MILLENNIUM MOMENT

A member of the National Teacher’s Hall of Fame, Costa Mesa resident

Al Painter won praise for his personal style as an educator and for the

European tours he led. Painter worked as a minister for 12 years in Los

Angeles and Long Beach before taking a position as a philosophy professor

at Orange Coast College. He was declared OCC’s outstanding instructor of

1974 and inducted into the National Teacher’s Hall of Fame in 1975.

Painter was praised for being a fair and friendly teacher. He won the

affection of hundreds of students who took European tours that he and his

wife, Anita, led during summers.

MILLENNIUM MOMENT celebrates the people who have made a major

contribution to the Newport-Mesa community during this century.