Elizabeth "Teddy" Griffith

Teddy came to Ogden in 1963 when her husband was transferred
to Hill Air Force Base. As a member of the Ogden Junior
League, she became involved with historic preservation. She
was the driving force behind the renovations of the Union
Station and turning it into museums. She then became the
first executive director of Ogden Union Station Museums,
where she worked until her retirement in 1993.

Clarisse Hyde Hall

Clarisse started working at Weber College in 1926 as the first
full time registrar. She earned a bachelors from Brigham Young
University in 1937. She revamped the registration process by
switching from a registration day to registration appointments,
which was implemented at other institutions of higher education
across the state. She retired in 1962, and wrote several books
about different aspects of Weber’s history. The student lounge in
the Shepherd Union Building was named in her honor in 1983, the
same year she passed away.

Velaida C. Harris

Velaida has always had a great love for basketball. She attended
Portland State University on a basketball scholarship and
graduated with a degree in liberal arts in 1993. In 1997, she
was the first African American woman on the west coast to
be a high school basketball head coach. In 2018, she became
the head basketball coach at Weber State University, and
the first African American woman in the state of Utah to
become head coach of a Division I collegiate team.

Heidi K. Harwood

Heidi received her degree in K-12 education with a business
education emphasis, but quickly decided that teaching was not
for her, she found it to be too restrictive. While obtaining
her education, she worked in the food service and bar
industry and decided to return to that line of work. She and
her husband started the City Club in 1991, three years later
they started Brewski’s. Harwood helped found the 25th Street
Association that founded and ran the Harvest Moon Festival
for approximately 30 years.

Patricia Fernandez Henry

Patricia began her career as a high school drop-out that
returned to college to support her family after her husband
broke his back in a car accident. In 1967, Patricia became
the first female math teacher at Weber State College. Her
career was marked by innovation, using award money to
buy a motorized Lego set allowing students to use math to
operate the toy, along with developing a computer program
for junior high students to illustrate math concepts.