Year: 2014
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Alumni Tree and Auditorium Seat
Western Pennsylvania School For the Deaf is asking you for the donation and print your name on Leaf on Giving Alumni Tree and/or Chair in Auditorium Seat for your donor recognition materials. Leaf on Giving Tree – $100 Chair in Auditorium – $300 Combination package: Leaf and Auditorium Chair – $375 Small Giving Stone –…
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Turn back to the clock: WPSD building first new dorm since 1960s
By Malia Spencer, Reporter- Pittsburgh Business Times The Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf is gearing up for a $9 million project to help the 144-year-old institution better use its space and give students a modern dorm to call home while on campus. The school is readying its 1960s vintage Boys Dorm for demolition in…
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WPSD Video: The New Residence at WPSD
WPSD officially opened the new Residence, a beautiful and energy-efficient living space for our residential students. The new Residence has 6 living suites, each with bedrooms, bathrooms, a study area, and a kitchen. It features a state-of-the-art wireless and information technology and a geothermal hearing and cooling system. More importantly, the new Residence is a…
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‘Just Like Home’: Edgewood school for deaf students
October 16, 2014 10:27 AMBy Lexi Belculfine / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette From 5 p.m. Sunday to 12:30 Friday afternoon, 11th-grader Samantha Gibbs lives in a newly opened residence at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, which on Wednesday night, smelled of tacos and chocolate chip cookies. Samantha and her nine suite mates had just cooked…
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Alumni Spotlight: Fatima Muhammad
Fatima Muhammad, a proud graduate of Class of 2007, comes to us from the Pittsburgh area where her parents currently reside. Following graduation at WPSD, her journey began at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, NY. After four years of college at RIT, she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing in…
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Visionary Leader: Agatha Tiegel Hanson
Thanks to Karen Haley to share the information to us; we are posting this article as part of WPSD Alumni History. Agatah Tiegel Hanson is alumni of Western Penna. School for the Deaf. This June, Gallaudet continues its Visionary Leader Series celebrating 1893 graduate Agatha Tiegel Hanson. The first woman to graduate from Gallaudet with a…
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West Manchester deaf teen heads to college
Bradley Speck is looking forward to independence By Angie Mason Email: amason@ydr.com @angiemason1 on Twitter In some ways, leaving home for college isn’t all that different for Bradley Speck. Speck, who has been deaf since birth, spent his 13-year school career traveling from his West Manchester Township home to the Western Pennsylvania School for the…