Robert S. Frye Scholarship

Born on a farm near Laura, Illinois, Robert S. Frye attended a one-room schoolhouse, Peoria Central High School, Bradley University, and eventually the University of Illinois where he graduated with his chemical engineering bachelor’s degree in 1933. He went on to work for Abbott Laboratories in chemical and production development, including penicillin in the 1940s. After 34 years with Abbott, he went to work for G.D. Searle & Co. in development. In 1970, he and his son John Frye bought and ran a printing business in Clinton, Mich.

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