Résumé

Partner, [K.D.] Church and Shiels, Architects, Portland, OR.

Partner / Co-founder, Shiels and [Douglas L.] Obletz, Project Management Consultancy, Portland, OR, 1984-1986. Shiels founded this firm with Douglas L. Obletz, a planner and attorney.

Partner, Shiels | Obletz | Johnsen, Project Management Consultancy, Portland, OR and Seattle, WA, 1986-2014. Kenneth Johnsen joined the firm as a partner in 1986.

Professional Activities

Member, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Portland Chapter, 1964-

Executive Director, Portland Streetcar, Incorporated, Portland, OR, -2005. For this group, Shiels assisted in the "...design, construction and operation of Portland Streetcar and has continued to advise on the expansion to the Eastside." (See SOJ.com, "Roger Shiels, FAIA," accessed 01/16/2024.)

Professional Awards

Fellow, American Institute of Architects (FAIA).

College

Graduate, Cleveland High School, Portland, OR, 1952. Shiels joined the French Club and Legend Yearbook Staff at Cleveland High School. (See Cleveland High School Legend Yearbook, 1951, p. 44 and p. 56.)

B.Arch., University of Oregon (U of O), Eugene, OR, 1957. At U of O, Shiels belonged to Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

Relocation

Born in Portland, OR, Roger Dean Shiels has lived in this city his entire life. His parents first rented a Portland house at 1658 East Glisan Street in 1930, where Roger's brother Lawrence, Jr., was an infant. (See Ancestry.com Source Citation Year: 1930; Census Place: Portland, Multnomah, Oregon; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0364; FHL microfilm: 2341686, accessed 01/17/2024.)

His family lived at one address, 6524 SE Reed College Place, between at least 1940 and 1957. (It is likely that they moved here by about 1935.) The 1940 and 1950 US Censuses confirmed his residence there. In 1940, the household included his elder brother Lawrence W. Shiels, Jr., and a household maid, Geraldine Krebs (born c. 1913 in OR).(See See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: Portland, Multnomah, Oregon; Roll: m-t0627-03387; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 37-151, accessed 01/17/2024 and Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Portland, Multnomah, Oregon; Roll: 2483; Page: 7; Enumeration District: 37-30, accessed 01/17/2024.)

At the time of his marriage to Julianne Lewis in 1957, he continued to reside at his parents' house. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Oregon State Archives; Salem, Oregon; Oregon, Marriage Records, 1906-1910, 1946-1966, accessed 01/17/2024.)

Parents

His mother was Adena Wilhelmina Fuhrer (born 02/04/1902-d. 07/11/1994 in Portland, OR), his father, Lawrence Wilfred Shiels, Sr., (born 03/09/1901 in Chicago, IL-d. 04/22/1976 in Portland, OR). In 1950, Lawrence Shiels was a partner and manager in an investment securities firm in Portland.

Lawrence's parents both immigrated to OR from Norway, while Adena's both came from Switzerland.

The 1940 US Census indicate that Lawrence, Sr., had completed four years of college. Roger's mother had completed high school.

Roger had an elder brother, Lawrence Wilfred Shiels, Jr., (born 11/10/1929 in Portland, OR-d. 03/10/2008 in OR). In 1956, when Lawrence. Jr., married Mary Patricia Ryan (born 08/09/1924 in Newton, Lancashire, England). he worked as a salesman. Mary was a school teacher. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Oregon State Archives; Salem, Oregon; Oregon, Marriage Records, 1906-1910, 1946-1966, accessed 01/17/2024.)

Spouse

He wed Julianne Lewis (born 11/12/1935 in Porland, OR) on 03/17/1957 in Hood River, OR. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Oregon State Archives; Salem, Oregon; Oregon, Marriage Records, 1906-1910, 1946-1966, accessed 01/17/2024.)

Julianne's parents were Dorothy Duncan and Herbert Davenport Lewis.