Jack R. Gannon

Gannon was an educator at the Nebraska School for the Deaf and served for many years in administrative roles at Gallaudet University.

[2] He met student Rosalyn Faye Lee at Gallaudet and they dated through their college years, getting married five days after graduating in 1959.

[2] His football team played an undefeated season in 1967 for the first time in the school's history and Gannon was named Omaha's WOWT Coach of the Year.

[6] In 1968 the family returned to the Washington, D.C. area and Gannon became the Executive Secretary of the Gallaudet College Alumni Association.

"[11] In 2011 Jack and Rosalyn Gannon received the International Solidarity Merit Award, First Class from the World Federation of the Deaf.

[12] Gannon was selected in 2014 as one of Gallaudet's "Visionary Leaders," fifteen prominent alumni honored to celebrate the university's 150th anniversary.

A young white woman and a young white man, both smiling; she is wearing glasses and a dress with a bow on the front; he is dressed for a football game; he is placing a tiara on her head
Rosalyn Faye Lee and Jack R. Gannon , from a 1957 publication