Class Note 1994
Issue
March-April 2022
Hi, ’94s! One of the upsides of serving as class secretary is receiving an unexpected email from a classmate. It’s easy to get into the daily delete-next rhythm when cruising through the unsolicited solicitations and general junk mail typically littering my inbox. When I find a personal note from a classmate tucked among the nonsense, it makes my day.
So, my thanks to Kelvin Leung for making my day back in early November and for sharing much of the news you’ll read in this column.
Jed Kaplan, professor of earth sciences at the University of Hong Kong, led a geological and geomorphological boat excursion to a national park in Hong Kong for the local Dartmouth club. He has led similar trips for the Royal Geographical Society of Hong Kong, and recently Jed used his expertise to entertain and teach his fellow alumni and family. Kelvin shared an insight about Hong Kong, noting that although it is known primarily as a metropolis, it has a few national parks. As one of the trip attendees eloquently described it on social media, “The granite of New Hampshire found its way into Hong Kong’s igneous rock formations this afternoon—super educational and enjoyable geological tour led by professor Jed Kaplan!”
David Cohen is currently a law professor at Drexel University. He coauthored a book titled Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America, which has been selected for an honorable mention for the 2021 Adele E. Clarke Book Award. Congratulations, David!
Maggi Leung has recently been appointed as professor of international development studies at the University of Amsterdam. She earned her Ph.D. from Bremen University in Germany and taught at various universities in Hong Kong and Germany before moving to Amsterdam with her German husband and two sons. I appreciate Kelvin’s commentary alongside the updates. He writes, “For the record, [Maggi and I] are not related—except that we both have New Hampshire granite in our muscles and our brains.”
Shoshana Leis has taken a path less traveled by, and it has definitely made all the difference to her communities. She is currently serving as a rabbi of two separate synagogues. “Rabbi Shosh,” as she is called by members of her congregations, has navigated the dual duties by leaning on her Judaic core values, which include a commitment to justice in leading her congregations through current issues from polarizing politics to the social and emotional health of young people to community diversity. She also habitually reaches out to other religious leaders for mutually applicable methodologies that she can utilize to support her congregants. Shoshana lives in upstate New York outside of New York City with her husband, Rabbi Ben Newman, her two sons, and two dogs.
Please send me your news to share with classmates in the next Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.
—Laura Hardegree Davis, 520 Meadowlark Lane, Brentwood, TN 37027; lauradavis723@mac.com
So, my thanks to Kelvin Leung for making my day back in early November and for sharing much of the news you’ll read in this column.
Jed Kaplan, professor of earth sciences at the University of Hong Kong, led a geological and geomorphological boat excursion to a national park in Hong Kong for the local Dartmouth club. He has led similar trips for the Royal Geographical Society of Hong Kong, and recently Jed used his expertise to entertain and teach his fellow alumni and family. Kelvin shared an insight about Hong Kong, noting that although it is known primarily as a metropolis, it has a few national parks. As one of the trip attendees eloquently described it on social media, “The granite of New Hampshire found its way into Hong Kong’s igneous rock formations this afternoon—super educational and enjoyable geological tour led by professor Jed Kaplan!”
David Cohen is currently a law professor at Drexel University. He coauthored a book titled Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America, which has been selected for an honorable mention for the 2021 Adele E. Clarke Book Award. Congratulations, David!
Maggi Leung has recently been appointed as professor of international development studies at the University of Amsterdam. She earned her Ph.D. from Bremen University in Germany and taught at various universities in Hong Kong and Germany before moving to Amsterdam with her German husband and two sons. I appreciate Kelvin’s commentary alongside the updates. He writes, “For the record, [Maggi and I] are not related—except that we both have New Hampshire granite in our muscles and our brains.”
Shoshana Leis has taken a path less traveled by, and it has definitely made all the difference to her communities. She is currently serving as a rabbi of two separate synagogues. “Rabbi Shosh,” as she is called by members of her congregations, has navigated the dual duties by leaning on her Judaic core values, which include a commitment to justice in leading her congregations through current issues from polarizing politics to the social and emotional health of young people to community diversity. She also habitually reaches out to other religious leaders for mutually applicable methodologies that she can utilize to support her congregants. Shoshana lives in upstate New York outside of New York City with her husband, Rabbi Ben Newman, her two sons, and two dogs.
Please send me your news to share with classmates in the next Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.
—Laura Hardegree Davis, 520 Meadowlark Lane, Brentwood, TN 37027; lauradavis723@mac.com