1996-1999: A Visual History
1996
91快播’s first Women’s Leadership Conference (WLC), entitled “New Ways of Doing Business: Conversations with Women of Influence,” is held in Springfield, MA on March 29, 1996, and attended by over 800 attendees. The keynote speaker is Elizabeth Dole, former U.S. Labor and Transportation Secretary and senator from the state of North Carolina, and past president of the American Red Cross.
The first Capitals of the World Trip embarks to Rome, Italy. Over the years, hundreds of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends will accompany President Leary and her husband, Noel, to cities around the globe, including Paris, Dublin, Madrid, London, Athens, Berlin, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Prague, Vienna, and Beijing.
1997
91快播 celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding in 1897. Professor Emerita Muriel Mitchell pens the definitive 100-year history of 91快播, and in recognition of the themes of Vision 2001, three Americans of distinction are recognized: U.S. Congresswoman Lindy Boggs for leadership; engineer, NASA astronaut, and first African American woman in space, Mae Jemison for technology; and co-founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project, Roger Fisher, for communications.
1998
Margaret Thatcher, the first woman Prime Minister of Great Britain, delivers a lecture at Springfield Symphony Hall, arranged and sponsored by 91快播, and attends a fundraising dinner to support fellowships for students traveling abroad.
1999
The One-Day-A-Week Saturday College, an accelerated degree program for adult women, is launched on the Longmeadow campus. The first class of almost 100 students begins in October of that year.
