First Graduation

A Mobile, Alabama college has its first deaf graduate. Steven Pituk finished the welding certificate program at Bishop State Community College and already has a job as a welder at Crenshaw Machine in Bay Minette. The 24-year-old has one deaf brother and attended the Texas School for the Deaf and the Alabama School for the Deaf in Talladega. Pituk made it on the Deaf All-American Team for football, playing on a squad with nearly 40 straight wins against other deaf schools.