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.