The high school should track down students with previous criminal records and students "who are intimidating other students, making kids not want to go to school" and expel them, the councillor suggests. "Rather than focus our entire school year around these kids, let's get them out."

Working-Class Concerns

Galluccio says he was strongly influenced by his family upbringing. His mother, Nancy Galluccio, raised him and his two sisters after their father's death when Anthony was 12.

His mother ran a grocery store on Sherman St. His father, Anthony Galluccio '39, immigrated from Italy in 1921, coming directly to Cambridge.

The elder Galluccio was one of a handful of Italian-Americans at Harvard and later Harvard Law School, from which he matriculated in 1948.

After serving in World War II, Anthony Galluccio ran two Congressional campaigns for former President John F. Kennedy '40, for a House seat in 1946 and for the Senate in 1952.

"He really always stressed that friendship and the working-class communities in Cambridge were such an important facet in Cambridge life," the councillor recalls. "I want very much for working-class people to be more involved with the city's government."

Galluccio's older sister, Laurie Galluccio '86, also attended Harvard.

After attending the Peabody Grammar School and Rindge and Latin, Galluccio went to Providence College in Rhode Island, where he majored in political science. He then spent two years as a paralegal in Boston before becoming an aide to state Sen. Robert D. Wet-more (D-Barre).

Galluccio ran for the council in November 1993 but lost, coming in 12th.

Council Politicking

Galluccio says he hopes the "political theater" that characterizes council meetings will end. He is critical of the council's decision last summer to prevent the Stop and Shop supermarket chain from building an expansive store in the Cambridgeport neighborhood.

The chain left the city after being denied the permit and some Cambridgeport residents must walk three miles to the nearest market. The city is currently considering plans to invite other companies to invest in building a new market.

"Stop and Shop is a perfect example of hypocrisy in the city council," Galluccio says. He says the council majority had ignored the needs of working-class residents who need access to affordable food.

The Crimson endorsed Galluccio in his first run for the council in November 1993.