EMP-41 women get together for a recent “Girls’ Night Out.” Anita Tang hosted this event, attended by Chari Aweidah, Colleen O’Connell, Linda Ditoro, Marian Mulchrone and Mollie Dierckman.

EMP-41

EMP-41 ended 2002 with our fall get together at "W" and a growing crowd. We had a great time — and we're looking forward to getting together April 17 for our annual Spring Thing in Oakbrook. There are also rumors of a Prom 2 for our five-year Reunion in 2005. Volunteers should contact Cheryl Gidley or Dave Kahl.

While teams are still meeting informally, EMP-41 women are staying in touch through "Girls' Nights Out." Anita Tang hosted a recent night, attended by Chari Aweidah, Colleen O'Connell, Linda Ditoro, Marian Mulchrone and Mollie Dierckman.

Anita Tang reports that she is now managing director of Royal Roots Global Inc., a management and investment consultancy specializing in China-related business, www.roots.net. She is coauthor of "Asymmetric Information and Privatization in the Chinese Banking Industry," a research paper included in the University of Cambridge Royal Institute of International Affairs Library. It was presented in fall 2002 at the International Conference on the Global Economy, hosted by the Athenian Policy Forum at the Illinois Economics Association's 32nd annual meeting.

Cheryl Gidley and her husband Brian have formed Gidley Consulting, offering finance, marketing and management consulting to professional service, nonprofit, municipal and business to business clients seeking access to senior executives for complex matters, large-scale project management and free-lance services (www.gidleyconsulting.com). Cheryl was featured on a client service panel at the national Legal Marketing Association Conference in San Francisco in March, and has been elected to the Board of the National Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, a nonprofit that touched 140 million lives in 2002. She continues on the board of the Business Marketing Association, Chicago.