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Harden:  Let's move to the 1997 ground breaking. I have a photo here of the people cutting the ribbon.  Would you tell me who they all are?

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Photo 6. 1997 ground breaking for the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center. Left to right: Patient Jane Reese-Coulbourne (a breast cancer survivor 7 years cancer free), Senator Arlen Specter, Dr. John Gallin, Senator Mark Hatfield, NIH Director Harold Varmus, Vice President Albert  Gore, DHHS Secretary Dona Shalala, Representative John Porter, patient Charles Tolchin (a cystic fibrosis patient treated at NIH since 1977 who had a double lung transplant in 1996).

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Gallin:    At the ribbon cutting ceremony, I wanted to have a patient as one of the featured speakers. We had all sorts of fancy people on the podium who spoke. The patient who spoke, Susan Butler, gave a compelling talk, maybe the best talk of the event. In that presentation she called the Clinical Center the “House of Hope.” Susan had had breast cancer two times and ovarian cancer. She was a real advocate for supporting cancer research. She told her story that you never know whether you're going to be here tomorrow when you have what I have, but this place was extraordinarily important to her. I never forgot her words. In fact, we have a little plaque and a picture of her on the wall outside our patient activities room in the hospital, recognizing what she did on that day. Francis Collins caught on very quickly to this idea of hope. He liked it. He actually says it was my idea, but it wasn't mine. It was Susan Butler’s. Francis developed a pin, a lapel pin. He likes to play the guitar, and so he modeled guitar pick into a lapel pin that says, “Hope at NIH.”

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Photo 7. Ribbon cutting for the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, 2004. Left to right: Maryland Senator Paul S. Sarbanes, Clinical Center patient Susan Butler, Clinical Center Director Dr. John Gallin, NIH Director Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, Senator Mark Hatfield, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson, Senator Thomas R. Harkin.

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