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Deaf cheerleaders sign their team spirit
Cheerleaders for the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf may not be yelling, but that doesn’t mean their messages aren’t being heard. Members of the cheerleading squad use hand signals and facial expressions to promote their team spirit. They cheer for the Lions boys and girls basketball teams at the Edgewood school in front of…
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WPSD Newsletter Restoration: 1949, ’52 and ’53
Big thanks to alumnus/relatives who gave us the WPAN (Western Pennsylvanian) newsletter. We noticed all of those newsletter are become decomposition or in poor conditional, that would becoming difficult for us to bring the good quality of newsletter to post in our website. We figured ourselves for the solution to have a restoration on those poor conditional…
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Danah cannot hear, but she thrived at Carlow
By Bill Schackner / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Like plenty of graduates this commencement season, Danah Richter will step onto a stage in cap and gown and utter to herself an expression common this time of year: “I did it!” But in fact, the Carlow University senior’s path to a college degree was anything but ordinary. Ms.…
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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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Post Gazette: Deaf teens win national pageant
By Kathleen Ganster, Pittsburgh Post GazetteApril 17, 2014 It was a surprise to Kate and Troy Lindsey when their son, Alec, announced he was going to compete in the Mr. Deaf Teen America contest. He is a rather shy young man, his mother said. She and her husband supported him but said they hadn’t expected…
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Amber Zion Performs at Super Bowl XLVIII
Amber Stanton-Zion, WPSD Class of 1997 will perform ASL National Anthem at Super Bowl 48. NEW YORK, Jan. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and PepsiCo (NYSE:PEP) announced today that after an extensive search actress Amber Zion has been selected to bring the beauty of American Sign Language (ASL) to…
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RSD superintendent to retire
December 19, 2013 Rochester School for the Deaf1545 St. Paul StreetRochester, New York 14621 Rochester School for the Deaf superintendent to retire As RSD’s first deaf chief Harold Mowl is also New York’s only deaf superintendent among eight State-supported schools for deaf and hard of hearing children Dr. Harold Mowl, Jr., the superintendent and chief…
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There’s something different about Miss Smiling Eyes
By Julie E. MartinTribLivePublished: Monday, March 11, 2013 Maggie Donaldson demonstrates that the luck of the Irish, in reality, comes from hard work and dedication. The 17-year-old West Deer girl was crowned this year’s Miss Smiling Irish Eyes Pittsburgh. She will lead Pittsburgh’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday, riding a float and then watching…
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Completed Alumni Pavilion!
We worked hard to bring pavilion back in our WPSD property, our dreams came true! We posted pictures in our photo album. Pavilion Project Flyer Form