Wilfred Byron Shaw

Soon after graduation, he was named the general secretary of the Alumni Association (a job he held until 1929)^[1][5] and editor of the Michigan Alumnus.^[1] In 1909, he accompanied President Harry Burns Hutchins (and other UM employees) on a trip to Chicago, Des Moines, and Omaha, to meet with UM alumni.^[5]

In 1912, he was part of the committee who approved maize and blue as official University of Michigan colors.^[6]

In 1913, he helped to organize the Association of Alumni Secretaries.^[5]

In 1929, he was appointed director of alumni relations, a position that the Regents established for continuing education and other services to graduates. He retired from this position in 1951.^[1]

Shaw was a sketch artist, often drawing university buildings for inclusion in The Ann Arbor News.^[7][8] Sixteen of his drawings are owned by the University of Michigan Museum of Art.^[9] His portrait of Fred Newton Scott is owned by the National Portrait Gallery.^[10]

He was also known for drawing caricatures of his colleagues. These are currently in storage at the Bentley Historical Library.^[11][12]

He also designed the logo for the University of Michigan's "atomic research center," the "Phoenix Project," in 1948.^{[13][14][15][16]}

In 1918, Shaw published James Burrill Angell and the University of Michigan.^[17]

In 1920, Harcourt, Brace, and Howe published his book The University of Michigan, about the history of the university.^[18][19]

In 1934, Shaw founded and served as the first editor of the Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review.^[1][20][21]

In 1936, he published "A Bibliography of the University of Michigan."^[22]

He married Marion B. Dickinson (1883–1958), and they had two children, Brackley Shaw (1913–1996) and Penelope Shaw (1921–1996).^[2]