Weeks family papers (Ms. 93.2)

Biographical note

Elizabeth Goddard Weeks (1902-1992) was born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, attended Rogers School there, and graduated from Fairhaven High School. She then did a year at Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, before attending Vassar College from which she graduated in 1924. She was the resident secretary at Moses Brown School from 1926 to her retirement in 1962. She traveled, mainly in the United States, wrote extensive letters to family and friends. She was an amateur naturalist, and a member of the Appalachian Mountain Club.

Genevieve Cass Weeks (1903-2001) was born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, attended Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, and graduated from Vassar College in 1927. She worked in the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky and did social work in Boston, Massachusetts, before returning to school at the University of Chicago from which she graduated in 1946 with a degree in social work. She was on the faculty of Indiana University for more than 25 years, taking sabbatical leave to write a book on Oscar McCullough, a congregational minister. On her retirement in 1972, "Vevie" moved back to Providence to live with her sisters. She was a world traveler both for pleasure and for work.

Norma Geraldine Weeks (1908-2002) was born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, graduated from Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, and graduated from Vassar College in the class of 1931. She was an administrator at Rhode Island College, and bursar of the bookstore for 26 years. She was a member of the Providence Figure Skating Club and also traveled.

The Weeks sisters came from an educated family. The father is described as being an engineer and the mother as an alumnae of Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont. All three sisters were active in the congregational church and in charities. They are buried together with their parents in Swan Point Cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island, in Group 409, lot 163.