Feramorz Y. Fox

Who is Feramorz Y. Fox?

Feramorz Y. Fox was a president of Latter-day Saints University, which later became LDS Business College.

Fox was the son of Jesse W. Fox, Jr., and Ruth May Fox. He was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. He graduated from the University of Utah in 1906. That same year he married Anna Wilcken; they would become the parents of three children. Fox began teaching at what was known as Latter-day Saints University that year, the institution that is the predecessor of LDS Business College. In 1910, Fox received a Willard D. Thompson scholarship to attend the University of California, Berkeley. He received his master's degree in economics in 1912. In the 1920s he took leave of LDS Business College, this time to work on a Ph.D. at Northwestern University, which he completed in 1932.

From 1926, Fox was the president of Latter-day Saints University, presiding over the high school, junior college and business school. Among the students who studied there while Fox was president were Gordon B. Hinckley, Russell M. Nelson, and George W. Romney. In 1931, the institution was scaled back to only the business college. Fox continued as president until 1948, serving in that office for 22 years.