Résumé

Petty Officer, United States Navy (USN), 1944-1946.

Draftsman, Willard T. Jordan, Architect, Costa Mesa, CA, c. 1954.

Partner, [Frederick] Hodgdon, [J. Herbert] Brownell and Dorius, Architects, -1960.

Principal, Kermit Dorius, AIA, Architect, Corona del Mar, CA, 1960- .

Professional Activities

Member, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Orange County Chapter,1955- .

Treasurer, AIA, Orange County Chapter, 1959.

Secretary, AIA, Orange County Chapter, 1960.

Vice-President, AIA, Orange County Chapter, 1961.

Member, Newport Beach and Costa Mesa Chambers of Commerce, Joint Special Research and Study Committee, Newport Beach and Costa Mesa, CA, 1968. This special committee researched building costs and made final recommendations as to whether the Chambers of Commerce of Newport Harbor and Costa Mesa, CA, should support the passage of a $15.9 million bond issue put before voters in those cities on 02/11/1969. The committee consisted of Dorius, Charles Beck, an architect of Costa Mesa, and Robert Hench, who worked for a Newport Beach architectural firm. (See “NB Schools Construction Report Slated,”Orange County Register,12/23/1968, p. A10.)

Coursework, University of Utah, Provo, UT, 1943-1944; B.Arch., University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Berkeley, CA, 1950.

Dorius graduated with Honors in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley.

Relocation

Kermit Parrish Dorius was born in Salt Lake City, UT, on 08/02/1926.

In 1954, Dorius reported a permanent address of 107 North Wilton Place, Los Angeles, CA, on the S.S. Flandre's passenger manifest. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation The National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C.; Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at and Departing from Ogdensburg, New York, 5/27/1948 - 11/28/1972; Microfilm Serial or NAID: T715, 1897-1957, accessed 01/08/2024.)

The architect passed away in Orange County, CA, at the age of 73. He was buried at the Pacific View Memorial Park in Corona del Mar, CA.

Parents

His father was Raymond Erastus Dorius (born 06/11/1884 in Ephraim, UT-d. 09/18/1959 in Los Angeles, CA), who worked as a salesman.

Claire Ford Parrish (born 03/24/1884 in Centerville, UT-d. 06/04/1974 in Glendale, CA) was his mother. Claire was a teacher when she married Raymond E. Dorius on 08/23/1916 in Salt Lake City, UT.

Kermit had three siblings: Carl Parrish Dorius (born and died 10/25/1917 in Salt Lake City, UT) Raymond Joel Dorius (born 01/04/1919 in Salt Lake City, UT-d. 02/14/2006 in San Francisco, CA) and Julia Maxine Dorius (born 06/12/1923 in Salt Lake City, UT-d. 02/1976).

Raymond became a college professor. Dorius taught English literature at MIT, Harvard and Yale before finding employment at Smith College in 1958. He was one of three men charged with possessing photographs of male nudes at Smith, and convicted in 1960. The case was overturned by the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1963, and Joel Dorius went on to teach at the University of Hamburg in Germany and San Francisco State University between the mid-1960s and 1984. (See Dennis McLellan, "Joel Dorius, 87; Educator Convicted, Exonerated in '60s Gay Pornography Case," Los Angeles Times, 02/23/2006, p. B10, accessed 01/08/2024.)

Julia joined the US Cadet Nurse Corps on 09/14/1944, and studied at the Yale School of Nursing between 1944 and 1947. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C.; Cadet Nurse Corps Files, compiled 1943 - 1948, documenting the period 1942 - 1948; Box #: 178, accessed 01/08/2024.)

Spouse

Dorius married twice. The first union was with Mary J. Singleton, held on 01/30.1954 in Orange County, CA.

He then married Joan A. Lesar (Roehn) on 06/15/1979 in Orange County, CA.

Biographical Notes

Dorius sailed aboard the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique's S.S. Flandre, tourist class, from Southampton, England to New York, NY, betweeen 06/15/1954 and 06/21/1954. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation The National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C.; Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at and Departing from Ogdensburg, New York, 5/27/1948 - 11/28/1972; Microfilm Serial or NAID: T715, 1897-1957, accessed 01/08/2024.)

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