Robert W. McCurdy, who then was serving as the Director of Student Activities at Carnegie Mellon, led the meeting with the help of Clifford C. Wise.
Following his tenure, Sam Orr commissioned the WPIHA for one season before handing the reigns over to Jack McKinnon, who served as Commissioner from 1975 to 1979.
Kaleina remained the league's Commissioner from 1979 to 2002, during which time the WPCHA and Western Pennsylvania saw its first big growth of college hockey.
Under the guidance of new Commissioner Charles R. Kuzniewski II, the league expanded into Ohio and New York, adding to the existing teams in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
The CHE adopted four women's teams who had withdrawn from a different league due to a shared desire to solidify their programs and increase their competitiveness nationally.
Together, those teams and the CHE set out to grow the sport for female athletes at the collegiate club level in the eastern US.
Behind Fryer's leadership, that mission quickly became a reality, as the CHE hosted 10 women's teams at the start of the 2017-18 season, despite the loss of one founding member to a higher division of play.
But the CHE shows no signs of slowing down, as it continues to grow and promote the great game of ice hockey at colleges and universities throughout the eastern United States.