In Memoriam

Mary Todd Shaw, Cls 42, of Charlotte, N.C., on Dec. 20. Shaw was one of the first women to attend Georgia Tech as part of the Manpower Act under the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service. According to her obituary, she went on to become a draftswoman for the U.S. War Department during World War II. Working more

1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s 1930s Ernest Howard Atkinson Sr., ME 35, of Atlanta, on Feb. 18. Fulton Metal Bed Company. Field engineer, Lord Manufacturing Company. Son: Ernest H. Atkinson Jr., ME 68, MS NE 70. James H. Morgan, Arch 34, of Swainsboro, Ga., on March 8. Army (Capt.). World War II. Georgia Power Company. Owner more

James Paul McKay, AE 94, of New Orleans, on Nov. 5. In an obituary printed in the New Orleans Advocate, he was described as “the kindest man on earth,” who “fly-fished streams in the Smoky Mountains, ate mussels in Paris, sunburned in Bora Bora, produced plays in Atlanta and second-lined every chance he got.” McKay more

Richard A. Parks, Arch 43, of Atlanta, on Dec. 14. Naval officer, World War II. At the time of his death, he was the resident artist and last living charter member of the Georgia Ornithological Society. Parks was also a member of the Atlanta Bird Club, the American Ornithologist’s Union, the Wilson Ornithological Society, the more