Category: News

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…

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…

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…

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!

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…

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…

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…

It was big success for 100th Anniversary and 35th Triennial Alumni Reunion as 180 people attended biggest alumni event on June 20-22, 2014.  Thank you for all of you to come here to see our old and new friends. Friday, June 20, 2014 – 141 photos Saturday, June 21, 2014 – 151 photos Enjoy your time…

Families, friends and staff members filled the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf auditorium on Thursday, June 5, to congratulate the Class of 2014. Fifteen students participated in the on-campus commencement ceremony following a dinner for special guests and family members.