Psychology adjunct faculty member dies

Adjunct faculty member Phillip Summers, 74, died Sunday at IU Health Hospital in Bloomington after suffering a heart attack, the IU Police Department confirmed Monday.

Summers was a faculty member in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and he taught the Introduction to Psychology class, P101, said James Craig, director of undergraduate instruction for the department.

Summers was attending a 2 p.m. board meeting at the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity house at 1720 N. Jordan Ave., and reportedly experienced chest pains and difficulty breathing by about 2:30 p.m., IUPD Lieut. Craig Munroe said.

An ambulance arrived shortly after and transported Summers to IU Health Hospital. He was pronounced dead at 3:10 p.m. Sunday from cardiac arrest, Munroe said.

Summers was president of Vincennes University from 1970 to 2001 and after retiring, joined the faculty of IU's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.

Summers served as national president of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity from 1992 to 1994 and was named Mr. Pi Kappa Phi in 2003, according to the national fraternity's website. He was also involved in the IU chapter and house, where he was attending Sunday's meeting, Interfraternity Council President Sean Jordan said.

Summers earned bachelor of science and master of science degrees at IU and a Ph.D at Indiana State University. He was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 1996.

— Hannah Smith contributed to this report.