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At SPS, Dr. Weeks was a member of the
Cadmean Literary Society, the Missionary
Society, the Acolyte Guild, and the Scientific
Association. He served as a Chapel War-
den, participated in boxing, played hockey
and football for Old Hundred, and rowed
with Shattuck.
In January of 1943, Dr. Weeks left
St. Paul’s to enlist in the U.S. Marine
Corps, serving for two years in the South
Pacific. He trained as an aerial gunner
and, with his squadron, was responsible
for bombing Japanese-held islands, includ-
ing Rabaul, New Britain. He rose to the
rank of Corporal and was the recipient of
an Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying
Cross. Dr. Weeks was awarded a special
St. Paul’s School diploma for those students
in good standing who left the School early
to join the war effort.
In 1949, Mr. Weeks graduated from Yale.
That same year, on June 25, he married
Patricia d’Herent Severn of Philadelphia.
The newlyweds moved to Virginia, where
Mr. Weeks attended the University of
Virginia Medical School, earning his M.D.
in 1953. The couple’s two oldest sons, John
Carnes and Andrew, were born in Char-
lottesville, Va., and the youngest, Nathan,
was born in Hartford, Conn., where Dr.
Weeks completed his two-year general
residency.
The young family moved to the rural
town of Amenia, N.Y., where Dr. Weeks
began his family practice. For the next
18 years, he performed all the duties of a
country doctor – maternity, general medi-
cine, surgery, and house calls. His com-
munity spirit led him into the field of
alcohol and drug treatment, informing
his role in the establishment of a Planned
Parenthood and the Eastern Duchess
County Maternity Clinic in Amenia.
For his devotion to helping others, a
20-bed alcohol and drug addiction treat-
ment center at the Elizabeth McCall Foun-
dation in Torrington, Conn., was named
after Dr. Weeks. He was an initiator of the
foundation and served as chairman of the
board. He also volunteered at AmeriCares
in Danbury, Conn. His passion for recovery
from addiction helped hundreds of people
turn their lives around.
Although busy, he made a point to enjoy
the outdoors with his family, spending
1944
Allen McBrier Sperry
a Navy veteran
and father of six,
who spent his
career in the
manufacturing
industry, died
peacefully in
Salisbury, Conn.,
on December 23,
2015. He was 89
years old and a resident of Litchfield, Conn.
Mr. Sperry was born in Waterbury,
Conn., on April 12, 1926, the son of Mark
Leavenworth Sperry, Jr. and Lois McBrier
Sperry. He attended the McTernan School
in Waterbury, near the family’s home in
Middlebury, Conn., before enrolling at
St. Paul’s School as a Second Former in
the fall of 1939.
While at SPS, Mr. Sperry played first
Isthmian hockey and also competed in
football for Isthmian. He was a member
of the Library Association and sang in the
Choir. Mr. Sperry studied at SPS through
the end of his Fifth Form year, at which
time he transferred to Phillips Andover
Academy in order to hasten his secondary
education for entrance into the military.
He graduated from Andover in February
of 1944. On June 13, 1947, Mr. Sperry, along
with a small group of boys from his form,
was awarded an honorary SPS diploma,
recognizing him as one who “left the School
in good standing…in order to accelerate
their education because of impending
military service.”
Mr. Sperry enrolled at Yale, earning his
B.A. in economics with the Class of 1948.
He served in the V-12 Naval Reserve
program and saw active duty for a few
months in the early 1950s, serving briefly
on a submarine base in Groton, Conn.
He earned his M.B.A. with distinction
from Harvard in 1958.
Mr. Sperry was married five times and
had six children.
On November 28, 1997,
he married Gail Galloway and the couple
shared 18 years of marriage, until Mr.
Sperry’s death.
time hunting, fishing, and canoeing with
his wife and sons. His love of nature led
him to conservation and to an attempt at
beekeeping and tree farming. In 1967, he
served as a civilian physician in a Vietna-
mese hospital in Phan Rang, continuing
his service to his country.
In 1972, Dr. Weeks practiced medicine
at Vassar College. He also started the
Emergency Department at Sharon Hospi-
tal in Connecticut and served as director
from 1975 to 1989.
He retired from the Emergency Depart-
ment of Sharon Hospital in 1992. In retire-
ment, Dr. Weeks continued to practice
medicine aboard cruise ships, combining
two of his interests – medicine and travel.
Among his most memorable excursions
were a journey by Trans-Siberian Railway
from Vladivostok to St. Petersburg, an
African safari, fishing trips to Alaska, and
two trips shadowing the legendary explor-
ers Lewis and Clark. Dr. Weeks, along
with fellow veterans, visited the sites of
major World War II battles in the Pacific,
which gave him a new perspective on the
war. He traveled the country, often in his
trailer, and found refuge at his hunting
cabin in Stanfordville, N.Y.
A devoted alumnus of St. Paul’s, Dr.
Weeks served as a form agent from 1990
to 1997. His love of ornithology led him
to take up bird carving after retirement,
while a passion for cooking led him to
culinary school at the same time.
In 2002, Dr. Weeks moved to Sorrento
on the coast of Maine, where he spent his
last years carving wooden birds, playing
the occasional game of golf, and hosting
large groups of family and friends at the
home he built there.
In November of 1989, Dr. Weeks lost
his wife of 40 years, Patricia. After many
years as a widower, he married Carmen
William Jensen of Corea, Maine, in 2012.
The couple lived in Corea and Exeter, N.H.,
until his death.
Dr. Weeks is survived by his wife, Car-
men; his sister, Margo Valentine; his sons
and daughters-in-law, Jack and Elizabeth,
Andy and Bonnie, and Nate and Marion;
four grandchildren; his stepchildren, Lee
Holsberry and Elizabeth and Bill Collins;
and five step-grandchildren. He was pre-
deceased by his brother, Robert Weeks ’44.
