Article: AMHERST, Mass.: Amherst College Will Honor Poet and Longtime Professor Robert Frost With Sculpture

Amherst University issued the following press release:

Poet Robert Frost was a member of the Amherst College faculty for more than 40 years; he taught at the liberal arts college on and off beginning in 1917 and until his death in 1963. The Amherst College library is named for him.

Now Amherst College will recognize Robert Frost's role in the life of the college--and in American poetry--with a new sculpture on campus. Created by sculptor Penelope Jencks, the eight-ton granite likeness of Frost will be dedicated at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 2, during Amherst's Reunion Weekend. The sculpture is a gift of the college's Class of 1957, which is celebrating its 50th Reunion that weekend.

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