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Hello Alumni members. We hope you are doing well.  Also, we hope many of you are planning to attend our alumni gathering on April 20, 2024 at the school. We will be serving donuts from about 8:30 to 9:45.  At 9:45 we will have roll call and a short business meeting.  After the business meeting, … Continue reading Alumni Update – Winter, 2024

Hello alumni members and friends, We hope all is well with you. We want to update you about our plans for a fun day at our school on Saturday, April 22 2023 from 8:30 to 4 pm. Current plans include coffee and pastries from 8:30 am to 9:30. We are putting the final plans together … Continue reading Alumni Update – Winter, 2023

Hello to all members of the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children Alumni Association. President  Al Pietrolungo has established a WPSBC Alumni Communications Team.  The Team consists of: Ed Facemyer, Chair, and members: Tom Hesley, Ted Crum and Sue Etters.  Our goal is to make sure everyone receives up to date  information and  news on … Continue reading Holiday Greetings from the New WPSBC Alumni Communications Team

Anybody Want to Throw Darts? The Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children in Pittsburgh served as the location for the 12th Harold Schlegal Memorial dart tournament.  The host organization was Audio Darts of Pittsburgh, and 24 competitors threw darts from the evening of August 10 through Sunday morning, August 12. Nine of the competitors were … Continue reading 12th Harold Schlegal Memorial Dart Tournament

Hello Earlier this week, we submitted to the Advocate some information about our plans for the May 21st regional.  Below is that article.  Hope to see most of you at the regional.  I promise it will be a beautiful spring day to come to Oakland. Al   An invitation to Attend the Southwest Regional Meeting … Continue reading Upcoming Regional GTCB Meeting

For those of you looking for the complete list of graduates of the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children, you can view it at http://wpsbc-alumni.org/graduates-list/  .  You can also find it by entering “graduates list” into the search box, which is located near the top right on most pages on this site. Contact me with any further questions.    

THE DARK BEFORE THE DAWN By Ellie Goldfon Part 3 of 3 Ellie asks, “Why, me, Lord.” Why me?  This is a question which intrudes in all of our thoughts every once in a while. You wouldn’t even count yourself amongst humankind if you couldn’t admit to asking it sometimes. Lying in my bed and … Continue reading The Dark Before The Dawn — Why Me Lord? (3 of 3)

THE DARK BEFORE THE DAWN By Ellie Goldfon Part 2 of 3 “Miss Goldfon, oh, Miss Goldfon, your breakfast is here,” the sweet accented voice of nurse Paulita stirred me from my deep sleep. Breakfast. I wanted to simply go right back to sleep. But the thought of Wednesday mornings breakfast interested me. Envisioning a nice … Continue reading The Dark Before The Dawn (2 of 3)

THE DARK BEFORE THE DAWN By Ellie Goldfon Part 1 of 3 “Good night, sweet Ethel,” my disembodied voice mechanically spoke from my nursing home bed. “Good night, my Ellen.” We were quite the rare pair, Ethel, having lost both her legs to devastating diabetes, and Ellen, a now virtually dependent and helpless blind woman … Continue reading The Dark Before The Dawn (1 of 3)