John B. Shennan ’37

EVER ALERT for classmates, Jack Shennan died Jan. 21, 1990, after a brief illness, leaving his wife Florence, sons John Jr. and George, four grandsons, a granddaughter, a brother James '32, and a sister Mrs. Frances Bond.

At Blair Academy Jack was on the basketball and golf teams, member of the Dramatic Society and active in student government and literary societies. At Princeton he majored in English, was on the crew team, and a member of Charter.

Of a banking family, Jack, after taking in the Paris Exposition in 1937, was first with the credit department in Chemical in N.Y. and later the trust department of Markle Banking and Trust Company in Hazleton, Penn., where he was born. RO.T.C. training sent him into the U.S. Army field artillery in 1943 at Fort Bragg as a battery commander. He served overseas in Normandy, Brittany and Belgium before being discharged a captain.

Jack was district manager of Sonotone in Lexington and Louisville, Ky., distributing hearing aids for ten years and associated with an organization called "Hearing Service." Later he was a life underwriter with the Liberty Life Insurance Company and busy with boy scouts, church, United Fund, "etc." From 1956 he went back to his old field as a new business developer, estate planner, and trust officer with the South Carolina National Bank in Greenville, S.C. He retired to concentrate on his daily favorite sport, tennis.

The Class extends all its sympathies to Florence and the boys and the rest of the family.