Then he pointed out a few things that needed to be fixed.īy then, Snyder said, “you’re ready to … do anything for the guy.”īut Snyder said business didn’t come first for Byrne. “This is some of the best work I’ve ever seen.” “Boy, I really, really appreciate somebody doing that for me,” Byrne said, putting his hand on Snyder’s shoulder. Later that morning, when they got together, Byrne complimented Snyder on the job and thanked him for working on it so late at night. He recalled doing an analysis of a company that Byrne was thinking of buying and emailing it to him at 2 a.m. “He understood people and he was incredibly generous and had a great sense of humor.” Over the years, they bought and sold several companies together. “Jack Byrne knew that strong organizations make good outcomes.”īob Snyder, a Hanover accountant, was one of Byrne’s business partners.
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An annual contribution “allows us to have strong staff and a really professional organization” that can make conservation happen, she said. The Byrnes’ support helped the land trust buy its new building and conserve the Mink Brook Natural Area in Hanover, land in Woodstock and other valuable parcels. “They stepped in when there was a good need and they did what they could to make the Upper Valley the (caring, compassionate) place we want it to be,” McIntyre said. Jeanie McIntyre, president of Upper Valley Land Trust, said the Byrne Foundation helped nurture local nonprofit organizations and made them effective. “It has meant so much in our hearts, in terms of their belief in us, because they are people who are wise in their philanthropy.” Over the decades, their support has provided a foundation for the Haven’s work, she said. “Their caring for the community is one of the amazing gifts that the Upper Valley has had for so many years,” said Sara Kobylenski, executive director of the Haven in White River Junction, where the homeless shelter’s main building is named in their honor. Dozens of Upper Valley institutions large and small - Dartmouth College, the Upper Valley Haven, the Upper Valley Land Trust, The Family Place - have benefited from the Byrne Foundation’s generosity over the years.
“He was almost one of a kind.” (An obituary appears on page A4.)īyrne and his wife, Dorothy, established the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation, a philanthropic organization that supports cancer research, education and volunteerism, among many charitable endeavors. “He was a remarkable individual and businessman, both a human being and a CEO,” Byrne’s longtime friend and business partner, the legendary investor Warren Buffett, said in a telephone interview yesterday.
Hanover - John “Jack” Byrne, a renowned insurance industry executive who rescued several faltering firms, built his own multibillion-dollar company and gave millions of dollars to a wide array of Upper Valley social service organizations, died at his home in Etna Thursday following a long battle with cancer.
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