The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation

Grants-in-Aid Program

Marta Sutton Weeks (Mrs. L. Austin) presently of Miami, Florida, was born May 24, 1930 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The second daughter of a geologist's family, she was reared on both the North and South American continents.

She received her early education in Holladay, Utah, and at the Bella Vista school in Maracaibo, Venezuela, later graduating from a high school -- St. Mary-of-the-Wasatch Academy -- in Salt Lake City, Utah. She went on to Beloit College in Wisconsin for two years, then Stanford University, California, where she received a B.A. in political science in 1951.

After her marriage to Austin Weeks (a geologist) in 1951, she lived in Utah, later moving to Colorado, California and Maryland before moving to Florida in 1967. She is the mother of two living children (one son died in a helicopter accident at age 23).

Mrs. Weeks' job and business experience started at age thirteen when her father staked her to 200 cans of popcorn and she supplied popcorn to the local oil camp populace in Maracaibo, Venezuela. During her summers in college, she worked for the legal department of the Mene Grande Oil Co. in Caracas, Venezuela, and also for the Centro-Venezolano Americano teaching English to foreigners.

Most recently, she has served as a director of several corporations including Weeks Petroleum, Ltd. She has also served three years on the Board of Trustees of Beloit College, and five years as a trustee of the University of Miami. She founded and was president for two years of the Stanford Club of Florida and is currently a director of the Weeks Air Museum at Tamiami Airport in Miami, Florida.

Mrs. Weeks is a strong believer in education and supports various programs in the sciences and humanities. She loves to travel and says one of the most interesting places she's ever been to was a recent trip to Antarctica. Says Mrs. Weeks, "It was absolutely fantastic."

Mrs. Weeks is an ordained Episcopal priest.

The Marta Sutton Weeks Named Grant is awarded annually to a deserving graduate student through the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Grant-in-Aid Program, and is endowed by the AAPG Foundation with generous contributions from the Weeks family.