They also agreed to follow up via email once they were back home. Holly and Jeff talked a little about their K-Plans (“Mine doesn’t take long to tell,” said Jeff) and some of the K professors and staff they both know on campus. Both are medical doctors working in Houston and soon moving to Ohio. Holly Gillis ’09 and her husband, Ethan Basset, were toward the end of a ten-day vacation, rushing to see the Glacier before moving on to their next stop. “I gave it to him!” she said with a big smile. The young woman running with him did, too. The young man stopped quickly and spun around. “Where’d you get that K College water bottle!”
Instead, a flash of orange and a familiar logo in the hand of a young man darting past on the trail caught his attention.
“Surrounded by green-sloped mountains, waterfalls, and a glacier bluer than we imagined it would be,” Jeff said “we expected the cast and crew from Lord of the Rings to step out of the mist at any moment.” “It was a beautiful place on a beautiful day and we were taking our time on the roughly four-mile round trip trail,” said Jeff, who recently retired as associate director of communication in K’s Office of College Communication.
In early March, Jeff Palmer ’76 and his wife, Susan Andress, were about midway through a month-long trip to Tasmania and New Zealand when they stopped to hike to the Franz Joseph Glacier on New Zealand’s “South Island.” Kalamazoo College alumni never know where their paths might cross.
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