Tag: highlights
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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
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House approves SSSD campus sale
BY ROBERT SWIFT (HARRISBURG BUREAU CHIEF)Published: October 6, 2010Source Link HARRISBURG – A bill authorizing a $500,000 sale of the former Scranton State School for the Deaf to neighboring Marywood University cleared a major hurdle Tuesday on its track to final passage. The House voted 193-3 to approve the bill containing a number of transactions…
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Australia students visit WPSD
Deaf students from Australia let their hands do the talking to teens here Signs of friendshipMonday, December 03, 2007By Eleanor Chute, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Photo by Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette Adam Duty, left, a 16-year-old 11th-grade student at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, uses sign language to communicate with Shirley Liu, 15, a 10th-grade student visiting…
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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.…