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Born: 7/2/1909, Died: 3/7/1998 Landscape architect Frederick Peck was born in Wayne, PA, the son of Frank C. and Louise Gunster Peck, and attended Germantown High School and Haverford College before earning a bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in 1933. Peck began his private landscape architecture practice after graduation. During World War II, he served as a captain in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Among his projects during the war was the design the a new army, air, and naval base at the Port of Spain, Trinidad.In 1945, Peck returned to Penn as a lecturer in landscape architecture and continued in that position through 1952. He also taught at the University of Georgia and at the Barnes Foundation in Lower Merion. Peck was a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and of the board of trustees of several Philadelphia organizations, including the Chestnut Hill Hospital, the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society, Springside School, and the Friends of the Wissahickon. He was given the Buckley Medal of the Garden Club of America in 1964.
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