Category: News

  • Lourdesmont campus sold to School for Deaf

    By Gerard Hetman ghetman@theabingtonjournal.com Reporter / Photographer GOlackawanna SOUTH ABINGTON TWP. – For more than 100 years, the school now known as the Scranton School for Deaf and Hard-of Hearing Children has been a pillar of the local educational landscape. For many of those years, the Lourdesmont school in South Abington Township also helped fulfill the…

  • Alumni Pavilion Site

    For seventy years, the Alumni Pavilion (as it was known) provided a place for friends to gather and a meeting place for a variety of activities. When the pavilion was torn down of the alumni felt it was a real loss to the community. Now the WPSD Alumni Association has decided to rebuild the pavilion…

  • Big plans for Lourdesmont campus

    BY SARAH HOFIUS HALL (STAFF WRITER) Published: August 21, 2010 thetimes-tribune.com SOUTH ABINGTON TWP. – Behind the bricks and mortar, Don Rhoten sees a school full of promise. As Lourdesmont prepares to leave its 100-acre campus, the superintendent of the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf is eager to transform the property. “It will be…

  • For Bethel Park Eagle Scout it’s ‘adapt and overcome’

    By Ellen Mitchell PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, July 29, 2010 As Boy Scouts across the United States celebrate the group’s 100th anniversary, one member is celebrating an achievement of a different kind. Brian Hertneky, 19, of Bethel Park recently received one of the greatest honors of his life, becoming an Eagle Scout. There’s just one small…

  • Alumni President: Support Pavilion Fund!

    John Noschese, president of Alumni Association of WPSD ask for your support the fundraiser to fund the pavilion to build on Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf property. If you are interested to participate, contact to reach John Noschese by clicking here. To get more information about this, visit Alumni Pavilion Fund.

  • 2010 Alumni Horse Derby Photos

    WPSD Alumni Associtation hosted 2010 Horse Derby on Friday, May 28, 2010 at Pittsburgh Associtation of the Deaf clubhouse after WPSD’s May Day in the same day. The gallery includes eighty-three photos are open to public for your benefit of your enjoyment.

  • Support Alumni Pavilion Fund

    If you are interested to make donation to WPSD Alumni for Pavilion Project fund, download and print the PDF format to fill out the application form: Pavilion Project Flyer Form In year 1906 the WPSD woodworking class took on the responsibility of building a pavilion for the enjoyment of the students and alumni. They completed…

  • Alumni Night 2010 Group Photo

    2010 Alumni Women’s Volleyball team   Alumni Women and WPSD Girls Volleyball group   Alumni Women and WPSD Girls cheerleader group   Alumni Men’s Basketball team

  • Travis Clawson ’03 featured in PCT video

    Travis Clawson, WPSD Class of 2003 inspires as a person and as a Computer Information Technology major at Pennsylvania College of Technology. More information on Travis’ major is available at: http://www.pct.edu/schools/bct/comp_sci/