1978

It sounds a little like "Broadcast News," but Maty LouTeel met her husband, Peter Freundlich, when they were both working for CBS radio at the 1980 Republican Convention in Kansas City. He was on one end of an intercom. She was on the other. "I listened to him for several days before I actually saw him," says Mary Lou. She's now a producer and he's a writer-producer for the CBS Sunday Morning News. They have a four year old son, Nicholas, and Peter has a 15-year-old daughter, Jenny. Recently Mary Lou has produced the "Post Cards from Maine" series (really just an excuse to visit their refuge in Booth Bay), a story about a Russian-emigre orchestra, and another before last year's inauguration in which Charles Kurault visited Maya Angelou in North Carolina. "It's a great job," says Mary Lou. "It's like getting dropped into different realities every two weeks."

Rick Spier reported on a surprisingly subdued mini-reunion at the Lebanon, N.H., home of Cindy and Bill Dexter, and he was kind enough to offer the following update on attendees Ed Hill (and his fiancee, Jodi Kazda), MarkMcGowan and his wife, Holli, Kevin Barber, Mark Arnold, and Rick himself. Bill is a tenured member of the Med School faculty and a family-practice doctor. Ed has a psychology practice in Tacoma. Mark and Holli live with their four kids in Owatonna, Minn. (Mark is a franchise owner of Play-It-Again Sports, an idea whose time has definitely come. It's a chain of usedsporting- goods stores through which parents can avoid going into bankruptcy supporting their children's athletic careers. Definitely an idea whose time has come.) Mark, Martha, and Eric Arnold live outside Philadelphia (although Mark spends much of his time meeting his company's owners in Sweden, England, and South America to explain to them what catalytic converters do and why we can't live without them). Kevin is a psychologist with Henry Ford Health Systems in Dearborn, Mich., and Rick is a landlord in Tacoma, Wash., a franchise owner of Once-Upon-A-Child in Atlanta, and spends more time on airplanes than in either city.

Erstwhile rocket scientist Dave Speer is studying fulltime for a master's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Central Florida, where he's considering specializing in electro-optics. In a midlife career shift, Fred de la Vega is now a first-year law student at Fordham. Now that both her kids are in school, Jane Lowenstein Mairs is editing language and linguistics books for the Cambridge University Press in New York City. Stan West and Gina Vincent were recently married in Gina's hometown of New Orleans. Sheldon Caesar was a groomsman, and the bride and groom are now back in Culver City, Calif. MiguelDamien has started his own in-vitro fertilization clinic in Toms River, N.J.

Jim DiNardo recently went with a team to China to care for children with heart disease and managed to get two weeks off to sail in the South Pacific. Jim, who reports that he has given up running for bike racing, is an associate professor of anesthesiology at the University of Arizona.

Terry Ann Scriven and her husband, Fran Governali '77, have set up shop in Portland, Maine. She's a surgical and medical retina-opthalmology subspecialist. He's a telecommunications-industry analyst for the Portland office of First Boston.

Dee Flint was sorry to miss our lawyers' round-up. He and Libby Putnam live in New Orleans and have three kids: Dale 5, Conner 3, and Brian 1. In Dee's admiralty-litigation and international-law practice, he once recovered $14 million from Canadians in federal court in Puerto Rico for collisions that took place in the North Sea.

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