CLASS OF 1904

William Thomas Shaw died February 26 in Middleboro, Mass., of pulmonary tuberculosis, after a long illness.

He was born in Middleboro, May 6, 1880, his parents being Ebenezer A. and Betsey S, (Dunham) Shaw. His preparation for college was obtained at the local high school, under Walter Sampson '86. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and a baseball player of renown, filling the positions of first base and pitcher on the varsity nine.

After graduation he entered the Thayer School, and for some months after his graduation in 1906 was in the service of the state of Massachusetts in the office of the Charles River Basin Commission. From November, 1906, to December, 1908, he was engaged on new construction for the Cumberland Valley Railroad, in southern Pennsylvania. After several months of furlough on account of the financial depression, he became in May, 1909, an assistant engineer for the Boston Elevated Railway on the Cambridge Subway. In July, 1911, he was compelled to give up work by the encroachments of disease, against which he had since been fighting a losing fight.

June 30, 1910, he was married to Madeleine R., daughter of William Scott and Mary E. (Bryant) Fleming of Greencastle, Pa., who survives him. They have had no children.

Mr. Shaw was an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers and the Thayer Society of Engineers. He was also connected with the First Congregational church of Middleboro, the Masons, and the Sons of Veterans.