He was also a featured preacher on the nationally broadcast, Peabody Award winning The Protestant Hour radio program.
As a delegate to the 1956 General Conference of the Methodist Church, Frank led efforts to gain approval to establish a new seminary in Kansas City.
Lovett H. Weems, Jr., said "More than any one person, Bishop Frank is responsible for both the establishment of Saint Paul and setting its direction as a place for all God's people to prepare to lead."
Following retirement, he spent three years on the faculty of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Frank also held the distinction of the first President of the Council of Bishops of the United Methodist Church.
He formed the Metropolitan Planning Commission in Kansas City to address racial equality, human rights and needs.
In his final column in the Missouri Methodist newspaper (June 1972), he wrote, "War will never again be a way to settle arguments between nations."
He was survived by his daughters and sons-in-law Wilmagene and Lewis Noonan of Leawood, Kansas, and Susan and Mark Parsons of Ashbourne, Derbyshire in the U.K.; by a daughter, Gretchen Frank Beal of Knoxville, Tennessee, and son and daughter-in-law, Thomas E. Frank and Gail O'Day of Atlanta.
A memorial service was held at 11:00 a.m. on October 17, 2009, at the Central United Methodist Church of Kansas City.