Menninger Retires

Walter Menninger, M.D., retired as chief executive officer of Menninger on October 31 and was replaced by John C. McKelvey, who has been a Menninger trustee for 26 years, most recently serving as vice chair. The rest of Menninger’s management team will remain unchanged.

McKelvey was president and CEO of the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City for 25 years before retiring from that post in January 2000.

Walter Menninger, who was the organization’s CEO for eight years, will become chair of Menninger Trustees, succeeding his brother Roy Menninger, M.D.

A Menninger press release noted that in his new post Walter Menninger will concentrate on fundraising and his continuing duties as editor of the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic. ▪