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Wirth elected to Dress for Success Boutique Advisory Board

CINCINNATI, Ohio - November 9, 2006

The Dress for Success's Boutique Advisory Board of Directors elected Donna S. Wirth, Partner at GOP Limited, to the 4th Street Boutique Advisory Board. Her responsibility is to coordinate the Boutique's renovation.

The 4th Street Boutique is a women's thrift clothing store, opened in 2002 to financially support the Cincinnati Dress for Success program. Volunteers staff the downtown Cincinnati store, offering gently used, upscale clothing to the general public.

Dress for Success is an international, not-for-profit organization founded in 1997 to help economically disadvantaged women find a job and remain employed. It does this by providing programs designed to help the women acquire jobs, retain their positions, and succeed in the mainstream workplace. Each woman receives one suit when she has a job interview and can return for a second suit or separates when she finds work.

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 firm, and responsible for the its business functions. 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 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.