John M. Peacock ’46

John died Aug. 17, 2022.

Born in Cleveland in 1925, John and his family moved to Flanders, N.J., shortly after, where he and his older brother David ’46 grew up on a dairy farm. John entered Princeton at 16 years old. He enlisted in the Navy V-12 program and was commissioned in 1945.

After war service, John returned to Princeton and graduated with an engineering degree in 1947. He and his brother returned to the family farm.

In 1953, he returned to engineering, holding key positions at Bell Laboratories. In 1971, John transferred to the AT&T headquarters, where he was involved with setting development priorities for Bell Labs and managing the introduction of new technology and network services into the Bell operating company networks.

John retired from AT&T in 1981 at age 55, at which point he and wife Meg spent a two-year “sabbatical” sailing in the Bahamas. He then took up a new career as an international consultant in telecom technology and management, working in nine countries.

John is survived by Meg, son John Jr., daughter Maggie ’85 and her husband Todd, and three grandchildren. We will miss this extraordinairy engineer and loyal Princetonian at class reunions.