John T. Galloway Jr. ’63

John, a third-generation Presbyterian minister with a powerful and productive sense of mission, died peacefully May 7, 2024, in his hometown of Wayne, Pa.

With a career lasting more than 40 years, John served churches in Greenwich, Conn.; Spencerport, N.Y.; Pittsburgh; and Wayne. He retired in 2007 after serving since 1993 as head of staff and senior pastor at Wayne Presbyterian Church. His father led the church from 1948 until retiring in 1973. His grandfather retired in 1950 after a ministry of 50 years.

John came to Princeton from Radnor High School in Wayne. He majored in history, took his meals at Campus Club, and roomed with Charles Stevens, Earl Hoffman, and Robert Keller.

John earned a master of divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1966. In our 50th-reunion yearbook he offered this reflection: “I am a retired Presbyterian minister who preached a few sermons and had 30,000 or more listeners each week on the radio. I married and buried, and attended too many boring meetings. My joy in ministry was mission. I did some work with storefront academies in Harlem, migrants in upstate New York, and, after steelworkers put on a demonstration in a church I served in Pittsburgh, our subsequent meetings with the demonstrators led me to approach Blue Cross. We got them to develop a product line that we then put into action and supported called the Caring Program for children. It went nationwide, was perhaps the first national effort at insuring children living in poverty, and covered over a million kids.”

At the annual Service of Remembrance on Alumni Day, the sermon traditionally is given by a member of the clergy in that year’s 25th-reunion class. In 1988, John was our guy.

John is survived by his wife, Nancy; son Scott Galloway; daughters Christie DiPietro and Katharine Kubat; stepdaughter Kathleen Lathrop; and eight grandchildren. John’s first wife, Susan Hall Galloway, died in 2003.