“Other” Class Notes

Sarah Camougis (Col ’89 CM) has joined Choate Hall & Stewart’s private equity group as a partner. She advises private and public companies, private equity and venture capital funds, angel investors and management teams in a wide range of industries in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Ms. Camougis is a founder and board member of the Women’s Association of Venture & Equity, a national networking organization for women in venture capital and private equity. She was previously co-chair of Locke Lord’s technology, media and telecommunications group and a partner in both the corporate and transactional department and the private equity and venture capital group.

Brian Matney (Col ’87 CM) has been profiled in Phi Beta Kappa’s new national member profile campaign, “Behind the Key.” In the interview, he discusses the role of the liberal arts in a contemporary approach to education. Mr. Matney is the principal of the Governor’s STEM and Technology Academy at Landstown High School in Virginia Beach, where he lives with his wife, Kathryn, and two sons, Will and J.T.

Stacy Davidson (Col ’84 CM) has been named director for academic support at Trinity University’s Student Success Center in San Antonio, Texas, where she is working to implement theories and practices that support lasting and meaningful learning experiences. Among the programs she leads are the summer bridge program for first-generation students and athletes, adviser training and peer tutoring.

Dennis Curran (Law ’77) received the Chief Justice Edward F. Hennessey Award from the Massachusetts Bar Association for his work on revamping the jury selection process in Superior Court in Massachusetts. The award has been given out only five times in its 20-year existence. In addition to serving on the Massachusetts Superior Court, Judge Curran is an adjunct professor of law at the Roger Williams University School of Law, and published an article, “Abraham Lincoln: A Model for Today’s Trial Lawyers,” in the October 2015 issue of the Massachusetts Law Review.

William Thuston (Col ’71 CM) was named CEO of the Year by the Birmingham Business Journal. Mr. Thuston is a managing partner of the law firm Burr & Forman. He works in the firm’s Birmingham office.

Jessee Ring (Engr ’69 CM) and Deborah Sherman Ring (Nurs ’69) have opened JBR Vineyards and Winery, a Virginia farm winery. After returning to Virginia from California in 2005, they did a trial planting in 2006 and expanded in 2009. The couple has two vineyards planted in riesling and pinot noir grapes in Southwest Virginia. They have a further vineyard expansion underway as part of a three-year plan for upgraded facilities.

Roger Mentz (Law ’66) has published a book, Tales of Tax Reform. Mr. Mentz served in the U.S. Treasury Department as assistant secretary for tax policy from 1985 until 1987 and was the point person for the Reagan administration on the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Tales of Tax Reform recounts what happened during the tax reform legislative process in 1985-86 and discusses whether a similar tax reform could happen today.

Bert McClure (Arch ’66 CM) has been received as a member of the French Académie d’Architecture, a professional society that promotes the quality and teaching of architecture and spatial design. Over the past 50 years, Mr. McClure’s career has encompassed a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard (1978) and 45 years as an architect, urban planner and journalist based principally in France with international projects in the Middle East, Morocco and China. Notable publications include six architectural walking guides for the Paris newspaper Le Monde, an urban walking guide with Lille Metropolis, and a visitors’ guide to eight Le Corbusier projects for a major Centre Pompidou exhibition. After 30 years living aboard a 90-foot converted Dutch river barge, Mr. McClure and his wife, Bonnie, recently washed ashore in the Paris region.

William Coleman (Grad ’66 CM) is emeritus professor of English and comparative literature at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He and his wife, Edvige Agostinelli, professor emerita of Italian at York College, CUNY, have published a critical edition of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Teseida delle Nozze d’Emilia, which inspired Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Knight’s Tale,” the first of the Canterbury Tales. The new edition is based on Boccaccio’s mid-14th-century manuscript of the Teseida at the Laurentian Library in Florence. Mr. Coleman is the author of several books and articles about Boccaccio and Chaucer.

William Wilson (Law ’63) has received the Champion of Justice award from the Virginia Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates for his service to the chapter, the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, the Virginia State Bar and his community. Mr. Wilson is the senior partner in the Covington law firm of Wilson Updike & Nicely, which practices law almost exclusively in personal injury and medical malpractice.

Harry Marshall (Col ’61 CM) is an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he teaches a seminar on international criminal law, a course he has led since 2007. Mr. Marshall has worked for the U.S. Department of State and served as a vice president for Martin Marietta International in Hong Kong and Beijing. He retired from the U.S. Department of Justice in 2011 after 20 years in the criminal division. Over the course of his career in the department, Mr. Marshall participated in the negotiation of international law enforcement agreements with foreign governments, including China, India, Japan and the United Kingdom. He was active in the extradition of a number of individuals accused of major crimes in the U.S. and abroad, in addition to other law enforcement cooperation with foreign governments.

Rust Reid (Col ’54) has received the 2015 Each Moment Matters Award from the Presbyterian Communities and Services Foundation for his efforts to be an agent for change in the world around him. Mr. Reid is of counsel in the tax practice group of Thompson & Knight’s Dallas office, where he focuses his practice on estate planning and probate and fiduciary administration. He frequently acts as an expert witness in probate and trust disputes and has been an adjunct professor of law at Southern Methodist University. Mr. Reid is a member of many civic organizations, including the Hockaday School, the ChildCareGroup and the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center.

Mark Friedlander (Col ’51, Law ’57 CM) has published Leonardo da Vinci Gets a Do-Over, the first book in the Innovators in Action series of educational fiction by Science, Naturally. The book was named a Mathical Honor Book and received the Academics’ Choice Smart Book Award. The book was featured on ABC Radio National’s Science Show.

Michael Alden (Com ’05) has completed the Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurship at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. His cohort included social entrepreneurs from 18 countries. Mr. Alden also holds an M.B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Mary Lovely (Col ’07 CM) and her husband, Christopher, welcomed a daughter, Emily Catherine, on Jan. 5, 2016. Emily joins sister Claire Ellen, 1, and is the granddaughter of William J. Whelan III (Col ’80). The family resides in Sugar Land, Texas.