List of individual alumnus shared their extraordinary story including professional & academic success, athletic achievements, historic milestones and community impact.
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Alumni Corner: Dr. Harry Lang
Harry Lang’s life path changed suddenly from a factory worker to a math and science teacher when as a junior high student in Irwin, Pennsylvania, Dr. Lang’s woke from a coma due to meningitis. “That’s probably where I would’ve ended up, if I had not become profoundly deaf,” said Lang. “I thank WPSD for preparing…
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Alumni Corner: Elizabeth “Libby” Pollard
This article is originally published on WPAN Volume 122, Number 2, Winter 2011. Elizabeth “Libby” Pollard is a proud member of the Class of 1956. Upon graduation from WPSD she went on to further her education at Gallaudet College (now University) for three years. In the 1960s, Libby became interested in computers and attended the…
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Profile: Harry Lang
Faculty/Staff ProfileBy Frank A. KruppenbacherPublished in NTID FOCUS, Fall 2006 / Winter 2007Page 9 When he awoke from a coma brought on by meningitis, Harry Lang’s life as a high school sophomore in Irwin, Pa., veered suddenly from a path of eventual employment in a Pittsburgh steel mill. “That’s probably where I would’ve ended up,…