We’re continuing the mission started by Governor Percival Baxter in 1957.
Real Stories
From Silence to Service
For much of her early life, Bobbi Guerrette experienced the world in near silence. Born with bilateral microtia and atresia — a rare condition where both ears are underdeveloped and hearing is severely impaired — Bobbi had no functional hearing: one ear was completely closed, and the other could not provide sound.
The Baxter Seagulls Take Flight
Last winter, after a six-year hiatus, the Baxter Seagulls basketball team returned to the court, bringing new energy to Maine’s deaf and hard-of-hearing community. Representing the Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing/Governor Baxter School for the Deaf, their comeback was made possible in part by the Percival P. Baxter Foundation for Maine’s Deaf & Hard of Hearing Children (PPBF), whose support provided the team with brand-new uniforms.
“Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.”
— Hellen Keller
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Email
ppbfme@gmail.com