Hyrum Grant Vest

Background

Vest, Hyrum Grant was born on September 23, 1935 in Salt Lake City. Son of Hyrum and Josephine Gwendolyn (Lund) Vest.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Utah State University, 1960; Master of Science, Utah State University, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, University Minnesota, 1967.

Career

Pathologist, agronomist, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland., 1967-1970; vegetable breeder, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1970-1976; department head department horticultural and landscape architecture, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, 1976-1983; head department horticultural science, Tex A & M U., College Station, 1983-1989; head department plants, soils and biometeorology, Utah State University, Logan, 1989-1995; associate director Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, Utah State University, Logan, since 1995; member, National Plant Genetics Resource Board, Washington, 1982-1988.

Achievements

• Hyrum Grant Vest has been listed as a noteworthy Horticultural sciences educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served to First lieutenant United States Army, 1960-1963. Fellow American Society Horticultural Science.

Connections

Married Gayle Pixton, September 18, 1958. Children: Kelly, Lani, Kari, Kamille, Kyle.

Father:

Hyrum Vest

Mother:

Josephine Gwendolyn (Lund) Vest

Spouse:

Gayle Pixton

child:

Kamille Vest

child:

Lani Vest

child:

Kelly Vest

child:

Kari Vest

child:

Kyle Vest