Yearbook name: Charles J. Rieger (Chuck)

Email: chuckrieger@verizon.net

Phone numbers: H. 301-365-7593, M. 703-731-7482

Home Address: 7417 River Falls Dr., Potomac, MD 20854

Wife: Linda (nee Klopfenstein, GCM Class of 1966)

Kids: Andy (born Mar 1972, lives in Fairfax VA), Jeff (born May 1975, lives in Berkeley CA)

Grandkids: Gavin, Owen, Colin, Miles, Ashlyn (ages 11-5 as of 2016)

Brief history:

Linda and I got married in August 1968, just before our junior year at Purdue, which we had chosen together because of its good programs in math/science (me) and education (her). From there, it was on to Stanford to do our graduate work. I ended up with a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence (go figure!), and we had our first son, Andy in March 1972. Wanting to get back east so our kid(s) would know both sets of grandparents – both still in McLean – I joined the Computer Science faculty at the University of Maryland, where I did AI and computer hardware research from 1973-1982, including a semester as a visiting professor at the M.I.T. AI Lab. Our second son, Jeff, came along in May 1975.

Having been bitten by the entrepreneurial bug during the microcomputer revolution (which had begun in 1975), I left UMD in 1982 and went on to co-found four high tech companies over the next 30 years: SCION Corp. (graphics hardware and software for the hobbyist and early PC markets), Vidar Systems Corp. (large format engineering and medical document scanners), Image Machines Corp. (ImageSite® engineering drawing management software – still available from www.equorum.com, our new name after a merger), and Acuity Mobile Inc. (geographically targeted information delivery for the mobile world). Acuity Mobile was acquired by Navteq/Nokia in 2009, and I continued for three years as an R&D fellow until “retiring” in June 2012 (also leaving my appointment as a UMD CS adjunct faculty member, which had spanned 2003-2012). Looking back, I received 6 patents during my “high tech” years.

These days, it’s grandkids, travel, learning lead rock guitar (as the drummer in a rock group at Purdue I always had “guitarist envy”), digitizing and organizing all the old family photos and movies, writing a book on how a computer works (from the ground up, aimed at middle-schoolers), working out several times a week at Worldgate over in Herndon, bike riding, getting down to Busch Gardens several times a year (as an unapologetic roller coaster junkie), doing lots of reading (mostly historical and contemporary biographies – Joe Hills should be proud!), keeping the yard and house in shape, building stuff with the grandkids on the 3D printer I bought last year, and, recently, working on the 50th reunion and getting this Web site up.

Really looking forward to seeing everyone in October at the 50th reunion!

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Some Nostalgia:

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Ann Campbell – 1st column 1st seat
Chuck Romanus – 1st column 4th seat
Pat Quinn – 2nd column 2nd seat
Chuck Rieger – 2nd column 6th seat
Donna Sanders – 4th column 1st seat
Kathy Scott – 4th column 2nd seat
(Of note: Tommy Udall – 2nd column 1st seat – Tom is one of the current U.S. senators from New Mexico, and son of the late Stewart Udall, JFK’s Secretary of the Interior.)