[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 32 (Tuesday, March 21, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E356]
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  GREATER PITTSTON FRIENDLY SONS OF ST. PATRICK HONOR WILLIAM McFADDEN

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                         HON. PAUL E. KANJORSKI

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, March 21, 2000

  Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to William P. 
McFadden. This year, the Greater Pittston Friendly Sons of St. Patrick 
will honor Bill with the W. Francis Swingle Award at their annual St. 
Patrick's Day Banquet. I am pleased and proud to have been asked to 
participate in this event.
  The Swingle Award is named in honor of Professor Frank Swingle, a 
noted and respected educator and orator, active in civic organizations 
locally. Bill McFadden will be the eleventh recipient of this 
prestigious award.
  Mr. McFadden has had an exemplary career in nursing for more than 
thirty-two years. He specialized in industrial nursing at Bethlehem 
Steel, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and also the Ford Motor Company, Chester, 
Pennsylvania, and San Jose, California. Administratively, Bill was 
Staff Nurse and Supervisor at Wilmington Veterans Administration 
Hospital, Director of Nursing at Fresno Community Hospital in 
California and a nursing home supervisor in New Jersey. Until his 
retirement in 1985, he served as Nursing Supervisor at East Orange 
Veterans Hospital, New Jersey.
  Mr. Speaker, Mr. McFadden is a native son of Northeastern 
Pennsylvania, having been born and raised here. He attended St. John's 
High School in Pittston, went on to St. Joseph's School of Nursing in 
Philadelphia and received his degree in nursing from Villanova 
University in 1959. He served in the Navy Reserves from 1945 to 1947.
  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to congratulate William McFadden on this 
prestigious award. I join with his wife Ann, family, and his many good 
friends in sending him my most sincere best wishes as he accepts this 
honor.

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