Board Members

Tom Harbison,

President

Joel Mankowski,

Vice President

Cathy Edler,

Secretary

Stacey Renn,

Treasurer

Ron Byington

Roger Claussen

Deloris Erlandson

Milton Lee

Joseph Siudzinski

Alex Slappey,

Ex-Officio

Website:

www.wsdfoundation.org

Email:

info@wsdfoundation.org

Spring 2013

Message from the President Tom Harbison

The Wisconsin School for the Deaf

Foundation (WSDF)

supports innovative projects and programs, which advance the well being of deaf and hard of hearing individuals throughout life and promote successful

relationships with their families, service providers and communities.

The Wisconsin School for the Deaf Foundation (WSDF) is a

501(c)(3) nonprofit fundraising organization which depends

entirely on fundraisers, donations, and volunteers. WSDF is

now led by a board of ten directors. The board meets every

month except for summer months and is open to the public. Visit

www.wsdfoundation.org for more information about us.

WSDF raises money each year to help charities such as grants, schol-

arships, and donations to other community causes. Last year we awarded a

college scholarship to one senior and several grants to the WSD Museum, two

Junior NAD Wisconsin Chapter members to attend the NAD Youth Leader-

ship Camp in Oregon, WSD French Exchange Students for one WSD

student to travel to Paris, WSDAA Hall of Fame, and the Greater Milwau-

kee Association of the Deaf for its annual Children Holiday Party. We have

increased the college scholarship from $500 to $1,000. We also conducted a

first-ever winter clothing drive for the needy students at WSD.

This year we hope to raise over $10,000. Fundraisers will include a

raffle, Pig Roast, Annual Charter Day Fund Campaign, booth sales, and a

game show. We aim to give away $5,200 in grants and two scholarships. We

hope to sponsor a workshop for the first time, in collaboration with the

Wisconsin Association of the Deaf at its conference in June. Also, we will

host the first-ever United States Deaf History Association conference at WSD

and the Southern Lakes Association of the Deaf in July. We are seeking two

more Board members. Please let us know if you are interested in serving on

the WSDF Board. We need someone with full commitment and participation.

Currently, we are undertaking our second Annual Fund Campaign

in honor of WSD’s Charter Day, April 19th. Please consider making a

donation to WSDF. Please complete the inside self-addressed envelope with

payment and mail it to WSDF.

We thank you for your continued support. Also, let us know if you

are interested in serving on the WSD Board.

P.O. Box 822, Delavan, Wisconsin 53115

Here is what the new high school, below left, will look like. On the right, the build-

ing is taking shape as pictured on March 13, 2013. It is expected to be completed

in August, ready for the fall.

New WSD High School Building

May 30, 2013

Annual Pig Roast at Champs in

Lake Geneva

July 25-28, 2013

The United States Deaf History

Association, Inaugural Conference

at WSD and SLAD in Delavan

August 17, 2013

Deaf Picnic in Darien

September 14, 2013

Trivia Show at WSD in Delavan

October 5 , 2013

WSD Homecoming versus Iowa

and Open House of New HS

Building at WSD in Delavan

Proceeds from our annual

raffles go to college scholarships for

WSD graduating seniors. The last

raffle brought in $3,300, thanks to

our supporters. Congratulations to

last year’s raffle prize winners:

1st Prize – Barb Kwiatkowski

2nd Prize – Sherry Kirchschlager

3rd Prize – WSDF by Anonymous

4th Prize – Lise Amos

5th Prize – Tom and Kathryn

Harbison, donated back to WSDF

Deaf students, who are pur-

suing a degree in ASL in the areas of

linguistics and research, Teaching

ASL as a World Language or Deaf

Education with Bilingual-Bicultural

(BiBi) emphasis, are eligible for the

new scholarship named Tom and

Kathryn Harbison ASL Legacy

Scholarship. To qualify, a scholar-

ship applicant must reside in Wiscon-

sin and be a senior in high school or

enrolled in a college in the United

States. Applicants must also have a

grade point of 3.0 in the academic

year immediately prior to application

and maintain a 3.0. Preference goes

to those whose primary language is

American Sign Language. The

deadline for applications is May 1.

The scholarship is renewable. Visit

www.wsdfoundation.org for more

information and application form.

The scholarship is entirely funded by

Tom and Kathryn Harbison and is

administered through WSDF.

The first United States Deaf

History Conference will take place at

the Southern Lakes Association of

the Deaf and the Wisconsin School

for the Deaf on July 25-28, 2013. The

purpose of the conference is to share

deaf histories from various schools

for the Deaf, Deaf clubs and organi-

zations, Deaf sports, and Deaf-

related organizations and to preserve

our American Deaf heritage. Origi-

nally, it was founded at the Deaf Way

II Conference in 2002 but it was

somehow dissolved so I decided to

re-establish it to getting all interested

people to get together again.

The conference will provide

exciting workshops, dazzling enter-

tainment show, business meeting, and

fun activities. The SLAD will host

first two days and the WSD will do

the last two days. Various presenters

from different states will come to

share information about Deaf history

that would enrich our future genera-

tions. We also arrange a team trivia

event and a bonfire/cookout event

during the weekend. For more infor-

mation, contact Joel Mankowski at

deafcopper@gmail.com.

From left to right, Tom, Mitchell Perry,

Gunner Hahn, and Howard Rosenblum,

NAD Chief Executive Officer, huddled

for youth leadership development.

Mitchell and Gunner, WSD juniors, were

awarded a WSDF grant to attend the

Youth Leadership Camp in Oregon.

Another New Scholarship for

Deaf Students

First National Deaf History

Conference

Joel Mankowski

Pinky Aiello signed “he won” as the

raffle ticket declared Tom as the win-

ner, yet he happily donated it back to

WSDF. Pinky performed a hilarious

show about video relay services.

Find yourself at Pig Roast at Champs

Grill and Bar in Lake Geneva?

2012 Raffle Winners

Attending the YLC...

WSDF booth at the Deaf Awareness Fest

at MATC in Oak Creek last September

The WSD Foundation

graciously purchased a professional

quality high resolution EPSON GT

Scanner for the WSD Museum and

Archives. Museum curator Nell

Fleming has been scanning antique

deaf education materials and The

Wisconsin Times newsletters for the

past five months and has created an

online digital exhibition that is

scheduled to go live in the school

year 2012-2013. To see the online

exhibition, visit http://

portal.sliderocket.com/BZSBI/

WSDMuseumExhibition.

The Museum will also soon

debut its very own interactive web-

site where scanned items may be

printed for a fee for anyone who

wishes to own these non-

copyrighted materials. Many

thanks go to the WSD Foundation

for this valuable addition to the

WSD Museum and Archives.

We will visit three deaf

schools in France for two weeks this

month. One of the schools is INJS

which is a national level Deaf school

in Paris and the famous School where

Laurent Clerc attended and then later

taught there. We will tour this school

as it is very popular world wide and

has more than 30 partnerships of

which one is already American

School of the Deaf. The other school

we will visit and stay three nights is

IJS-92 in the southern suburb of Paris.

We will also go by train to Lyon and

visit La Balme, Clerc's hometown,

church, caves that he explored as a

child, and the Clerc Museum. Our

hosts are the Museum board. They

will entertain us for three days of

which one day we will drive by car

one hour to Chambéry to another

Nation level Deaf school and spend

the day with their students. The board

also has many other tours in and

around La Balme and Lyon such as a

fully walled Medieval fortified city

(one of only 2 or 3 fully untouched by

war remaining in Europe). We will

also go on a wine tour and several

places around town.

Of course, we will see all the

millions of great attractions in Paris

such as the Eiffel Tower, Arc of

Triomphe, many museums both art

and historical, Versailles with the

water fountains as it is the first day

of spring when we will be there,

Notre Dame for LSF church service

either Palm Sunday or Easter Sun-

day, in addition to other Deaf sites:

Deaf Pizza restaurant, Deaf butcher

shop, LSF Academy for lunch, IVT

Deaf Theatre performance! And

many other cool places. We will also

be in London on the first day and the

last day and a half so we will see

many of the great attractions in

London and might even connect

with a few Deaf Londoners!

Many more details to follow

once we arrive home. Mitchell and

the students in my LSF/written

French class plan to host an event in

May.

Many thanks go to WSDF

for making this experience possible.

Tom (left) presented a check to Mitchell

Perry accompanied by Cheryl Trunk and

Becky Epple, sponsors.

French Exchange Student

Becky Epple

Scanner for WSD Museum

and Archives

Nell Fleming

Nell Fleming, WSD Librarian, showed

off the new scanner donated by WSDF

Tom congratulated Taylor Koss with a

$1,000 college scholarship. Taylor is

now studying at UW-Milwaukee.

Alex Slappey (right) congratulated

Milton Lee on the old gym in Hannan

Hall being named the Milton A. Lee

Gymansium last October.

WSDF Board Members on the

Spotlight

WSDF board members prepared food

for the VIP dinner at the Pinky Show.

SUPPORTERS ($100 and up)

Patricia Blackmer

Roger and Jude Claussen

Cathy Edler and Preston Ashley

Deloris Erlandson

Dennis Ethridge

Charles and Marilyn Harbison

Mary Lou Harbison

Tom and Kathryn Harbison

Warren and Carol Haroldson

Ann Marie Hathway

Jean Hauser

David Hoel

Margaret James

Harry Larson

Milton and Joy Lee

James and Joyce Long

James and Sue Perhai

Jon and Ann Prell

Bernard and Diane Quinn

James and Barbara Rice

Keith and Nicolina Richardson

Charles Riegert

William and Diana Scherer

Norbert and Patti Snortum

Don Sullivan

James Warnke

Jerry Weigand

Chris Woodfill

FRIENDS ($10-$99)

Carl Anderson

George and Annette Apfel

Tom and Dianne Armato

George and Maxine Baker

Mary Ann Barton

Byron and Nancy Bartram

Tom Benziger

Todd and Vickie Berg

Mark Bills

Larry and Elaine Bos

David Buchanan

Ron Byington

Jack and Ann Cassell

Gloria Perhai Chappell

Steven Cole

David and Karen Copeland

Tammy DeMicco

Laura Hinz Dietel

Tracey and Thomas Eddy

Eva Dicker Eisman

Kevin and Lori Flood

Pamela Gatto

Linda Gilsdorf

Pauline Halstead

Cott Harrison

Bill and Barbara Hart

Lylian Hegberg

Cindy Heindl

Catherine Hirano

Roseann Hoffman

Charlene Huber

Thomas and Frances Hutson

William and Mary Hyde

James and Jeanine Inwood

David and Mary Jackson

Alan and Janice Jenkins

Stanley and Barbara Johnson

Guy and Betty Kelly

Janet Kluck

Terry and Pam Kohut

Leland Krebs

Clifford and Cheryl Kremmer

Hannah Lambert

Lenord and Janice Leis

Linda Leyden

Beverly Lisney

Mary Mair

Joel Mankowski

Dave and Therese Markowitz

Angie Matsche

Keith and Jean Maurer

Duane and Carol McClain

Betty McKown

Mercy Health Systems

Wendell Myles

LaVern and Karen Nelsetuen

Dale and Ruth Noth

Ellen Pagel

Leonard Peacock

Joy Rader

Carola Rasmus

James Reineck

Dale and Judy Roberts

Brian Robertson

Nancy Schaefer

Shawn Schramski

Joseph and Janet Siudzinski

Robert and Lynda Smith

Joan Snyder

John and Linda Sullivan

Charles and Julia Theel

Francis Thompson

George and Florence Tscharner

Anna Tulloch

Todd Valitchka

Jacqueline Vaver

Ronald and Karen Wall

Michael Walter

Brian West

West Wisconsin Technical College

Lindalu Fox-Wheeler and Murray Wheeler

John and Donna Wickhem

Stephanie Williams

Jeannette Woods

William and Candance Yates

Stephanie Zito

WSDF would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for their donations

for the year 2012. Most donations were made for the Annual WSD Charter Day Fund

Campaign and some in form of memory or honor.

THANKS TO THE

FOLLOWING

BUSINESSES WHO

HELPED MAKE IT

HAPPEN!

Piggly Wiggly of Delavan

Sentry Food Store of Walworth

Champs Bar and Grill of Lake Geneva

Sprint/WI-Relay

Harris BMO of Delavan