2026 CSDBAA Cookout

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Choose The Design.

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Home of the Bulldogs.

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We want to welcome you to the website of the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind Alumni Association. We are making every effort to keep the website current and informative, and we hope that you find it interesting and helpful. If you have any suggestions for improvement, please do not hesitate to tell us. Remember that the main purpose of this website is to keep you informed of CSDB and CSDBAA.

One of CSDBAA's most exciting events, if not the most exciting, is the CSBDAA Reunion which is held every five years, on the year ending with 4 or 9. The next Reunion will be held in Colorado Springs in 2024. Please check the CSDBAA website from time to time for the latest information. This way, you can plan ahead for the Reunion.

Of course, you will want to hear about your old friends at CSDB. Likewise, your old friends will want to hear about you. You may want to contact your old friends. We will be happy to serve as the clearinghouse for alumni desiring email addresses.

CSDB has its own website; be sure to visit it and learn what is happening. Its URL is https://www.csdb.colorado.gov

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Facebook Group.

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Our School's Mascot.

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Bylaws.

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Our Mission.

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CSDBAA mission is to connect our members to each other and to the past, present, and future of the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind and to motivate alumni participation and opportunity to create a continuous connection with the school, its alumni, and the community.

1. Keep all alumni connected to CSDB through communication and involvement.
2. Enhance the student experience through scholarships and involvement.
3. Recognize contributions and achievements of alumni, faculty, and staff through the CSDBAA Hall of Fame.
4. Preserve and enrich the history, culture, and traditions of CSDB.
5. Promote pride in our "home away from home", Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind.

CSDB Alumni Association is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit Organization; all contribution is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by laws.

Members provide the greatly opportunity to support CSDB youth and programs. CSDBAA provides the volunteers and momentary donations to CSDB and its community. In the past, we donated to support the funding for Bulldogs mascot, television at activity center, books, items for classrooms, and other projects. CSDBAA often provide the volunteers to Athletic Department. You becoming as a member, you will received frequently email or mail on how you can support to CSDB, the updates on CSDB and Alumni Association, and other general information, perks to become the membership would be the discounts to the events, CSDB athletics events, and other perks. The members are encouraged to participate in the meetings and events but is not required to. We usually host 4 to 6 general meetings per year. The meeting will bring in the updated information, voting on new businesses. We always care of our alumni, either member or non-members, you are always part of the Bulldogs Community!

About CSDBAA.

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There was a reunion of its former pupils on May 28, 29 and 30, 1904 for the first time in the 30th year history of the Colorado School for the Deaf. Unfortunately, they did not formally set up an alumni association but they organized a State Association of the Deaf.

On October 25, 1990, the deaf alumni established a new organization call Colorado School for the Deaf Alumni Associationj. (The blind alumni chose to have a separate alumni association.) M. Rex Moers, '80 was elected as the first president; Jerome Aregi, '56 as vice president; Mandy Wright, '84 as secretary; and Tony Passarelli, '79 as treasurer.

The CSDBAA has a long history in relation to the school at 33 North Institute Street in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Many of the Alumni went on to become great Americans.

The mentioned few are:

Dr. Merv Garretson, 'is the first and only graduate to receive a doctorate. He taught at the Maryland School for the Deaf and Montana School for the Deaf. In 1962, he joined the Department of Education as a professor at Gallaudet College. In 1970, he was a principal of the new experiment Model Secondary School for the Deaf (MSSD) then he became special assistant to Presidents of Gallaudet University. He went on to be NAD Board of Directors, Council of Oganization Serving the Deaf, and Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf. He is still an advocate of the Deaf people.