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Mary Urfer, 19, shares a poem she wrote in American Sign Language at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf in Delavan, where she graduates today. Mary Urfer, center, and fellow seniors graduating today from the Wisconsin School for the Deaf pose after a practice run for their commencement ceremony. The students are using a triumphant sign of appreciation that loosely means Mary Urfer, left, met her roommate Bridget Monahan of Waterford soon after she arrived at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf in 1997. Mary Mary Urfer poses with a cheerleading trophy on a page of her senior yearbook, which she helped design.
Mary Urfer, a graduating senior from the Wisconsin School for the Deaf, raises her arms in triumph during graduation practice. Next fall she will attend the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, N.Y. In August 1997 Dan and Kay Urfer made the difficult decision to enroll their eldest child, Gabby, at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf, a residential school 80 miles from the family home in Mount Horeb. Their son, Michael, is at left. Today, Gabby goes by her legal name Mary and credits the school as    
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