what I did. My older sister was one; I always wanted to do that. Back then, girls did not play sports nearly like they do now. They didn't play as much. Now I think it's really common thing, girls all do at least one sport and even those that are cheerleaders, a lot of them will be cheerleaders and play another sport. I know there was soccer, and I’m sure there was basketball, and I’m assuming there might have been softball as well, I just don't remember.
Our uniforms were very much like they are now, actually. It’s funny to see, but during football season, we would have the long wool sweaters. They were very itchy, always had to wear a shirt underneath, and basketball ones were the shorter sleeved. We had cheer for wrestling as well.
[Her favorite memory from cheer]
Well, I think I had mentioned my favorite memory was the way we found out for cheer. Back then we would get kidnapped by the old cheerleading squad and the big thing to do back then, which is not good and I’m not saying any one should do it, was to sneak into the Everett Memorial Stadium and we've learned the song Tequila was a song that at every pep assembly we played and the whole school love it. So every year, the cheer stayed the same for like 10 or 15 years, they would teach it to the new cheerleaders, but apparently the year after I graduated they decided that Tequila was not a appropriate song, so they quit doing it. Well anyway, the initiation was to sneak into the Everett memorial and sneak out on the field and you would learn the new Tequila song.
At pep assemblies they would always introduce the players, they would usually have a skit that leadership would do, we would always do Tequila, always would do Roll Along, and lots of competitions between the classes, and a lot of that kind a stuff.
A funny experience that I had mentioned to you, was when the one time, the one year we were climbing over the fence to get into the stadium, my good friend cut her hand on the barbed wire fence so we had to take her to the emergency room in the middle of the night, and they were asking like hoe she had done that and we were worried she might have needed a tetanus shot because of the rusty fence, so anyways, lots of funny things with that, but I don't remember things with the actual assemblies.
We had a good football team. We had Scott Thompson, who graduated in my year. I think his picture is still out in the showcase in the gym lobby there, so he was recruited by all the colleges our senior year, so we had a lot of news reporters on our campus, and that was the big thing. I think he ended up going with Oklahoma, so I’m not sure what has happened since then, never really heard what he's up to, but he was a great player so he did really well.
Yeah, football and basketball, that was great, that was the thing to do on Friday nights. That was a lot of fun.
[About her extracurricular activities]
I think we just did a lot at friends houses, I mean, cruising Colby...did you guys ever heard of that before? That was just at time I was in high school. So you'd always hear people talk about cruising Colby, I did it once with friends, but I don't think that was the big thing, it was really a lot of friends and we hung out and I can't think of one particular spot. We were busy, too. I was working two jobs, and cheer and everything.
I worked at first at Hewlett Packard. I went to SnoIsle my senior year so I would leave at like noon and go to Hewlett Packard and work there and I had job also at Olson's Grocery Store, which is where 24 Hours Fitness is now in Silver Lake it used to be QFC and so doing that and doing cheer leading at the games and everything, I had a busy schedule.
I remember one funny story. Some friends and I were going over to a party and, I don’t know why, we were just being goofy and were coming down the street as we parked and we were running around in the street so we were getting up to the house of the party as the police came at that time to raid this party, and they pulled us aside because they thought we were drunk because we being all goofy, We did not think at all and had not been drinking and they could tell after talking to us, but it was just funny, we didn’t know that kinds of stuff was going on so we were glad that we showed up at the end, and weren't inside when the police came.
I have few friends that have stayed in really close contact with and now with Facebook and stuff. It kind of opens it up to finding out what people are up to and it's been fun to reconnect with a bunch of people, but there are only a few I actually stayed in really close contact with. I know it’s hard to believe but your high school friends are not necessarily the ones you are going to be really good friends with 20 years later. So, it’s best not to base decisions you are making in high school on what your friends think because you might be surprised how they will change over the years.
[About school in general]
We had a lot of homework, especially math. I remember where I sat, sitting at a certain table every day it seemed like it was always math. I actually liked math, and I liked English. I did not like science.
I had a couple teachers that I really really liked. Mr. Berbie was a science teacher. He was a great, great teacher. I didn’t like science, and I really had a horrible science teacher my freshman year. When I got him in my sophomore year I was very happy. I would say he and Mr. O'Neil, a world history teacher, he was really great to I liked him.
[Regarding music and dancing]
Michael Jackson was big. He hit it big while I was in high school. I liked Thriller and Beat It. It all just came out when I was in school. That was good. Prince was another one, and Purple Rain. That's all I can think of offhand.
The dances were really popular. The after games dances were a big thing. I don’t know the comparison of how it is now because I’m not a huge fan of the dances anymore, but back then it was a great, safe, fun, good environment to be in. I went to a lot of the dances and had a great time. We didn't do nearly the prep that the girls do nowadays. We didn't go and get our hair and nails done and facials and make-up professionally done and all that, and everything was much more casual kind of thing. More formal to some of them, and some were semiformal. The Tolos always had a theme, which was always fun. But it wasn't nearly the money that is spent nowadays, the way that proms would go.
[One big event she recalls from high school]
My junior year one of our friends was in a car with some kids who were drinking and driving down in Snohomish. They went off the road and she was killed. So that really was a tragic thing for our whole school and they offered to give her a funeral. Her parents actually live across the street from me now. So they probably look at me and wonder what it would be like if their daughter was still here, 20 something years later. That was the main thing I remember really impacting us as a school.
Linda Lamprecht (Woodward)
Class of 1985
Linda Woodward Lamprecht went to Cascade from 1981 to 1985. She is the second youngest in her family, and all of her siblings went to Cascade as well. Also all four of her children went to or are attending Cascade High School.
My parents moved into the house they live in now the night I was born, in Everett, so they have been here all those years and all five if their kids went to Cascade. After graduation I left for eight years in between, and my husband went to college and then we moved to California for a few years, then we moved back here. We have four children, and all four went to cascade. Our youngest Erica Lamprecht, she told me not to embarrass her, she's there now, but yep our other three graduated.
I was a cheerleader for three years at cascade. I didn't play sports, I just cheered for them. It was only three years because freshmen couldn't be cheerleaders. So I tried out in front of the school. Back then (I don't know if they have it now) they had a JV cheerleader squad. You had to be a sophomore before you would be varsity your junior and senior year. So that's what I did. My older sister was one; I always wanted to do that. Back then, girls did not play sports nearly like they do now. They didn't play as much. Now I think it's really common thing, girls all do at least one sport and even those that are cheerleaders, a lot of them will be cheerleaders and play another sport. I know there was soccer, and I’m sure there was basketball, and I’m assuming there might have been softball as well, I just don't remember.
Our uniforms were very much like they are now, actually. It’s funny to see, but during football season, we would have the long wool sweaters. They were very itchy, always had to wear a shirt underneath, and basketball ones were the shorter sleeved. We had cheer for wrestling as well.
[Her favorite memory from cheer]
Well, I think I had mentioned my favorite memory was the way we found out for cheer. Back then we would get kidnapped by the old cheerleading squad and the big thing to do back then, which is not good and I’m not saying any one should do it, was to sneak into the Everett Memorial Stadium and we've learned the song Tequila was a song that at every pep assembly we played and the whole school love it. So every year, the cheer stayed the same for like 10 or 15 years, they would teach it to the new cheerleaders, but apparently the year after I graduated they decided that Tequila was not a appropriate song, so they quit doing it. Well anyway, the initiation was to sneak into the Everett memorial and sneak out on the field and you would learn the new Tequila song.
At pep assemblies they would always introduce the players, they would usually have a skit that leadership would do, we would always do Tequila, always would do Roll Along, and lots of competitions between the classes, and a lot of that kind a stuff.
A funny experience that I had mentioned to you, was when the one time, the one year we were climbing over the fence to get into the stadium, my good friend cut her hand on the barbed wire fence so we had to take her to the emergency room in the middle of the night, and they were asking like hoe she had done that and we were worried she might have needed a tetanus shot because of the rusty fence, so anyways, lots of funny things with that, but I don't remember things with the actual assemblies.
We had a good football team. We had Scott Thompson, who graduated in my year. I think his picture is still out in the showcase in the gym lobby there, so he was recruited by all the colleges our senior year, so we had a lot of news reporters on our campus, and that was the big thing. I think he ended up going with Oklahoma, so I’m not sure what has happened since then, never really heard what he's up to, but he was a great player so he did really well.
Yeah, football and basketball, that was great, that was the thing to do on Friday nights. That was a lot of fun.
[About her extracurricular activities]
I think we just did a lot at friends houses, I mean, cruising Colby...did you guys ever heard of that before? That was just at time I was in high school. So you'd always hear people talk about cruising Colby, I did it once with friends, but I don't think that was the big thing, it was really a lot of friends and we hung out and I can't think of one particular spot. We were busy, too. I was working two jobs, and cheer and everything.
I worked at first at Hewlett Packard. I went to SnoIsle my senior year so I would leave at like noon and go to Hewlett Packard and work there and I had job also at Olson's Grocery Store, which is where 24 Hours Fitness is now in Silver Lake it used to be QFC and so doing that and doing cheer leading at the games and everything, I had a busy schedule.
I remember one funny story. Some friends and I were going over to a party and, I don’t know why, we were just being goofy and were coming down the street as we parked and we were running around in the street so we were getting up to the house of the party as the police came at that time to raid this party, and they pulled us aside because they thought we were drunk because we being all goofy, We did not think at all and had not been drinking and they could tell after talking to us, but it was just funny, we didn’t know that kinds of stuff was going on so we were glad that we showed up at the end, and weren't inside when the police came.
I have few friends that have stayed in really close contact with and now with Facebook and stuff. It kind of opens it up to finding out what people are up to and it's been fun to reconnect with a bunch of people, but there are only a few I actually stayed in really close contact with. I know it’s hard to believe but your high school friends are not necessarily the ones you are going to be really good friends with 20 years later. So, it’s best not to base decisions you are making in high school on what your friends think because you might be surprised how they will change over the years.
[About school in general]
We had a lot of homework, especially math. I remember where I sat, sitting at a certain table every day it seemed like it was always math. I actually liked math, and I liked English. I did not like science.
I had a couple teachers that I really really liked. Mr. Berbie was a science teacher. He was a great, great teacher. I didn’t like science, and I really had a horrible science teacher my freshman year. When I got him in my sophomore year I was very happy. I would say he and Mr. O'Neil, a world history teacher, he was really great to I liked him.
[Regarding music and dancing]
Michael Jackson was big. He hit it big while I was in high school. I liked Thriller and Beat It. It all just came out when I was in school. That was good. Prince was another one, and Purple Rain. That's all I can think of offhand.
The dances were really popular. The after games dances were a big thing. I don’t know the comparison of how it is now because I’m not a huge fan of the dances anymore, but back then it was a great, safe, fun, good environment to be in. I went to a lot of the dances and had a great time. We didn't do nearly the prep that the girls do nowadays. We didn't go and get our hair and nails done and facials and make-up professionally done and all that, and everything was much more casual kind of thing. More formal to some of them, and some were semiformal. The Tolos always had a theme, which was always fun. But it wasn't nearly the money that is spent nowadays, the way that proms would go.
[One big event she recalls from high school]
My junior year one of our friends was in a car with some kids who were drinking and driving down in Snohomish. They went off the road and she was killed. So that really was a tragic thing for our whole school and they offered to give her a funeral. Her parents actually live across the street from me now. So they probably look at me and wonder what it would be like if their daughter was still here, 20 something years later. That was the main thing I remember really impacting us as a school.