HOBBIES

1. Bridge
   
2. Ballroom Dancing
   
3. Travel
   
4. Reading Books
   
5. Watching Cable News
   
6.  NPC Newsmakers
   
7. Swimming/Water Walking
   
8. Bicycling
   
9. Investing
   

1. ​Aloi, Becky
   
2. Beshers, Eric
   
3. Brownfeld, Alan
   
4. ​Colbert, David
5. Calizzi, Frank
   
6. ​DelVecchio, Robert
   
7. Durnan, Michael
   
8. Falzgraff, Marietta
   
9. Goldwaite, Chris
   
10. Heckman, Dave
11. Herman, Alfred
    
12. Ferrara, Ron
    
13. Gallo, Rosemarie
    
14. Gallo, Thomas
    
15. Gordon, Alexis
    
16. Hesser, Susan
17. Lippold, Ann
    
18. Johnson, Lynette
    
19. ​McQueen, David
    
20. Malone, Rosette, and Mike
    
21. Mendoza, Severino
    
22. Miller, Scott, and Blair
    
23. ​Molnar, Ed
    
24. Muller, Richard
    
25. O'Neil, William
    
26. Phillips, Ernie
    
27. Phillips, Roy
    
28. Salcedo, Terry
29. Silverberg, Sam
    
30. Simunek, Richard
    
31. Speck, Katherine
    
32. Swartz, Robert
    
33. Szalanski, Joe
    
34. Trifiletti, Robert
    
35. Thoreson, Ragnar
    
36. Whitehall, Beatrix
    

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This page is about what I do when not writing--my social and civic life.  I am active in the following  professional, social, and religious organizations:

1. Cosmos Club*     (1993*) Denotes  Membership
   
2. National Press Club* (2005*)
   
3. DACORPS*( 1995)
   
4. Army Navy Country Club  (Weekly Guest)
   
5. Arts Club of Washington (Alumnus 1980-2000)
   
6. Little Theater of Alexandria* (1982)*
   
7. Dramatists Guild of America*(2001)*
   
8. Fairfax County Senior Centers* 
9. Arlington Country Senior Center  Group* 
   
10. American Contract Bridge League*
11. National Press Club American Legion Post  20, Judge Advocate.*
    
12. NPC Newsmakers  Committee *
    
13. NPC House Committee*
    
14. NPC Events Committee *  
    
15. NPC History Committee*
16.  Capitol East Natatorium* 
    
17. Seventh Street Playhouse *
    
18. Cosmos Club:  Book Discussion*
    
19. Cosmos Club:  Civil War*
    
20. Cosmos Club:  Land Use*
    
21. Cosmos Club:  Bridge*
    
22. Cosmos Club: Cosmowriters*
    
23. Cosmos Club:  Finance Committee*
    
24. Cosmos Club:  History Group*
    
25. American Contract Bridge League
26. Victorian Vandergrift *
    
27. Capitol Hill Restoration Society*
    
28. Ballroom Dance Groups: (9) Instep, Arlington Mill,  Lee. Lincolnia, Glen Echo, Fall Church, Elegant, Lioudmila, Northern Virginia Western and Country Dance Association
    
29. Churches: (5) St Peter's on Capitol Hill, St. Josephs on Capitol Hill, Holy Rosary,  New York Avenue Presbyterian,  St. Marks on Capitol Hill (Episcopal) 
    
30. Economic Research Service Alumni Group*
    
31. Congressional Cemetery*
    

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 This year marks my twenty- second anniversary of playing bridge every Thursday with old friends at the Diplomatic and Consular Corps in DC.

    ANTHONY E. GALLO  CIVIC AND SOCIAL 202 544 6973 aegallo@verizon.com