Question: Who served as the first president of the organization at which a partner of the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White was a founding member?
Context: Sleepy Hollow Country Club is a historic country club in Scarborough-on-Hudson in Briarcliff Manor, New York.  The club was founded in 1911, and its clubhouse was known as Woodlea, a 140-room Vanderbilt mansion owned by Colonel Elliott Fitch Shepard and his wife Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard.  It was built in 189295 at a cost of $2 million ($ in 2016 ) and was designed by the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White; the estate became a contributing property to the Scarborough Historic District (on the National Register of Historic Places) in 1984. William Rutherford Mead (August 20, 1846 – June 19, 1928) was an American architect who was the "Center of the Office" of McKim, Mead, and White, a noted Gilded Age architectural firm.  The firm's other two founding partners were Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909), and Stanford White (1853–1906). Founded in 1893, the National Sculpture Society (NSS) was the first organization of professional sculptors formed in the United States.  The purpose of the organization was to promote the welfare of American sculptors, although its founding members included several renowned architects.  The founding members included such well known figures of the day as Daniel Chester French, Augustus St. Gaudens, Richard Morris Hunt, and Stanford White as well as sculptors less familiar today, such as Herbert Adams, Paul W. Bartlett, Karl Bitter, J. Massey Rhind, and John Quincy Adams Ward—who served as the first president for the society. The Little Red Schoolhouse, also known as Amherst Day School, is a historic schoolhouse on the campus of Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts.  Designed by the noted academic architect James Kellum Smith of the firm McKim, Mead and White, the building was completed in 1937.  The Georgian Revival-style schoolhouse is of brick, steel and concrete construction, and was built from the ground up to serve preschool children.  Features include built-in wood cubbies in the hallway for storing coats and belongings, toddler-sized bench seats around the periphery of the main meeting room, and windows placed at a low height so that children can look out.  Referring to the schoolhouse in a 1951 publication, former Amherst College President Stanley King wrote, "No building on the Amherst campus is better built." The David N. Dinkins Municipal Building, originally the Municipal Building and then the Manhattan Municipal Building, at 1 Centre Street in Manhattan, New York City, is a 40-story building built to accommodate increased governmental space demands after the 1898 consolidation of the city's five boroughs.  Construction began in 1907 and ended in 1914, marking the end of the City Beautiful movement in New York.  William M. Kendall of the noted architectural firm McKim, Mead & White designed the building, which was the first to incorporate a subway station – the Chambers Street station, served by the trains – into its base. Protection of the Flag Monument is a historic war memorial located in Academy Park at Athens, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.  It was designed and erected between 1900 and 1902, by noted architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, with a sculpture by George Thomas Brewster.  It has a granite pedestal topped by a bronze sculpture group.  The sculpture is of an adult soldier and a young drummer boy.  A commemorative plaque indicates it was dedicated in memory of the soldiers who fought in defense of the flag. The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is an art museum located in Brunswick, Maine.  Included on the National Register of Historic Places, the museum is located in a building on the campus of Bowdoin College designed by the architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White. Stanford White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms.  He designed a long series of houses for the rich, and numerous public, institutional, and religious buildings.  His design principles embodied the "American Renaissance". William Mitchell Kendall (13 February 1856 – 8 August 1941) was an American architect who spent his architectural career with the New York firm McKim, Mead & White, from 1882 until his death in 1941.  The leading American architectural practice at the turn of the century, McKim, Mead & White was renowned for its classical and Renaissance Revival work; dozens of prominent architects began their careers at McKim, Mead & White.  Kendall was closely associated with partner Charles Follen McKim and added a refined delicacy to McKim’s somewhat severe Roman classicism. McKim, Mead & White was a prominent American architectural firm that thrived at the turn of the twentieth century.  The firm's founding partners were Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909), William Rutherford Mead (1846–1928) and Stanford White (1853–1906).  They hired many other architects, partners, associates, designers and draftsmen, who came to prominence during or after their time at the firm.
Answer: John Quincy Adams Ward