He would introduce himself as a physicist and an engineer, but he was also a builder, sailor, photographer, and woodsman. He was a lifetime member of our club and a master photographer. He was married for 60 years to Elizabeth (Betsy) Gauld. She was also a lifetime member of our club and a master photographer. She died in 2019.
Obituary
Godfrey Robert Gauld, a longtime resident of Arnold, Maryland, died Tuesday, May 3 in Red Bank, New Jersey. “Guff” was born in 1930 near Ontario, Canada to Ross and Maude Gauld and grew up there and in the United States with his brother Jack. He would introduce himself as a physicist and an engineer, but he was also a builder, sailor, photographer, and woodsman. One of his most important experiences was as a summer camp counselor at Camp Canoy, where he first met his future wife, Elizabeth (Betsy), her mother Louise, and her brother Henry, who was, at the time, one of his campers. He met Betsy again at the University of Maryland. She was the love of his life and, as he said many times, his reason for being for more than sixty years until her death in 2019. Guff was a member of the Maryland Society of Professional Engineers, the Baltimore Cruising Club, the Chesapeake Traditional Sailing Association, the Severna Park Camera Club, and Our Shepherd Lutheran Church. He holds several patents from his long engineering career. He built many boats and restored and sailed a 1928 deadrise skiff built in Whittman, Maryland which he donated to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum at Saint Michaels. He is survived by his children, Andrew, Ross, and Douglas Gauld; his nieces and nephews, Ann and Robert Gauld; his brother and sister in law, Henry and Judy Stansbury and their children, Jack and Alison; his grandchildren, Robert and Peter Gauld; daughters in law, Mary Gauld and Kayla Park; Athena and Alex Park, to whom he was a grandfather; Omma; Appa; Danny; Tanny; and too many more loved ones to list. A memorial service is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. Sunday, May 22, at Our Shepherd Lutheran Church in Severna Park, Maryland.
