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David J. Lu (盧焜熙)

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David J. Lu (盧焜熙)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: David J. Lu
  • Chinese: 盧焜熙
  • Era: 1928
  • Geography: Taiwan/ Keelung
  • Core roles: professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Columbia University, School of International Affairs PhD, International Law and International Relations (1960)

Education

  • National Taiwan University — 1950 — Bachelor/ Economics
  • Westminster Theological Seminary — 1952 — Postgrad.
  • University of Columbia — 1954 — Master/ International affairs
  • U. Columbia, School of International Affairs — 1960 — PhD./ international law; international relations

Employment

  • Prentice-Hall, Inc. — 1956-60 — Editor
  • Bucknell University, Lewisburg PA — 1960-94 — Professor
  • NDSA 日本研究中心 — 1965-94 — Dir.

Role in the Community

  • Corpus record honors him as the first Ph.D. holder in law from Columbia University, N.Y. (1960): 1960 (published 2015-12-10; band B bibliographic record — full text stays in the vault).
  • Encyclopedia entry in the TAH story corpus: 2015-09 (band B).
  • No memoir/community narrative found in content/works or content/articles beyond these two records (a “David Luck” in a Slackwood Church memoir is a different person, not linked). Re-grepped slice 09220600-11 (2026-09-22): hits confined to the two records above plus the works index; both bibliographic-only (band B), nothing new absorbable.
  • Corpus re-check 2026-09-23 (slice 09221400-21): fresh grep 盧焜熙/David J. Lu/David Lu returns only the two records already wikilinked above plus works/index — verified saturated, SKIP-no-new-facts.
  • Corpus re-check 2026-09-24 (slice 09230900-10): fresh grep again returns the two linked records, works/index, and the Slackwood/聖恩教會 memoir in Our Journeys 43 — the “David Luck (Kingston Church)” there is confirmed a different person (PCSA New Jersey church-plant committee member, 1999), not Lu. SKIP-no-new-facts.
  • Corpus re-check 2026-09-26 (slice 09251400-3): fresh grep 盧焜熙|David J. Lu re-hits only the two wikilinked band-B records (109, 590) — hit set identical to all prior rounds. Verified saturated; SKIP-no-new-facts.
  • Corpus re-check 2026-09-25 (slice 09240900-4): fresh grep 盧焜熙/David J. Lu/David Lu returns the same set — the two wikilinked band-B records (109, 590), works/index, and the Our Journeys 43 memoir, where “David Luck (Kingston Church)” again reads as the PCSA 新澤西中會『新教會發展委員會』member (1999, Fletcher 牧師任主席), not Lu. Verified saturated; SKIP-no-new-facts.
  • Kinship (new, slice 10051340-20, 2026-10-07): 盧焜熙 is recorded as the younger brother (弟) of John Lai 盧明 — parents 父盧明 / 母賴葉, John Lai as 長男 took 母姓 — per the TAH biography block on John Lai’s page; the 吳三連-sourced timeline further has him among the six台籍文科生 who audited 國際公法 at 省立臺北高中 when his brother taught there in 1946 春. Cross-corroborated by Columbia CLASA, which carries his 1960 “first Ph.D. in law from Columbia” milestone.

Family

  • Wife: : Izora Annabelle Copton
  • Daughter: Cynthia Ellen
  • Son: David John
  • Son: Daniel Mark
  • Son: Stephen Paul

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-26 (slice 09260500-32): fresh ZH+EN grep — hit set identical to records already absorbed (see above). Verified-saturated SKIP.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-08 (slice 10070034-2): fresh grep 盧焜熙/David J. Lu/David Lu returns only the two wikilinked band-B records (109, 590), works/index, and the Our Journeys 43 memoir where “David Luck (Kingston Church)” again reads as the PCSA 新澤西中會 member (1999), not Lu. Kinship note (brother of John Lai 盧明, added slice 10051340-20) stands. Verified saturated; SKIP-no-new-facts.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-09 (slice 10080735-32): fresh grep 盧焜熙/David J. Lu/David Lu/盧焜 — hit set unchanged (109, 590, works/index, sources page, Our Journeys 43 David Luck ≠ Lu). Verified saturated; SKIP-no-new-facts.

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