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Cumberland Times-News - Let’s celebrate W.Va. Schools for Deaf, Blind
To the Editor:
This letter is in regard to the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind in Romney.
I recently spent a month in Morgantown, W.Va., in Ruby Memorial and Healthsouth Rehab Hospitals. I could not believe that not one of the very many patients and staff members from various parts of West Virginia had any idea that we had a school such as this in the state!
It made me wonder how many local people know it is here in our own area and that it has been here for over 125 years.
It is a very large, beautiful school with much more in the way of buildings than what people see as they drive past on Route 50E on their way to Winchester, Va., if they are even aware they are passing it as they are looking at McDonald’s and other places on the opposite side.
There is something else. The School for the Blind recently had over 200 students, who are blind or visually impaired, on campus for the weekend as they had the honor of hosting the annual Eastern Association Schools for the Blind Music Festival.
These students represented their schools for the blind for almost the entire Eastern states and one from Canada. Did you see anything in the paper about it? I didn’t, but perhaps it was a small sentence, and I missed it.
Besides the regular academic classes and the music program, there are other things offered at the schools, such as Pro-Start, a culinary arts program, many competitive sports, swimming, skiing, etc.
My personal belief is that it is time for the W.Va. Schools for the Deaf and the Blind to be recognized in our area and throughout the state.
Betty Jo Dohrman
Fort Ashby, W.Va.
To the Editor:
This letter is in regard to the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind in Romney.
I recently spent a month in Morgantown, W.Va., in Ruby Memorial and Healthsouth Rehab Hospitals. I could not believe that not one of the very many patients and staff members from various parts of West Virginia had any idea that we had a school such as this in the state!
It made me wonder how many local people know it is here in our own area and that it has been here for over 125 years.
It is a very large, beautiful school with much more in the way of buildings than what people see as they drive past on Route 50E on their way to Winchester, Va., if they are even aware they are passing it as they are looking at McDonald’s and other places on the opposite side.
There is something else. The School for the Blind recently had over 200 students, who are blind or visually impaired, on campus for the weekend as they had the honor of hosting the annual Eastern Association Schools for the Blind Music Festival.
These students represented their schools for the blind for almost the entire Eastern states and one from Canada. Did you see anything in the paper about it? I didn’t, but perhaps it was a small sentence, and I missed it.
Besides the regular academic classes and the music program, there are other things offered at the schools, such as Pro-Start, a culinary arts program, many competitive sports, swimming, skiing, etc.
My personal belief is that it is time for the W.Va. Schools for the Deaf and the Blind to be recognized in our area and throughout the state.
Betty Jo Dohrman
Fort Ashby, W.Va.
