Meet Our Members:
Lewis Wellwood Kellum
  oody,”
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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