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Robert Lange
After graduation from B-CC, I attended the University of Maryland, receiving a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1971. In 1971, I married Margery Blumenauer, who was in our graduating class at B-CC. I then attended Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, and was commissioned a Navy officer; I served as the assistant engineering officer aboard the USS Sampson, DDG-10, from 1971-1974, first in Charleston, SC, then in Athens, Greece. Margie and I had a unique opportunity to travel throughout Europe for the two years that my ship was home ported in Athens, Greece. I left the Navy in 1974, and started at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, which was a Navy design laboratory in Silver Spring, Md. Margie was a nurse, and worked part time at a doctor’s office in Chevy Chase, Md. While at the NSWC, I led the development of anti-ship missile defense systems, and received a patent award for an invention. In 1981 I joined the Department of Energy, working principally in the Office of Nuclear Energy. I was responsible for providing the nuclear power sources for several NASA spacecraft. In 1982 I received my Masters in Engineering Administration from George Washington University, having taken most classes at night. In 1984 our son, Chris, was born. Margie, Chris, and I lived in Olney, Md. In 1998, Margie passed away, at the age of 51, due to a long term illness. In 2000 I purchased the Ocean City, Md, vacation condo that had been in Margie’s family, which I still own. I met my present wife, Marilyn, in 2002, and we married in 2009. At that time we moved from Olney, Md, to Highland, Md, which is where our main home remains. Marilyn has four daughters, two (twins) in New York, and two in Orlando, Florida. After 41 years in the federal government, I retired as a Deputy Assistant Secretary in May, 2011. Marilyn and I bought a home in Orlando in 2013, so we split our time among the house in Highland, the beach house in Ocean City, and our place in Orlando. Marilyn continues to work for Towson University as a visiting professor. We travel a good deal, and I also enjoy old cars; I have a restored 1965 GTO convertible, a 1979 Trans Am, and a 1969 VW bug, that I am slowly restoring. We have four grandchildren (two in Olney, Md, and two in Orlando, Fla) that keep us busy and entertained.
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