Retirement celebration for JL Bolt to be held April 27

It takes an enormous team of people to make a university run well. Some of those folks have front-facing jobs where interact with students or families on a regular basis; other folks, like JL Bolt may have jobs that aren’t public facing but are no less essential.

Facilities and Campus Services is hosting a retirement celebration for  JL, the general superintendent in the construction division, on April 27 from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Reynolda Hall Green Room. All are welcome.

JL has been a member of the Wake Forest University family for 30 years. He helped build Martin Residence Hall and has assisted with the renovation of most of the dorms and many buildings on campus.

JL’s support and skills were essential contributions to “From the Ground Up” – an original dance piece on Hearn Plaza with nearly 70 participants from facilities and campus services that showcased the critical work Wake Forest University facilities staff do to keep campus running.

JL and his team have also put their creativity and woodworking skills to use creating chairs, plaques and mirror frames from refurbished piles of bed rails and other wood stacked in a campus workshop. They’ve created presidential gifts, including honey dippers, from wood saved from a sugar maple tree that once stood behind Davis Chapel. Learn more about JL and his commitment to sustainability in the WFU website feature story “Sawstainability.”

You can read more about JL in this “Meet a Deac” post on Wake Forest’s Parents and Families website.