Norina bentzel biography

Norina Bentzel, principal of North Hopewell-Winterstown Elementary School, holds a letter she wrote to William Michael Stankewicz in A judge sentenced William Michael Stankewicz to to years in prison.

Stankewicz was sentenced for his Feb. 2, , machete attack on Bentzel, members of her staff, and students at North Hopewell-Winterstown Elementary ound posts: York County&#;s most notorious crimes and 16 York County Good Samaritans honored with Carnegie Medals since

Heroic former Red Lion Area School District principal Norina Bentzel appeared on nationally televised Biography Channel&#;s &#;I Survived &#;&#; this week.

Bentzel fended off the machete-wielding madman William Stankewicz in , minimizing an attack that left two teachers and 11 children injured, but none killed&#; .

The attack was the first by an outsider in York County schools during a time that such assaults were becoming common across America.
Two years later, another incident in Red Lion sc