Mr. Kreitler, for more than 50 years, helped run School Night, a private nonprofit group that in mid-September will begin offering 513 adult-education nondegree classes for more than 10,000 students.
Bonnie McDairmant, School Night executive director, said that Mr. Kreitler, along with Harry Creutzburg and James Riely, worked together in 1947 to reopen School Night after World War II "and to help it become the organization it is today.
She said that Creutzburg founded the organization in 1937. Classes were held from 1938 to 1942, when School Night had to be closed because of the war.
Mr. Kreitler served School Night for more than 50 years and was president and chairman of the board for many of those years, McDairmant said.
A 1997 Inquirer story reported that the School Night association marked Mr. Kreitler's half-century of service by presenting him with a watercolor of the school's Creutzburg Center in Radnor.
Born in Mount Vernon, N.Y., Mr. Kreitler grew up in Scranton and attended Scranton Central High School before graduating from Kent (Conn.) School.
He earned his bachelor's degree in history from Princeton University in 1931, graduated from Yale Law School in 1934, and for 10 years was secretary of his Princeton graduating class.
Mr. Kreitler's son, Robert P., said his father's career began in the legal department of AT&T in New York in 1935 and shifted to the legal department of Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania in 1938.
During World War II, he was a naval officer dealing with labor relations in Philadelphia and Houston.
Mr. Kreitler returned to Bell Telephone after the war as a labor lawyer and, after retiring in 1974, was an independent contractor for Sun Oil and then an arbitrator for the Pennsylvania Mediation Service and, in Delaware and Pennsylvania, for the American Arbitration Association.
A member of the Merion Golf Club, Mr. Kreitler was a board member of the property owners' association at Big Moose Lake in Eagle Bay, N.Y., where he had a summer home.
Besides his son, Mr. Kreitler is survived by another son, Charles; a daughter, Elizabeth Wolf; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and companion Cyrena Gouge. His wife, Edith, died in 2002.
A memorial service is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday at the chapel of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, 625 Montgomery Ave., Bryn Mawr.
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