Woody Kellum
Secretary
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Manchester Township
Washtenaw County |
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Profile
"Woody,” as he is known to all, grew up in Ann Arbor,
the son of Prof. Lewis & Gail Wellwood Kellum. His early
outdoor memories were of camping trips to geological field
sites in Wyoming and Mexico, vacations to northern Michigan,
and weekends at the 120 acre family property in the Irish
Hills. Having developed a romantic view of the out-of-doors,
he attended Colorado State University hoping to become a
forest ranger in the vast unspoiled west. After one term,
he could see his dream dissipating into organic chemistry
and the theory of forest management, and switched to physical
science. After graduating in Astrophysics from Michigan
State, he worked in the computer field, then got an MS in
Electrical Science from the University of Michigan. He married
Mary Goode in 1981. He has worked as a system and database
administrator at the U of M College of Engineering for 18
years. He became aware of the problems of development and
the need for planning when his father served on the Manchester
Township planning commission in the 1970s. In 1984 Woody
and family settled in the Irish Hills near his family property.
It was love for the family land, and concern for the disappearing
open space in the area that prompted him to help found the
Raisin Valley Land Trust in the early 1990s. Woody and Mary
have placed a conservation easement on the 70 acres around
their home. They have two daughters — June, 16, and Gail,
12.
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