Biography Jack & Noreen

Jack was born in Lancaster, PA, where he lived until moving to NYC to begin his career in banking. Jack graduated from The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, NJ and Wesleyan University with graduate studies at NYU, Wisconsin and Harvard Business Schools.

Noreen was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, where she lived until she was 14 and moved with her family to Bronxville, NY. After attending preparatory school in Canada, Noreen graduated from Endicott College.

It was during Jack's senior year at prep school that the two met and went to his senior prom together.

Five years later, they were married while Jack was on active duty with the US Air Force. After discharge from active duty, Jack rejoined the Hanover Bank. The Evans then lived briefly in NYC before moving to Cold Spring Harbor on the North Shore of Long Island, where they resided until Jack's retirement in 1988. Three children - two girls and a boy - came along and are part of a close-knit family.



Jack's entire career was spent with the Hanover Bank and it's successors. He retired as Vice-Chairman of Manufacturers Hanover, now part of J.P.Morgan Chase. His non-bank activities included: Trustee, Depository Trust Co.; Trustee National Genetics Foundation; financial responsibilities at the diocesan and parish levels, Long Island Episcopal Church; Trustee Huntington Hospital, NY; Trustee Sons of the Revolution, NY; Director of the Computer Museum, Boston.





Noreen, in addition to raising "three great children", became involved with the Junior League, Planned Parenthood, the Garden Club, and Holiday House (Herald Tribune Fresh Air Camp).

In 1990 they moved to Yarmouth, ME where they built a house on the Royal River. Jack became involved in a number of pro-bono institutions including: Trustee/Interim Director, Portland Museum of Art; Trustee/Interim Director, Victoria Mansion; a Founder, President, and CEO of Maine Life Care Inc.; Trustee, Greater Portland Landmarks; Corporator, Maine Medical. He is currently serving as a trustee of Southern Maine Agency on Aging.

Summers are spent with friends, children, and grandchildren at their family camp on Squam Lake, NH. Traveling, sailing, OLLI, and "wood butchering" (woodworking!) around out the picture.