ABOUT GERRY

Gerry Klein has lived in Southbury for close to 30 years.  He is a 1975 graduate of New York University School of Law.  After spending most of his career in the legal department of Union Carbide in Danbury, Gerry is now a Contract Engagement Advisor (i.e., contracts and negotiations specialist) at IBM.  Gerry is finishing his 4^th year on the Board of Finance and was elected Vice Chair by his colleagues earlier this year.  Gerry is also the chairman of the Southbury Pension Investment Advisory Committee, which helps decide on investment decisions regarding Southbury’s pension fund.  Gerry’s wife Peggy is a speech pathologist at Middlebury Elementary School.  They have 3 grown daughters, all of whom were well-educated in the Region 15 school system and then continued their education in private universities in New England; one at Brown and two at Boston University.