Members of the first board were: Jack Ragsdale, Ben Day, Harold Armistead, Remsen Bauknight, S.M. Cassels, Lawrence Lenhardt, W.A. Robinson, Julien Wyatt, R.C. McCall, R.P. Jeanes, Ben Hagood and H.E. Russell.

The first Chamber office occupied the upstairs portion of the Frierson Drug building on Main Street. It would be the first of a multitude of homes for the Chamber during the next 50 years.

Vivian Hurt was the Chamber of Commerce's first secretary.  Jack merely gave Vivian a call one day in 1947 and asked her if she wanted to help get the Chamber off the ground. The job requirements were simple - sit in the office, open mail and answer the phone.  Soon, the Chamber had its first full-time Director, C.S. Bryant of Tulsa, Oklahoma, but his tenure was short lived.

The next Chamber Director was Polk Carter. Through the hard work of Carter and several other Chamber members in the early 1950's, an Easley landmark was constructed. The grain elevators were erected on  Folger Avenue, opposite the Chamber of Commerce's current offices. The granary was owned by the Dixie Farmers Cooperative Association.  The two silos now serve as the only representatives of the Easley skyline.

Carolyn Hunnicutt would become the next secretary after John McCravy and others filled in as volunteers. She is credited with holding the Chamber together for years. She was a mainstay as Directors came and went and office locations changed.

One of the more challenging office locations was the old one-room police station that was situated on the north side of the train tracks at the intersection of North 1st and Main Streets. When a train passed, the whole building would shake.  Sometime, while on the phone with a local businessman or someone seeking information about Easley, Carolyn would have to summarily hang up. The quick explanation would be "There's a train coming. I'll have to call you back".

The office did have the luxury of its own restroom. The problem was you could hardly fit inside to shut the door. The joke was that you met yourself going in and out of the door.

After the railroad "hut", the Chamber moved to offices in the Colony Theater and then to Pendleton Street near the current location of Lu Bagwell Interiors.