Background
Beard, Mary Shaw was born on April 6, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Walter Keith and Helen B. (Sargent) S.
Beard, Mary Shaw was born on April 6, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Walter Keith and Helen B. (Sargent) S.
Bachelor, Smith College, 1954. Master of Education, Harvard University, 1956.
Teacher Winchester Public Schools, 1955, Lincoln Public Schools, 1956—1957, Adult Education, Wayland, 1978—1980, Wayland Public Schools Pilot Program Wheatley School, Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1979—1980, Milton Academy, 1984—1985. Developer teacher workshops Wayland Public Schools, New England Regional Social Studies Conference, 1979—1984, social studies consultant public schools, 1982. Gallery instructor Museum Fine Arts, Boston, since 1973.
Education director United States Ship Constitution Museum, Charlestown, since 1985. Director Greater Boston Committee United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, Gifford School, Weston, Massachusetts, Arts/Wayland Foundation. Director education art school, 1980—1982.
Founder Wayland Educational and Recreational Council, since 1980. Author short play town's bicentennial celebration Museum Fine Arts Workshop, 1982. Board director Gifford School, Weston, fund raising chairman, since 1983.
Member parents annual giving committee Tufts University, 1982—1983. School committee candidate Wayland Public Schools, 1975, member long range planning committee, 1980—1982, basic skills committee, 1981. Town chairman United Nations Day, Wayland.
Co-chairman fund drive American Cancer Society, Wayland, 1979, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, 1969. Founder Docent-to-Docent Program, 1983. Head docents Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts, 1978.
Member of Smith College Alumnae Association, National Docent Symposium (regional representative New England since 1984), Smith College Association (chairman various committees), Wayland History Association, Marlboro History Association (consultant 1982), Shakespeare Association, Boston League Smith College (president 1979-1980).
Married John Edwards Beard, March 31, 1956. Children: Thomas, Sarah, Mary, Daniel Andrew.