Lloyd Easton Platt, AIA (1934 – 2022) Lloyd Easton Platt was born to John Lloyd Platt and Jeanetta Scott Platt in 1934 at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. He graduated from South High School, followed by service in the United States Army in Korea. After his honorable discharge from the Army, Lloyd entered the University of Utah, where he persevered through several grueling years of study before graduating with an architecture degree. Despite the challenges, Lloyd and his wife, Jo, loved their time in married student housing at Stadium Village and maintained close contact with their “study group” friends. Upon graduation, the family headed for California, where Lloyd began his career as an architect. They then returned to Utah, where he formed Lloyd Platt and Associates. He continued to design and supervise the construction of modernstyle public, commercial, and residential buildings until his retirement in 2014. Additionally, Lloyd worked as an architect in Brazil for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for two years, where he traveled the country supervising the building of chapels. Among his favorite projects was his work as the head supervising architect for the Redlands and Newport Beach temples in California. In private practice, Lloyd specialized in beautiful, single-family residences in Western states. He trained two sons, Russell and Steven Platt, to be architects. Lloyd enjoyed instrumental music of various kinds and painting large abstract oil paintings. His paintings were displayed in several Salt Lake City galleries and accepted in annual shows at the Springville Art Museum. He also had a very successful one-person show at the Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah. Elden Verl Talbot, AIA (1932-2021) Born in 1932 to Albert and LaVerne Talbot in Riverdale, Utah, Elden grew up in Idaho Falls, Idaho. In high school, Elden wanted to be a landscape architect, but his father was a building contractor, and after he worked summer jobs with him, he decided to direct his career goals to architecture. Elden began architecture school at the University of Utah in 1950 and graduated in 1954, during the Korean War. He immediately entered the Army, fully expecting to be sent to Korea. Instead, he was stationed at Fort Belvoir, Virginia and Fort Lewis in Olympia, Washington. After being discharged, Elden had offers from firms in Seattle, but his wife convinced him that the weather was better in the Intermountain West. After a few years in Idaho Falls, he accepted an offer from Ashton Evans and Brazier in Salt Lake City. Elden established a strong relationship with Ray Evans, and when Evans became very ill, he absorbed his workload. This led to a specialty in the K-12 market. Elden worked for many of the school districts in the region. He also was the architect for IRS Center in Ogden and worked on the library at Ricks College. For the next several decades, Elden practiced architecture. He became a firm principal when Ashton, Brazier & Brazier reorganized, becoming Montmorency, Hayes, and Talbot (now MHTN). Elden did not consider himself a great designer but said, “I know how to put a building together and enjoy making sure the building is built properly.” He did a lot of the specifications and was a member of the Construction Specification Institute. When MasterSpec was new, he was on the MasterSpec Review Board. Elden also handled most of the business aspects of the firm, “I tried to keep us profitable.” Elden retired over 30 years ago but is still remembered by his colleagues for his attention to detail, his fiscal prudence, and above all, his uncompromising integrity. 19
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