For the 25th reunion of the Class of 1970, Galeota wrote his remembrances in an article for The Crimson titled "A Year of Protests and Demonstrations."

"Not long before our Commencement, as I stood in the Lowell House bell tower and watched tear gas canisters arch above Mt. Auburn Street during the Kent State/Cambodia riots, I could only think of those times as the antebellum Harvard," he wrote.

After leaving the Wall Street Journal, Galeota enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Law Review.

He then moved to New York to work as a law clerk on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals before finally settling in as a lawyer living in McLean, Va., a suburb of Washington, D.C.

Outside the office, Galeota was an avid coin collector and expert on ancient coins. He began his hobby as a small child in Columbia, Mo.

Galeota is survived by his wife Ceci, a daughter Julia and two sisters.