A New Home For Wagstaff

While Northwest Academy gets situated in its new space, David Wagstaff, Dean of Students, has already found himself a home in his new office.

The school has moved many of the administrative personnel and offices to its new home, the recently acquired Plaza Building. This transition opened room for Wagstaff and Julia Cain, Registrar and College Counselor, to move into a brighter area of the main building.

Wagstaff enjoys his new office because now he has more freedom for decor. For example, while his old office was a base tone of white, his new office is painted icy teal.

“I love the new office,” Wagstaff said. “It has one thing I have not had so far since I became Dean of Students: a window.”

His new office gives him more storage space, an improvement over the single bookshelf of the old office. The extra room also allows him to have a rotating display of art from local artists.

Wagstaff also displays a coyote skull, an eight-sided die, to help him make decisions, and an antique copy of The New University Dictionary Illustrated.

Moving Wagstaff and Cain to the front of the building means that Wade Willis, Northwest Academy’s Arts Coordinator and Teacher, now can use the old space for expanding the backstage.

“Theater really needed that space,” Mary Folberg, Head of School, said. “We put student services people, David and Julia, a little closer to the kids so they do not have to walk through another space to see them. It also gave Wendy (Bell) a really good locked room for textbooks and space for theater to have costumes and a small little workshop.”