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He won varsity letters in basketball in 1942, 1943 and 1947, after earning his numerals as a member of the freshman team in 1941. He ranked third on the squad in scoring in 1943 and was captain-elect of the 1944 team, but he left the University to join the Navy as an ensign and served until 1946, when he was discharged as a lieutenant in the Naval Air Corps. He returned to Cornell for the 1946-47 season, and was acting captain of the team, helping the squad to an overall record of 14-8 and a second-place finish in the Eastern Intercollegiate League. Gallagher, who is chairman of the Cornell Athletics Alumni Advisory Committee, endowed the head men[apos]s basketball coach position at the University in 1993. He is chairman of the board of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., an insurance brokerage firm in Itasca, Ill.