Engineering scholarship honors County native

By Kathy McCarty
Staff Writer
    Students attending Aroostook County high schools, with an interest in engineering, now have another funding option for higher education, with a recently-established scholarship honoring a former Easton resident.
    Elizabeth T. Shaw, formerly of Easton, and her husband, Lawrence N. Shaw, have set up a scholarship through the University of Maine Foundation in honor of her brother, George D. Todd.
    Todd, who passed away in 2006, was the son of Guy D. and Helen Dana Todd. He graduated with the Class of 1960 from Easton High School. He attended the University of Maine at Orono, graduating with high honors in 1964 with a B.S. in engineering physics.
    “At the University of Maine he was elected to the honor societies of Sigma Pi Sigma and Tau Beta Pi. Todd completed his Ph.D. in the field of solid state science and technology at Syracuse University in 1971, with a NASA pre-doctoral fellowship. He moved to Silicon Valley where he was a research associate for NASA,” said Judith A. Round, of the UMF.
    During the 1980s and ‘90s, Dr. Todd was employed by Digital Equipment Corporation and Intersil. He later moved on to work with PerkinsElmer Optoelectronics.
    “The scholarship is endowed and will be used to provide financial assistance to engineering students in the College of Engineering at the University of Maine who are graduates of a high school in Aroostook County,” said Rounds.
    For more information, call Rounds at 581-5104 or e-mail round@maine.edu.