The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, located in Strasburg, has honored West Chester’s Stu Jack for his unwavering dedication to volunteering by naming him the Volunteer of the Year for 2017, according to a staff report from The Unionville Times.

Jack was selected out of the museum’s more than 150 active volunteers by the Friends of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania’s board of directors. Jack joined the Friends’ group in March 2014, after he retired from a lifelong career as an industrial gas engineer. He started volunteering at the museum soon after.

“Stu Jack is quite simply a tough act to follow,” said the museum chief educator, Patrick Morrison. “He is consistent, disciplined, and extremely hard-working. He has an uncanny ability to read people, provide a high level of attentiveness to their individual questions and interests, and really make a connection with them.”

Jack will formally be recognized as the museum’s Volunteer of the Year on Sept. 23 by the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission at a ceremony in Harrisburg. This will take place during the museum’s annual Members Day banquet at the DoubleTree Resort in Lancaster.

Read more about the Volunteer of the Year in The Unionville Times here.