<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoBodyTextIndent">Terry R. Shaw was born in Mankato, Minnesota, USA&nbsp;on April 23, 1945, but he grew up in Litchfield, Minnesota from the age of two and on.&nbsp; He had a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and a Bachelor of Science degree from St. Cloud State.&nbsp; Terry was an art teacher in Glencoe, Minnesota and Willmar, Minnesota for thirty-one years before retiring. He estimated that he taught between 15,000 to 20,000 students.&nbsp; His artwork won him many awards over the years.&nbsp;&nbsp; Copies are some of his work is on display on the Internet and in the Lyndon Johnson Library in Austin, Texas.
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal">Terry played drums in rock and roll bands steadily since 1963, except for his two-year stint in the U.S. Army, and he wrote over one hundred songs.&nbsp; He played in a band named the Defiants in the early 60s and recorded a single with them.&nbsp; Then he played in the popular Shaw-Allen-Shaw band in the early 70s, recording two albums with them.&nbsp; That band was inducted into the Minnesota Rock and Country Hall of Fame in May of 2006. &nbsp;Terry also played in The Country Ramblers, MacArthur Park, SKY, and TASZ along with the New Horizon Band of Calvary Lutheran Church.
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal">Besides his two semi-biographical books, Terry Tales and Terry Tales 2, about growing up in the fifties in his hometown of Litchfield, Terry wrote three other books.&nbsp; They are about the Beatles, Buddy Holly and Elvis.&nbsp; He also wrote several articles about his hometown for a couple of national magazines.&nbsp;
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal">Terry retired from teaching and from rock drumming, but he still performed.&nbsp; Beginning in April of 2004, he sang and played guitar in nursing homes, homes for the retarded, for Alzheimer patients, senior citizen centers and senior dining centers for charity.&nbsp; He performed almost daily along with playing drums and guitar for his church, Calvary Lutheran Church of Willmar, Minnesota, every Sunday.&nbsp; He has three children, Christine, Andrea and Adrian, from his first marriage to Linnet Johnson and two stepchildren, Jenise and Peter, from his second marriage to Lois Mc Broom Johnson.&nbsp; He has two grandchildren, Ethan and Karra.