[Dialogue] Remembering Frank Knutson

[Gail West]

Thanks for sharing this, Karen.  Do you, or anyone, have a picture of
Frank?   Gail West

On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 8:26 AM Karen Snyder via Dialogue <
dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> These are the words of Ed Feldmanis as he recalls his experiences of Frank
> Knutson:
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> Sitting in the very first collegium in 1971, at the Cleveland Religious
> House, we new interns introduced ourselves to each other. Frank, who was
> then known as Bob, began to talk about his Cincinnati background.
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> Frank had been part of a cadre, with numerous achievements, including
> recruiting RS-1 and the Parish leadership Colloquy. Like Frank, many of
> this group were members of the Friendship United Methodist Church. That
> cadre and it's pastor, Mark Dove, reinvigorated Sunday School classes and
> created a unique catechism for their youth based on RS-1.
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> Frank had been the director of a science center located in the repurposed
> Cincinnati Union Railroad Station. After several years it became apparent
> that the project was not economically viable, and it was time for Frank to
> move on. The moment was right for Frank and his family to make a vocational
> decision to live in a family religious order.
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> Frank brought with him a practical approach, logically based, on how to
> get things done. He was both a great handyman and a practical visionary who
> understood how to make spiritual events happen. It was Frank who inkinded
> and operated a used but still working A. B. Dick Press that was located in
> the Religious House basement. That was the tool that allowed the House to
> produce brochures and manuals that supported the work of Cleveland region
> colleagues.
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> Frank took to heart the call to be comprehensive and created the unique
> and most extensive Odyssey manual written at that time. When challenged
> about why it was necessary to be so fastidious, Frank answered that he
> wanted to create a tool in which a person who had never heard of the Order
> or The Odyssey could immediately facilitate the event. Frank even included
> meal menus and a shopping list. Later at the Anchorage Religious House,
> Frank used not only the comprehensive Odyssey manual, but went on to teach
> Anchorage house members how to write and produce brochures and manuals that
> would continue to support local colleagues.
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> Frank's passion was about the Word, which when he first was addressed by
> it and had his life changed, wanted to share it with everybody. It was the
> same Spirit many years later that led Frank to engage with the work of the
> Living Archives. Frank's domain was as the curator of some 40,000 images
> and photographs.
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>           ~~  Ed Feldmanis
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