{"id":695037,"date":"2026-06-10T05:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/695037\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T05:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:56:12","slug":"statue-unveiled-in-boston-for-late-business-magnate-philanthropist-jack-connors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/695037\/","title":{"rendered":"Statue unveiled in Boston for late business magnate, philanthropist Jack Connors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elected officials, business leaders, family and friends turned out in front of Boston\u2019s John Hancock Tower Tuesday morning to unveil a statue honoring revered and celebrated philanthropist and business magnate Jack Connors Jr..<\/p>\n<p>Connors, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2024\/07\/23\/appreciation-jack-connors-was-a-quiet-hero-of-boston\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">passed away<\/a> at the age of 82 in 2024, was well known for his charitable and often unsung contributions to Boston\u2019s hospitals, schools, youth programs and more. He even became the guardian angel of <a href=\"https:\/\/campharborview.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Harbor View<\/a> after the late Mayor Tom Menino turned to him for help, allowing inner-city kids to become seaside campers along Long Island.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the perfect spot in the perfect part of our city to have this memorial that will forever help us remember the good that was put into the world from Jack and all the many conversations that he had that turned into big ideas, challenges, impossible things that the city and others would then have to scramble to make sure we could bring to life,\u201d said Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a statue that, to me, is something that\u2019s meant to evoke all the good that Jack was. If you come visit here in the days to come, if you have an opportunity to sit on this bench, I hope what you\u2019re reminded of always is the values, the things that Jack really stood for,\u201d added Gov. Maura Healey.<\/p>\n<p>Connors is survived by his wife, Eileen, a daughter, Susanne Joyce of Westwood; three sons, John III and Tim, both of Westwood, and Kevin of Dedham; his sister, Margaret Hanks of Dedham; and 13 grandchildren, who had the honors of unveiling his statue to the public for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Jack Connors' widow, Eileen, touches the hand of the statue of her husband after the unveiling outside the Hancock tower. (Nancy Lane\/Boston Herald)\" width=\"3600\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/atuenl12.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"13535151\" \/>Jack Connors&#8217; widow, Eileen, touches the hand of the statue of her husband after the unveiling outside the Hancock tower. (Nancy Lane\/Boston Herald)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"One of Jack Connors Jr.'s grandsons sits on the bench after the unveiling outside the Hancock tower. (Nancy Lane\/Boston Herald)\" width=\"3600\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/atuenl05.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"13535152\" \/>One of Jack Connors Jr.&#8217;s grandsons sits on the bench after the unveiling outside the Hancock tower. (Nancy Lane\/Boston Herald)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elected officials, business leaders, family and friends turned out in front of Boston\u2019s John Hancock Tower Tuesday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88,301201],"class_list":["post-695037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-jack-connors-boston-mayor-michelle-wu-marty-walsh-gov-maura-healey-massachusetts-politics-philanthropy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}