Jack Breslin

Jacweir "Jack" Breslin (June 23, 1920 – August 2, 1988) worked at Michigan State University (MSU), as a student , athlete, and administrator.

Breslin was raised in Battle Creek, Michigan. He first came to MSU (when it was still Michigan Agricultural College) as a student athlete, playing basketball, football and baseball and graduating in 1946.^[1]

He may have played with the Los Angeles Dons football team in the All American Professional Football League. He then worked for four years as a Dodge Motor Company district manager in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 1950 he took a job as assistant director of alumni relations with MSU.^[2] In 1953 he became director of MSU's placement bureau and in 1958 he became assistant to the vice president of MSU.

He served as the executive vice president of MSU.^[3] Breslin's leadership, played a role in the growth and development of the university. During Breslin's career, from the early 1950s to the late 1970s, MSU transformed from a small state university focused on agriculture to an internationally respected research university. The student population grew from about 6,000 to about 40,000.

In 1969, Breslin was one of the first administrators to initiate planning for a multi-purpose, student building; and continued to be the leading force through its conceptual design. Prints of such a design were completed in January 1970 and featured such innovations as an extra “practice gymnasium,” and a dedicated space for male and female performers. When Breslin died, the building was named in his honor.

He was born in Battle Creek, Michigan and died in Lansing, Michigan.

See also[]

• Breslin Student Events Center

References[]

Sources

• http://www.breslincenter.com/arena/history.html
• Rotary Club memorial

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