Donald Kintner - 1997
MHS 1943 Graduate
Dr. Donald J. Kintner, Class of 1943, was nominated by Dr. Robert Hines. Kintner has been on a professional management council and a Chief Executive Officer for more than forty years.
One of his corporations deals with the reorganization, merging and/or liquidation of corporations and governmental agencies internationally. His other corporation operates simultaneously and is involved with the development, management and brokerage of high-rise office buildings. He has served many lawyers, banks, governmental agencies, bankruptcy and superior courts in evaluating reorganizing and negotiating on behalf of these clients.
In his earlier years, Kintner created the first supermarket check out system, the first self-service variety store and the first computerized department store. Kintner has served as an officer, board member and committee chairman for over thirty civic organizations and as an executive coordinator for a presidential inauguration. He was selected as the first non-lawyer to serve on the California State Bar court as a referee where he served for nine years.
As a member of Rotary, he has served as club secretary, board member and board of director of International Committee and a chairman of the East District Foundation Committees. He is a six-time Paul Harris Fellow and a Rotary Benefactor. He has been awarded the highest civic honors given in the Freedoms Foundation, the city of Los Angeles, the county of Los Angeles and the Boy Scouts of America, where he served as Council President. In 1968 he was selected as the Outstanding Alumni of Kent State University.
Kintner and his wife Sally have been married for forty-eight years and are the parents of three children. Their son is a nursing Captain in the Air Force and a daughter is a primary teacher in San Diego. Kintner uses his retirement time to pursue his interests in writing, music, portrait painting and civic activities.