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formed on the guitar and banjo. He was a loyal regular at a few local restaurants, which resulted in a plaque at TGI Friday’s, a tabasco bottle waiting on the table for him at Bambara, and a permanently reserved table at D.B. Coo- per’s. Gordon was predeceased by a daughter but sur- vived by Robin, seven children and multiple grand- and great-grandchildren. Claude Brutus Rogers, III, ’76, was ninety-two at his death on November 23, 2022. C.B. lived in Birmingham, Chicago, Jackson (Mississippi), Montezuma (Georgia) and New Orleans before his family moved to Atlanta in 1942. He attended Emory University and Emory School of Law and was admitted to the Bar in 1953. In 1962, he married Patricia Maxwell DeVoe. Pat predeceased him, but C.B. is survived by their three children and six grand- children. A former Georgia State Chair of the College, C.B. was grateful for his enemies who kept him careful and for his friends who gave him their friendship anyway. Larry Rogers, Sr., ’11, was seventy-five at his passing on January 19, 2023. Larry pursued law as a “second career” after starting a family and working as a respiratory ther- apist, along with two other jobs, one of which was at a gas station across the street from Comiskey Park, where he met Fellow Joe Power, Jr., with whom he would even- tually form a partnership. It was Joe who urged Larry to finish law school, which he did in 1983. Two years later, in his first trial, Larry won a $27 million verdict in a product liability case – the largest personal injury verdict in Illinois at the time. Over than course of the next four decades, Larry secured hundreds of millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for his clients. Larry enjoyed taking his Sea Ray sport boat out on Lake Michigan and occasionally to Florida or the Bahamas. When not out on the open water, the boat was docked at Burnham Harbor near Soldier Field, the home of one of his other pastimes outside of work, Chicago sports. James B. Sales, ’78, was the first member of his family to attend college, attending the Universi- ty of Texas by cobbling together academic and ROTC scholarships and by working throughout school. At 5’8” and 155 pounds he played football on the Longhorn freshman football team until a knee injury ended his football career. Jim graduated in 1955, married his high school sweetheart Beuna Mae Vornsand, and served two years as a Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corp. Following service, Jim attended the University of Texas Law School and graduated with honors in 1960. He then joined a firm where he was trained as a trial lawyer under Past ACTL Presidents Leon Jaworski and Kraft Eidman. During his long career, Jim became recognized as one of the preeminent trial lawyers in America. He tried sev- eral cutting-edge product liability cases, many for GM, which set the contours of product liability law in Texas and nationally for decades. He authored one of the sem- inal textbooks on product liability, and he taught Con- tinuing Legal Education courses and law school classes throughout the country. Jim was a passionate leader of the Bar, pro bono service, and professionalism. While serving in nearly every leadership capacity possible – President of the Houston Bar Association, President of the State Bar of Texas, Chair of the Texas Access to Justice Commission, Delegate of the American Bar Association House of Delegates, and many others, he also initiated and founded the Houston Volunteer Lawyer Program, the Houston Bar Foundation (and served as its first Chair), the Texas Lawyers’ Assistance Program, and other programs designed to aid citizens and lawyers in need of help. Jim was eighty-eight at his passing on February 11, 2023, survived by Buena Mae, three children, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Lawrence F. Scinto, ’79, passed away on February 20, 2022. He was ninety-four. Larry joined the Army in 1946 out of high school, serving in Japan as a member of the Occupation Force. Upon his discharge, Larry went to Worcester Polytechnic Institute, earning a BS in civil engineering and later to Saint John’s Law School from where he would earn his LLD in 1956. During law school Larry maneuvered to be seated next to a young nurse named Emily DiYuliio at the wedding of mutual friends. The two were married in September 1955 and shared sixty-three years together until her death in 2018. Larry was a fixture on the sidelines coaching his sons’ football teams, a position he would continue to fill for Edgewood football for at least a generation after his sons left the team. In 1970, Larry and three friends formed their own patent law firm; over the next four decades, the firm grew to an internationally renowned intellectual property firm with over 100 attorneys. Larry is survived by his three children and three grandchildren. SUMMER 2023 JOURNAL 102