International youth worker, scholar, author, athlete, composer-singer-poet, counselor, and activist in the peace and human rights movement,
Dudley Weeks has recently been appointed Director of the Peace Research Lab with office in the World Community Center, 438 N. Skinker.
Dudley Weeks has lived and worked in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe, where he has coordinated programs ranging from public health, to multi-level education, to coaching, to refugee rehabilitation, to agricultural extension work. Before becoming involved in these professional programs, he worked with migrant laborers in the U.S. during high school summers, and hitch-hiked virtually around the world during summers and a year off from college working as a farm hand, railroad laborer, youth worker, entertainer, and in other varied jobs.
But, Dr. Weeks has also been involved in the academic world, teaching and designing courses and curriculum at both the secondary and university levels, and coordinating numerous workshops for educational personnel. He is now actively setting up a variety of programs in research, education and community participation as Director of the Peace Lab.
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Dudley Weeks. The Paper, October 1976, page 1. Photographer not credited.
Originally published in The Paper, October 1976.
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