Therese Rinaldi
After high school, Rinaldi earned her bachelor of science degree in nursing from Widener University. In 1989 she earned her degree of doctor of podiatric medicine from the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine.
After earning her doctorate, Rinaldi became a podiatric surgical resident at what is now known as Washington Hospital Center. In 1990, she returned to Pottstown as a director andsSurgeon for the Pottstown Foot and Ankle Center before becoming a partner and practitioner at the Foot and Ankle Health Group, PC in Pottstown, Royersford and Boyertown.
When asked what graduating from Pottstown High School means to her, Rinaldi responded “Graduating from the same high school as both of my parents was a grand tribute to their faith in the quality of the education they received. I know Pottstown High School equipped me with the necessary knowledge, experience, confidence and skills to go anywhere and do anything I dreamed - for that I am thankful.”
Jonathan C. Corson
for Pottstown Education’s Dancing with the Stars.
Graduating from Pottstown High School, “is a part of a proud and rich history which going back to the Chestmont League, watching Pottstown High School’s finest playing in those Friday night football games. It seemed like the whole town shutdown to come out and watch,” Corson said.
“It was also the Pottstown/ OJR Thanksgiving Day football games, seeing some of those local heroes come back home. It was also the basketball games where if you did not get there before half time of the JV game you did not get a seat. The baseball games, track meets and wrestling matches, and being mentored by those local hero’s at the Ricketts Center and to have some of my friends grow up to become some of Pottstown Finest,” Corson said. there, 10 as enlisted and 15 as an officer. Heather holds a ranking of Major in the U.S. Army and has received several honors including a Bronze Star Medal.
She has also served as a TAC Officer/Instructor at the OCS Officer Candidate School Academy from 20102013. She is currently the Officer In Charge of Military Ascensions Vital to National Interest Program in Fort Belvoir, Va. Thiret has been active in the Veterans Outreach Program/Homeless Vets and the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America.
“I am proud to be from Pottstown, because these are my roots. The familiar places and faces that continue to be part of my life even today, almost 25 years after I left. It is always still good to come ‘home,’” Thiret said.
“Hometown, isn’t just a place, it is a feeling ... from Ice House Deli, Manatawny Park, Brunish’s, Frankie and Johnny’s, the Elks, the Carousel, Pottstown Trojans, The Mercury, High Street, Waterfront Park, Sunnybrook Ballroom, the community people (alumni) and feeling etc ... it’s the familiar places and faces that continue to make me proud to come home and call Pottstown home,” she said.