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Anthony H. Galt
Born 12 September 1944
Died 10 December 2005
SSDI
Message received on 9 December 2011 from Tony's wife Janice:
I just received your postcard and wanted to inform you that Tony passed away of pancreatic cancer on Dec. 10, 2005. He was a professor of cultural anthropology at Univ. Wis. Green Bay at that time. You can learn more about his research, books, and other contributions on-line. Thank you.
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Deceased Classmate: Galt, Anthony "Tony"
Date Of Birth: Sept.-12-1944
Date Deceased: Dec.-10-2005
Age at Death: 61
Cause of Death: Pancreatic cancer
Classmate City: Green Bay
Classmate State: WI
Classmate Country: USA
Survived By: Janice Galt (wife), son Alex
Tony had a wonderful, long, productive career as a Cultural Anthropologist specializing in Southern Mediterranean culture, (Pantelleria and Locorotondo, Italy). He taught full-time at the University of Wisconsin- Green Bay for 35 years. He published three professional books and created thousands of great photographs. We enjoyed getting to know and live in Wisconsin, and Tony and I took part in many century bike rides, canoe trips, and cross-country ski jaunts. Great environment for outdoor sports. Tony now has two granddaughters he didn't get to meet. He has a legacy scholarship in place here at UWGB, and each year Alex, our son, and I choose a student for the Tony Galt Student Travel Scholarship.
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Gregg Beyer
In the summer of 1962, Tony (then just 17), mself (recently turned 18) and another (18 year old0 friend spent 2 months on an epci Grande Tour of Europe. We actually bought and used AND STUCK TO Frommer's "Europe on $5/Day" (I think his latest iteration is entiteled "Europe on $50/day"). And did it, but of course many of the "hotels" and some of the "meals" were not exactly top class! We budgeted $2/pp/day fot the hotel and $2/pp/day for food, with $1/pp/day for entrance fees and other incidentals. Our combined parents insisted that we map out the entire trip BEFORE we left, and we agreed-upon various American Express locations where we could receive (snail) mail from home.
We started in Copenhagen, then went to Germany to pick up a new VW hat my dad had purchased (for himeself, and we were only going "to break it in" during the trip), and then went south through all the major and many of the minor sights, all the way along the eastern coast of Italy and then over to Sorrento and Pompeii, then starting back up the western coast through France and Belguim, ending in Amsterdam where we shipped the car and then took our flights home. Three guys cooped up in a VW bug for so long survived suprisingly well, dispite our differing personalities and interests. Tony always wanted to spend time in the museums .. so we tagged along and let him guide us to the more artistic sights.
I was very glad to read that Tony had such a full life, both in academia and personally and that travel remained an integral part of both.
Gregg Beyer