Ila D. Weeks

(1901-1983) born at Scotia, Greeley County, and lived in Kearney. Educator, administrator, served as president of University of South Dakota from 1935 to 1966 during which time enrollment grew from 900 to nearly 4,000 students and the Vermillion campus expanded from 35 acres and 14 buildings to 157 acres and 35 buildings; regarded by the Society for the Advancement of Education in 1960 as one of the top 20 writers on the administration of higher education nationwide; in 1966 the main library on the USD campus was named in his honor. Consult National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol F (1942) 475 and Biographical Dictionary of American Educators, Vol 3 (Greenwood Press, 1978) 1364-1365 and Sioux Falls, South Dakota Argus Leader obituary, November 24, 1983, p. D-1 and Argus Leader South Dakota 99 (ExMachina Publishing, 1989) pp. 148-149.

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