Frank was a nine-time letterwinner, earning four in football, four in baseball and one in basketball. The 1950 baseball team on which he played won an MIAA Championship. Frank excelled in football and was selected as MIAA Most Valuable Player in 1951, after being an Honorable Mention selection in 1950.
Since graduation, Frank has had an outstanding coaching career on both the high school and college levels. His Ferndale High School team won the State Championship in 1972, and Frank was selected as the Michigan High School Football Coach of the Year that same year.
Frank returned to his alma mater in 1973 and has in several capacities. As a head football coach, Frank won two MIAA Championships (1976 and 1977). The 1976 team garnered Albion's first 9-0 perfect season, and the 1977 squad earned the MIAA's first-ever post-season appearance in the NCAA Division III play-offs. As Albion's head baseball coach, he has won nine MIAA baseball Championships and was selected as an American Baseball Coaches District Coach in 1976. A member of the NCAA Baseball Rules Committee, he was instrumental in bringing the Division III National Baseball Championships to Battle Creek, with Albion College as the host school.
Frank served as athletic director for Albion from 1975-1991, and was an associate professor of physical education. While Joranko oversaw construction of the Herbert and Grace Dow Recreation and Wellness Center, the Elkin Isaac Track and the stands at Sprankle-Sprandel Stadium and hired Pete Schmidt who led Albion to nine MIAA championships and the 1994 NCAA Division III national championship as football coach, his legacy remains the thousands of lives impacted throughout his career.
"He was a compassionate man who believed in the goodness of people," former Briton running back and longtime men's track & field coach Dave Egnatuk recalled. "When Frank took over as athletic director, he was teaching, coaching, counseling students and directing the intramural program and he did all of those jobs very well. All of those jobs are now split up.
"Frank's most significant legacy is how he, along with Char Duff, championed the addition of women's sports," Egnatuk added. "He supported Title IX and its impact on our campus. That impacted thousands – even today – who don't even realize it."
Frank passed away in 2019.
