Le Jeune Chef Restaurant

Lifelong Education Center, Rm. B107 · For reservations phone (570) 320-CHEF or (570) 320-2433

Visiting Chef

* This biography was accurate at the time of the chef's appearance on campus. (December 2, 2000)

Gale E. O'Malley

Gale E. O'Malley, who serves as Executive Pastry Chef at The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, WV, has more than a quarter-century of experience with hotels offering fine-dining restaurants, including the Plaza Hotel in New York City and the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, HI.

In 1981, O'Malley became the youngest, and first American-born pastry chef to win the Medal of the French Government Grand Prize for pastry, considered to be the most prestigious award given to a U.S. chef.

O'Malley won two gold medals at the 1980 Culinary Olympics, Frankfurt, Germany; a Gold Cloverleaf and Silver Medal at the 1984 Culinary Olympics in Frankfurt; a Gold medal Grand Prize, Salon Culinaire Mondail, Basil, Switzerland, 1977; as well as other grand prizes and gold medals from culinary salons in Boston, Hartford, New York, Philadelphia, Lost Angeles and Honolulu. He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, where he majored in baking.