1980-81: Gail Frank, Board President
- Creation of workshops where speakers could talk on a professional yet candid level
- Goal to encourage more production work in New York — for the industry and the women within it
- Membership recruitment of top-level executives and craftspeople
- Creation of NYWIF logo by member Elinor Bunin
- First Christmas Luncheon, honoring Pauline Kael at Barbetta’s restaurant, with a full 75% of the membership in attendance
- First young professional seminar
- Computerization of mailing list and membership records
- By 1981, membership had grown to 160
