Gary Mayhew

I am entering this belated memory because I was just thinking of him and a Google search turned up this obit. Gary was a musical friend in a Santa Fe based musical ensemble called Melismata. We performed early music. I didn´t know him well but enjoyed his company and sharing music. He was a very easy companion to get along with, and he sang and played guitar well. After I moved from the area in 2016 we corresponded several times, the last time only a couple of months before he passed....

Gary, Mr Mayhew, was well known as a math teacher

Gary was my favorite teacher. He had a gift for teaching math.

I was so sorry to see this. Gary and I were good friends since about 1960 and periodically roommates at UNM in the 1960's. I last saw him in 2018 and had planned to visit in 2020, but the pandemic intervened.

Gary was my geometry teacher in 1972 at Sandia. He was the best! I´ll bet all his students remember the way he contorted his mouth to help us remember Abscissa and Ordinate. I used it and many other Mayhew-isms in my teaching. But unlike Gary I did try to match my socks each day! I was lucky enough to teach at Sandia while Gary was still coming over for Calculus II! It was great to get to work alongside the best!

Never had Gary as a teacher at Sandia, but my sisters did. Always heard great things about his classes and him bringing his guitar to play for students. He was a well-loved teacher. Thank you for your bright light Mr. Mayhew.

Condolences to Gary's family and friends. No doubt he is missed. Gary was a friend I sadly lost touch with upon leaving NM. His door was always open and his home was filled with lively music, intelligence, and humor. A kind soul and rare human. Rest in peace, Gary.

Gary was my AP Calculus 2 teacher, and due to scheduling conflicts so that I could participate in band, even though he came to Manzano 1st period for 5 other students twice a week, he came back at 6th period twice a week to teach me 1 to 1. I loved his humor and try to emulate him with my own humor in my career as a high school math teacher to this day. I will always remember the goofy story he told to teach me about Grad F that involved speeding along a mountain curve in a "Yugo" and...

I am so sorry to hear of Mr. Mayhew's passing. I was just thinking of him a few days ago, and I was also lucky enough to reconnect with him over a phone call a few years ago. I was able to tell him what an influence he had in my life---he gave me a love for Geometry which I then had the opportunity to teach to 8th graders here in California. He would bring in his guitar to our class on Fridays and I loved that he would play for us and we could sing along if we wanted to while we solved...