Florida School of the Deaf
Alumni Association
 
"Alumni Day"
 
October 25, 2008
 
FSD VS MSSD ...................... Football Game at 2:30 PM
Go-Go Dragons 
 
please attend the:
Alumni General Meeting
from 9 AM to 12 PM
 
 
Where AT:    Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church
    21 Milton Street
 
(Next to FSD&B Campus near FSD&B President's Home)
 
We will provide light breakfast
Donuts - Cookies - Assorts of Bagels - Coffee & water
 
 
The purpose of the meeting is to talk about the year
of 2010
(What to Do?  ~ ~ ~  What we want to Do?)
 
To help us Celebrate
 the School's 125 years Anniversary
 
We need your feed backs and support to make it Success with Lots of memories for many years to come.
 
From FSDAA Board of Directors

Are you registered yet?

Tue, Jul 08 2008 11:14:06

Registration Day and Campus Open House will be on Sunday, August 24 from 1:00 to 4:00 PM. Parents are invited and encouraged to attend this event with their children. Take this great opportunity to meet teachers and the staff who will be working with your child throughout the coming year.

This event is the kick-off for the 2008-2009 school year. Teachers and staff members look forward to seeing students return in August. Boarding students can check into their dormitory on August 24 as part of the Registration and Open House.

Classes begin on Monday, August 25 at 8:00 AM. All of FSDB is getting ready for a super school year and we look forward to seeing you. For questions regarding the beginning of this school year, or the Registration Day and Campus Open House, please call the Parent Information Office toll-free at 1-(800) 344-3732.

1938 Grad Visits

Wed, Mar 26 2008 14:53:42

FSDB was very lucky recently to host an alumni from its class of 1938 on campus for a visit. Ms. Bernita Gilberstadt graduated from the school's Blind Department 70 years ago. She plans to celebrate her 90th birthday in April.

She remembered sitting on her bed in her dorm at McLane Hall at 9:00 p.m. one evening in November, 1935. She was studying math with another classmate when the room began to move and sway. "My bed was shaking too," she said, "and we wondered what was going on, and it moved and shook for nearly 10 minutes." The next morning, their dorm matron, Mrs. Koger, "who we all loved," she said, came and told them it had been an earthquake with the epicenter in Palatka.

Ms. Gilberstadt remembered the grand day when FSDB acquired its first school bus, in 1936. "It was wonderful!" she said, "and we all had to go sit on it because it was new." In those years, students travelled to school by train and only went home twice a year, once at Christmas and once in the summer. Since FSDB had not had a school bus before 1936, the students were usually taken to the train in a truck.

Daughter Julie accompanied her mother on the campus tour. She said her mom had a great sense of humor and still volunteers to transcribe print into Braille for other blind/visually-impaired residents.

Hesson 

Please congratulate this years Lady Dragons Varsity Basketball Team oon
their game vs the FSDB Lady Staff members.  This was the 1st Annual Pride
of D & B Roundball event played on the Settles Gym Hardwood.  Thank you
lady dragons for playing a great team game, a game played the way basketball
was meant to be played; one that should give you something to talk about for
many years that come.  A new Tradition has begun and hopefully will continue
now and into the forceable future.  Looking forward to coaching you in the
2nd Annual game next spring.  Playing a great defensove game oin a winning
cause were Stephanie McCrite and Rita Estrada.

Lady Dragons    44      FSDB Lady Staff 30

                                Points

Rita Estrada                    4
Tiffany Oaks            6
Wanda Mack              8
Tamorra Richardson      1
Erinn Powell                    6
Lakeishia McNair                11
Olivia Malcolm          2
Shaniqua Alston         6

the following girls played but did not score:
Erica Swartz, Stephanie McCrite, & Marlaina Gaskin.

FSDB eSports Weekly News -  May 21, 2008:
Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, St. Augustine, Florida.
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BP Says...
Homegoing Long Weekend:    (Memorial Day  Weekend)
Home - May 23, Friday,  Return on May 26th, Monday,
Classes resume on May 27th on Tuesday.
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Spring season sports is complete.

Football:
        About  50 players showed up on the field and have practiced since May 1st.
        There will be a Spring Football Jamboree game against Cedar Creek at FSDB
        (Usina Field) on May 28, 2008 at 7 pm
       
Sports Awards, 
        June 3, 2008 at 6 pm ,  Kirk Auditorium
        (Final sports news -  sports award winner lists on June 4th)

FSDB Homecoming:
        October 16, 2008 (Thursday),  FSDB vs  St. Francis at 7 pm

        2008 football schedule will be posted on FSDB website soon,
        www.fsdb.k12.fl.us/athletics/football.php
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2007-2008  Sports Recaps

Team                            Record   tournament, competition, etc
        Fall Season
V. Football                     3-6
MS Football                     0-5
V. Volleyball                   7-18            (4th place - Mason Dixon Tournament)
JV  Volleyball                  1-8
Boys Cross Country      19-16  
Boys Swimming           3-5
Girls Swimming          3-5
        Winter Season
Winter Cheerleading                     (2nd place - Mason-Dixon tournament)
V Boys Basketball               12-7            (2nd place - Mason-Dixon tournament)
JV Boys Basketball      6-3
MS Boys Basketball      3-6
V Girls Basketball              13-8            (2nd place - Mason-Dixon tournament)
JV Girls Basketball     5-2
MS Girls Basketball     7-4
Wrestling                       16-10   (2nd place - National Deaf tournament)
Girls Soccer                    3-14-2
        Spring Season
Boys Track                      11-17
Girls Track                     13-23
Boys Tennis                     0-3
Girls  Tennis                   1-4
        All Season
Blind Boys Goalball             Champion - EAAB Tournament
                                                Champion - Lakeshores Tournament
                                                3rd  place - USABA (National Youth) Tournament
Blind Girls Goalball            Champion - EAAB Tournament
                                                Champion - Lakeshore Tournament
                                                Champion - USABA (National Youth) Tournament
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Next Issue,  so stay tuned.......

        1.  Result of Football Jamboree game
        2.  B.P. Pick  (best FSDB team of the year)
        3.  2008-2009 School  year sports event lists
        4.  Senior Students-athlete recognization
        5  Athletic Staff & Coaches recognization

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FSDB sports internet links

www.fsdb.k12.fl.us/athletics
www.fsdbboosters.com
www.maxpreps.com  (football & volleyball)
www.sjcfootball.com
www.Fadcetnral.org

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Brendan P. Murphy,  "B.P.",
FSDB Athletic Program Assistant
(Sports Information Coordinator & Historian)
Sr. Residential Instructor (night)

Work: murphyb@fsdb.k12.fl.us

Fax:  904-827-2579

Alma Mater: FSD '83,  Gally '89

The FSD Team (Bethany Baker, Tyler Church, Ken Love, Stephen Murgatroyd, Michael Veley and coaches Mandy Nolte and Andy Tao) is to be commended for a fine job well done.  Keep in mind that 80 teams all across the United States competed in 5 regions.  Only the top two teams in each region get to compete at the National Academic Bowl level.  Having come in 6th place overall, that makes us into the top 10% of the schools nationwide!  Go Dragons...we will have three players returning next year!!!

9th and final game: We won against Austine School for the Deaf (Brattleboro, VT) 40-35
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8th game:  We lost to Montana School for the Deaf 16-15 (A heartbreaker!!!)

7th game:  We lost to Indiana School for the Deaf (currently undefeated team). 55-14

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1st game: We lost to Monroe #1 BOCES (Rochester, NY). 31-44

2nd game: We won against White Station HS (Memphis, TN) 30 to 20  (Sweet revenge as they beat us for the SE Regional Championship back in February!)

3rd game: We won against Hersey HS (Darien, IL)  20 to 19. Whoo!!!

4th game: We won against W.T. Woodson HS (Alexandria, VA). 45 to 34.

5th game: We lost to Edmond-Woodway HS (Seattle, WA) 52 to 40

6th game: We lost to Maryland SD (Frederick, MD). 57 to 39

For pictures and updates, please go to the following website: http://www.gallaudet.edu/x4622.xml