Who is Donald Lancaster? 

Donald Lancaster is a retired public school teacher. He was a Special Education teacher who taught students with severe behavioral and emotional problems at the McNaugher Education Center in the Pittsburgh Public Schools for 31½ years.

Since his retirement from teaching in January, 2012, Donald became involved in different community projects and groups. He has been involved with the Horace Mann Playground Project; with Four Footed Friends working with rescued cats; and with the Downtown Indiana, PA Strategic Planning Meetings that were set up and led by Ellen Ruddock.

Donald was born in Connellsville, PA in 1956. He grew up in Rostraver Township in Westmoreland County. He attended schools, K through 12^th grade, in the Belle Vernon Area School District, except for 10^th and 11^th grade, when he attended school in Kingston, Jamaica.

Donald also worked for part-time for 13 years running groups on a locked psychiatric ward at the former St. John’s Hospital and Mercy Providence Hospital on the North Side of Pittsburgh.

Donald has a B.A. in Speech Communications – Broadcast Option from Penn State, Class of 1979 and a M.Ed. in Special Education from Duquesne University, Class of 1989.

Donald has lived in Indiana since 2003. His wife, Faye Bradwick, works for the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) as an accounting professor in the College of Business. They will remain in Indiana in their retirement in their house on Willow Avenue.

Donald’s interests and hobbies include baseball history, regional and local Pennsylvania history, genealogy, and photography. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, the Westmoreland County Historical Society, the Historical & Genealogical Society of Indiana County,

Donald made a substantial donation of artifacts to the Heinz History Center. He was featured in the Spring 2010 issue of Western Pennsylvania History (the quarterly journal of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania) as a “Living Legend”. Thirteen of his artifacts are on permanent display in the Heinz History Center.

Donald and Faye are supporters of IUP’s Lively Arts and can be found in attendance at most Lively Arts events and at all IUP’s Women’s and Men’s Basketball games.