“Other” Class Notes
Cicely Peterson-Mangum (Col ’94 CM)
Cicely Peterson-Mangum (Col ’94 CM) has been named executive director of Drexel University’s Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships. The center offers a space for educational and outreach activities developed and delivered by Philadelphia residents, partnering nonprofits and Drexel University students, faculty and staff. Its offerings include a community lawyering clinic, computer education and access, job training, adult education, arts collaboration and hands-on science programs. Ms. Peterson-Mangum is a well-known community development leader in Philadelphia, having served as executive director of the Logan Community Development Corp. from July 2008 to July 2014.
Fatimot Ladipo (Col ’94 CM)
Fatimot Ladipo (Col ’94 CM) has been named executive director of government relations in the newly created division of economic development and community engagement at Kennesaw State University. In this role, she is Kennesaw’s liaison to state and federal policymakers, University System of Georgia officials, and business and civic leaders. She has more than 15 years of experience in government and community affairs, including several years focused on legislative issues involving education.
Peter Taylor (Educ ’93 CM)
Peter Taylor (Educ ’93 CM) has been appointed president of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, which facilitates charitable giving in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York. He previously led the Maine Community Foundation, overseeing grant-making, scholarship and impact investing programs.
Derek Green (Col ’92 CM)
Derek Green (Col ’92 CM) has been elected to the Philadelphia City Council. He began a four-year term as councilman-at-large on Jan. 4, 2016. Mr. Green has worked as special counsel to Philadelphia Councilwoman Marian B. Tasco and has served as campaign manager, adviser and counsel to a number of political campaigns. He has also been a deputy city solicitor and assistant district attorney for the city of Philadelphia and has served as an assistant deputy attorney general for the state of Delaware.
Katharine Santos (Col ’89, Law ’92)
Katharine Santos (Col ’89, Law ’92) and her husband, Manuel “Manny” Santos, have written The Four Keys to Everlasting Love (Ave Maria Press, 2016), a book that discusses a Catholic approach to modern marriage, drawing on the personal experiences of the authors and the writings of church figures, including Pope John Paul II. Ms. Santos is a speaker and writer for the CatholicMatch Institute and Dr. Santos is a psychiatrist at Mercy Hospital, Rockville Centre, New York.
Michael Goodove (Com ’89 CM)
Michael Goodove (Com ’89 CM) has been appointed to Southern Bank’s Hampton Roads regional advisory board. Mr. Goodove is a personal injury attorney and a partner in the Norfolk, Virginia-based law firm Swartz Taliaferro Swartz & Goodove. He was selected for the board because of his leadership in the business community and his lifelong residence in Hampton Roads.
Sarah Camougis (Col ’89 CM)
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.
Michael Dow (Engr ’88 CM)
Michael Dow (Engr ’88 CM) has published his first novel, Dark Matters, a science fiction thriller set in the near future that touches on topics of current political interest, including the influence of wealth in politics and income inequality. Mr. Dow has worked in business for more than 25 years, in positions ranging from software developer to CEO.
Brian Matney (Col ’87 CM)
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)
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.
Mark Mosby (Col ’82)
Mark Mosby (Col ’82) has been named chief legal counsel for Fallon Health, a not-for-profit health care services organization. Mr. Mosby has more than 20 years of health law experience in support of health plans and health benefit organizations. As an attorney with Epstein Becker & Green, he provides counseling and representation for Fallon and manages EBG’s legal work for the organization. He lives in Worcester, Massachusetts, with his family.
Mark Bateman (Col ’79, Engr ’86 CM)
Mark Bateman (Col ’79, Engr ’86 CM) has been promoted to principal hardware systems engineer at Lockheed Martin’s undersea systems facility in Manassas, Virginia; he has worked off-site at the Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, Connecticut, since the start of the Virginia-class submarine program in 1996. Mr. Bateman serves as the engineering liaison to the shipyard and supports development and testing of the sonar, combat and imaging systems for the Virginia class and on the new Ohio-class replacement program. He recently received the Evening of Stars Award from Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Training for integrating and installing mission-essential electronic systems onboard every Virginia-class submarine, contributing to the program’s overall success. Mr. Bateman lives in Ledyard, Connecticut, with his wife, Paula. They have two children, Chelsea Lauren Bateman (Nurs ’13 L/M) and Callie Anne Bateman (Nurs ’16).
Dennis Curran (Law ’77)
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.
Caroline Blakely (Col ’76 CM)
Caroline Blakely (Col ’76 CM) has been named president and CEO of Rebuilding Together, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. The organization helps low-income homeowners make repairs that they could not otherwise afford. Ms. Blakely was previously a partner in the real estate finance group at Cassin & Cassin and vice president of multifamily business for Fannie Mae.
William Thuston (Col ’71 CM)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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.
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