Mr. Shaw was born on January 14, 1943, attended the Groton School and entered Harvard College, class of 1966. He moved to New York City and joined Loeb, Rhoades and Company on Wall Street. In 1976 he returned to Harvard for a Master's Degree in Public Administration and worked in the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health before establishing his own investment advisory firm in 1980 on Beacon Hill. Mr. Shaw was active in community organizations. While living on Beacon Hill, he chaired the Beacon Hill Architectural Commission and was an officer of the Beacon Hill Civic Association, primarily involved with licensing and zoning issues. In 1996 he moved to Brookline where he was elected to Town Meeting. Mr. Shaw also enjoyed social clubs. At Harvard he was a member of the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1775 and the Porcellian Club. In New York he was a member of the Downtown Association and the Knickerbocker Club. In Boston he belonged to the City Club Corporation and the Somerset Club where he served on the Executive Committee and was chair of the House and Membership Committees. Mr. Shaw served on the Corporation at the Advent Church in Boston and on the Vestry at the Church of Our Saviour in Brookline. He also served on the boards of the St. Christopher's School for Children in New York, the North Bennet Street School in Boston, and the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, the Island Foundation in Seal Harbor, and the Island Institute in Rockport, all in Maine. He built a summer house on Great Cranberry Island in the Great Harbor of Mt. Desert and spent his summer vacations primarily on the water. He is survived by his wife, Lisa G. Shaw, his son Samuel Parkman Shaw, and his mother, Susan Storey (Shaw) Lyman. He is also survived by a sister, Jane Stockton Shaw, and a half-brother Ronald T. Lyman, step-sisters: Elizabeth P. Lyman (deceased), Jennifer L. Littlefield, Mabel L. Whiteside, Chris Boldt Affleck, and Linda Boldt. His father, Samuel Parkman Shaw Sr., and a brother, Charles Storey Shaw, predeceased him. Mr. Shaw, known as "Parky" to his friends, was fond of jokes and took much refuge in humor. His wit was often biting and he seldom shrank from expressing himself with unrestrained frankness. He was fond of repeating his general theory on people, "When I enter a room, a third of the people I know and I like, a third I know and I don't like, and a third I don't know and I don't like." Always careful to express his opinions in a blunt and straightforward way, Mr. Shaw was admired and reviled in proportion to his general theory.