Štěpánek, Olga Folda, 1906-1998.

Olga Folda Stepanek was born in 1906 in Linwood, Nebraska, and lived in Clarkson, NE, until she left to attend Downer College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She graduated in 1927 and spent the following year living with her parents in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She took two trips abroad, and traveled throughout Europe. She spent a year teaching high school in Illinois before completing a Master's in English from the University of Chicago. Following her graduation in 1930, she married Orin Stepanek, Professor of English and Slavonic languages at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL).

The Stepaneks had four daughters, Olenka (Lennie), Natasha (Tasha), Teresa (Tessie), and Antonia (Toni). Olga worked at home as a mother. She kept journals, remained a prolific letter writer, and wrote several short stories, including 'The Dowry' which appeared in "Prairie Schooner" in 1933, and 'Towers,' published in "American Czech Magazine." After Orin Stepanek's death in 1955, Olga Stepanek joined the faculty at UNL in the English department, and established the English as a Second Language Program. During the latter part

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