Category: News
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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…
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WPSD CEO Rhoten to retire
BY PHILLIP POUPORE | Sunday, June 19, 2016, 10:33 p.m. Don Rhoten had rarely seen snow when he moved from Florida to Pittsburgh in January 1994 to take over as CEO for the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. Rhoten will never forget that first week in Pittsburgh. During his walk to work on the first…
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Retiring CEO put WPSD on cutting edge
When Donald Rhoten was young, education for deaf children was different. They sat at the front of the classroom so they could watch the teacher, he said. That’s not how things are done at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf in Edgewood, where Rhoten has served as superintendent and CEO for two decades. Each…
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WPSD: Update on Alumni from 1995-2015
Since The Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf opened 147 years ago, thousands of students have passed through these doors. Today, as it was in 1869, the goal is to produce graduates who achieve their dreams and positively impact society. For this edition of The Western Pennsylvanian, we attempted to find out what the more…
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WPSD VIDEO: Dr. Farmer, new CEO of WPSD
From YouTube: The Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (WPSD) is proud to announce the appointment of Steven E. Farmer, M.S., Ed.D., as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Dr. Farmer comes to WPSD from the Tennessee School for the Deaf, where he had served as Director of Student Life. In that position, Farmer supervised…
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WPSD Announces New CEO
Dr. Steven Farmer to succeed Don Rhoten on July 1 March 11, 2016 (Pittsburgh, PA) – The Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (WPSD) is proud to announce the appointment of Steven E. Farmer, M.S., Ed.D., as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Dr. Farmer comes to WPSD from the Tennessee School for the Deaf,…
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Deaf cheerleaders sign their team spirit
Cheerleaders for the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf may not be yelling, but that doesn’t mean their messages aren’t being heard. Members of the cheerleading squad use hand signals and facial expressions to promote their team spirit. They cheer for the Lions boys and girls basketball teams at the Edgewood school in front of…