The Merchants

Gerry Pratt's career took him from newspaper reporter to chairman and chief executive of what was at the time one of Oregon's largest Savings & Loan Associations with more than fifty in-store branches in Oregon and Alaska. During his career with the late Fred G. Meyer, he celebrated almost every Christmas and Birthday with his mentor and friend from 1960 through Meyer's death September 2, 1978. During that period they traveled extensively together through Alaska following the discovery of t...