The Daleville Public Library marked its 20th anniversary with a celebration honoring the vision of Martha Gallo, who started the first library in her home in 1966.
Michelle Mann DALEVILLE — The home of the Daleville Public Library for the last 20 years was the recent site of the celebration of a dream that began nearly 60 years ago. Civic leaders and elected officials gathered with friends of the Daleville Public Library to celebrate the vision of the late Martha Ibys Flowers Gallo who started the first library in her Daleville home in 1966.
We’re building on a foundation that started with a dream of Martha Gallo, who believed in the people of this community and invested in those people,” said DPL Librarian Rachel Horne to the crowd attending the library building’s 20th anniversary, held in conjunction with Dale County’s 200th Anniversary Celebration. “We want you to realize what love went into this building, this community place.” “The people who had the vision for this library are so special to me and I was lucky enough to know all of them,” said Jane Long Robertson, who has lived in Daleville since her military father retired to the city outside the gate to then-Fort Rucker in 1962. “With Martha it was not a matter of ‘if’ we got a public library in Daleville, it was simply ‘when.’ People are also reading… Martha Gallo loved learning and books,” Robertson recalled. “In every room she had bookcases and stacks of books near every chair and couch in her home. She was constantly studying.” Gallo was Robertson’s homeroom teacher in the ninth grade at Daleville High School and her biology teacher. “Things came alive in her classroom,” Robertson said. “She loved biology and science, but she was also an artist.” Gallo died at the age of 91 on May 22, 2017, after having served as a Daleville City Councilwoman for 16 years, as a biology and chemistry teacher at Daleville High School 27 years, and as an adjunct biology teacher at Enterprise State Junior College for approximately 10 years. Gallo was a charter member and past president of the Daleville Pilot Clu
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