Portrait photograph of Robert J. Knight.Robert Knight started his YMCA career in 1928 as the assistant young men’s secretary and a participant in the one-year Fellowship Training Class at the Dayton (Ohio) YMCA. In the 1930s and 1940s, he served as adult program secretary in the Columbus and Toledo (Ohio) associations. For 19 years, beginning in 1948, he was on the staff of the Ohio-West Virginia Area Council of YMCA. He held this position, in which he provided consulting services to local YMCAS, until 1967. In 1967, he became the first full-time executive director of the YMCA Association of Professional Directors (APD), developing new organizational structures for the APD. After his retirement in 1972, he continued to consult with local YM...