Jerome Stephen Baum

Jerome Stephen Baum, Jerry to his family and friends, left this life on February 24, 2009. He was born March 28, 1937 in Brooklyn, NY. He was the older son of Philip and Sadye Baum, brother of Bruce Baum. Jerry attended Lawrence High School on Long Island and graduated from Rhodes Academy in NYC. He attended Hobart in upstate NY and graduated from Hofstra on Long Island with a BA in History and Political Science. He attended the Real Estate Institute, NYU. Jerry spent his first 40 years of life in New York City, Cedarhurst, Woodmere and Brooklyn, NY. His lifetime career and passion was in commercial real estate as a broker, mortgage banker and as an outside real estate consultant to Chemical Bank. His creativity in arranging loans and in finding properties for lending institutions served him and his clients well. In his earlier career, he was associated with Sonnenblick Goldman, Cooper Horowitz and J.I. Kislak, but ultimately having his own company Jerome S. Baum, Inc. for over 45 years in NYC, Denver, CO, Maui,HI, Atlanta, GA and Bluffton, SC. He was an active Rotarian on Maui, in Atlanta and in Bluffton. It was 1977, when Jerry moved with his two children to Evergreen, CO and married Liz with her two children to become an active adventuring family. Travel was a large portion of their lives with skiing, golf and scuba diving being Jerry