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Mrs. Lori (Behrendt) Morgan (BA 1984)

     “I chose [to study] English because I loved it. If I had to read for homework, better a great novel than a math textbook!” says Lori (née Behrendt) Morgan (BA 1984). Lori now teaches at the high school level and hopes to inspire her students to study English as she did, particularly at the University of Waterloo.

     She came to the university as a local student, having attended Bluevale Collegiate in Waterloo and chose UW over Wilfrid Laurier University because “the large campus held so much more appeal.”

     After just 3 years at UW, Lori was admitted into a teaching program at Brock University. She earned her B.Ed. and returned to UW to complete the fourth year of her Bachelor’s degree. During that year, she taught ESL to a group of foreign students. After graduating, she became an English teacher at Waterloo Oxford District Secondary School.

     Soon after, Lori married, and she and her husband (a UW graduate from the Department of Economics) moved to Toronto, where she took a job with the Peel District School Board. She has worked 25 years for the Board and today heads of the English Department at Mississauga Secondary School. Lori’s daughter currently studies Urban Planning at Waterloo.