A veritable collection of rogues, whores, ambassadors, con men, artists, gangsters, loud-mouths and even an occasional ordinary citizen or two, Chuck Galle shot dope with them, smoked dope with them, ran a sword through the paintings of one of America’s greatest artists, and hobnobbed however briefly with two of America’s best known journalists. And Chuck lived to tell about it.
Photo by Jasmin Hunter
CHUCK GALLE left his druggie, criminal past behind in 1971 and moved from day laborer to assistant grades foreman in the construction world, then on to human factors analyst in the rehabilitation field. Before long he was the Accountant for Federal Funds for Drug Abuse at the DMH in Boston Mass., and joined System Development Corporation in 1975 to develop training programs at the National Drug Abuse Training Center run by NIDA. He eventually became a designer and builder of enormous databases with Unisys Corporation, which subsumed SDC in 1982. He retired in 1993 to care for his declining parents, and after their deaths has devoted the rest of his life to theatre, writing, and non-professional rehabilitation activities.
