JOHN S. HANCOCK ’36

JOHN S. HANCOCK, a trustee of Wesleyan University from 1978 to 1981, and a retired bank executive, died Nov. 18, 2007. He was 93. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he received his degree with high honors and with distinction in government, and was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. He received his law degree from Yale University and also graduated from Harvard Business School. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army Air Forces, later working for the Secretary of the Air Force. A former trustee of Wesleyan University, he was active in community and charitable organizations in Syracuse, N.Y. The grandson of Theodore E. Hancock (1871) and of George W. Shonk (1873), and the son of Clarence E. Hancock (1906), he was the nephew of Stewart F. Hancock (1905) and the cousin of the late Theodore McL. Hancock ’34. His wife, Frances Edwards Hancock, predeceased him. Among those who survive are three children, including Charles E. Hancock ’72 and Elizabeth H. Sillin ’77; four grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; a son-in-law, William B. Sillin ’77; and several cousins, including Stewart F. Hancock Jr. ’45 and Marion Hancock Fish ’76.