Stephen Kantor ’71 Inducted into Ronald McDonald House Charities Hall of Fame

Stephen Kantor will be one of four inductees into the Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Oregon and Southwest Washington (RMHC®) Hall of Fame. Kantor, along with Stephen Abouaf, Beth Irish and Joe Graziano, was honored at this year's Hearts & Hands Auction, held on October 2. The Hall of Fame honors those whose generous contributions and abiding commitment have an enduring impact on the children and families served by RMHC.

Kantor is an accomplished business, estate and trust attorney and educator with more than 30 years of experience in the planning and administration of complex issues. He became involved with RMHC nearly 10 years ago as a member of the Finance Committee. He soon accepted a seat on the board, and later agreed to chair the organization’s first year-long planning process.

“All you have to do is go to the house and see the staff interacting with the families,” Kantor observes. “Their compassion and understanding is incredible. The things they do to help are really phenomenal.”

In 2004, he became Board Chair, in which capacity he led RMHC’s negotiations with OHSU for a new West House—a cause he continues to champion passionately. Stephen also facilitated the largest donation in RMHC’s history—a million dollar gift from the late Doris Nelson, a Hall of Fame member whose contribution funded an eight-room expansion of our East House.

“The one constant that families can count on after a trying day at the hospital,” Kantor points out, “is the comfort and refuge they will find inside the doors of the Ronald McDonald House. The work being done here is absolutely indispensable.”

Kantor graduated from Northwestern School of Law with his J.D. in 1974 and from the University of Oregon with a Bachelors of Science in 1971.

Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Oregon and Southwest Washington provides a “home away from home” for families and their seriously ill children who travel far to receive treatment at Portland hospitals, and awards grants to non-profit organizations that offer children’s immunizations and dental care.

For more information on Portland’s Houses, visit www.rmhcoregon.org.