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Reverend Marta Weeks and her husband, L. Austin
Weeks, are among the University of Miami's most
distinguished benefactors, most recently providing
$8 million to name and build a new Music Library and
Technology Center. She states, “We have been
blessed, and it’s important to give back.” In
1988, she and her husband, L. Austin Weeks, donated
their first building to the School of Music, the L.
Austin Weeks Center for Recording and Performance.
They also created the Marta and L. Austin Weeks
Music Scholarship Endowment, which provides
scholarship awards to more than twenty students each
year. Other gifts to the university include, but are
not limited to, the Lewis G. Weeks Chair in Geology
at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric
Science, established by Marta in memory of her
father-in-law; the L. Austin Weeks Family Endowed
Chair in Urologic Research at the School of
Medicine; as well as generous support for tactual
speech at the Mailman Center for Child Development,
International Education and Exchange scholarships
through the School of Continuing Studies, and the
Nursing School Building Fund.
Rev. Weeks received her early education in Utah
and Venezuela and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree
in political science from Stanford University. After
completing a three-year masters program at the
Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in
Austin, Texas, Mrs. Weeks became an ordained
Episcopal priest in 1992. Her ministry has taken her
to Paris, London, Venezuela, Panama, the Bahamas and
back to Utah. She is also a member of the Order of
St. John of Jerusalem, which supports an ophthalmic
hospital in the Holy Land for Arab, Christian and
Jewish patients. Her most treasured role is as the
proud mother of two children, Kermit Weeks and
Leslie Weeks Davies, who received a bachelors of
science in education from UM in 1985.
Rev. Weeks first joined the University of Miami
Board of Trustees in 1983 and currently serves as
one of its three vice chairs.
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