Lori Memmott Brown
Lori Memmott Student portrait
1981
Lori Brown was born to educators, Evan and Ruth Memmott. Her mother taught high school, and her father taught at Weber State College. As a child she was the teacher in the pretend school she played with her friends. In high school she participated in student government and pep club.
Lori briefly attended Brigham Young University before transferring to Weber State College, where she received a scholarship. In her junior year she was elected the student body activities vice president. She was over committees like convocation, dance, and film. That year convocation brought in Charlton Heston. During her senior year she served as the student body president. Lori was the first female student body president at Weber and at any higher education institution in the state of Utah. While she was running she faced opposition, rivals suggested the position of president should be reserved for a man. She won the election by five votes.
As student body president, Lori helped decrease a state tuition increase from 10-15% to 8% on the platform of “8 is enough.” She made sure the student section in the Dee Events Center remained for the students and weren’t given to donors. She raised awareness of campus accessibility through “Handicapped Awareness Day,” and participated by using a wheelchair and being blindfolded with a handkerchief. Her culminating achievement was a campaign to name the union building after J. Farrell Shepherd. This was the first time at Weber that a building was named after a living person.
Lori graduated with her bachelor’s degree in elementary education, and became part of the first graduating class of the masters of education program at Weber. She has taught second and sixth grade, and currently teaches fourth grade. She has taught for the state Office of Education in the Core Academy. While she’s been recognized for her teaching, the thing she values most are the messages she has received from her students over the years.
Lori Memmott Brown Press Release
Associated Students of WSC executive officers portrait 1980-1981
Lori Memmott presenting an award at the Purple Paw Awards ceremony for the College Activity Board, 1981
Associated Students of WSC executive officers portrait 1981-1982
Melinda (Roylance), Lori Brown, and Stephanie Jorgensen at the Student Leaders reunion at the Alumni Center 2014
Exhibit in the Stewart Library