Category: News
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Reminder: Alumni Reunion Early Bird deadline
Just gently reminder that WPSD Alumni Reunion deadline for Early Bird is Friday, May 19, 2023. The price is $60 to avoid the price increase to $70. For more information about Alumni Reunion of registration, accommodations, check the post in our Alumni website. We will make announcements about more detailed information about reunion within six…
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College of Education offers ASL, proposes Deaf studies minor
Note: This post is related to Emily Jo Noschese, WPSD Class of 2005. It’s perhaps not surprising that English and Spanish are the two most-used languages in the United States. But the third? Due to the estimated 11.5 million people in the United States — including 386,000 in Michigan — who are deaf or hard…
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Complaints about WPSD Yearbook changes
If you are trying to open WPSD yearbook in Issuu.com directly from WPSDAlumni.org Yearbook website, You can see the screenshot “Publication access is currently limited”. We received the complaints from our Alumni visitors that they are unable to view the WPSD yearbooks in Issuu.com, the the partner of the web publishing service. We used our…
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Honey company with a deaf workforce creates a buzz in Point Breeze
This article is published in Post-Gazette on December 27, 2022. Written by Gretchen McKay Jon Mosholder didn’t set out to be a honey farmer. That was his mom’s dream, when she left her job as a health care consultant to start Bumbleberry Farms 11 years ago. Though Karen Mosholder had just a couple of hives in her…
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WPSD: Pittsburgh’s unique (ASL) signs
This article is published in Post-Gazette on December 23, 2022. You need to subscribe to view this page. Signing with a Pittsburgh accent LAURA MALT SCHNEIDERMAN | PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE DEC. 23, 2022 Val Wojton, deaf since birth, learned sign language at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf in Edgewood. There, the days of the week…
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Deaf NCI Fellow Wins Awards for Research Presentation
Megan Majocha, WPSD Class of 2015, is featured in the article in NIH Record website. Megan Majocha, a Ph.D. student in tumor biology in the NIH-Georgetown Partnership Program, received a travel scholarship to present her findings at the International Mammalian Genome Society Conference (IMGC) in Vancouver. She works in Dr. Kent Hunter’s Laboratory of Cancer…
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Photo of WPSD Class of 1972 Reunion
WPSD Class of 1972 Reunion hosted 50th anniversary on June 4, 2022 at DoubleTree by Hilton in Cranberry Township to respect their time to bring the memories at WPSD. Front, seating: Victor (Allen) Kibelbek, Robert Cominotti, Richard Guerin, Richard Aust, Allen Talbert and Charles Tasselli. Back, standing: Darlene (Lesley) Nelson, Kathleen (Goehring) Campero, Denise (Woelfel)…
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Deceased: John Williams, Class of 1985
John William, WPSD Class of 1985 was hit by car on June 9th and stayed in hospital for three weeks and died on June 24, 2022. No obituary at this time.
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Deaf student becomes first to earn doctorate at UH Mānoa
Emily Jo Noschese is WPSD Alumni – Class of 2005. Emily Jo Noschese is the first deaf student to earn a doctorate from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The Department of Linguistics in the College of Arts, Languages & Letters (CALL) recognizes the recent graduate. “I feel honored,” expressed Noschese. “The linguistics department made this happen and took a…