The 1990s thus far have been industrious, prosperous years for the Women's League, which has responded to contemporary women's lifestyles while maintaining the old-fashioned hospitality for which it is known. In 1993, Chair Cleo Schimmel wrote:

The League is reaching out in unprecedented ways. Through careful planning and hard work demonstrated by past leadership, we are poised and ready to define a new and more vital role in community life. Our volunteer pool has increased, revenues are up, new programs have been implemented, ongoing projects have been given more support and encouragement, and our visibility has increased.

These years have been a period of unprecedented network building. The League reached out across campus and to the greater community to initiate and co-sponsor common interest programs with other campus organizations. For example, the League joined with the MIT Medical Department and Harvard Medical School, to present a Symposium on Abuse and Violence in Relationships for the entire university community. As a result of this symposium information racks were installed in some women's lounges on campus and at Lincoln Laboratory. They are maintained by the League office.

In this networking spirit the League also invited representatives from several Institute departments to give brief talks and answer questions at the fall newcomer receptions. While in a lighter vein, the League invited the MIT Athletic Department, to join with them in sponsoring "The Sporting Woman" art exhibit. Prints collected by MIT artist Sally Fox depicting women in athletics through the ages along with photographs of MIT women's athletics were hung in the MIT Museum's Compton Gallery.

Ongoing service programs continued to be a vital component of League activities. The Furniture Exchange, with ample parking on Brookline Street, became even more accessible to students and extended its services to students from Harvard, Boston, and Suffolk Universities. The added clientele and expanded floor space for more furniture greatly increased sales and profits. In 1994, these profits were transferred from the MIT Student Loan Fund to the MIT Women's League Scholarship Fund which generates annual partial scholarships for three women undergraduates.

Today's English Conversation Classes consist of six or seven classes of twelve to sixteen students. Eighty-five to one hundred students per term study English at three ability levels.

HISP, which along with its predecessor Host Family Program had successfully found host families for foreign students for almost thirty years, outgrew the capacity of the single-staff League office. Interest did not wane, however, and for a while Kate Baty ran the program from her home. In 1991 it was taken over by the Institute and Kate continues as its director. The June 1993 MIT International Hospitality Guide shows the value of this program to all involved. A host wrote: "...sharing our culture and customs gives our celebrations greater meaning;" a student wrote: "...my host family gives me a sense of security...I can always talk to my host Mom;" and a parent wrote: "...until our son came in contact with you he missed a feeling of family atmosphere. You have been a marvelous friend."

More recent programs, such as outings initiated by League chair Dee Ippen, have attracted new and younger women with walking tours of the MIT art collections and the Newbury Street galleries, as well as local museum visits. The "Focus on the Arts" luncheons showcased MIT artists who presented and discussed their work. The popular January Museum of Fine Arts tour and luncheon initiated by Anne Berg in 1981 continued to delight participants. Evening dinner programs, featuring dynamic women such as Jill Ker Conway and Diana Chapman Walsh provided opportunities to include friends and spouses in stimulating evenings.

The League marked its 80th anniversary in 1993-1994. To launch the year of celebration members of the MIT community were invited to participate in a competition to create a wall hanging that would reflect the League's eighty years as an integral part of the MIT community. All entries were exhibited at the MIT Museum, and the winning entry by Susan Podshadley now hangs in the Emma Rogers Room. Another 80th celebration was Kay Stratton's 80th birthday. To honor her contributions to MIT, the League established the Catherine N. Stratton Lecture Fund to underwrite annual lectures on social and political issues. The existing Aging Successfully health seminars were folded into this funded series. The anniversary year concluded with gala CABARET in Walker Memorial at which League members and friends enjoyed an excellent tapas-style dinner and musical entertainment by some seventy-five of MIT's most talented musicians.