Category: News
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Alumni Night 2015 Photo Gallery
WPSD Alumni Women’s Basketball WPSD Alumni Men’s and Boys’ Basketball Alumni Night 2015 photo galley (91 photos)
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BotsIQ aims to draw younger deaf workers to skilled labor positions
By Len Boselovic / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette February 5, 2015 Max Inks says he is doing what he always wanted to do: “design things and build things.” Mr. Inks, 24, produces electrical systems used in 3-D printers made by The ExOne Co. in North Huntingdon. It’s a job the Hempfield resident was led to through…
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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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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…
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School for the Deaf housing projects gets $200k boost
By Sam Spatter, Trib Total Media staff writer Friday, Aug. 15, 2014, 3:45 p.m. Students at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf in Edgewood soon could get new living quarters. A $9 million project to build a residence for them got a $200,000 assist on Friday when the board of directors of the Redevelopment…
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WPSD 1962-1968 Yearbook
Seven years of WPSD Yearbook, 1962-1968 is only available on WPSD Alumni website! Everything in there you can find the senior pictures of notable WPSD alumni such as Nathie Marbury, Rodney Danco, Harold Howl Jr and Harry Lang!