Douglas Goff:  

I was one of those students which attended my Freshman and Sophomore years at Gresham High, and once the building for Sam Barlow was completed, ended up transferring to Sam Barlow to finish up my High School education. .This is perhaps why many of you don't remember me as I didn't have as much time to get to know all of you as i would have liked to. I usually hung out with Mr. Seimson (our Wood Shop teacher, whom i was saddened to hear had passed away several years back after contacting Lyme Disease. I do hope his wife and children are doing well. . .After graduation, I moved to College Station Texas where I attended Texas A&M University, and the University of Houston where i received my BS in Geology/Geophysics. During my school breaks I traveled to Saudi Arabia where my father worked for Arabian American Oil Company. During this time, i was able to visit Germany, Amsterdam, London and other various parts of Europe and Egypt. After graduating from U of H, I began working for a wildcat oil company in Houston where I was a junior geologist developing and mapping new resource fields within the Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana areas. Then in 1982, when the oil industry went belly-up, I shifted to Hard Rock Mining in Northern Nevada where I worked as a Ore Control Geologist at the Sleeper;; Getchell and Ken Snyder Mines where I was eventually promoted to Project Geologist. . In 2003 , since the mine project was going further and further underground, I decided to take early retirement due to my dislike for the underground environment., and the fact that my wife wanted to move back to Albuquerque so that she could be closer to her parents. I started working for the City of Albuquerque in 2003, first as a surveyor in the Department of Municipal Development, then as an analyst within the Planning Division f...Expand for more