ROTARIAN-KEVEN KLEIN

CURRENT CAREER –  Airport Director, Cherry Capital Airport TVC.

 

EDUCATION – Bachelor of Science, Western Michigan University, Accrediated Airport Executive, American Association of Airport Executives.

   

FAMILY- Wife Leslie, sons Mark(16) , Joe (14) and Nick (8).

 

FAVORITE DESSERT -  Apple pie

 

FAVORITE HOBBY, ACTIVITY -    Swimming and spending time at the beach.

 

LAST BOOK READ –  Richard Branson’s “The Virgin Way”

 

FAVORITE MOVIE -  “Star Wars”

 

FAVORITE SONG -  Jimmy Buffet’s “School Boy Heart”

 

LIKELY KNOWS -  I am related to Charlie Gehringer.

  

LIFE ROLE MODEL – My mother, Mary Ellen Klein, teacher.

 

MOST SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENT – Marriage to my beautiful wife and best friend for 20 years.

 

PROUDEST MOMENT -    When my children were born. 

 

FUNNIEST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU -  When working at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey I had to assist a gentlemen with his bags and personal belongings after his flight was cancelled.   After a long conversation and providing transportation to his next airplane I came to realize this man was Denzel Washington. 

 

SECRET AMBITION -     I would love to SCUBA dive.

 

IF YOU COULD BE ANYONE IN THE WORLD FOR A DAY (present or historical),  WHO WOULD THAT BE---AND  WHY? My son. To be sixteen again would be real fun.

 

MOST FAMOUS PERSON MET -  In the airport business I have had lots of opportunity to meet famous people from Denzel Washington to Barbara Bush, to General Colin Powell to Jimmy Buffet.  I have meet the following: Presidents George W. Bush, William J.  Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.  

 

 

ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO SHARE -  As Richard Branson has said “If it is not fun, it is not worth doing.”