The Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2012

years (1943-1946) in the U.S. Army as a rifleman and interpreter for the Al- lied Military Government in Germany and France. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1947, and joined the Foreign Service the same year. From 1947 to 1957, Mr. Davis served in embassies in Germany, South Africa and Israel. He then took up So- viet area and Russian language studies at Harvard University, where he re- ceived his master’s degree in public ad- ministration. Between 1960 and 1965, he was posted to Bonn as first secretary and political officer for Berlin and commu- nist bloc affairs. He then served as deputy policy chief at the Voice of America in Washington, D.C., and at- tended the National War College (Class of 1969). From 1970 to 1974 he was deputy chief of mission in Honduras; and from 1975 to 1978, he was DCM and politi- cal adviser in West Berlin. His last as- signment before retiring was as diplomat-in-residence at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. Mr. Davis’s wife, Marilyn F. Davis, died in March 2002. He is survived by his daughter, Ruth Davis Brown of Wooster, Ohio; two sons, Jonathan of Wooster, and Richardson of PalmHar- bor, Fla.; and eight grandchildren. William Lee Frost , 84, a former Foreign Service officer, died on Sept. 7, 2011, in New York City. Mr. Frost was born in Larchmont, N.Y., to Charles and Eva Frost. He graduated from Bayside High School and served in the Navy during World War II before attending Harvard Col- lege, graduating in 1947. He graduated fromYale Law School in 1951 and from the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration in 1958. Joining the State Department For- eign Service in 1952, Mr. Frost served overseas in Belgrade, Salzburg and Bad Godesberg. Because of the illness of his first wife, Judith, he left the Foreign Service in 1959, returning to New York City. There he re-entered legal prac- tice, specializing in management and investments. He later became president and then chairman of the board of the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation. Under his lead- ership for three decades, the founda- tion had a positive impact on hundreds of worthy Jewish, educational and civic causes throughout the world. Always interested in health issues, Mr. Frost served as a member of the Public Health Council of the New York State Department of Health under Governor Hugh Carey from 1985 to 1987, and as treasurer and di- rector of the New York Heart Associ- ation. He was also a trustee of the Brearley School, the Collegiate School, Marlboro College and Rad- cliffe College. As a student at Harvard, Mr. Frost had been the founding president of the college’s chapter of the Hillel Founda- tion for Jewish Campus Life. Later, as a graduate, he joined its visiting com- mittee and became honorary curator and president of Judaica at Harvard University Library. He also served as a member of the Visiting Committee to Harvard Divinity School. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Frost was chair of the New York State Archives Partnership Trust. He was also the president and a director of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and a trustee of the PEF Israel Endowment Funds, Inc. Friends, family and colleagues re- J U LY- A U G U S T 2 0 1 2 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 67 I N M E M O R Y CHANGE OF ADDRESS Moving? Take AFSA With You! Change your address online, visit us at http://www.afsa.org/ address_change.aspx Or Send change of address to: AFSA Membership Department 2101 E Street NW Washington, DC 20037