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Through his almost 70 years with the prominent building contracting company of Whiting-Turner, Willard Hackerman \u201938 has been reinforcing a commitment to his alma mater.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Only two individuals have led The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company in its 96 years: Willard Hackerman \u201938 and his mentor, G.W.C. Whiting (in the portrait), who died in 1974. Hackerman, to whom Johns Hopkins awarded an honorary degree in 1990, led the 1979 effort to re-establish the School of Engineering. The G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering became the first Hopkins division named to honor an individual<\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When 19-year-old Willard Hackerman set out for one of his first engineering jobs, the entire staff of The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company\u2014all three of them\u2014packed up and moved from Baltimore to Cambridge, Maryland, to build an $187,000 drawbridge. \u201cWe were lucky to get it,\u201d Hackerman says of the job.<\/p>\n

It was 1938. Fresh out of the School of Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University, Hackerman was drawing a salary of $35 a week. Today, the alumnus is the president, CEO, and sole stockholder of The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, one of the nation\u2019s largest building contracting companies with some 1,000 engineers in 23 offices around the country. Work is no longer scarce. These days, he says, the Marylandbased company has a $4 billion project backlog.<\/p>\n

Over the past almost seven decades, five of them under Hackerman\u2019s leadership, Whiting- Turner\u2019s portfolio has expanded from bridges to include some of America\u2019s most prominent shopping malls, elegant embassies, hightech cleanrooms, and well-known landmarks. In Baltimore, these projects include the National Aquarium, M&T Bank Stadium, the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, and Harborplace. At the Homewood campus, Whiting-Turner is managing construction for the Decker Quadrangle (see page 12). The company also has erected the Bloomberg Center and the Ralph S. O\u2019Connor Recreation Center, renovated Homewood Apartments, and has built or remodeled many other projects at Hopkins.<\/p>\n

While Hackerman\u2019s leadership extends beyond the business world, in his hometown, he also is known as a philanthropist dedicated to higher education and the arts. He traces it all back to his engineering background. \u201cEngineers are problem solvers,\u201d he says. \u201cThey have the attitude, the training, and the ability to solve problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

The only child of a homemaker and a factory manager, Hackerman grew up in Baltimore\u2019s Forest Park neighborhood. At Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, a public high school known for its engineering program, Hackerman took the courses to enter a university engineering program at an advanced level. After graduating from Poly in 1935 at age 16, Hackerman enrolled at Hopkins, where he convinced the registrar to let him pay the $450 annual tuition in monthly installments.<\/p>\n

At age 19, Hackerman had a Hopkins degree in Civil Engineering. Soon Hopkins called, looking for Engineering graduates who could interview at Whiting- Turner. Hackerman was hired. For years, he worked under G.W.C. Whiting, the company\u2019s co-founder who had begun the business in 1909 with LeBaron Turner, a classmate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Whiting in 1910 bought out his partner and led the company until 1955, when he chose the 37-year-old Hackerman to succeed him.<\/p>\n

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At the Whiting School\u2019s opening ceremonies 25 years ago, Hackerman (right) converses with F. Pierce Linaweaver \u201955, \u201965 PhD, who at the time was president of the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hackerman still beams as he talks about that bridge he built in Cambridge. Business was tough back then, he says. The company was small\u2014just Hackerman, Whiting, and a third engineer. They handled one project at a time, when they could find work, all pitching in on-site. \u201cI worked with my hands for the better part of 12 years,\u201d Hackerman says.<\/p>\n

These days, Hackerman, 87, still works directly on some of Whiting-Turner\u2019s projects and also develops real estate. He is now involved in the Metro Center at Owings Mills, a $220-million mixed-use site that will include a community college building, public library, restaurants, retail and office space, apartments, and a hotel.<\/p>\n

As Whiting-Turner continues to grow and take on more highprofile projects, Hackerman still draws deeply from the lessons of his mentor, whose oil portrait is displayed near his desk in his spacious Towson office.<\/p>\n

Hackerman credits the firm\u2019s success to Whiting\u2019s strategy of hiring engineers to fill as many company roles as possible, including project managers and supervisors. He believes Whiting- Turner employs more engineers than any other company of its size, and was the first to use engineers in construction. \u201cThat is the main reason the company is what it is,\u201d Hackerman says. \u201cAll the leaders are engineers.\u201d Whiting-Turner\u2019s staff includes many Hopkins engineers, says Hackerman.<\/p>\n

Now a Hopkins trustee emeritus, he served the university for nearly 40 years and led the effort to re-establish the School of Engineering in 1979. Hackerman was instrumental in seeing that half of his mentor\u2019s estate went to Engineering after Whiting died in 1974. The new school was named in Whiting\u2019s memory. Margaret Whiting, after her husband\u2019s death, also endowed the Willard and Lillian Hackerman Chair in Civil Engineering.<\/p>\n

Since then, Hackerman has supported the Whiting School in many ways, most recently with a $5 million commitment, recognized in the naming of the Hackerman Scholars to bring more students from Poly to study at Hopkins. The gift \u201cassures we\u2019re attracting exceptional individuals who live right here in our city,\u201d noted Nicholas P. Jones, dean of the Whiting School. In addition, undergraduate Engineering students benefit from the Hackerman Engineering Student Loan Fund that had been created by the couple.<\/p>\n

\u201cEngineers have the attitude, the training, and the ability to solve problems.\u201d Willard Hackerman \u201938<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At Hopkins, the Hackerman name is a familiar one across the institution. In the School of Medicine, the couple endowed the Willard and Lillian Hackerman Chair in Radiation Oncology. Another gift helped create the Hackerman-Patz Patient and Family Pavilion at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, a 50-guest residence that serves patients undergoing cancer treatment and their families.<\/p>\n

\u201cWill\u2019s vision and generosity have made an immeasurable contribution to the success of the Whiting School and to all of Johns Hopkins,\u201d noted William R. Brody, University president. \u201cWe are tremendously grateful for all he has done for Hopkins, and especially proud to count him as one of our own.\u201d<\/p>\n

The construction executive\u2019s wide-ranging civic endeavors extend well beyond Hopkins. Hackerman served on Maryland\u2019s first economic development council and first higher education commission, and sits on the boards of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the Maryland Science Center, and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. As dedicated patrons of the arts, the Hackermans purchased a 19th-century Mt. Vernon Place mansion for $800,000 in 1984 and promptly turned it over to the Walters Art Gallery. Now called the Hackerman House, it is home to the Walters Art Museum\u2019s Asian art collection.<\/p>\n

As he sits in his office, 67 years after that three-man firm built a drawbridge, Willard Hackerman is satisfied, but still forward-focused. \u201cI\u2019m working harder now than I ever did in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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