Preliminary Guide to the Charles Gardner Shaw Papers, 1940-1983

Dr. Charles Gardner Shaw (1917-1998) served as a professor, and later a chairman, in the Department of Plant Pathology at Washington State University from 1947 to 1983. Dr. Shaw earned his B.S. degree from Ohio Wesleyan College in 1938, his Master of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1947, and his Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Wisconsin in 1949. Dr. Shaw also served in the U.S. Marine Corps during WWII, continuing in the Marine Corps Reserves and later as a liaison officer for the Marine Corps and WSU after his appointment to the university as a professor. Dr. Shaw taught forest pathology and was an expert on diseases of forest trees, an area in which he conducted extensive research projects in the late 1940s and through the 1950s. Dr. Shaw's later research focused on mycology, especially the downy mildews. By the 1970s, Dr. Shaw participated in several projects, including his position as Chief of Party for an international team of agricultural scientists working in a Jordanian agricultural university.