A former professor of English literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Ms. Shalvi was born in Germany and educated in England where she graduated from Cambridge University with a BA in 1947 and an MA in 1950, later doing postgraduate work in social work at the London School of Economics. She emigrated to Israel in 1947 and received her PhD in English literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1962. She founded the Department of English at Ben Gurion University of the Negev and from 1975, she served as voluntary principal of Pelech, a unique progressive high school for religious girls in Jerusalem. Marc N. Liebhaber, rabbi emeritus of B'nai Emet Synagogue in St. Louis Park, MN, will be inducted into the Society of Fellows. As the next generation of educators, rabbis and communal leaders, they will carry with them the precepts of an education based on the principles and ethics of Judaism.
Commencement coverage is welcome.
Dr. Handy became an ordained minister in 1943 and served as pastor, army chaplain, college instructor and professor of church history at Union Theological Seminary from 1950 to 1986, retiring as Henry Sloane Coffin Professor of Church History. He also served as adjunct professor of religion at Columbia University from 1973-1986. He has sat on various religious commissions and boards. He has written numerous books dealing with Protestant history in America, including a History of Union Theological Seminary in New York. After his retirement from UTS, he guided doctoral candidates as a visiting professor in the graduate school of Drew University for several years while continuing to write books, articles and reviews.