Eunice Harmon Knecht
From College of Fine Arts and Communications
Eunice Harmon Knecht graduated from BYU in 1951 with a degree in Speech and Drama. She went on to build a career as an interior decorator and is now retired.
While attending BYU Knecht lived on campus and shared one of her memories of that experience in the Summer 2009 edition of BYU Magazine.
In 1947, when I was a freshman, I lived with three roommates in Knight Hall. Our room was connected to and shared a bathroom with another room, which had only three occupants at first. About two weeks into the first quarter, our dorm mother introduced us to Bonnie, the fourth occupant of the connecting room. She was from a small town in Utah and was blind. She “looked” around the room with her hands and commented that we had changed the furniture. Unbeknownst to us, she had been shown her possible quarters while we were away, and we had indeed rearranged things a bit since then. We all felt that this “poor girl” would be our “burden to bear” and resolved to be as helpful and kind as possible.
We had developed a schedule for cleaning the bathroom, each of us taking a turn every seven weeks. One Saturday evening after we had all been gone most of the day, we came home to a sparkling bathroom. When one of us wondered out loud who had done it, Bonnie spoke up, “I did! I knew my turn would come, so I thought I might as well do it today.” Needless to say, we no longer worried about having a burden. Bonnie lifted ours in many ways.
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