The MSDPO wants to help get you into the holiday spirit by offering for sale MSD Eagles Spirit Decals. These decals are made of high quality vinyl. The cost of each decal is only $10.
We are offering these decals in a choice of two designs and with two different lettering colors. For no additional cost, you can add your name, the name of your child, "Alumni", or "Staff".
To order, just download the form below, complete and send back to MSDPO President Jeff Patridge. All orders are due by January 7, 2011. It will take about three weeks after the ordering period ends to get the decals to you. Orders can be sent home with your child, picked up at MSD or mailed to you. Please add $1.00 for shipping if you would like it mailed.
The Missouri School for the Deaf Parents' Organization is sponsoring a "Fun"draiser Night at the Pizza Hut in Fulton from 5 pm - 7 pm on Monday, November 29. We would like to invite all students, parents, administration, staff, alumni, and friends in the area to attend. For each order placed during the event, the MSDPO receives 20% of the bill.
To participate, download the below form and bring with you to the event. Jeff Patridge, President of the MSDPO, will be at the event to greet you. We look forward to seeing you on November 29.
The MSDPO will hold its second monthly meeting at 2:00 pm on October 16 in the Eagles Nest on the MSD campus. If you are unable to attend in person, we will once again make available our meeting video chat room at http://tinychat.com/msdparentsorg. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting.
The MSDPO will be holding its first meeting of the year this Saturday, September 25 at the Eagles Nest on the MSD Campus from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. Topics to be covered include Homecoming, Fundraising, Vice-President vacancy, and a T-Shirt Design contest.
If you are unable to attend the meeting in person, we are going to provide live chat of the proceedings.If you would like to participate in the new chat meeting, use the following link http://tinychat.com/msdparentsorg When you get the login screen, just enter your nickname (alias) in the blank and select "Go". You will be entered into the discussion.As this is our first attempt at including chat in our meetings, please be patient with us.
Beginning in December 2009, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Center for Deaf Health Research (NCDHR) at the University of Rochester, and the Deaf Wellness Center (DWC) at the University of Rochester Medical Center collaborated on the creation of two Seasonal Flu ASL videos. To learn more about the effort visit http://www.cdc.gov/Features/FluVideos/. You can download the videos at http://www.cdc.gov/flu/freeresources/media.htm
In February 2000, the Office of Special Education of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) created a listserv to provide information to school districts. This listserv is known as SELS.
Since only one contact per school district could access this listserv, DESE decided to create a second listserv known as SELS2. This listserv contains the exact same messages as distributed on SELS, but is open to all principals, teachers, parents, and others who have an interest in special education. Currently, this second listserv has over 1,700 members.
University of Washington engineering students are developing the first device able to transmit American Sign Language over U.S. cellular networks. You can learn more about this effort at theUniversity of Washington's web site.
The Missouri School for the Deaf Parents' Organization is changing to meet the challenges of the Information and Social Media Ages. To learn more about our plans for the future, read the article "Signs of the Times"by MSD Superintendent Barbara Garrison and MSDPO Interim President Jeff Patridge in the Winter/Spring 2010 Missouri Record.
MSDPO Interim President Jeff Patridge and Secretary Marcia Patridge presented the 2010 Eager Eagle Awards to elementary and middle school students at Stark Auditorium on May 19 and 20. Those receiving awards included:
Elementary School: Allen Cass, Hezeki Smoot, Charlie Gastel, Melissa Davis, Madonna Moore, and Cheyenne Grotpeter.
At High School Awards Day on May 13 the MSD Parents’ Organization presented several awards. The highlight of the day was the presentation of two $500 scholarships to the Valedictorian and the Salutatorian of this year’s class. The scholarships, sponsored jointly by the Missouri School for the Deaf Alumni Association and the MSDPO were presented to Valedictorian Kayla Garza-Weeks and Salutatorian Daryl Kuehne.
The MSDPO also presented all nine graduating seniors a copy of Historic MSD by Richard D. Reed. Besides wanting to honor the seniors for their accomplishment, MSDPO members hoped the book would remind them in the years to come of the rich tradition of MSD and past students.
Interim President Jeff Patridge also presented eight students with the Eager Eagle Award. The students receiving this award demonstrated enthusiasm, eagerness, politeness, and a great curiosity for learning. Recipients were:9th Grade – Danny Johnson & Dylan Kuehne; 10th grade – Shari Siler & Xuan Lin; 11th grade – E’Lisia Bush & Leeron Hunter;and 12th grade – Vonisha Atwater & Donte’ Darrington.
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