| Served as Recreation and Parks Director for the City of Statesville, during the period 1954-1982. |
| Responsible for holding Statesville playground Horseshoe Tournaments during the period 1954-1979. |
| Served as Tournament Director for tournaments held at Lakewood Park during the period 1969-1990. (including 8 years after retirement from 1982-1990). |
| Responsible for building 4 regulation horseshoe courts at Caldwell Park in 1963. |
| Actively involved in building the 24 horseshoe courts at Lakewood Park in 1969. |
| Established Statesville as the unofficial horseshoe pitching capital of North Carolina in 1969: Instituted the Carolina Dogwood Festival Tournament in 1969, the Statesville Autumn Open in 1970, and the North Carolina Recreation and Parks Society Tournament in 1976. |
| Worked hard to get two World Tournaments held at Statesville (5 years for the 1979 tournament, 4 years for the 1983 tournament). |
| Served as World Tournament Director 1979, 1983. |
| NCHPA Secretary/Treasurer during the period 1978-1990. |
| Received the Fellow Award, the highest recognition a recreation director can receive, from the North Carolina Recreation and Parks Society in 1969. |
| In his honor, the courts at Lakewood Park were named the Jack H Springer Horseshoe Courts in 1983. |
| Inducted into the University of West Virginia Hall of Fame in 1991. |
| In his honor, the Statesville Autumn Open was renamed the Jack Springer Memorial Tournament in 1992. |
| Greatest promoter of horseshoes in North Carolina during the period 1969-1990. |
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