20 years in review: Three stories to keep Wakefield’s history in perspective

With 2020 on the horizon, staff and students of Wakefield High School eagerly anticipate the school’s 20th birthday.  In the beginning… The Wakefield building was opened in 1999, but it was inhabited by Sanderson High School students while their school was under renovation. For the school year of 1999-2000, this school was named Sanderson High School at Wakefield. For this reason, Wakefie...

Wakefield’s Wolverine Football Stadium has been recently embellished with a spirited mural: a 50-hour student-led project. This huge undertaking was completed Oct. 25, just in time for the big homecoming game.  The sign is about four and a half feet by 55 feet and two inches, including the grey box around it that serves to make the letters stand out from far away.  The project began Aug. ...

On Wakefield’s 20th anniversary the outdoor sports complex will be renamed the “Dexter Cooley Athletic Complex” after our school’s first Athletic Director (AD), Dexter Cooley.  Last November, the Wake County Board of Education approved the renaming of this area. As the first AD, Cooley had a lot of work to do with building all of our sports programs from the ground up.  Before retiring from ...