Carolyn Mang Weeks graduated from Sidney High as Valedictorian, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Phil Beta Kappa Key from Wellesley College in 1963, a Master of Arts from Duke University in 1970 and a Merit Scholarship and a Ph.D from University of Kentucky in 1977.
Having married a Presbyterian minister, Carolyn was frequently relocating, but always managed her courses of study, her earning advanced degrees, raising a family and working outside her home.
Always both a student and a teacher, she taught in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the Chesterfield County Schools in Virginia, and at Indiana University Southeast (Clarksville). She was Director of a Quaker Pre-School in Durham, NC and both counselor in Mental Health Services and Director of School Psychological Services in Jefferson County, Kentucky.
She was a team member of the Kentucky Task Force to organize School Psychology Services and author of the Kentucky School Psychology Examinations. Her service in the state of Indiana as Supervisor of Special Education Cooperative in three deparate school districts and as President of the state's Council for Exceptional Children plus her tenure as President of the Virginia School Psychological Association gives a picture of an individual whose commitment to others has no bounds.
James Axtell. '59 (Wall of Fame, '05) wrote of Carolyn's Assistant Professorship: "…for ten years she served an all-black, underfinanced Virginia Union University in Richmond because she believed that minority students deserved the best education available. It was simply irrelevant to her that, despite having published several articles and co-written a book, she carried an onerous four-course teaching load, was never promoted beyond assistant professor, and made only a fraction of the salary that anyone with her credentials and experience would have made at a more elite institution. Her special devotion was rewarded only by the recognition of her students…who expressed their gratitude for her learning, pedagogical imagination and complete lack of racism and condescenion."
Carolyn Mang Weeks co-authored The Casebook for Family Living, in 1977, acted as Convener for the first Kentucky Chapter of the National Organization for Women and currently serves as a member of Executive Committee of the Virginia League of Women Voters. She has been tireless in her service to others wherever in the world she and her husband have lived.