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Logan Bids Farewell to Plant Superintendent Bill Wharton After 18 Years of Service After nearly two decades working to maintain, preserve and innovate Logan University’s sprawling 112-acre campus, Plant Superintendent Bill Wharton is retiring in December 2021.
Plant Superintendent Bill Wharton
Bill started working at Logan in 2003 after responding to a job listing in the newspaper. He spent four years as a maintenance supervisor, then was promoted to plant superintendent in 2007 when his boss retired. “I oversee general campus maintenance, which includes security, custodial work and the grounds crew,” said Bill. “I’ve also been lucky to be part of quite a few improvement projects over the years, including the construction of the Purser Center; the renovation of the Tower, quad and Learning Resource Center; updating our boiler and HVAC systems and more.” The shelves in Bill’s office are lined with hard hats, a testament to the never-ending work happening to sustain and improve Logan’s campus. Bill is responsible for the 18 FALL 2021 • LOGAN UNIVERSITY
installation of hundreds of solar panels long hours and hard work worth it.” on the roofs of nearly every building on For the last 18 years, Bill has been campus, which supplements about 3 percent committed to following the adage of leaving of the campus’ electricity. He also installed a place better than you found it. four charging stations in one of Logan’s “A lot about Logan’s campus has parking lots to accommodate the recent rise changed since I started working here, but in electric cars, with the infrastructure in something that has remained constant is place to expand to 10 stations in the future. all the incredible people,” Bill said. “One of “Something I love about this job is my favorite parts of this job has been being constantly being challenged by new tasks,” surrounded by some of the kindest people Bill said. “I’m always learning and looking I’ve ever met. I’m definitely going to miss for new ways to take care of campus having students or faculty members pop in or make improvements to benefit the my office to catch up or say hello.” Logan community.” Although Bill is sad to leave Logan, he’s While much of the work Bill and his team excited to retire and spend more time with complete may occur behind the scenes, his wife. they keep the university running. When “We love to camp, and we have a few reminiscing on the past 18 years with vintage Airstreams we’ve refurbished over Maintenance Supervisor Bob Holzschuh, the years, so we’re both looking forward for example, Bill and Bob recalled a time to spending more time traveling,” Bill said. when the power went out across the entire “Plus, Logan won’t be able to get rid of me campus as students were preparing to take that easily! I’ll be back on campus visiting or their Part IV chiropractic board exams. helping out whenever I can.” Thanks to generators and a little ingenuity, the crew managed to get the power back on in time for the exams. “The students were so kind and thankful,” said Bill. “That always makes the Bill was a part of several improvement projects over the years.
