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He said it took most of the first
century to build the reputation that
IANR has today but that enrollment is
still a problem for the college.
Today, because there are not enough
people to fill professional agriculture
jobs, the industry is having to employ
people it normally wouldn’t, Frolik
said.
However, employment in the in
dustry almost 60 years ago was in
peril, Frolik said as he recalled the
years he went to school.
After receiving his bachelor’s
degree in 1930 and his master’s in
1932, both from the University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln, Frolik looked for
an assistantship to advance his degree
but couldn’t find one.
“I thought things were kinda tough
when we were getting out in 1930, but
they got much worse in ’32,’ ’ he said.
“ I didn ’ t even apply for a job because
there weren ’t any jobs to apply for.
Unable to pursue his doctorate and
frusuated with his first job offer of
$35 a month at a seed factory, he hung
onto an extended part-time job at the
UNL agronomy department while
taking additional classes.
Frolik finally found work as an
emergency extension assistant in
Nemaha County when Roosevelt
passed the Agriculture Adjustment
Act
The bulk of his job dealt with
educating farmers about cutback
programs in grain and cattle produc
tion in return for government pay
ments.
Alter one year in the face of job
uncertainty, he took the security of a
permanent job at Banker’s Life Insur
ance Company of Nebraska in Omaha.
He worked in the farm loan depart
ment servicing loans “that were still
alive” and managing farms that had
been foreclosed.
Although the nature of his work
was grim and the job didn’t pay as
well as the previous one, he stuck
with it because “it was a permanent
job. That was the main thing.”
In 1936, he began his career at
UNL with a job as an extension agrono
misl. After he received his doctorate
in ’48, he taught advanced genetics
and plant cytogenetics.
In ’52, he accepted the chairman
ship of the agronomy department and
taught as a professor of agronomy.
Within three years, he became asso
ciate director of the Agriculture Ex
periment Station.
“I believe that was probably the
best administrative job I ever had. I
like research and working with fac
ulty on research projects; it’s very
rewarding.”
Beginning in 1960, he wore his
biggest administrative hat as dean of
the College of Agriculture, now called
1ANR.
In 1973, he retired at age 64 and
was given the title professor emeritus
of agronomy.
But after 37 years with UNL, Pro
lik continued to work, in part “for
financial security or improvement”
and in part because of his restless
ness.
“I enjoyed working so much that I
Frolik
couldn’t stand the idea of not work
ing,” he said.
Without missing a beat, he ac
cepted a job in Iran as the leader of a
team to develop and activate a re
vised national agriculture research
program in Tehran.
For the next 13 years, Frolik made
30 such trips to more than 20 coun
tries while working for the U.S. Agri
culture, State and Interior departments,
the Agency for International Devcl
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opment, UNL and other universities.
Frolik was already 10 years into
the research for the book when he
made his last trip abroad in 1986.
‘‘I couldn’t quite shake loose (from
foreign assignments); it’s a little hard
once you get well-known. People want
you to work, and people you worked
with want you to do some more work.”
Frolik admitted it doesn’t take much
to twist his arm into doing what he
loves so much.
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