George Shaw was a life long skier beginning at Seven Springs Resort near Pittsburgh, PA in the1950's. He taught his three daughters, wife and many friends the sport. After retirement from Westinghouse Advanced Reactors in 1990, he began visiting Okemo and became a ski instructor in 1999. He taught with Dick and Sue McCostis at Jackson Gore and enjoyed their annual Christmas Eve parties. In order to pursue his love of golf in the summer and skiing in the winter at Okemo, he moved to Ludlow permanently in 2007.
George became a ski instructor at Okemo. After his diagnosis with cancer, he continued to teach, and when that was no longer possible, because, he loved the mountain the people so much, he worked in the ski check at Jackson Gore.
As one of his fellow ski instructors’s said, “he had a great attitude of just keeping going. He wanted to be with people and they wanted to be with him. He gave great hugs.”
After a long battle with cancer, George died in 2009. His wife, Marylou started the ski scholarship in 2010.
Hug one for George.
Donations can be made to the George Shaw Ski Scholarship by sending a check payable to LTC-MSF and mailed to LTC-MSF, PO Box 243 Ludlow, VT 05149. Be sure to specify that your donation is for the Shaw scholarship.
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