WPSD Alumni Association

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  • Amber Stanton ('97) pursuit the career

    Amber graduated from RIT with Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design. She is also certified by NTID in performing arts and has attended Deaf West Professional Summer School. Amber just moved to Los Angeles a month ago in pursuit for an actress job. Wish her the best luck! Via Mosdeux.

  • Death Notice: Jim Eddy '72

    Jim Eddy of Laurel, MD and graduate WPSD in 1972, passed away few days ago. Sympathy card can be sent to: Laraine Metheny (Jim’s sister) Rt 4 box 3671 Elkins, WV 26241 John Eddy (Jim’s brother) 3497 Ivy Drive Murrysville, PA 15668 The memorial service will be announced later by his family.

  • Tracey Colbert ('87) to Get Married

    Tracey Colbert, Class of 1987 made an announcement that she was engaged to George Czinka in January 12, 2006. She and George met at Mount Aloysius College, Cresson, PA in 1988 and have known each other and together ever since then. George is hearing and learned sign language when he was in 5th grade at…

  • 5th WPSD Alumni Picnic

    When: May 26, 2006 at 2:00pm. Where: WPSD outside of Boy’s dorm Admission: $5.00 Adult; $3 Under 16; and Under 3 Free. Events: Adult Bocce game. Children: Parents against kids (water balloon and crafts). We will provide free hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, pasta salad and dessert. Alumni will sell drinks include water and soda.…

  • Obituary: John Fitzpatrick (1957)

    John Richard Fitzpatrick picture – http://lindalanger.home.comcast.net/fitzpatrick.jpg July 4, 1937 – March 25, 2006 John Richard Fitzpatrick, Seymour, died March 25, 2006, at his residence. Mr. Fitzpatrick was a member of Apostolic Pentecostal Tabernacle in Seymour. In 1957, he graduated from West Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, Pittsburgh, Pa. He attended the Central Bible Institute at…

  • Obituary: Anthony Filowat (1949)

    Class of 1949 Anthony P. Filowat, 90, of Floreffe, died Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006, in Jefferson Regional Medical Center. Mr. Filowat, formerly of Ann Arbor, Mich., was born Dec. 3, 1915, in Elrama, a son of Michael and Mary (Podstowski) Filowiat. He was a 23-year employee of the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, Mich., retiring…

  • Death Notice – Joan L. Sharpe Ciko

    Obituary – Joan L. Sharpe Ciko Joan L. Sharpe Ciko, 63, of 233 Boileau Place, Meadville, died at 8:40 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31, 2005, in Meadville Medical Center after being stricken at home. Born Jan. 12, 1942, in Shippenville, she was the daughter of the late John W. and Viola Burchett Sharpe. She attended the…

  • Beaver court goes high-tech to try deaf man

    Thursday, October 06, 2005 By Gabrielle Banks, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Url: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05279/583562.stm Beaver County court officials have rearranged the furniture and done a half-dozen practice runs with the high-tech contraptions they plan to use in a competency hearing today for a Freedom man charged with killing his sister and brother-in-law at his parents’ home in May.…

  • WPSD Cup 2005 Recap

    By Stephen Rute On September 10, 2005, The Alumni Association of the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf held a golf outing at the Westwood Golf Club in West Mifflin. Twenty-nine golfers turned out to play four-player scrambles. The winning team included Paul Blahut, Scott Craig, Greg Sebastian and Paul Wojton with the lowest score…