Claude J. Peck, Jr., aged 85, died October 21,2001, in Winnetka, Illinois. He overcame the loss of sight in his left eye at 17 and polio at 21 during a summer bicycling trip in Europe. A 1939 graduate of Yale University, Mr. Peck worked 42 years for Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc. and Inland Steel Company where he was secretary of the Inland Steel-Ryerson Foundation. It funded non-profit organizations involved with education, social services and the arts. After he retired in 1981, Mr. Peck joined the Executive Service Corp. of Chicago as a volunteer consultant. There he continued his involvement with community groups, including Youth Communications, the Highland Park Community Foundation and Piven Theatre Workshop. He loved to read, to make furniture and to garden. A member of the Club since 1994, he presented three papers.