“Other” Class Notes

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.

John Hudgins (Col ’72 CM) has been selected as a 2016 Georgia Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine. He works in the Atlanta office of Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial, where his civil litigation defense practice focuses on professional liability, including the representation of hospital corporations, physician groups, hospitals, nursing homes, private doctors and nurses.

Stephen Ours (Engr ’97 CM) and his wife, Laura, welcomed a daughter, Heather Lee, on Dec. 31, 2015. Heather joins sister Marian Rebecca, 2. The family lives in Crofton, Maryland.

Eric Davis (Arch ’83 CM) has joined the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Chicago as adjunct faculty. He is also a lecturer in architecture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has his own firm, Public Design Architects, and is a member of the Cook County Zoning Board of Appeals. He also recently completed eight years of service on the board of the American Institute of Architects’ Chicago chapter. Mr. Davis and his wife, Suzanne, an assistant Cook County public defender, live in Oak Park, Illinois, with their two sons.

Jonathan Herz (Arch ’77 CM) was recently elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in recognition of his research and advocacy in sustainability, combining practice with policy to make the built environment a tool for better human and societal health. Mr. Herz is chief architect for sustainable facilities at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Lindsay Rosti (Arch ’06 CM) and Andrew S. Rosti (Col ’06 L/M) welcomed a daughter, Harper Bennett, on Nov. 15, 2015. Harper joins sister London, 2. The family lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

C. Dean Furman (Law ’93 CM) has been elected vice president of the Louisville Bar Association, a voluntary attorney organization in Louisville, Kentucky, with 3,000 members. He also recently began a two-year term on the board for Louisville Literary Arts, a nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching the city’s literary arts.