MVMFHonorVeterinary Roll
Spring 2025 Program
Honoring Drs. Loren Kintner, Stuart Nelson, and Larry Morehouse.
May 3, 2025 at 1:00p.m.
The Veterinary Honor Roll
The Veterinary Honor Roll celebrates the deep gratitude of clients, colleagues, and friends whose lives have been profoundly touched by the dedication, wisdom, and mentorship of the honored veterinarians. Through their guidance and leadership, the shaped the next generation of veterinary professionals and helped eleveate the standards of veterinary eduation.
Today, we reflect on the lasting impact of these exceptional individuals - not only through their academic and professional accomplishments but also through the kindness and integrity with which they shared their knowledge and supported others.
We are profoundly grateful for the time, talent, and unwavering commitment that these three honorewd veterinarians gave so generously throughout their careers. Their contributions will live on in our memories and be forever honored through the Missouri Veterinary Honor Roll.
Acknowledgements
Dr. Loren Kintner was a gentleman and a scholar who wielded a wry sense of humor to gracefully assist veterinary students to develop and exploit their powers of observation. His chuckling, sparkling-eyed grin defused the novice student’s embarrassedignorance, by revealing the mysteries and messages deduced during postmortem examinations across the breadth of large and small animals. Dr. Kintner’s pragmatic diagnostic approach taught efficiency with the goal of providing economical, yet actionable,options to help livestock producers survive disease outbreaks. His kind compassion provided knowledge that soothed the pain and grief of companion animal owners. Every year as the seasons bring the sights, sounds, and beauty of migratory birds along the Missouri River bottom, I fondly remember sharing an Audubon bird watching trip with Loren and Treva.
Dr. Jim Turk
As veterinary students, we had more exposure to Dr. Kintner in the preclinical years because he taught many of our pathology labs. His enthusiasm for pathology prompted many in our class (e.g., Jerry Quance, Jim Turk, Donna Kusewitt, Dahlem Smith, Tim O’Neill, and me) to pursue pathology as a career. He made pathology exciting and fun and funny. I’ll never forget his quips and stories—we loved his sense of humor—in gross pathology lab. He was brilliant yet humble, quickly remarking, when he didn’t know the answer to one our questions, that he was “embarrassed to say that I don’t know.” From that, I learned a most important lesson: if you don’t know, say so! In our clinical years, we students spent busy days on the necropsy floor with Dr. Kintner or Dr. Nelson. On the rare slow days, they would entertain in their offices. They encouraged us to present cases in necropsy show and tell and could go quickly to their file cabinet and extract an article with the background information we would need to make an informed presentation.
When Dr. Kintner retired in 1986, MU had to hire two pathologists to replace him. As one of those two, I had the priviledge of working alongside Dr. Nelson. My few years of experience paled against his decades, but he was friendly and kind, selflessly taking half the necropsy days as he always had, so that we new hires could suceed in academia, showing me classic lesions, e.g., wooden tongue/actinobacillosis, that I’d photograph for teaching veterinary students and sharing the tricks of the trade.
Drs. Kintner and Nelson both had a huge effect on my life and career, a sixth sense that I never quite mastered. I learned so much from them.
Dr. Margaret (Peg) Miller
I’m so glad to have learned that Dr. Larry Morehouse is to be inducted into the MVMA Hall of Fame. I’m sure that I was exposed to Dr. Morehouse in my vet school days at Mizzou (1973-1977) because we students spent a fair amount of time “on the floor” in the VMDL. However, it was not until 1986 that I returned to Mizzou in an attempt to fill just one of Dr. Loren Kintner’s shoes upon his retirement, and Dr. Morehouse became my boss. One of the best that I would have in every sense.
I’m not sure that I realized what a good diagnostic lab director and boss Dr. Morehouse was at first or even during the nearly 20 years that I worked in the VMDL. Maybe it takes a not-so-good boss or even a bad boss to appreciate the good ones. But Dr. Morehouse was a man of principle, honest and sincere, and dedicated to his family, to the community, to the diagnostic lab, to his employees and clients of the lab, and to organizational veterinary medicine through his decades of service to the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians.
Always supportive, Larry was the one you could turn to if you needed help to improve diagnostics or resources for investigations or continuing education. He celebrated our successes. He was also there to listen to problems, professional or personal.
Larry and Georgia Morehouse welcomed us into their house and lives and were interested in our lives, even before work-life balance was a “thing”. I am most fortunate to have known them and to have considered them friends. I learned the value of service, dedication, and friendship from them.
Dr. Margaret (Peg) Miller
I enthusiastically support the posthumous nominations of Dr. Loren D. Kintner and Dr. Stuart L. Nelson for membership in the MVMA Hall of Fame. After serving in the Army, earning an MS and PhD from the University of Idaho, and completing a Post Doctoral program with Dr. John Berg at UMC-CVM, I was invited to join the VMDL as a Bacteriologist/Mycologist in 1975.
I, along with the Students of Veterinary Medicine in the pathology block, found Drs. Kintner and Nelson to be outstanding teachers with extensive knowledge, which they shared willingly. They contributed greatly to my education as a Veterinary Diagnostic Microbiologist which led to a career that lasted 42 years (1975-2017). Thank you Dr. Kintner and Dr. Nelson.
Dr. William H. Fales
Dr. Kintner was one of the best teachers I had during my 4 years at Umo CVM.
I did not know Dr. Nelson, but his son Stuart did a 2 month preceptorship at my clinic.
Dr. George W. Jury
I had the privilege of serving an internship at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington DC in the summer of 1966. It was there that our pathology “bible” written by Smith and Jones originated. The Veterinary Patholgy Section head, Colonel Garner, told me Dr. Kintner was one of the top anatomical pathologists in the United States for whom he had the utmost respect.
As a student I rated Dr. Kintner as the best instructor I had. He was interested not only in Pathology; but, all aspects of Veterinary Medicine. If we had guest speakers at the College you could bank on the fact that Dr. Kintner would be in attendance to hear what he had to offer us. He was also very humble. When examining a case in the post mortem lab, he would always credit the referring practitioner as knowing more about the case than he did.
In my practice I would always send my hispath to Dr. Kintner. I took a little longer to get the results; but, the information he shared in his report was well worth it. He often added comments that helped me to understand the diagnosis and help the patient/ client.
I will forever regard Dr. Kintner as the teacher for whom I hold the greatest respect.
Dr. Jerry Carey
As a member of the class of 1078, I had the privilege of studying under these two gentlemen. They were magicians. They could often make the diagnosis just from the history and gross appearance of the animal before they ever began the post-mortem. When they did perform a post-mortem, it seemed that the carcass just fell apart into neat, well-organized piles of organs. I know that they were using their incredibly sharp knives instead of waving a wand, but to students who took ten times the amount of time and effort to achieve half the results, it did seem magical. I felt that I was in the presence of greatness, as indeed I was.
Dr. Everett Mobley
I remember Dr. Kintner’s smile (along with the great teaching methods). It seemed to me that he always knew something no one else knew. I had fewer interactions with Dr. Nelson, but those I did have were always informative and constructive.
Dr. Doug Turmail
My exposure to Dr Nelson was somewhat limited but Dr Kintner was one of my favorite teachers. Despite sensing I was not going to choose pathology as my specialty Dr Kintner’s exuberance, knowledge and humility was a model for me as I navigated my path in veterinary medicine. It was a privilege to be a student of his.
Dr. Philip J Shanker
Above: Dr. Kintner performing a necropsy on an elephant.
Above: Dr. Nelson performing necropsy on a Rhinocerous in the pathology lab at the UMC Veterinary School with his students.
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