John Reinhart, Superintendant of the Bangor Area School District, has worked in the field of education since 1971. He taught elementary school in Easton, PA before coming to Bangor as the Principal of Five Points Elementary School in 1985. He became Assistant Superintendent of the Bangor School District in 1996 and Superintendent in 1999. Reinhart is a graduate of Mansfield and Lehigh Universities and is presently a doctoral student at Widener University. Reinhart has a long history of community service including membership in the following: the B.P.O.E. #1106 in Bangor, PA; the Bangor Area High School Alumni Association; founder and president of the St. David's Welsh Society of the Slate Belt; member of the board of directors of the National Welsh America Foundation; and a founding member of the Slate Belt Heritage Center, Inc. Reinhart founded the Bangor Area School District Education Foundation, Inc. of which he is the executive director. The foundation provides scholarships to graduating seniors in excess of $20,000 annually and maintains the district's collection of historical memorabilia and document archives housed in the administration office. His interest in local Welsh history inspired him to author the first written history of the Slate Belt's Welsh communities. The book is entitled Awakening the Red Dragon, An Account of the History of the Welsh People of Northampton County's Slate Belt Region . He has been awarded life memberships in the Bangor Elementary PTA and the National PTA. He received the 2002 Leader in Community Building Award from the United Way of the greater Lehigh Valley. He received the Welsh National Gymanfa Association award of $1000 which provided books and materials on Wales to the Bangor Public Library. Reinhart has been married to the former Judy Hendershot for 29 years and has two daughters. |
