Original faculty member at Texas Technological College. Served as dean of the Home Economics Department (1925-1953) during its formative years. Born in 1886 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. Began her career teaching grade school in Canada and the United States. Received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Columbia University in 1922 and 1925. Became Dean of the Home Economics Department in 1925. Helped to organize the Home Economics Club in 1925, established the Home Economics Loan Fund, helped form the Double Key Honor Society in 1930, and the first Texas chapter of the Phi Upsilon Omicron National Honor Society in 1938. Weeks successfully orchestrated the construction of the Home Economics Building in 1952. Member of the American Home Economics Association, the American Dietetic Association, the Texas State Teachers Association, Delta Kappa Gamma, Phi Upsilon Omicron, and past president of the Texas Home Economics Association, the Texas Vocation Association, the State Nutrition Council, and the Lubbock Branch of the American Association of University Women. She retired from Texas Technological College in 1953. Died in Lubbock, Texas in 1967.
From the description of Papers, 1925-1967. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 24617961
