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DECEASED
The section was updated April 11, 2013.
Please note that deaths are reported
as we receive notice of them. Therefore,
alumni dates of death are not always
reported chronologically.
1933
Robert Shaw
an engineer who designed optical equip-
ment for U-2 spy planes, died on Decem-
ber 6, 2012. He was 98 and a resident of
Delray Beach, Fla. He was born to Julia and
Carleton Shaw in Groton, Mass., on July 20,
1914. He was the great-grandson of Julia
Ward Howe, who wrote the “Battle Hymn
of the Republic,” a song he grew to love.
Mr. Shaw entered St. Paul’s School in
1928, following in the footsteps of an uncle
who had served in a leadership position
at the School. He earned high honors in
mathematics and highest honors in phys-
ics, and was regarded as a “fine sturdy
School citizen.”
Mr. Shaw attended Harvard University,
graduating cum laude in 1937. He worked
as an engineer and designer of “super
precise” instruments for Raytheon, Baird
Atomics, and Dover Instruments and
designed optical equipment for U-2
spy planes. He was active in community
affairs in Concord, Mass., where he lived
with his late wife, Cornelia Couch Bailey,
serving on the finance committee and
the conservation commission and vol-
unteering for the Red Cross. He was a
member of Trinity Church, the Concord
Players, and the Concord Country Club.
In the 1980s, he moved to Wenham, Mass.,
where he served on the town conserva-
tion commission.
Mr. Shaw was an avid skier, represent-
ing the United States at the International
Ski Competition in Farellones, Chile, in
1938. He was also a competitive tennis
and golf player and a devoted outdoors-
man. After Cornelia died, Mr. Shaw mar-
ried Ruth Smith. She passed away in
2002. He married Carol Lundy in 2008.
1937—Steuart Lansing Pittman
February 10, 2013
1939—William Goadby Post
March 26, 2013
1942—S. Whitney “Whit” Dickey
February 21, 2013
1944—Robert Oliver Weeks
February 3, 2013
1945—William Coolidge Smith
January 7, 2012
1945—James Montaudevert Waterbury
February 8, 2013
1946—Charles Clapp Demer
March 4, 2013
1946—Howell Hoffman Howard
February 3, 2013
1947—Charles Maury Jones Jr.
January 17, 2013
1947—Einar Ostgaard
Fall 2012
1948—Archibald Douglas III
March 19, 2013
1949—Edward “Ted” Foster Everett
January 31, 2013
1955—Grant Fairbanks Evans
February 13, 2013
1974—Lewis Caldwell Davis
February 15, 2013
Former Staff
Edward Ferman
March 5, 2013
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a note listing a few facts about
the deceased, or an e-mail version
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E-mail information and photos
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In addition to his wife, Mr. Shaw is
survived by two daughters, Gillian Shaw
Kellogg and Susan Winthrop; six grand-
children; and 11 great-grandchildren.
1936
Charles D. Dickey Jr.
passed away
peacefully on
December 9,
2012, at his home
in Scarborough,
Maine. He was 94.
Born January 15,
1918, in New York
City to Charles
Denston (Form
of 1911) and Catherine Dunscomb (Colt)
Dickey, he entered St. Paul School as a
Second Former in 1931.
Mr. Dickey rowed for Shattuck and
played football and ran cross country
for Old Hundred. He was a member of
the Acolyte’s Guild, the Cadmean Liter-
ary Society, the Student Council, and the
Record Committee. In addition to serving
as treasurer of the Library Association
from 1934 to1936, he served as a Sunday
school teacher, Chapel collector, camp
counselor, and supervisor.
The Dickey family has long been sup-
portive of the School, and Mr. Dickey’s
dedication continued throughout his life.
He served in many capacities after gradu-
ation, including as a form agent, regional
representative, and form director. He was
a member of the John Hargate Society.
After graduating from SPS, Mr. Dickey
went on to earn a degree from Yale. Follow-
ing college, he worked briefly for J.P.
Morgan and as a special agent for the FBI
before enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps
in WWII.
“I feel a little like a counselor at the
School camp as the average age here is
20 and a good many never got beyond
2nd year high school,” Mr. Dickey wrote
to SPS Rector Norman Nash in 1943. “I
am crazy about this life and have never
once [regretted] resigning from the FBI,
although I will always be proud of having
been with them.”
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