Marshall’s Psi Chi chapter was installed in 1948 at the Frederick Hotel, at a time when Marshall University was known as Marshall College.  The college wouldn’t officially be a university until the Spring of 1961.  The faculty advisor at the time of the chapter’s installation was the current chair of the Psychology Department, Dr. Kenneth K. Loemker.

The initial officers were as follows:

President – Calvin Dixon
Vice President – Joyce Greenfield
Secretary – Richard F. Patterson
Treasurer – Keith C. Wright

Members:

John R. Taylor
Jack E. Wilcox
Dorothy N. Moore
Oswald Peters
James E. Heenan
John F. Ryan
Donald Schorr
Janice Callaway
Jerry D. Wright
Kellam Prickett
John J. Kearns
Sloney Brumfield
Robert F. Corder