John J. Breslin Jr.

John J. Breslin AuditoriumFelician College

John J. Breslin AuditoriumFelician College 201-941-7794

John J Breslin AuditoriumFelician College 201-941-7794

Honorees will be Sister Evelyn, Administrator, and John J. Breslin Jr., Chairman of the Board.
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Breslin has been a member of the Hospital Board of Trustees for more than a quarter century.A resident of Paramus, he was Bergen County Prosecutor from 1933 to 1944.A leading Catholic layman, Breslin is President of the Board of Trustees of Felician College, Lodi, and has been honored by the national Conference of Christians and Jews; and in 1962 was named a Knight of St. Gregory by the late Pope John XXIII.He is a founding director for the United Fund of Bergen County.

John J. Breslin, Jr., Chair of the Board of Trustees, interrupted the meeting of the Board of Trustees at 8:45 a.m. to lead that group and all the Sisters affiliated with the Hospital and department heads to view the arrival of earth moving equipment and symbolic groundbreaking.Mr. Breslin announce that financing is being provided by two Bergen County institutions, The national Community Bank and the United Jersey Bank.

He said the new construction will involve replacement of a fifty year old section of the building and extensive renovation and modernization.The new portion of the building will be three stories high, amounting to 150,00 square fee.There is to be a substantial increase of on-site parking.

Through new construction is required, Breslin said the total bed count of 370 will remain the same.The building program was brought about by the increasingly stringent safety rules of regulatory agencies which require the hospital to vacate patient areas erected in 1925 and 1931.

Mr. Breslin said the construction will take place in two phases, the first phase to be completed by January 1978.