First Faculty of The Northwest School I
n honor of our 40th Anniversary we pay tribute to the teachers who encouraged the passions and changed the lives of hundreds of students. When the doors to The Northwest School opened in September 1980, 41 founding faculty members greeted the students. Here is a small sampling of who was there.
Lisa Blodgett received a BA from the University of Washington. Having just received her WA State teaching certificate, she was working in a restaurant frequented by Northwest cofounders. Learning that she spoke Spanish, the cofounders recruited her to teach Spanish at the school. Lisa participated in approximately twenty-six international trips. She took students to Mexico in 1980s and started the popular Seville, Spain, program around 1991-1992, running that trip between 1991-2000. Together with Humanities teacher Daniel Sparler, she organized trips to Cuba (2001-2002), and her first of many El Salvador trips took place circa 1998-1999.
