Salutatorian Ryane Smalley, 19, of Scranton, receives cheers and high fives from staff and students as she makes her way through the hallway of The Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf with other graduating seniors at the school on Thursday, June 6, 2019, in Swissvale. “This is a second home to me. The staff and my friends have become a family,” said Smalley through interpreter Josh Walterhouse, of Trafford. (Stephanie Strasburg/Post-Gazette)