Professor Frost to Retire

One of the Croft Institute's most beloved professors, Dr. Peter Frost, will retire at the end of the semester.  Many students know Dr. Frost because they had him for East Asian studies, which he has taught every spring for the past decade, or for one of his upper-level classes on Vietnam and Iraq or East Asia through film.  In addition to teaching, Dr. Frost served as the interim director of the Croft Institute when it was first established in 1997. 

He has brought us some of our most interesting visiting speakers, including H.D.S. Greenway, a foreign correspondent for numerous publications who spoke earlier this month about the lessons of the Vietnam War, former Ambassador Nicolas Platt, who accompanied Richard Nixon on his visit to China in 1972 and helped establish the U.S. Embassy there the following year, and Dr. Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University, who spoke about Deng Xiaoping, the man who changed China.  Students, faculty, and staff alike will all miss Dr. Frost, and we wish him and his wife, Marnie, all the best as they move back to New England.