For several years during the 1930s, the academy’s print advertisements featured profile...
began an answer to John Moore Jr.’s questions about Peacock Military Academy or PMA, a now-defunct private school with a lengthy and idiosyncratic history. His father, then-Capt. John Moore Sr., taught Spanish and was one of the military instructors at the school, founded in 1894 in what’s now the Woodlawn area. Always a boys school, it followed a post-Spanish American War trend and went military in 1900, which meant training that for some went above and beyond marching.
As well as school history — early decades were covered here last week — Moore asked for background on the Peacock family.For several years during the 1930s, the academy’s print advertisements featured profile photos of three Peacocks — founder and “president emeritus” Wesley Sr., superintendent Wesley Jr. and commandant Don, captioned “The Peacock Triumvirate,” recalling the Roman political institution of three men closely linked in power.
About five years later, “Professor Peacock,” as Wesley Sr. was known, remarried; with the former Edith Wing, he had three more children — Donaldson “Don” Wing, Dorothy Wing and Margaret Edith. All but Margaret, who married a career Army officer, went into administration at the school, often identified as “family-operated.”Edith Wing Peacock, an active clubwoman, also was an accomplished horsewoman and instrumental in developing the school’s equestrian program.
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