Al Baker:  

Life GPHS was, how to say..., interesting. Somehow I was allowed to graduate and after that I was allowed to go to U of O. Spent 5 years getting a History degree and having a very good time. Katie Smith ('82) joined me there, and after graduating we moved to Wash. DC. Nice place, but didn't want to stay, so when Katie was offered a job in Atlanta, we moved South. I got a job in Accounting and we spent 2 years getting a Southern education, another very good time. We were married in Grants Pass at Riverside Park in 1991, and took 10 friends on a week long "honeymoon" along the coast. We really enjoyed being back home. After returning to Atlanta we determined that Oregon was our place to be, and that we wanted our children to be raised there. So, we moved to Portland in 1992, had our first son (Forrest) in 1993 and our second son (Jackson) in 2000. I've spent my working life mostly as an Accountant or Controller, watching how money gets spent and e...Expand for more