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Angela Foss
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Nina Hasner Yoder lives in Greenwich, CT, with her husband, Merle, and three children. Erik, 17, is a junior at Brooks School in North Andover, MA; daughters Elyse, 14, and Kate, 13, attend the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich. Nina is a volunteer deacon at her church and on the board of the parents association at Sacred Heart. The family likes to ski and took a warm-weather vacation to Antigua.

Laurie Giddins runs a media consulting practice, working with television and Internet firms that provide strategic-planning and business-development services. Before establishing the Giddins Group, she held corporate positions with cable-TV networks including Bravo, the Independent Film Channel, and American Movie Classics. She and daughter Elena, 3, live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Liz Sweet Dowling went back to work in September as director of marketing for Inov8 Beverage Company in Westchester, NY. The firm launched a new energy drink last summer called Hydrive; made from pure spring water, it has 25 calories, low sugar, B vitamins, and electrolytes. The product is doing great and rolling out nationally. Liz moved to Rye, NY, in the previous summer, after 10 years in Charlotte, NC, and five in Los Angeles before that. She is glad to be back in the Northeast. Daughters Emily, 13, and Grace, 10, are doing great, loving school. They just “completed the family” with a female dachshund puppy named Rhino.

Nadivah Feinstein Greenberg and husband David Greenberg’s oldest child, Arielle, will be attending Skidmore in the fall.

Chris Wurster, VP for prime services client delivery at Credit Suisse in NYC, was named to the Independent Fabrication cycling team and will be competing in ultra-endurance mountain-bike races around the world. In November he competed in La Ruta de los Conquistadores, a three-day, 300-mile trek from coast to coast in Costa Rica. Counting pedal strokes, two at a time, is a necessity as riders soldier over 30,000 feet of climbing. In March Chris became the first single-speed mountain biker to complete the eight-day Cape Epic in South Africa, racing through several mountain ranges and game preserves.

Rich Harwood was recently featured in Politico, a new Washington, DC–based publication, which referred to him as the “Johnny Appleseed for civic life.” The self-described lifelong politico worked on his first campaign at Saratoga High School. Many other campaigns and races later, he switched gears and established the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation in 1988, to help people get involved in public life.