William James Shaw

William James Bernard Shaw, also known as Bill Shaw, was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist based in the Philippines.
Shaw worked as a busboy on a US Army transport ship to pay his passage to Manila, arriving in 1901 and never leaving hence. He eventually became part owner of Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific. He also served as President of the Rotary Club of Manila from 1925 to 1926.
Shaw is known for being the founder, organizer and president of Wack Wack [Golf and Country Club]. Shaw started Wack Wack in 1930 – because he was disgusted that Larry Montes, a caddie who had won the 1929 Philippine Open tournament and later many subsequent tournaments at the Manila Golf Club, of which Shaw was a member, had been asked to leave the tournament celebration, by virtue of a rule against the presence of caddies inside the Manila Golf Club. He was also married to a Filipina, which was a controversial issue to the members of exclusive clubs like Manila Golf Club.
Shaw was a member of the board of the Boy Scouts of America Philippine Islands Council No. 545.
In 1939, the portion of Pasig Boulevard in Mandaluyong was renamed Shaw Boulevard, where a small monument of Shaw stands at the intersection between Shaw Boulevard and Wack Wack Road leading to the country club. Shaw Boulevard MRT station, the now-defunct William J. Shaw Theater at Shangri-La Plaza, and the William Shaw Little Theater at De La Salle University–Manila are also named after him.