Glenn L. Kelly ’58

Glenn died Nov. 21, 2017. He was struck and killed by a car while walking.

He was a graduate of Germantown (Pa.) Academy. At Princeton, he was on the track team, majored in biology, and was a member of Cap and Gown. His senior-year roommates were R. Brown, Bruce, J. Dennis, Gilbert, McCarroll, Midgley, Rudge, Shahan, and Shearer.

Following graduation, he spent two years at Yale’s school of medicine and two years in the Navy. He went back to Yale to study to become an orthopedic surgeon, but soon changed his mind and wanted to try the newly established discipline of vascular surgery. One of the pioneers of the new discipline, Dr. Ben Eisman, was at the University of Colorado, and so Glenn moved to Denver with his wife, Susan Woodward, whom he married in 1967, and their three sons. He became chief of vascular surgery at Denver General Hospital for eight years and then became a private practitioner.

Glenn became entranced with Colorado and became an avid outdoorsman. He climbed many of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks and hiked and bicycled all over the state.

Glenn and Susan were divorced in 1989. In 1991, he married Kay Settle. He is survived by Kay; his three sons, Scott, Brian, and Matt; stepdaughter Shelley Drake; stepson Jay Whittaker; six grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; and former wife Susan Henderson. To all the class extends its sincere condolences.