Category: News
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Scores are only half the game or Deaf basketball tourney
It wasn’t just game time this week inside the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf’s gymnasium in Edgewood. It was tournament time. Student-athletes, coaches and family members from three states and Washington, D.C., traveled to Western Pennsylvania for the 14th annual Tri-State Middle School Basketball Tournament. The tournament marked the culmination of WPSD’s season, a…
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Alumni Night 2017 Photo Gallery
WPSD Alumni Women’s Basketball WPSD Alumni Men’s and Boys’ Basketball Alumni Night 2017 photo galley (106 photos)
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2017 Alumni Reunion: A Misinterpreted World
WPSD Alumni Association, Inc. invites you to see the Deaf performance: Branton Stewart of California. He will be on the stage on Saturday evening of June 24, 2017 as part of 36th Triennial Alumni Reunion at Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf campus. Branton’s A Misinterpreted World is a stand up comedy show that will guaranteed…
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Book says Civil War pivotal in deaf history
Note: Harry Lang is 1965 WPSD graduate, he published his new book to the public in America. The American Civil War played a pivotal role in bringing the nation’s deaf population out of society’s shadows, asserts a forthcoming book by a former NTID professor. Harry G. Lang has spent a good part of his professional…
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DeafPeople’s Deaf Person o/t Month: Steven Farmer
Dr. Steven Farmer is DeafPeople.com’s Deaf Person of the Month in December 2016. From the post article: An epic adventure with a cast of stars Steven E. Farmer, Ed. D., was appointed the new Superintendent of Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf in March 2016, and took office on July 1. WPSD, the state’s top…
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Deaf in The Vibrant World of Pro Wresting
Title: Pennsylvania Referees Who Happen To Be Deaf Flourish In The Vibrant World Of Professional Wrestling by Trapper Tom, Editor, KSWA Digest In professional wrestling, a referee is an arbiter of the rules, the impartial delegate who is expected to call the action “down the middle.” The referee’s ideally invisible work is an…
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WPSD brings together peers for soccer
Seth Reeves, possibly the fastest player on the pitch, broke free of defenders and streaked toward the goal. Maintaining command of the ball on his foot, he lined up the shot and kicked. It was a perfect strike. The ball sailed into the back of the net, and the crowd reacted — in varying ways.…
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WPSD Alumni adds Instagram social media
Since WPSD Alumni Assocation serves their social network in Facebook, YouTube, Google Photos to the audience of WPSD family, friends and alumnus. We are proud to announce that we are adding new social media in our network: Instagram. Our main goal is to share with you, your family, your friends to view our individual current and historical pictures in…
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New CEO hopes students will be ‘lifelong learners’
By Tim Grant / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Steven E. Farmer, the new CEO of the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, spent most of his early childhood in deaf schools, but when he transferred to a public school in ninth grade, the experience gave him a new appreciation for the benefits of deaf students attending deaf…