Two other Wenham landmarks, the Tea House and the Wenham Museum, have their roots in the Wenham Village Improvement Society.

The Tea House and Exchange has continued through the years as the successful fundraising arm of the Wenham Village Improvement Society.

In 1921, the Historical Committee of the Wenham Village Improvement Society encouraged the society to buy the 17th-century Claflin-Richards house at the center of town.

The Wenham Historical Association and Museum became independent from the Village Improvement Society and underwent a major renovation and expansion in 1997.

Wenham was also a member of the first professional organization dedicated to aeronautics, the Royal Aeronautical Society of the United Kingdom.

Francis Herbert Wenham ( 1824 – 1908 ), a Council Member of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, addressed these issues by inventing, designing and operating the first enclosed wind tunnel in 1871.

The Society sponsored the first wind tunnel in 1870-71, designed by Wenham and Browning.

Birdsey Northrop of Connecticut was responsible for globalizing it when he visited Japan in 1883 and delivered his Arbor Day and Village Improvement message.

In 1879, the literary and debating society was formed, and in 1883 the Village Improvement Society.

The Kenmore Village Improvement Society led the resistance to this, citing the village's police and fire response times and its fiscal responsibility as reasons to keep it a separate entity.

* Kenmore Village Improvement Society

On April 3, 2012, Village Business Improvement District Director Kathy Ehley defeated Alderman Peter Donegan to become mayor.

Beaver Park ( Village Improvement Society )

A non-profit Village Improvement Society, dating from 1910, currently owns and maintains eight parks.

* Andover is home to the second oldest land preservation society in the country, the Andover Village Improvement Society ( AVIS ), which controls over.

Two members of the Village Board, the Mayor and a Trustee, are members of the Business Improvement District ( BID ) Board of Directors ( http :// www. websterbid. com ) and the Farmers Market Committee.

Some rusticators also formed " Village Improvement Societies " which constructed hiking trails and walking paths connecting the Island's villages to its interior mountains.

The Church Wellesley Village Business Improvement Area was established October 2002

The business along Queen have formed a Business Improvement Association under the name of " Parkdale Village.

* Parkdale BIA The Parkdale Village Business Improvement Area

* Liberty Village Business Improvement Area

The businesses along Roncesvalles have formed the Roncesvalles Village Business Improvement Area and hold an annual Polish Festival.

The Roncesvalles Village Business Improvement Area holds an annual Roncesvalles Village Polish Festival each fall, closing Roncesvalles Avenue to vehicular traffic.

* Andover Village Improvement Society, the oldest conservation society in the eastern United States

Representatives stated that Stewart was seeking to “ honor the town ” and the new furniture line was “... paying homage to this beautiful region .” The pending trademark was contested by the Katonah Village Improvement Society, and Katonah Architectural Hardware along with support from the Ramapough Mountain Indians who foresaw legal conflict should Stewart succeed in trademarking the name for her furniture line.

( the Avonlea Village Improvement Society ), which tries to improve ( with questionable results ) the Avonlea landscape.

The Village hosted the first racially integrated night club in the United States, when the nightclub Café Society was opened in 1938 at 1 Sheridan Square by Barney Josephson.

* Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

* Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

The Harmony Society church in Old Economy Village | Old Economy Village, Pennsylvania.

Grotto ( far left ) and statue of Harmonia ( mythology ) | Harmonia in the Harmony Society gardens in Old Economy Village | Old Economy Village, Pennsylvania.

* Old Economy Village museum in Old Economy, Pennsylvania, administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, interpreting the history of the Harmony Society.

News of the riot spread quickly throughout Greenwich Village, fueled by rumors that it had been organized by the Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panthers, or triggered by " a homosexual police officer whose roommate went dancing at the Stonewall against the officer's wishes ".

Some Shaker sites have become museums, including Hancock Shaker Village in Hancock, Massachusetts ; Enfield Shaker Museum in Enfield, New Hampshire ; the North Family in New Lebanon, New York ( Mount Lebanon Shaker Village ; photos at Mount Lebanon Shaker Society ), Harvard, Massachusetts ( Fruitlands ); and the Pleasant Hill community in Kentucky.

* Pawnee Indian Village Museum ; A museum featuring the excavated floor of a large 1820s Pawnee earth lodge and associated artifacts, Kansas State Historical Society

Statue of Harmonia in the Harmony Society gardens in Old Economy Village | Old Economy Village, Pennsylvania.

Perhaps most significantly, the band's acclaimed 1968 concept album The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society gave an affectionate embrace to " Merry England " nostalgia and advocated for the preservation of traditional English country village and hamlet life.

The cover for their 1968 album Village Green Preservation Society was photographed on Parliament Hill, with Highgate as the backdrop.

The beautifully refirbished building stands at 6511 Kane Avenue, and is home to the Village of Hodgkins Historical Society.

File: Wilmette Historical Society ( Gross Point Village Hall ). jpg | Gross Point Village Hall, now the Willmette Historical Society

Upper Iowa University participates in the North Central Association ( NCA ) Academic Quality Improvement Program ( AQIP ), has a UIU chapter of the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society, and 165 student athletes were honored in 2010 for academic excellence.

In 1663 the Invisible College became the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, and the charter of incorporation granted by Charles II of England, named Boyle a member of the council.

The oldest association in the United Kingdom similar to the YMCA was founded in Scotland in 1824 as Glasgow Young Men's Society for Religious Improvement.

In 1854, she co-founded the Women Society for the Improvement of Prisoners ( Fruntimmersällskapet för fångars förbättring ) together with Mathilda Foy, Maria Cederschiöld, Betty Ehrenborg and Emilia Elmblad.

In 1662 Charles II of England signed a Royal Charter which created the " Royal Society of London ", then " Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge ".

At the same time, the Prussian Verein zur Beförderung des Gewerbefleißes ( Society for the Improvement of Business Diligence / Industriousness ) offered a prize for the mastery of the process and unsurprisingly, Dr E. A.

* International Society for Performance Improvement.

Improvement of the slum housing conditions, amongst the worst in the capital, was first undertaken by St Pancras Council in 1906 at Goldington Buildings, at the junction of Pancras Road and Royal College Street, and continued on a larger scale by the St Pancras House Improvement Society ( subsequently the St Pancras and Humanist Housing Association, the present owner of Goldington Buildings ) which was established in 1924.

He was a member of many organizations and societies, including Anti-Slavery Society for the protection of Human Rights ; Phi Beta Sigma fraternity ( Alpha Chapter and Mu Chapter ); West African Students ' Union ; Onitsha Improvement Union ; Zik ’ s Athletic Club ; Ekine Sekiapu Society of Buguma, Kalabari ; St. John ’ s Lodge of England ; Royal Economic Society ; Royal Anthropological Institute ; British Association for the Advancement of Science ; American Society of International Law ; American Anthropological Association ; American Political Science Association ; American Ethnological Society ; Amateur Athletic Association of Nigeria ; Nigerian Swimming Association, Nigerian Boxing Board of Control ; Nigerian Cricket Association ; Ibo State Union ; Nigerian Table Tennis Association ; Nigeria Olympic Committee and British Empire and Commonwealth Games Association.