One hundred years later the vision of Miss Augusta Yates and eleven friends continues to thrive at the Wednesday club at the corner of Main at Holbrook Street. Originally, the members met in private homes to share programs, which have expanded over the years to include lecturers, artists, and notable persons for its current membership of over 600 local women. The mission of this group sets out to enrich the lives of its members, raise the standards of local culture, and provide service to the community. 

Civic endeavors have significantly broadened the horizons of its membership and as early as 1902, its social consciousness led to an investigation of the sanitary conditions of Danville’s public school system. During both World Wars, the members volunteered to provide services such as open houses for soldiers passing through Danville and acted as hostesses for USO activities. As the group grew in number, the Wednesday Club purchased its first home in 1922 at 1002 Main Street, now the site of the present Georgian-Revival brick building, which was erected in 1970. 

In 1927, the Club established a Crippled Children’s Clinic to provide relief free or at nominal cost to sufferers in need of orthopedic services. The Club instigated the awareness that Danville needed a public library with an early committee effort. These efforts did not succeed immediately but provided the impetus later developed by the Danville Library Association and involved many members who were instrumental in the eventual creation of the city’s first public library. 

The Club is exemplified by the words of Mrs. Walter Paxton, a charter member and former president: "With a purpose larger than accomplishments, we are working not only for today but for tomorrow...not merely for ourselves, hut for those who are to follow after us. We are organized not to do little things but to do big things and the possibilities of our service are only limited by our strength and our means...a union of force, with the one definite and earnest aim of extending that knowledge which tends toward greater happiness, better citizenship, life more abundant and finer living.”