Stephen Galatti

Stephen Galatti

Stephen Galatti (1888–1964) was for many years the Director General of the American Field Service (AFS). He transformed the AFS from a volunteer medical corps during World Wars I and II into an international educational exchange service that has profoundly transformed the lives of thousands of young people around the world. Born in 1888, a graduate of St. Mark's School and Harvard College, he quarterbacked the Harvard football team.

Before World War I he began a career in banking in New York and Paris; following the war he returned to private life with the the New York firm of Paine Webber. He first joined the American Field Service in 1915 and served as second in command to the founder and first director of AFS, A. Piatt Andrew. In World War II, the AFS played a major role in supplying ambulance drivers to the Franco-German front, and many drivers were killed. Following the war, the AFS became dormant except for limited scholarship aid for studies in France.

When World War II broke out, Galatti summoned veterans World War I to his side. He re-established AFS in 1939 as the Germans invaded Poland then turned on France, England, and Russia. Despite American isolationism, Galatti organized and equipped the first unit of the AFS, and subsequently served through the war as a Director-General with the rank of Colonel.

Searching for a role for the AFS following the war, he founded the Scholarship Program (AFSIS) in 1946, and then led the AFS as its president for the rest of his life, over time transforming it from an auxiliary medical corps for wartime into an international educational exchange service with tens of thousands of volunteers worldwide.

ee also

*List of St. Mark's School alumni

External links

* [http://www.ourstory.info/5/e/SG.html Stephen Galatti biography]
* [http://www.afs.org/afs_or/news/index/3323 About Stephen Galatti]
* [http://www.afs.org/afs_or/home The American Field Service Site]


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