Full Text of HR1443 96th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of
Alfred E. | 4 | | Gallo, who passed away on August 16, 2010; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Alfred Gallo began attending the John Marshall Law | 6 | | School in 1940; his studies were interrupted, however, by the | 7 | | onset of World War II; shortly after, he volunteered for the | 8 | | Counterintelligence Corps of the United States Army and was | 9 | | stationed in Africa and Italy; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, After World War II, Alfred Gallo returned to John | 11 | | Marshall Law School; while in law school, he worked as a | 12 | | clerk/typist at Liberty National Bank, where he was promoted to | 13 | | assistant trust officer in 1948; in 1955, as the result of a | 14 | | merger with Chicago National Bank, he became one of two | 15 | | supervisors responsible for the trust department at LaSalle | 16 | | Street Bank; in 1958, he became vice president and trust | 17 | | officer of Cosmopolitan National Bank of Chicago, rising to the | 18 | | position of president in 1971; in 1975, he became chief | 19 | | operating officer and chairman of the board of United of | 20 | | America Bank and O'Hare International Bank, which merged with | 21 | | Northern Trust Bank; he was responsible for forming the Land | 22 | | Trust Council of Illinois, which has a membership of over 100 | 23 | | banks; he served as president of the trust division of the |
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| 1 | | Illinois Bankers Association; he was also appointed to serve as | 2 | | director of a satellite bank of the holding company of the | 3 | | Northern Trust; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Alfred Gallo had a long and distinguished career | 5 | | as a lawyer, serving for many years in private practice; in | 6 | | 1960, he became president of the Justinian Society of Lawyers; | 7 | | and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Alfred Gallo was well known throughout his | 9 | | community for his career involvement in the John Marshall Law | 10 | | School; devoting himself greatly to the John Marshall goal of | 11 | | giving as many people as possible the opportunity to become a | 12 | | lawyer, he served on the school's governing board for more than | 13 | | 30 years and was elected president of its prestigious board of | 14 | | trustees in 2001; he served in that capacity until 2007; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, The child of Italian immigrants, Alfred Gallo | 16 | | consistently demonstrated his commitment to the preservation | 17 | | of Sicilian and Italian culture; he was a driving force in the | 18 | | creation of the Sicilian American Cultural Association and | 19 | | served as the association's chairman; he was also the recipient | 20 | | of the Star of Solidarity from the Republic of Italy for his | 21 | | efforts in fostering artistic and cultural relations between | 22 | | Italy and the United States; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Alfred Gallo aided in the creation of an | 2 | | Ecclesiastical Foundation with the guidance of
Albert Cardinal | 3 | | Meyers and Monsignor Francis Dolan for the perpetuation of the | 4 | | Queen of All Saints Basilica, the first of its kind in the | 5 | | Catholic Church; he was also a former member of the board of | 6 | | directors of the Greater North Michigan Avenue Association and | 7 | | a former member of the board of trustees of the Illinois | 8 | | College of Pediatric Medicine; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Alfred Gallo and his loving wife, Gina, lived on | 10 | | Chicago's North Side, where he was active in many community | 11 | | affairs and was a lector and ecumenical minister at St. William | 12 | | Church; he was also a devotee and lecturer on the life and art | 13 | | of Michelangelo and founder of the elite Oenophilists' Society | 14 | | of Chicago; therefore, be it
| 15 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 16 | | NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 17 | | mourn, along with his family and friends, the passing of Alfred | 18 | | E. Gallo; and be it further
| 19 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 20 | | presented to the family of Alfred Gallo as an expression of our | 21 | | sympathy.
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