Category: News
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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!
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Alumni Officers 2014-2017
Congratulations to the WPSD alumni who has earned the WPSDAA officer position for a term in year 2014-2017: President – Bobby Maher ** WINNER ** – Alan Majocha 1st Vice President – David Fulmer *ACCLAMATION* 2nd Vice President – Thomas DeFazio *ACCLAMATION* Recording Secretary – Val Wojton *ACCLAMATION* Corresponding Secretary – Jamie Kitchen *ACCLAMATION* Treasurer…
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2014 Alumni Awards at Alumni Banquet
Valentine Wojton presented the awards to the WPSD alumni members at 100th anniversary Alumni Reunion on Saturday, June 21, 2014. Here are the honorably winners: ALUMNI REUNION HONORARY CHAIRPERSONS DORRELL (FRIEND), Ruth FRIEND, Richard REV JOHN G BROWN SERVICE AWARD BARDES, Henry (Posthumous) HOLLIDAY, Milford (Posthumous) TEITLEBAUM, Bernice (Posthumous) TONER, James NOSCHESE, James C. DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AWARD…
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Scranton school for deaf children names new director
BY JIM LOCKWOOD Published: June 24, 2014 The Scranton School for Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing Children has a new director. Jon Konzelman was promoted from assistant to the principal to the newest director of the nonprofit, South Abington Twp. school, effective immediately. Mr. Konzelman has been with the pre-K through eighth-grade school since its inception five…