Cindy (Hovland) Woolston, is employed with Sheridan, Wyoming Public Schools as a certified interpreter and licensed through the Wyoming State Department of Education. She also teaches American Sign Language (ASL) to Junior High School students and has an active “Sign Club.”
Cindy has 17 years of experience and is contracted to interpret throughout the state of Wyoming. She interprets for the court system, mental health setting and medical settings. In the summer of 2011 she was the coordinator for the “Kids First Program.” On her weekends off work, she also interprets for a deaf married couple at her church on Sundays.
Cindy has been interpreting for a deaf student who plays junior high school football and plays the position of nose guard. She attends all practices and games and is on the sidelines signing during games for her student. There will be travel times out of Sheridan to other schools in Wyoming and in Montana. This has been very challenging but Cindy enjoys helping a student as much as she can.
 Cindy was in the medical field as a cardiac technician in the trauma ward at Deaconess Hospital, Billings, Montana but switched to education after her husband Evan and children Kayla and Clark transferred with Montana Dakota Utilities to Sheridan, Wyoming.
Kim Anderson, Principal, Sheridan Junior High School wrote: “Last Saturday and last night, I watched one of our own students competing in football in which he has never played before. He is learning skills he has never developed before, and on top of that he is doing it completely deaf. With the huge commitment on the part of Cindy Woolston being at practice each day and on the sidelines during the games, this young man is developing a sense of team, and courage to try something he has never tried before, and the desire to endure though his steep learning curve. These are great lessons we can all learn from. It brought home to me that there are great things going on all around us. I am trying to learn to slow down, look around, it is amazing what can be found!”
Cindy is an enrolled member of the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe. She is the daughter of Carol Robertson, Flandreau, Gene Hovland, Rapid City, SD, and the granddaughter of the late Howard and Catherine Robertson and Ed and Nancy Hovland. -Editor
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