PETERS, HARRY ALFRED (4 Aug. 1879-15 May 1961) doubled the enrollment, solidified the finances, and created a new campus for UNIVERSITY SCHOOL during his term as headmaster (1908-47, afterwards, headmaster emeritus). Under his administration, the school established its reputation as one of the area's top PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
PAYER, ERNST (1904-April 1981) was a prominent Cleveland modernist architect. He was born in Vienna, Austria, and received his doctorate at the University of Vienna in 1927 before going to study with Josef Hoffmann and Walter Gropius to receive his master’s degree in Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1938. Payer worked in New York until the end of World War II as an architect.