Jack Hanson's involvement with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Special Love for Children with Cancer began after he moved to Maryland from Ohio in 1967.  He had graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University and served as a meteorologist in the US Air Force in northern Michigan for three years. He then began his 35-year career with General Electric (GE) and soon joined their newly formed Information Services Division in Bethesda, Maryland. At GE he was invited to become involved with a group of employees who were putting on monthly parties for the hospital patients at NIH, and he was able to get GE to fund these parties for 25 years. It was at NIH that Jack met the founder of Special Love, Tom Baker, who asked him to serve on the Board. Jack's lifelong interest in community service included providing a foster home for teenage boys who had arrived here as unaccompanied minors from war torn countries during the 1980's. During his years at GE Jack was involved in many other worthy causes as well, which led to recognition by GE with the Corporate Gerald A Phillippe Award, which was presented to only three winners worldwide each year.  It is an honor of which Jack in extremely proud! In retirement Jack has continued to volunteer in many ways, such as the treasurer, for ten years, of the PAC for Ohio Congressman, David Hobson, and as treasurer for six Senior Softball teams that play all over the country, and for which he was inducted into the Washington Metropolitan Slow Pitch Softball Hall of Fame. But the most significant contribution Jack feels he has made, at least financially, was his fund raising efforts through the Jeff Bostic, and later, Mark Mosely, celebrity golf tournaments. When the tournaments came to a close after 25 years, they had raised $1.6 million net profit for the NIH charities.