Chandler remained in the Senate for several months after his election as commissioner because he wanted to cast his vote on the Bretton Woods Monetary Agreement and the Charter of the United Nations.

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill during the meeting that would result in the Atlantic Charter, precursor to the Bretton Woods system.

Ullmann was a United States delegate to the United Nations Charter meeting at San Francisco and to the Bretton Woods Conference as Harry Dexter White's assistant.

At Spring Woods High School, Clemens played baseball for longtime head coach Charles Maiorana and also starred in football and basketball.

Lionel Robbins, former head of the economics department at the London School of Economics, who had many heated debates with Keynes in the 1930s, had this to say after observing Keynes in early negotiations with the Americans while drawing up plans for Bretton Woods:

In the United States, these included the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1892, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1930, Virginia Institute of Marine Science in 1938, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, and the School of Oceanography at University of Washington.

In 1897, Stein spent the summer in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, studying embryology at the Marine Biological Laboratory, followed by two years at Johns Hopkins Medical School.

Woods Caperton also served seventeen years as a member of the Caldwell Independent School District and was a member too of the Burleson County Hospital District.

She portrayed Elle Woods, a fashion merchandising major who decides to become a law student in order to follow her ex-boyfriend to Harvard Law School.

The bustling economy also led to establishing several institutes of higher education: Saint Mary-of-the Woods Institute ( now Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College ), John Covert's Terre Haute Female College, Indiana State Normal School ( now Indiana State University ), Terre Haute School of Industrial Science ( now Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ) and Coates College for Women.

)-University In The Woods, Edith Macy Training School, Edith Macy Girl Scout National Center and since 1982, Edith Macy Conference Center.

Northeast of the Golden Triangle is a neighborhood known as Saratoga Woods, a small community located behind Prospect High School north of Cox.

* West Woods Elementary School

The library's Board of Commissioners hired Patricia Woods, former school librarian of Sussex Technical High School, to serve as the Selbyville library director in July 2012.

Five forest preserves within the Lake County Forest Preserve District are located within village boundaries: including Old School Forest Preserve, Grainger Woods Conservation Preserve, MacArthur Woods, Captain Daniel Wright Woods and the former home ( and grounds ) of Adlai E. Stevenson II.

The Lake County Forest Preserve District maintains five forest preserves within Village Boundaries, including Old School, Grainger Woods, McArthur Woods, Captain Daniel Wright Woods and Adlai Stevenson Historic Home.

* Washington Woods Elementary School ( Grades K-4 )

* Waldon Woods Elementary School ( 10301 Thrift Road, Clinton )

* Glenarden Woods Elementary School

The Woods Hole School is the home of the Children's School of Science, Inc.

Herbison Woods School ( 5th and 6th Grade )