Résumé

Partner, Campbell Yost Grube Architects, Portland, OR, 1964-1986; Partner, Yost Grube Hall Architecture, Portland, OR, c. 1986- .

Professional Activities

Yost was a founding member of the Architecture Foundation of Oregon (AFO) in 1981. He was joined by John Matteson, AIA, William Fletcher, FAIA, Brooks Gunsul, FAIA, William Merrit, AIA, Gary Michael, FAIA, Richard E. Ritz, AIA, and Jon Schleuning, FAIA. The firm Yost Grube Hall donated $5,000 to start a scholarship fund administered by the AFO. Four other Portland-based architectural partnerships--BOORA Architects, Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM) Portland, SRG Partnership, and Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership--provided complementary funding to form scholarships in each firm's name. (See Architecture Foundation of Oregon, "Mission & History," accessed 11/04/2015.)

Relocation

In 1979, Yost lived at 2324 SW Vista Drive in Portland. He lived a few doors down from his partner Richard A. Campbell.

Biographical Notes

Roger Yost served as a witness when Joachim Grube, his business partner, during his naturalization process in 1979. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation, The National Archives at Seattle; Seattle, Washington; RG 21 United States District Courts; Volume: Petitions for Naturalizationaccessed 11/04/2015.)