Category: News

  • Alumni Night 2013 Gallery

    WPSD Alumni Women’s Volleyball WPSD Alumni Men’s and Boy’s Basketball.. Troy Verner coached all 25 players during his time! Alumni Night 2013 photo gallery

  • Sign language helps open lines of communication

    Sign language helps open lines of communication

    In a single morning, North Hills Senior High School students got more than a glimpse into another world. When students from the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, or WPSD, visited to promote deafness awareness through a stage presentation, all six students of SignShine acted out a day in the life of their silent world.…

  • Completed Alumni Pavilion!

    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

  • One Position Vacancy: Member-At-Large

    To any Alumnus of WPSD, There is one position open: Member-At-Large. If you are interesting to be part of this team, please contact Alan Majocha, amajocha@verizon.net with your name, class of 19xx or 20xx, your residence address and a brief explanation why you are interesting to be part of this team. Deadline: October 31, 2012…

  • Support to donate Alumni Pavilion Fund!

    There’s plenty of least 100 bricks left, please donate this by registering the form. Pavilion Project Flyer Form

  • Newsmaker: Marybeth Lauderdale

    By Bill Vidonic Published: Tuesday, July 3, 2012 Noteworthy: Named director of the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf in Edgewood beginning Aug. 1. Age: 54 Residence: Jacksonville, Ill.; will live at the Edgewood campus once she starts her new job. Family: Children, Paitra Gibson, 35; Gabe Heinemann, 28; Betsy Brown, 25; and Ben Heinemann,…

  • ISD/ISVI superintendent leaving the state

    By Jake Russell, published on June 20, 2012 After more than three decades working with deaf and visually impaired students in Jacksonville, Marybeth Lauderdale is leaving. Lauderdale, superintendent of both the Illinois School for the Deaf and the Illinois School for the Visually Impaired, will move to Pittsburgh as the director of the Western Pennsylvania…

  • Wrestling benefit WPSD continues to grow, prosper

    By Keith Barnes McKeesport Daily News Published: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 Glassport native Ken Jugan got his start in studio wrestling as a boy when he attended his first match at the McKeesport Palisades. Now a longtime regional wrestling veteran and a member of the Keystone State Wrestling Alliance, the 54-year-old continues to use his…

  • Alumni Award Nominess

    If you think of any person(s) deserving such an award listed below, please e-mail Valentine Wojton, III (vwojton@wpsd.org) along with the reason why that person should be recognized and he will fine-tune it and then add to the list! REV. JOHN G BROWN SERVICE AWARD – The person(s) shall be chosen for his/her devoted service…