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Four receive annual awards from UNOPA
By Kathy Schindler, UNOPA Corresponding Secretary
A
longtime university employee received the Rose Frolik Award
April 8
at the 2002-2003 Awards and Recognition luncheon of the
University
of Nebraska Office Personnel Association.
Lois Brinton, a
clerical assistant III and 20-year employee
in the publications and
photography department, won an engraved
plaque, a year's membership
to UNOPA and $300.
Brinton's nominator wrote that she
"is our departmental
glue: our encourager, role model and
institutional memory."
In a letter of recommendation, another
person wrote that Brinton
is "someone who exemplified Rose's
ideal that how you do
your work may be more important than what you
do."
The Rose Frolik award was one of three awards
given at the
event, which was held in Abel Hall's North Study
Lounge.
The second award, the Floyd S. Oldt Silver Pen
Award, traditionally
goes to two UNL employees. Judith Yeck, a
staff secretary II
from the College of Journalism and Mass
Communications, and Judy
Anderson, an administrative technician
from publications and
photography, won this year's awards.
The Silver Pen Award is for employees in secretarial, clerical
or business work who show superior performance on the job and
make
significant contributions to the university community. Yeck
and
Anderson each received an engraved Cross Pen, $600, a framed
certificate and a year's membership to UNOPA.
Joan
Frederick, administrative assistant from the INTSORMIL
department,
won the Floyd S. Oldt Outstanding Staff Award for
an employee who
exhibits distinguished service and contributions
to the university
community. Her winnings include $1,000, an
engraved plaque and a
one-year UNOPA membership.
Backyard Farmer founder, professor Weihing dies at 82
John Lawson Weihing, 82, of Gering, a
creator of Backyard
Farmer and a former superintendent of the
Panhandle Research
and Extension Center in Scottsbluff, died Feb.
26 in Denver.
Weihing was born Feb. 26, 1921, near Rocky
Ford, Colo. He
graduated from Colorado State College of Agriculture
at Fort
Collins, Colo., in 1942. He was active in combat in both
European
and Pacific theaters of World War II, serving with the
101st
Airborne. He was one of nine of a special mission to
parachute
into France the night before D-Day. After his honorable
discharge,
he earned his master's degree in agronomy and Ph.D. in
plant
pathology from the University of Nebraska.
Weihing was one of the creators and one of the first panel
members on Backyard Farmer, the longest continual U.S. public-television
program offering gardening advice. He was the first full-time
extension plant pathologist in Nebraska, and also the first extension
agent to become a research and graduate professor. He developed
the
"Equation of Nature" series for National Public
Television. He and his family lived in Erzurum, Turkey, during
1965-66 when Weihing assisted in creating Turkey's first land-grant-type
of university, Ataturk University. In 1971, he was appointed
superintendent of the Panhandle Research and Extension Center
in
Scottsbluff, where he supervised the research and extension
faculty
in 11 counties in Nebraska's panhandle. He retired in
1984.
In 1954, he printed the Nebraska Disease Handbook for each
of
the county extension educators. Over the years, he published
14
research articles and many extension circulars and leaflets
of
plant diseases. He was a member of many professional societies
and
received many honors, including having a Great Northern bean
named
after him. Weihing was a charter member of the Great Northern
Bean
Association and the Nebraska Turfgrass Association, and
participated in the development of the University School of Nursing
in the Panhandle. He created the learning center and worked on
the
wheat streak mosaic problem that established the date of
planting
for wheat in Nebraska. He also worked on potato and
sugar beet
diseases.
Weihing served as a Nebraska state senator from
1987 to 1991.
Weihing is survived by his wife, Shirley
(Wilkerson) Weihing;
four children, Lawson and Debi Weihing of
Papillion, Martin Weihing
of Chicago, Adell and Dan Gorny of
Cheyenne, Wyo., and Warren
Weihing of Boise; one sister, Joan Call
of Grand Forks, N.D.;
two grandchildren, Trevor and Quinton Weihing
of Papillion; and
many nieces and nephews.
Faculty Women's Club acknowledged
The Faculty Women's Club is acknowledged by ASUN for its work
on
the student election on March 5. Coordinators for the election
from
the club were Marti Paquette and Gail O'Hanlon.
The student
government donates $800 to the club for their
assistance, which the
club uses for a scholarship fund at UNL.
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