Every Wednesday for the past six years, Norman Rolfe volunteered at the Massey Cancer Center’s Stony Point office, pushing the cart that brought snacks and drinks to patients receiving chemotherapy. Diagnosed himself with splenic marginal non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma about 15 years ago, “he felt so strongly about where he was,“ said Polly Cole, coordinator of Massey’s volunteers and the patients’ library.

When Gen. James L. Jones Jr. parked in front of Westbury Pharmacy in early 2007, none of the regular customers could have known they were witnessing the arrival of the next national security adviser to the president of the United States.