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• I am an alumnus of the Cornell 6-Year PhD Program.
• I am a member of Faith Presbyterian Church.
• My wife, Syauchen Chang Baker, has retired from her careers as Unix system administrator and software engineer, and is now applying her creativity to iphone applications, including Bubble ABC.
• My daughter Anne Meiling Baker is a graphic artist and web designer, partner in CHICNCOOP Creative. She is also a film colorist.
• My cousin James Kochalka is a superstar.
• Until 2001, my parents owned a farm in East Lyndon, VT. I've posted some photos of the farm, before and after the barn burned down, for nostalgia. (Anyone interested in buying what is left of the land should contact me.)
• My father-in-law, Chang Ku-Nien, was an accomplished and well-known traditional Chinese landscape painter.
• My second cousin, Melanie Baker is also an artist, in New York.
• My nephew, Hamilton Chang, is running for State Representative in Illinois.

Some Old Family Photos:

• Mom, Dad, Ted
• Syauchen (1960's)
• family (c1976)
• Ahgoong with Jean (c1978)
• family (c1978)
• family (c1980)
• Anne, Carolyn, and Jean (c1982?)
• Anne, Carolyn, and Jean (c1983)
• Anne, Carolyn, and Jean (c1984?)
• Jean, asleep (1999)
• Jared, Carolyn, Ted, Jean w/Gabrielle Wu Lee's painting of Wakulla Springs (Summer 1999)
• Robert Baker (Dad) & Suzy Magescas (WWII), a friend in southern France at the end of WWII, believed to be from Algeria
• Dad talking on phone (September 2001)
• Delos Richard Baker, father of Frederick Monroe Baker, father of Robert Frederick Baker, father of Theodore Paul Baker. He seems to have graduated from Welsyean University, in Middleton, CT, in 1872. (Some more information about him is posted here.) Here are the examples of his writings that I have been able to find:
  • Delos R. Baker, "What is Gravitation?, Our Father's Universe -- Continued", A Candlestick, Vol 1, No 2, March 23 1927
  • Delos R. Baker, "What is Gravitation?, Our Father's Universe, Introductors Chapter -- Concluded, A Candlestick, Vol II, No 1, September 23 1927
  • Delos R. Baker, "An Anglo-American Reunion, From an American Viewpoint, December 1913
  I would like to obtain an put on line copies of his other writings. I have found a reference to one, called Centripety in free space (an interesting title).
• Delos Richard Baker's birthplace, in Candor, NY
• Georgiana Beecher Baker (1855-1934)-, wife of Richard Delos Baker and mother of Frederick Monroe Baker, around age 20. (Some more information about her is posted here.)
• Georgiana Beecher with children, takend c. 1896, at Liberty St. in Delaware, Ohio. Top row, left to right and front to back: Georgiana, Charlie, Carrie, Ruth, Ted (baby), Dick, Fred (my grandfather), and Earnest.
• Ruth Baker Leonard with daughter Charlotte Leonard and mother Georgiana Beecher
• Left to right, Georgiana Beecher Baker, her father Charles Beecher, George Fox, his daughter Irma, and Nellie Forbes. Nellie married Frederick M. Baker, and bore Robert F. Baker, my father.
• Charles N. Beecher, father of Georgiana Beecher; a grocer from Litchfield, CT.
• C. N. Beecher home in Bridgeport, CT
• Isabelle Cooke Monroe Beecher, mother of Georgiana Beecher
• Ann Abel Beecher, mother of Charles N. Beecher and grandmother of Georgiana Beecher