Chris Klug

Chris Klug (born November 18, 1972) is a professional alpine snowboarder. After receiving a liver transplant in 2000 to treat primary sclerosing cholangitis, he went on to compete in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, winning a bronze medal in the Parallel Giant Slalom. This was the first and so far only time a transplantee had competed in the Olympics, either winter or summer. He also won a bronze medal, and lit the torch at the 2002 National Kidney Foundation U.S. Transplant Games. He is an alumnus of Deerfield Academy.

In 2004, Klug released a book called To the Edge and Back: My Story from Organ Transplant Survivor to Olympic Snowboarder. He is an active supporter of organ donation and recently founded the Chris Klug Foundation and Donor Dudes to spread awareness of the need for organ donors.

Personal life

Klug is married to Melissa April. They live in Aspen, Colorado and Sisters, Oregon with their two children.

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Gerry Klug

Gerard Christopher Klug is an American game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career

Trained as a theatrical lighting designer, Gerry (Chris) Klug worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theater, opera, and toured with various 1970s rock bands. He won two New Jersey Critic's Circle Awards for lighting designs at the New Jersey Theater Forum.

Klug then began writing adventures for Simulations Publications's line of role-playing games. He assisted with the design of Universe, Horror Hotel, Damocles Mission, and the second edition of DragonQuest. Klug and Robert Kern had first talked about publishing an espionage role-playing game while working as designers at SPI; after SPI was purchased by TSR in 1982, eight SPI employees quit and Avalon Hill hired them to form a subsidiary called Victory Games. Klug began working on his espionage design again, which would have been called "License to Kill", but when Victory Games decided to pay for a James Bond license the game became James Bond 007 (1983). For a time, he was also design director for Victory Games.Paul Jaquays, with David J. Ritchie and Klug, designed the adventure The Shattered Statue (1988) for Dungeons & Dragons, although the adventure was also compatible with DragonQuest.