MAKE-A-WISH CO-FOUNDER HAS DIED

Frank Shankwitz, an Arizona Highway Patrol officer who, after helping a terminally ill boy realize his dream of becoming a motorcycle cop, co-founded the Make-a-Wish Foundation and served as its first president, died on Jan. 24 at his home in Prescott, Ariz. He was 77.

Mr. Shankwitz never took a salary from Make-a-Wish and remained an active-duty state trooper until 1996; he later worked for the state department of motor vehicles. He twice received the President’s Call to Service Award and was the subject of the 2019 biopic “Wish Man,” starring Andrew Steel as Mr. Shankwitz.