Marjorie Kendig was one of the founders of the Institute of General Semantics in 1938 in Chicago.
According to Read (1976), Kendig had "great ability as an administrator to organize, to plan, to budget, to assist in innumerable ways in launching it as the Educational Director, made it possible for Korzybski to carry out his work as lecturer and writer.
He was able to give many seminars throughout the year at this new center for his work, and also wrote quite prolifically.
'[2] Jointly with Elwood Murray she programmed the 1942 and 1950 congresses in general semantics held at University of Denver.
[3] In the late 1950s she was among the first members of the Society for General Systems Research.