the following decades. Peck maintained close ties with the Society of Women Engineers throughout her career and was the National Chair of Student Affairs. After her parents successfully lobbied to admit the first women into Georgia Tech, Peck complimented this victory with setting up a SWE chapter and support network on campus. By 1962 she was named national vice president of the organization. Later In 1962, as she was finishing her doctoral dissertation, Peck found a job as a propellant and aerospace engineer for Rocketdyne Corporation and United States Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. She developed solid fuel and engines which are still used in the space program today. Since she was already a mother of four children by that time, this attracted the interest of journalists and resulted in a 1962 interview for Life magazine. Soon after their marriage, her husband, Jordan Brown Peck, Jr., became an Episcopal priest. She followed him when he decided to do some missionary work in Guam. They would remain there for eleven years. During this period, she would manage to become the first woman dean of the College of Business and Applied Technology at the University of Guam, and would help them create numerous 4-year programs. She was also a chairman on its board. She then became the founder of the Community Career College at the University of Guam. This was the 2 year associate degrees program of the university, which otherwise offered four year degrees at the undergraduate level in its other undergraduate departments. This school was moved to Guam Community College in November 1977, just after that school was established; making up the higher education component of that newly created institution. In 1982 she was selected to be the President of Polk Community College, now Polk State College, and she served in this position until 1997, which made her the first female president of a public institution of higher learning in Florida. Peck was the first woman to be named president of any of Florida's 26 community colleges. In 2005, Peck received the National Community Service Award from the Daughters of the American Revolution organization. During her tenure, Polk Community College added the Lakeland campus and established a foundation which, by the time she retired, had $5.5 million for scholarships and college equipment. In 1995 Peck was awarded the "She Knows Where She's Going" award by Girls, Inc. and later