The stainless steel handled variant, the Zena Star peeler, was the model popularized by legendary New York City street hawker Joe Ades.
Following retirement from playing, Peeler returned to college and finished his degree at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia.
Fred Harman's Bronc Peeler was a Western comic strip character who was a precursor to another comic strip drawn by Harman, the more successful Red Ryder.
Bronc Peeler introduced the Navaho youth, Little Beaver, who continued as an important supporting character in Red Ryder.
Recent conductors, stage directors and vocal faculty include Alberto Zedda, Joseph Rescigno, Candace Evans, Francois Loup, Dejan Miladinovic, Ubaldo Fabbri, Julia Faulkner, Mary Anne Scott, Karen Peeler, John DeHaan, Kathy Kraulik, Brooks Hafey, Robert Breault, Emily Williams, Jeffrey Price and Dennis Jesse.