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Willard Hackerman
BornOctober 6, 1918
CEO, Engineer, philanthropist
SpouseLillian Patz
ChildrenSteven Hackerman
Nancy Hackerman

Willard Hackerman (October 6, 1918 – February 10, 2014) was an American businessman, long-time CEO of major construction firm

Baltimore, Maryland
.

Biography

Willard Hackerman was president and CEO of The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company and a prominent Baltimore philanthropist. Hackerman grew up in Baltimore Maryland and attended the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, a public high school known for its engineering program. He graduated from the Johns Hopkins University, where he studied civil engineering. In 1938 he started his career at Whiting-Turner where he worked until his death in 2014. Upon his death the Baltimore Sun said that while he held no public office, he was as much a city father to Baltimore as any mayor or City Council member, delegate or senator. "Few, if any, have had a larger impact on the community."[1][2] Hackerman was influential in politics, being close ally of Baltimore mayor and later Maryland governor

William Shaefer.[3]

Whiting-Turner Contracting Company

Virtually his entire working life of 75 years Hackerman was the head of The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company. Major projects of the company included Baltimore's Convention Center, Harborplace and its aquarium[4] In 2020 it was #37 on

US$
10.3 billion in revenues and 4,090 employees.

Philanthropy

He personally or through his company, made a number of significant philanthropic gifts. Through his company, Whiting Turner, he gave over a million dollars to Catholic schools primarily for tuition assistance scholarships.[6] The G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University received a $5 million gift in 2005 to endow a scholarship fund for graduates.[7] Hackerman and his wife Lillian Patz Hackerman, endowed the Willard and Lillian Hackerman Chair in Radiation Oncology at the

University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC),[8] and created the Hackerman-Patz Patient and Family Pavilion at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. There are also other endowments in his name such as the Willard Hackerman Scholarship[9] and the Willard Hackerman Academy of Mathematics and Science at Towson University. Hackerman owned a collection of significant antique Maryland and Baltimore maps. In 2017, after his death his family presented the Hackerman Map Collection of about 60 from between the 16th and mid-19th centuries[10] to the Sheridan libraries of Johns Hopkins University.[11]

The Hackermans also purchased a Mount Vernon Place mansion and donated it to the Walters Art Museum, upon which it was renamed Hackerman House Walters Art Museum#Hackerman House (1850/1991) which now includes the museum's collection of Asian art.[12] In 2010, the

Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital began $31 million construction project to which Willard Hackerman pledged $5 million.[13]
He was a Charter Member of Support for the
National Archives Experience with a gift of $1,000,000 or more[14]
[15]

Personal life

Hackerman was Jewish.[12]

References

  1. ^ "Baltimore Sun : Baltimore's man to see [Editorial] FEB 10, 2014". 10 February 2014. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
  2. ^ "Baltimore Sun : "Willard Hackerman, company president and philanthropist, dies" FEB 10, 2014". 10 February 2014. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
  3. ^ "Washington Post: Willard Hackerman, Baltimore builder who was chief executive of Whiting-Turner, dies at 95 [Obituary February 13, 2014]". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
  4. ^ "Washington Post: Willard Hackerman, Baltimore builder who was chief executive of Whiting-Turner, dies at 95 [Obituary February 13, 2014]". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
  5. ^ "Forbes America's Largest Private Companies". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  6. ^ "Catholic Review: "Hackerman remembered as supporter of Catholic education" FEBRUARY 12, 2014". 12 February 2014. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
  7. ^ "philanthropynewsdigest.org Johns Hopkins Engineering School Receives $5 Million for Scholarship Fund, FEBRUARY 27, 2005". Retrieved 2020-06-01.
  8. ^ "Tim Finin Willard and Lillian Hackerman Chair in Engineering Computer Science and Electrical Engineering". Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  9. ^ "The Willard Hackerman Scholarship". Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  10. ^ Campbell, Colin (2014-03-22). "Wills of state's celebrities show wealth, interests". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
  11. ^ "Map Collections at Johns Hopkins". Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  12. ^ a b "Baltimore Jewish Times, obituary February 12, 2014". 12 February 2014. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  13. ^ "Newswise: "Levindale Builds Multi-Million Dollar Home for Elderly" 22-Sep-2010". Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  14. ^ "Press Release October 14, 2004 "National Archives' Opens Major Permanent Exhibition On November 12, 2004". 15 August 2016. Retrieved 2020-06-05.
  15. ^ 2004 Prologue: The Journal of the National Archives, Volume 36
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