Copyright 1987 WPSD All rights reversed. The total students—207 and 90 were the state of school year.
enrollment in the 1980-1981 school year was 390 boys and 183 girls of which 300 were residential day students. A total of $4,691,000 was needed from Pennsylvania to balance the budget for the 1980-1981
Frances O’Loughlin, school dentist for many years, retired in June, 1981 and was replaced by Ralph Kemerer, D.M.D. who has a private practice in the Shadyside area of the city of Pittsburgh. Abbylee Baumhardt, Rebecca Curran, Anthony DiMenno, Patricia Horsman, Susan Huck, Judy Kester, Margaret Laird, Sandra Nair, Robert Neisworth, Ruth Richardson, Thomas Seager, Glenn Shannon, Sharon (Siglow) Shoemaker, and Lyn Silverman decided not to return to WPSD for the 1981 - 1982 school year. The 24th Triennial Reunion of the WPSD Alumni Association was held on the school campus during the weekend of June 26-28, 1981. Over 300 people attended the reunion activities which began with a reception hosted by Harold and Mary Mowl on Friday evening and ended with a picnic lunch on Sunday afternoon. The Saturday night banquet was held at the Monroeville Marriott. WPSD was well represented at the “Deaf Olympic Games” held in Cologne, West Germany in July, 1981. Robert Cline, a graduate in the Class of 1980 and a track star, won a gold medal as a member of the USA 4x100 meter relay team. Darrin Majocha, WPSD sophomore, was a member of the USA waterpolo team which finished 5th in the international competition. Staff members Mary Ann Schaefer and Henry Walls traveled to Cologne to watch the Games. 1981 - 1982 WPSD welcomed the following persons to the staff for the 1981-1982 school year: Joyce DeGennaro, Kenneth Engles, Rosalie Farber, John Foust, Betty Hornick, Marie Iurlano, Wayne Kelly, Kathy Ledbetter, Maria Lonnett, Kim Morgret, Nancy Painter, Kevin Saunders, Sally Schott, and William Smith. Caryl Chapman and Donna Fonzi joined the staff in the spring of the same year. The school was saddened by four deaths which took place between August and October, 1981. Twelve year old student Raymond Stevwing was struck and killed by a train near his home on August 27, 1981. Opal Wells, a teacher at WPSD for 23 years before her retirement in June, 1970, passed away on August 1,
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