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No, says J.V. Lentell, he's not about to retire as vice chairman of Intrust Bank. He's not ready to make his exit just yet.
"The bank's policy is that you retire at 65," says Lentell, now 64. "I've divested myself of my administrative duties in preparation for that. But I want to continue assisting customers as long as I can be of benefit to them and to the bank."
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Lentell says he still enjoys banking, which he has spent his entire adult and professional life doing.
Lentell grew up on a farm near Council Grove, Kan., and graduated in 1956 from a high school in Wilsey, Kan. He enrolled at Wichita State University to study accounting and business and took a job working nights at Boeing Co.
He was soon laid off at Boeing, but landed a position in 1957 counting cash in the vault of Union National Bank, which was located in what is today Commerce Bank. Lentell switched to night school, and for the next nine years worked at various jobs in the Union National accounting department, ultimately becoming auditor.
Although he never graduated from WSU, Lentell completed course work at the National Association of Bank Auditors and Controllers in...