List of Strange Days at Blake Holsey High Characters - Professor Noel Zachary

Professor Noel Zachary

Dubbed "Z" by the science club students, Professor Noel Zachary (Jeffrey Douglas) is the kind of teacher that any student would want. He believes that his students will learn better if he engages their enthusiasm through unconventional teaching methods, rather than relying on straightforward lectures and harsh discipline. Because of this, Principal Durst doesn't exactly like him much.

Noel Zachary grew up without a father, whom he eventually met but who wanted no part of him. As a preteen he played the guitar, but lost interest in it when he discovered a love for science. However, other subjects in school were "a little fuzzy" for him, and he was not at all sure he would be able to attend college. This changed when he received a college scholarship from Pearadyne Industries. Zachary also interned at Pearadyne as a condition of the scholarship. Years later, Victor Pearson personally hired Zachary to teach at Blake Holsey High after the previous teacher, Professor Middleton, mysteriously disappeared.

Like his students, Z is curious to find out what is causing the strange events that always seem to be surrounding the school. Although many of the events that take place in Blake Holsey High are too weird to understand fully, Professor Zachary never forgets to think like a true scientist.

It is revealed during a Semi-Annual Teacher Review, Professor Zachary attended the University of Pennsylvania, graduated magna cum laude, and is proud of his alma mater—to the point of shouting "Go Quakers!" during the review. It is also revealed that his doctoral dissertation is about the modeling of ion implantation induced transient deactivation disjunction activities in Boron.

The floor of Professor Z's office intermittently connects to a wormhole, the probable source of everything strange that happens at the school. Although Professor Z has been through it himself, he cautions the Science Club against exposing themselves to its dangers, preferring to investigate more scientifically and safely by sending a toy called Mr. Bunnypants through the wormhole with a camera attached. After Josie disappears and fails to return, Professor Z forbids anyone from going into his office at all. Following the end of the series Z stays on at Blake Holsey High in order to study the after side effects of the worm hole's destruction.