Peter, Georges

George Peter came to Cornell in 1947 as an electronics technician and in 1960 was asked to help install the radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, where he lived with his family for two years. He returned to Cornell to direct the Research and Development Laboratory of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, which manages the telescope for the National Science Foundation. In 1970 he was instrumental in founding the Cornell Senate, which was disbanded in 1977, and later the University Assembly. He was elected to Cornell's Board of Trustees four times and served on the search committees for two Cornell presidents. Peter was a founder of the Cornell Recreation Club and of the Cornell employee newspaper, now known as Pawprint, for which he wrote a column called Leadership Leads. Prints and Networking, publications for Cornell staff and a member of C.R.C and C.R.A.