Speaker Series: "The Battle of the Atlantic - World War II Comes to Chatham"

JEFFREY GORDON retired in 2018 after a 43-year career in both the public and private sectors of the financial services industry, most notably at Cigna Corporation, Price Waterhouse and Prudential Financial.  He has a Master’s degree in Accounting from the University of Hartford and a BA in History from Muhlenberg College.  Jeff is a long-time history buff, with a particular interest in the significant moments in the Second World War.  

After vacationing in Chatham for 10 years, Jeff and his wife Elise bought their current home in Chatham in 1995, starting out as non-resident taxpayers and then moving full-time to the Cape in 2019 after 39 years in Wethersfield, CT.  He has stayed active through volunteer work at the Chatham Food Pantry, the Chatham Railroad Museum, the town’s Traffic Safety Committee and the Chatham Men’s Club, where he has served as Moderator, Chairman of the Executive Committee and Club Secretary.  Jeff also is a member of both the Church Council and the Nominating Committee at Dennis Union Church in Dennis, MA.

Jeff volunteered as a docent at the Chatham Marconi Maritime Center for 4 years and was part of the team that developed the popular “The Golden Age of Trans-Atlantic Ocean Liners” exhibit.  He has previously contributed two Special Exhibit MarconiGram e-newsletter editions, one on the museum’s special connection to the hospital ship SS Hope and the other describing the French liner Ile de France’s role in one of the great marine rescues of all-time, the sinking of the Italian liner Andrea Doria in 1956.