Pioneering professor Gordon Shaw

Gordon C. Shaw, BA’49Gordon C. Shaw, BA’49, one of the founding faculty members of Queen’s MBA program, passed away May 7 in Toronto. He joined the School in 1960 after working in research for the CPR and obtaining his MSc from MIT’s Sloan School. He taught Statistics and Operations Research in the MBA program, which launched in 1960. His former student (later Professor and Dean) John Gordon, MBA’63, recalls, “It was a tough area [of study], since Prof. Shaw came back to Queen’s from MIT with high standards. His were not the most popular courses, but I survived both and learned a great deal working for him as a research assistant. We used the first computer at Queens.”

After leaving Queen’s in 1966, Dr. Shaw joined York U’s Schulich School and concurrently pursued a PhD in Industrial Engineering (U of T ‘68). He retired from York as Professor Emeritus in 1993, settled in Thornhill, and became deeply involved with Muskoka’s Steamship and Historical Society, just as he had with the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes while in Kingston. He was proud to be an operator of the Muskoka heritage steamship Segwun. Dr. Shaw also served terms on Queen’s Board of Trustees and the Theological College’s Board of Management.