Hungarian Heartbeats in America: A Tribute to Yolanda Hall in Half Notes, a staged reading by Mary Bonnett, was put on at the Gala at Roosevelt University on March 14, 2002.

Yolanda (Bobby) Hall, the major founder of the Women and Labor History Project, which later became the Working Women’s History Project, and a lifetime activist for social justice, was awarded the Mother Jones Award. The Keynote Speaker was Margaret Blackshere, President, Illinois AFL-CIO.