The Rho chapter (#17) at Tulane University was installed October 18, 1927. Charter members of the Rho chapter include: Frank Jensen; Herman Kohlmeyer; Phillippe Schaffner; Edmond Salassi; J. Edmund Ullman; George Prichard, Jr.; Michael Debakey; John Mayer; Bennie Cohn; Albert Meyers; Marvel Schilling; Ellis Robbert; Robert Segal; Leon Haas, Jr.; Joseph Fernon, Jr.; Wilbur Green; Carl Alexius; Enoch Pringle, Jr.; George Walne, Jr.; Paul Abramson; R. Lyman Heindel, Jr.; and Marten ten Hoor.