Category: News
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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…
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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…