NEWS RELEASE  

Wirth appointed to The Hillside Trust Board of Directors

CINCINNATI, Ohio - April 12, 2006

The Hillside Trust Board of Directors unanimously voted to appoint Donna S. Wirth, Partner at GOP Limited, as a Trustee on the Board. In this position, she will advise and counsel the board and staff, as well as actively participate on the Land Use Advisory Committee, and in both fundraising and membership expansion activities of the Trust.

The Hillside Trust was created in 1976 to provide active design, communications, protection, and enhancement of the Greater Cincinnati hillsides. It actively works to help achieve a balance between the competing interests of development and conservation of our remaining hillside land through three broad program areas: research and education, land conservation, and advocacy of responsible land use.

GOP Limited is a Cincinnati-based structural engineering design firm and certified as a Small Business Enterprise (SBE). Wirth joined the firm in 1994 and became a Partner in 2001. She is the first female, non-engineer partner in the long established structural engineering firm, and responsible for the business functions of the firm. Wirth is a Past President of Greater Cincinnati Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) and of American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), Cincinnati Region. She resides in the Mt. Washington neighborhood of Greater Cincinnati.

MISSION  GOP Limited's mission is to provide each client with the highest-quality and most innovative problem-solving structural engineering services available in the Midwest. We consistently deliver those services in effective, efficient ways that make us easy to do business with and respected in our field.