Born in Scotland, John M. Shaw came to the United States as a boy. He was only fourteen when he first went to work, but he continued his education and attended night courses at the University of Pennsylvania. Shaw was employed both in retail business and in several public utilities before joining the then Information Department of AT&T in 1930. The next year he went to Washington as general information manager of The Chesapeake and [UNK] Telephone Companies. Five years later, he was named assistant vice president in the public relations department of the New York Telephone Company. Returning to AT&T in 1944, Mr. Shaw, as assistant vice president in the Public Relations Department, had charge of radio, motion picture, open house, and public lecture and exhibit activities. He was named assistant vice president of the Merchandising (now Marketing) Department when the new department was created in 1955. Mr. Shaw retired from the Bell System in 1959 to pursue his scholarly interest in poems relating to childhood and the books in which they have appeared.
