Kim Marie Walsh ’82
Kim Marie Walsh ’82, M.D., died at home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on April 23, 2013. Kim was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and attended Monona Grove High School. Kim graduated from Dartmouth summa cum laude with honors in English and Phi Beta Kappa. She was a member of the fencing team and Alpha Theta. She participated in the language study abroad program in Blois, France, and in the English foreign study program in London. Kim met her husband, Dr. Daniel James Kenan, at Duke Medical School and they were married in 1990. Kim later earned a master’s in public health from the University of North Carolina and served as medical director of two county health departments and of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina. “Kim was the most extraordinary person,” writes classmate Peter Heller. “English was her major, yet she knew she would be a doctor and took the full premed load with easy brilliance. She also loved the outdoors. She lived much of her sophomore spring in a tepee up on Happy Hill, at the top of a field with a huge view of the Connecticut River Valley, just where the Appalachian Trail goes into the woods.” Kim is survived by her husband, son Alexander, daughter Anna, parents Eugene and Jeanette Walsh and sister Sharon. Gifts in memory of Kim may be made to the “Building Friends Campaign” at Carolina Friends School, 4809 Friends School Road, Durham, NC 27705-8193; www.cfsnc.org/donate.
