Charles Karges:  

Life While in school, I was a quiet person and did not date or have a social life. Possibly, some of you wiwll remember me as I delivered your evening and Sunday papers for over a year. Since graduation: I attended Purdue for two years. Where I studied Aeronautical Engineering. After that, with funds exhausted I djoined the United States Air Force. I served in the USAF for eight years (57 65). For most of the time I was in SAC wherre I worked as a clerk, accoutant and a computer programer. While in the Air Force, I spent 18 months on the island of Guam where I met number of people from all over the islands of the Pacific Ocean. Some of them were gueralla fighters form WWII. While they did not provide too many details, I developed a new appreciation for the horrows of WWII. I have been married twice. My 47th anniverary to my second wie was in July 2011. I have four childred, all daughters, 7 grandsons, and 4 greatgrand children. The third of my four daughters (Ruth Ann) passed away on March 16, 2011 because of an unknown cause. My occupation: was a computer progrmmer. I programmed IBM mainframes from 1964 until 2007. I developed progrma for militaray usage, retail inventory control, business credit systems, DASDI space usage and analysis. Over the years, I studied how compilers generated code to take advantage. I developed and presented performance enhancing seminars which were presented at GUIDE SESSIONS . I also taught multiple mainfraime programming languages in company classes and in private programming schools. I returned to school in 1995 and earned an Associates of Science (A...Expand for more