When Dolores Gossner Wheeler was asked to take over as president and CEO of her family’s Logan cheese plant in 1984, she was reluctant.
It was the employees at Gossner Foods who finally convinced Wheeler — the daughter of company founder Edwin Gossner Sr. — that she was the right woman for the job.
When Wheeler first met with supervisors, she told them she would need to rely on their expertise while she learned the business, Greg Rowley, Gossner’s executive vice president, recalls. “She said, ‘I’ll be the quarterback and you make me look good.’ In reality, she made us all look good.