While still in New York, in 1917 he was the founding president of the East Coast chapter of the Motion Picture Directors Association.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

John Dube, its first president, and poet and author Sol Plaatje are among its founding members.

in Chemistry, 1974 ), founding president of Vassar College Milo Parker Jewett, founder and first president of Bates College Oren B. Cheney, founder and first president of Kenyon College Philander Chase, first professor of Wabash College Caleb Mills, and former president of Union College Charles Augustus Aiken.

Alexandre Noghès, Anthony's father, was founding president of the ACM, originally named Sport Vélocipédique Monégasque.

In 1890, Cantor was instrumental in founding the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung and chaired its first meeting in Halle in 1891, where he first introduced his diagonal argument ; his reputation was strong enough, despite Kronecker's opposition to his work, to ensure he was elected as the first president of this society.

* 2006 — Joseph B. Platt ( founding president of Harvey Mudd College )

Indonesia's founding president, Sukarno, envisaged Jakarta as a great international city, and instigated large government-funded projects with openly nationalistic and modernist architecture.

Its founder and president is Richard Heidmann, a space propulsion engineer, who participated in the founding convention of the Mars Society in August 1998 and is a member of the Mars Society Steering Committee.

It was led by founding president Hammer DeRoburt.

Raymond was president from its founding until February 2005.

Since the founding of the United States, the power of the president and the federal government have grown substantially and each modern president, despite possessing no formal legislative powers beyond signing or vetoing congressionally passed bills, is largely responsible for dictating the legislative agenda of his party and the foreign and domestic policy of the United States.

In 1911 the cornerstone was laid for the Institute's first building, the Administration Building, now known as Lovett Hall in honor of the founding president.

Goldberg was a founding member and the first president of the National Cartoonists Society, and he is the namesake of the Reuben Award, which the organization awards to the Cartoonist of the Year.

And Jones fired the two men that brought previous success to Dallas: its founding president Tex Schramm and its famed personnel man Gil Brandt.

Tanzania's first president, Julius Nyerere also was one of the founding members of the Non-Aligned Movement, and, during the Cold War era, Tanzania played an important role in regional and international organizations, such as the Non-Aligned Movement, the front-line states, the G-77, and the Organisation of African Unity ( OAU ) ( now the African Union ).

Former Bulgarian Foreign Minister and Atlantic Club of Bulgaria founding president Solomon Passy owned a famous Trabant, which he used to take NATO Secretaries General Manfred Wörner, George Robertson and Jaap de Hoop Scheffer for a ride.

Bo Hi Pak, the chief aide of church founder and leader Sun Myung Moon, was the founding president and the founding chairman of the board.

Bevan Morris, president of Maharishi University of Management ( then called " Maharishi International University "), was the founding chairman of the party, which was founded April 22, 1992, in Fairfield, Iowa.

* September 7, 1821 – The Republic of Gran Colombia ( a federation covering much of present day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador ) is established, with Simón Bolívar as the founding President and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.

Cuba is currently a lead country on the United Nations Human Rights Council, and is a founding member of the organization known as the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, a member of the Latin American Integration Association and the United Nations.

Rogers is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his pioneering research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association in 1956.

A cornerstone of Indonesia's contemporary foreign policy is its participation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ), of which it was a founding member in 1967 with Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines.

He also was a member of the Washington Science Fiction Association and was involved in the founding of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society.

Nonetheless, Malaysia was active in the opposition to apartheid that saw South Africa quit the Commonwealth in 1961, and was a founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) in 1967 and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( OIC ) in 1969, with the Tunku as its first Secretary-General in 1971.

Malaysia is a founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( now the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ).

Mao was a founding member of the United Student Association and in July 1919 began production of a weekly radical magazine, Hsiang River Review ( Hsiang-chiang P ' ing-lun ).

The Philippines is a founding and active member of the United Nations since its inception on October 24, 1945 and is a founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ).

The nation is currently actively engaging with regional neighbors in Southeast Asia through the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( as a founding member ) with the intention of strengthening regional harmony, stability, and prosperity.

Stanford is a founding member of the Association of American Universities.

Singapore supports the concept of Southeast Asian regionalism and plays an active role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ), of which Singapore is a founding member.

* 8 August 1967-Singapore becomes a founding member of Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ).

St. John Fisher College is a founding member of the Empire 8 Athletic Association and competes with other full member schools: Alfred University, Elmira College, Hartwick College, Ithaca College, Nazareth College, Rochester Institute of Technology, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Utica College.

It is one of the original eight Public Ivy universities and is one of the founding members of the Association of American Universities.

Incorporated as The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn is one of 14 founding members of the Association of American Universities.

Yale became a founding member of the Association of American Universities in 1900.

SAIC has been accredited since 1936 by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design since 1944 ( charter member ), and by the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design ( AICAD ) since its founding in 1991.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

Portugal is a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ), and the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ).

Portugal, during this period, was never an outcast, and was a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) and the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ).

Ring is the co-founder and past president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies ( IANDS ) and is the founding editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies.