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Bahá’í Directory 1944-1945

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BAHÁ’Í DIRECTORY

Local Spiritual Assemblies and National Committees

1944-1945

Corrected as of September 1, 1944

Alabama: Birmingham: Sec’y. Mrs. J. C. Inglis 3431 Cliff Rd., Zone 5

Alaska: Anchorage: Sec’y. Miss Janet B. Whitenack, Box 2334

Arizona: East Phoenix Rural: Sec’y. Mrs. Nina Seibert 1114 E. Fairmont, Phoenix, Ariz.

Phoenix: Sec’y. Mrs. Zahrah Schoeny 302 W. Portland, Phoenix, Ariz.

Arkansas: Little Rock: Sec’y. Mrs. Lucy Hawkins, 719 Main St.

California: Alhambra: Sec’y. Mrs. Jessie B. Kemper, 1717 S. Date

Berkeley: Sec’y. Mrs. Helen B. Rutledge, 2828 Stuart St., Zone 5

Beverly Hills: Sec’y. Mrs. J. T. Davenport, P. O. Box 794

Burbank: Sec’y. Mrs. Zona D. Smith, 1014 E. Angeleno

Burlingame: Sec’y. Mrs. Valera F. Allen, 831 Walnut Ave.

Geyserville: Sec’y. Mrs. Mildred Brackett, Geyserville, Cal.

Glendale: Sec’y. Mrs. Charlotte Grover, 1310 E. Acacia Ave., Zone 5

Long Beach: Sec’y. Mrs. Graydon Robertson, 1328 Orange Ave., Zone 5

Los Angeles: Sec’y. Mr. Willard P. Hatch, 4367 W. 8th St., Zone 5

Oakland: Sec’y. Miss Florence S. Hay, 450 Lee St., Zone 10

Pasadena: Sec’y. Miss Dorothy Wever, 248 N. Madison Ave., Zone 4

Sacramento: Sec’y. Miss Elizabeth L. Duffy, 2223 E. Street

San Diego: Sec’y. Mrs. Gladys Loudon, 1846 2nd Ave., Apt. B

San Francisco: Sec’y. Mrs. Louise A. Groger, 64 Agua Way, Zone 16

Santa Barbara: Sec’y. Mrs. Virginia R. Zimmerman, 34 E. Sola St.

Canada: Edmonton, Alberta: Sec’y Mrs. L. S. Roche, 9934 108th St.

Vancouver, B. C.: Sec’y. Mrs. Evelyn Kemp, 1210 Harwood St.

Winnipeg, Man.: Sec’y. Miss Patricia Mosher, P. O. Box 121

Moncton, N. B.: Sec’y. Irmgard M. Matthews, 51 Lockhart Ave.

Halifax, N. S.: Sec’y. Miss Muriel Hutchings, 593 Gottingen St.

Toronto, Ont.: Sec’y. Mrs. Victor Davis, 44 Chestnut Park, Zone 5

Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Sec’y. Miss Helen Gidden, Box 452

Montreal, P. Q.: Sec’y. Mr. Ernest Sala, 423 Mayor St.

Regina, Sask.: Sec’y. Miss Lauretta Voelz, Box 264

Colorado: Colorado Springs: Sec’y. Mrs. Gladys Roberts, 915 N. Hancock Ave.

Denver: Sec’y. Mrs. Mildred H. Clark, 821 Marion St.

Connecticut: New Haven: Sec’y. Miss Gertrude Duell, 561 Whalley Ave.

West Haven: Sec’y. Mrs. Belle Bradley, 235 Thomas St., Zone 16

Delaware: Wilmington: Sec’y. Mrs. Sara Terry Taylor, 1229 Tatnall St.

Dist. of Columbia Washington, D. C.: Sec’y. Mrs. R. C. Parmelee, 4700 47th St., N. W.

Florida: Jacksonville: Sec’y. Miss Kathryn L. Vernon, 707 Post St., Zone 4

Miami: Sec’y. Mrs. Beth Holden, 65 S. E. Tenth St.

St. Augustine: Sec’y. Mrs. Francis A. Shaw, 139 Central Ave.

Georgia: Atlanta: Sec’y. Miss Doris Ebbert, 1247 Sells Ave., S. W.

Hawaii: Honolulu: Sec’y. Miss Henriette From, 70 N. Judd St., Zone 44

Maui: Sec’y. Mrs. Mary T. Fantom, Spreckelsville, Maui, Hawaii

Idaho: Boise: Sec’y. Miss Elizabeth Adelman, 906 E. State St.

Illinois: Chicago: Sec’y. Mrs. Sarah S. Walrath, 4639 Beacon St., Zone 40

Danville: Sec’y. Miss Mary L. Schroeder, 1230 E. Wellington St.

Elmhurst: Sec’y. Mary L. Fischer, 300 N. York St.

Evanston: Sec’y. Miss Virginia Russell, 2622 Prairie Ave.

Maywood: Sec’y. Mrs. Gladys Emerson, 901 S. 7th Ave.

Springfield: Sec’y. Mrs. Gretchen Schultz, 1628 S. Sixteenth St.

Peoria: Sec’y. Mrs. Charlotte Worley, 1702 Main St.

Urbana: Sec’y. Mrs. Esther G. Harding, 704 W. Nevada St.

Waukegan Sec’y. Mrs. Harriet Terry, 1522 Melrose Ave.

Wilmette: Sec’y. Miss Bertha Herklotz, 431 Greenleaf Ave.

Winnetka: Sec’y. Mrs. Willis S. Hilpert, 455 Chestnut St.

Indiana: Fort Wayne: Sec’y. Mrs. Lydia Schott, 668 Spring St.

Indianapolis: Sec’y. Mrs. Helen Patterson, 2725 Station St., Zone 1

South Bend: Sec’y. Mrs. Sarah M. Russell, 1031 Lincoln Way West

Iowa: Cedar Rapids: Sec’y. Miss Edna Mackinson, 620 First Ave., N. E.

Kansas: Topeka: Sec’y. Miss Fern Latimer, 822 W. 8th St.

Kentucky: Louisville: Sec’y. Mrs. Cecil Dennis, 645 S. 40th Ave., Zone 11

Louisiana: New Orleans: Sec’y. Miss Mary Ellen Reese, 304 S. Clarke St. Zone 18

Maine: Eliot: Sec’y. Mrs. Dorothy Cress, Eliot, Me.

Maryland: Baltimore: Sec’y. Mr. Rowland R. Mann, Box 855

Bethesda-Chevy Chase: Sec’y Miss Hanna Lohse, 6 Quincy St., Chevy Chase

Massachusetts: Beverly: Sec’y. Miss Helen A. Miller, 15 Ives St.

Boston: Sec’y. Miss Natalie Anderson, c/o Bahá’í Center, 26 Huntington Ave., Boston 16

Brookline: Sec’y. Mrs. Gertrude Ambrose, 1477 Beacon St.

Springfield: Sec’y. Mrs. R. A. Bates, 99 Princeton St., Zone 9

Worcester: Sec’y. Miss Fanny M. Holmes, 103 Webster St., Zone 3

Michigan: Ann Arbor: Sec’y. Mrs. Martha Parker, 1601 Pontiac St.

Detroit: Sec’y. Mrs. Beatrice Eardley, 2810 Woodstock Dr., Zone 3

Flint: Sec’y. Miss Mabel Kitchenmaster, 1123 S. Saginaw St.

Grand Rapids: Sec’y. Mrs. Laura Walsh, 526 Jefferson Ave.

Lansing: Sec’y. Mrs. Kittie Shetterly, 813 Fayette St.

Muskegon: Sec’y. Mrs. Bernice B. Neal, 332 Jackson Ave.

Minnesota: Duluth: Sec’y. Mrs. Virginia B. Peterson, 624 Arlington Ave., Zone 2

Minneapolis: Sec’y. Miss Sina O. Olsen, 123 S. 11th St., Apt. H

St. Paul: Sec’y. Miss ‎Voroth Dorothy‎ Kadrie, 2021 Randolph St.

Mississippi: Jackson: Sec’y. Mr. E. S. Campbell, 307 Buena Vista Blvd.

Missouri: Kansas City: Sec’y. Mrs. Albert Walkup, 344 N. Hardesty

St. Louis: Sec’y. Miss Nayan F. Hartfield, 4447 Washington Blvd. Zone 8

Montana: Butte: Sec’y. Miss Joan Palmer, 612 Phoenix Block

Helena: Sec’y. Mr. Charles M. Bryan, 507 Sixth Ave.

Nebraska: Omaha: Sec’y. Mrs. Doreene Holliday, 3014 N. 28th Ave.

Nevada: Reno: Sec’y. Mrs. Florence Mayberry, Box 2547

New Hampshire: Portsmouth: Sec’y. Mrs. Minnie Meredith, c/o Nurses Home, Portsmouth Hospital

New Jersey: East Orange: Sec’y. Mrs. Amie B. Wright, 105 Leslie St.

Montclair: Sec’y. Miss Bessie Noyes, 17 Carteret St., Upper Montclair

Teaneck: Sec’y. Mrs. Amy G. Raubitschek, 126 Evergreen Pl., West Englewood, N. J.

New Mexico: Albuquerque: Sec’y. Mrs. Kathryn Frankland, 123 S. Edith

New York: Binghamton: Sec’y. Miss Marie Christian, 38 Clarke St.

Buffalo: Sec’y. Mrs. Calvin Pritchard, 215 Humboldt Parkway

Geneva: Sec’y. Mrs. Lucy Heist, 46 Park Place

Jamestown: Sec’y. Mrs. Della Emery, 81 Fairmount Ave. [Page 2] New York: Sec’y. Mr. Robert Gulick, 305 Riverside Dr., Apt. 1 A Rochester: Sec’y. Mr. Tom L. Davis, 239 Roslyn St., Zone 11 Syracuse: Sec’y. Mr. Kenneth Christian, 959 Lancaster Ave. Yonkers: Sec’y. Mrs. Lillian Rogers, 64 Locust Hill Ave., Zone 2

North Carolina Greensboro: Sec’y. Miss Adrienne Ellis, 1016 Benbow Rd.

North Dakota Fargo: Sec’y. Mrs. Esther B. Morrill, 1240 Broadway

Ohio Cincinnati: Sec’y. Miss Hilda Stauss, 3640 Epworth Ave., Westwood, Cincinnati 11 Cleveland: Sec’y. Mrs. Mary J. Elmore, 2325 E. 95th St., Zone 6 Columbus: Sec’y. Mrs. Margarete Acebo, 777 Franklin Ave., Zone 5 Dayton: Sec’y. Mrs. Hazel Volz, 2837 Wayland Ave. East Cleveland: Sec’y. Prof. Wm. Sandoz, 1770 Delmont Ave. Lima: Sec’y. Mrs. Gertrude E. Spahr, 504 Orena Ave. Toledo: Sec’y. Mrs. Maxine A. Godsey, 3312 Manhattan Blvd., Zone 12

Oklahoma Oklahoma City: Sec’y. Mrs. Alice Entzminger, 734 N. W. 20th St.

Oregon Portland: Sec’y. Mr. Fred S. Young, 3207 N. E. 11th Ave.

Pennsylvania Philadelphia: Sec’y. Mrs. Dorothy M. Fisher, 7153 Bryan St., Zone 19 Pittsburgh: Sec’y. Mrs. Florence M. Zmeskal, 4628 Bayard St., Zone 3 Scranton: Sec’y. Mrs. Zenobia Dorsey, 1312 Linden St. West Chester: Sec’y. Mrs. Wm. T. Bowers, 619 W. Miner St.

Puerto Rico San Juan: Sec’y. Mrs. Ayned McComb, Box 2130, Zone 10

Rhode Island Providence: Sec’y. Mr. Wm. Doull, 92 University Ave.

South Carolina Greenville: Sec’y. Mrs. Adline Lohse, P. O. Box 1732

South Dakota Sioux Falls: Sec’y. Miss Frances B. Jones, 125 N. Prairie Ave.

Tennessee Memphis: Sec’y. Mrs. Thomas H. Watkins, 733 N. Bellevue Nashville: Sec’y. Mrs. Lola M. Crutcher, 2510 Meharry Blvd., Zone 8

Texas Houston: Sec’y. Miss Charlotte Stirratt, 3409 Mt. Vernon, Zone 6

Utah Salt Lake City: Sec’y. Miss Margaret Naismith, 1329 Sunnyside Ave.

Vermont Brattleboro: Sec’y. Mrs. Eleanor Stone, 24 Chapin St.

Virginia Alexandria: Sec’y. Mrs. Paul E. Haney, 816 Chalfonte Dr., Beverly Hills Arlington: Sec’y. Mrs. Margaret Gawen, 1241 N. Bluemont Dr.

Washington: Richmond Highlands: Sec’y. Miss Blanche Hillmann, Box 123, Richmond Beach Seattle: Miss Elsa Nordquist, 4508 18th Ave., N. E., Zone 5 Spokane: Mrs. Marget Stange, E-920 36th Ave. Tacoma: Mrs. H. Taylor, 412 S. 4th St., Zone 3

West Virginia Charleston: Sec’y. Miss Mildred Elmer, P. O. Box 227

Wisconsin Kenosha: Sec’y. Mr. Louis J. Voelz, 6108 Sheridan Rd. Madison: Sec’y. Mrs. Leon F. Griffin, 410 W. Shore Dr., Zone 5 Milwaukee: Sec’y. Mrs. Claire Fricke, c/o Bahá’í Center, 324 Commerce Bldg. Racine: Sec’y. Mr. Harold R. Olsen, 2007 Slauson Ave. Shorewood: Sec’y. Mrs. Marjorie Nedden, 3514 N. Murray Ave. Wauwatosa: Sec’y. Mrs. Robert C. Lewis, 2206 N. 90th St.

Wyoming Laramie: Sec’y. Mrs. Clair Gillespie, 309 S. 8th St.

Committees of the National Spiritual Assembly

Archives and History Committee Functions: To receive Tablets and other material suitable for the National Archives; to maintain the National Archives and organize its contents; to assist local Assemblies to develop local Archives; to obtain and organize historical data on special subjects as may be required from time to time.

Edwin Mattoon, Chairman, 105 Sixth St., Wilmette, Ill. May Scheffler, Secretary, 1821 Lincoln St., Evanston, Ill. Bertha Herklotz, Hashim Hassan, Doris Holley, Mineola Hannen, Gertrude Struven, Amelia E. Collins.

Assembly Development Committee Functions: To assist in the development of Assemblies by providing a liaison between Assemblies and their National Spiritual Assembly for purposes of consultation on matters relating to their local progress, their relation to the National Spiritual Assembly and to the use of their National Committees, their relation to the Guardian, their place in the New World Order, and the upbuilding of their administrative life.

Mrs. Amelia E. Collins, Chairman, Rte. No. 2, Box 394, Phoenix, Ariz. Dorothy Baker, Louis G. Gregory, Philip Sprague, Allen B. McDaniel.

Bahá’í Exhibits Committee Functions: To prepare material suitable for use in public exhibits; to supervise and conduct exhibits in state Fairs and regional or national Expositions.

Curtis Kelsey, Chairman, 502 Grenville Ave., West Englewood, N. J. Karl Krug, Rafi Mottahedeh.

Bahá’í News Committee Functions: To edit and issue BAHÁ’Í NEWS for the National Spiritual Assembly.

Horace Holley, Secretary, 536 Sheridan Road, Wilmette, Ill. Garreta Busey, Mabel Paine.

Bahá’í News Service Committee Functions: To prepare and release publicity material to the National Press agencies; to provide publicity material suitable for release by local publicity committees, traveling teachers and groups; to make available Bahá’í photographs and other illustrated material of special publicity interest; to encourage preparation of magazine articles on Bahá’í themes of particular current interest; to encourage and train local publicity committees in the development of Bahá’í publicity activities, by means of bulletins and instruction material.

William Henning, Chairman, 69 ‎Abbottsford Abbotsford‎ Rd., Winnetka, Ill. Virginia Russell, Secretary, 2622 Prairie Ave., Evanston, Ill. Clarence Niss, Hazel Rawitsch, Evelyn Erdman, Lawrence LaRocque.

Bahá’í Public Relations Committee Functions: To deal with issues arising in the public press which tend to create misunderstanding or prejudice about the Bahá’í Faith; to advise local Assemblies in matters pertaining to such issues; to prepare statements for encyclopedias and the public press.

Horace Holley, Chairman, 536 Sheridan Rd., Wilmette, Ill. George O. Latimer, Allen B. McDaniel.

Bahá’í World Editorial Committee Functions: To obtain material from all parts of the Bahá’í world community, including reports, articles, historical data and illustrations suitable for use in the successive volumes of “The Bahá’í World.”

Nellie S. French, Chairman, 786 Chester Ave., San Marino 9, Cal. Marion Longyear, Secretary, 965 Schumacher Dr., Los Angeles 36, Cal. Jessie Revell, Robert Gulick, Sarah M. ‎Eason Mason‎, Victoria Bedikian, Photograph Editor, Marzieh Gail, Bertha H. Kirkpatrick, Christine Lofstedt, Virginia Orbison, Mrs. Barbara Dean Davenport, Margaret Swengel, Mrs. Mariam Haney.

Bahá’í Service for the Blind Functions: To provide Bahá’í literature in Braille for the blind; to place Bahá’í Braille literature in libraries and other institutions; to encourage the formation of groups of Bahá’í workers to increase the supply of Braille transcriptions, and to provide other means for serving the blind.

Miss Ella Quant, General Chairman, 1089 Glenwood Blvd., Schenectady, N. Y.

Talking Book Division Hilbert Dahl, Secretary, 1502 Camden Drive, Charleston, West Va. Miss Ella Quant, Hilda Stauss, Gertrude Shurgast, Sarah Schoeny. [Page 3]

Braille Transcriptions Division

Mrs. Amedee Gibson, Secretary, 3 Malibu Beach, Pacific Palisades, Calif. Mayme Jackson, Salome Engelder, Mabel Perry, Dale Cole, Catherine P. Cole, Bahiyyih Valentine, Alice Doolittle, Doris Bolton, Eula Fritz, Ella Quant, Sophie Rieger, Louise K. Sayward, Adolph Feher, Proofreader, Gertrude Shurgast, Miss Melba Call.

Child Education Committee

Functions: To compile the Bahá’í teachings on the subject of child education; to prepare lessons suitable for classes of children; to cooperate with child education activities maintained in local communities.

Janet Lindstrom, Chairman, 1723 Livingston St., Evanston, Ill.

Annamarie Mattoon, Secretary, 105 Sixth St., Wilmette, Ill.

Mary Haggard, Viola Tuttle, Mrs. G. E. Perry, Harry Ford, Edvard Lindstrom.

Contacts Committee

Functions: To circularize selected lists of people with printed literature.

Mr. L. W. Eggleston, Chairman, R.D. No. 1, Davison, Mich.

Marguerite True, Secretary, 132 Moran Rd., Grosse Pointe, Mich.

Ethel Revell, Meta L. Dahl, Winifred Harvey, Martha Heber, Etta Catlin.

Inter-America Committee

Functions: To plan and supervise teaching activities throughout Central and South America; to assist the pioneers; to encourage the formation of local groups and guide their development in administrative practice; to supervise the translation of Bahá’í literature into Spanish, Portuguese and other languages as required.

Dorothy Baker, Chairman, 615 W. Elm St., Lima, Ohio.

Edna True, Secretary, 418 Forest Ave., Wilmette, Ill.

Loulie Mathews, Mary Barton, Mrs. Amelia E. Collins, Philip Sprague, Gwenne Sholtis.

International Auxiliary Language Committee

Functions: To develop and encourage the interest in the Bahá’í principle of an international auxiliary language; to make possible effective cooperation with other workers in the field of international language; to provide Bahá’í literature in Esperanto and other international languages.

Roan U. Orloff, Chairman, Hotel Canterbury, 14 Charlesgate West, Boston, Mass.

Della Quinlan, Luella Beecher, Charles R. Witt, Lucy J. Marshall, Anna Kincaid, Anna Mikuriya, A. E. Regal, Mabel Davis, Mabel Vicary, J. M. Clifford, Etty Graeffe.

Publishing Committee

Functions: To print and sell the literature approved and authorized by the National Assembly.

Horace Holley, Chairman, 536 Sheridan Rd., Wilmette, Ill.

Harry E. Walrath, Carl Scheffler.

Staff: Clara R. Wood, Manager, 110 Linden Ave., Wilmette, Ill. J. T. Wood.

Race Unity Committee

Functions: To compile the teachings on the subject of race unity; to prepare bulletins of instruction; to plan race unity activities and programs; to conduct special meetings; to cooperate with Assemblies in race unity activities; to bring the Bahá’í teachings to the minority groups in America, and to place race unity editorial material in the press.

Harlan Ober, Chairman, 53 Conant St., Beverly, Mass.

Miss Natalie Anderson, Secretary, 175 Dartmouth Street, Boston, Mass.

Louis G. Gregory, Mary Stevison, Clarence Niss, Marzieh Gail, Roan Orloff, Matthew Bullock.

Radio Committee

Functions: To make available approved radio scripts on a variety of Bahá’í subjects; to conduct radio campaigns; to stimulate the use of radio for teaching.

Genevieve Coy, Chairman, 10 Patchin Place, New York, N. Y.

Mildred Mottahedeh, Secretary, 225 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.

Florence Morton, Alice Bacon, Nina Matthiesen, Wendell E. Bacon, Emeric Sala, Reginald King.

Radio Script Review Dept. Shirley Warde, William Sears.

Reviewing Committee

Functions: To pass upon the accuracy of manuscripts submitted through the National Assembly; to examine manuscripts for literary quality and effectiveness and their usefulness as contributions to the published literature.

Marion Mills, Chairman, 1 Chestnut Street, Waterloo, N. Y.

Mary Collison, Marguerite Firoozi, Gretchen Westervelt.

Study Outline Committee

Functions: To compile outlines suitable for Bahá’í study classes; to examine and recommend outlines submitted to the committee; to encourage and promote the practice of organized Bahá’í study.

Miss Ida Noyes, Chairman, 43 Davis Street, Binghamton, N. Y.

Mrs. Ruth Hart, Mrs. Bahiyyih Ford.

Selective Service Advisory Committee

Functions: To serve the Cause in connection with the Administration of the Selective Service Act by advice to drafted believers, furnishing information to Federal Government officials and in maintaining the status of Bahá’ís under said act.

Allen B. McDaniel, P. O. Box 96, Waterford, Va.

Paul Haney, 816 Chalfonte Dr., Alexandria, Va.

Temple Guides Committee

Functions: To conduct visitors through the House of Worship; to hold classes for training Temple guides.

Helen Roach, Chairman, 1227 Leon Place, Evanston, Ill.

Edwin W. Mattoon, Harriet Hilpert, Lawrence LaRocque, Ruth Westgate, Marvin Newport, Clarence Suhm, Joan Crawford.

Temple Program Committee

Functions: To conduct the weekly public meeting in Foundation Hall; to conduct such other devotional or public meetings as may be approved from time to time by the National Assembly.

Monroe Ioas, Chairman, 8502 Parkview Ave., Hollywood, Ill.

John Haggard, Secretary, 1229 Cleveland St., Wilmette, Ill.

James Lewis, Edna Coleman, Harriet Hilpert, Edris Rice-Wray, Pari Zia-Walrath, Albert Windust.

Legal Committee

Functions: To examine the incorporation papers prepared by local Assemblies; to provide information needed for local incorporation; to assist the National Assembly in meeting any other legal questions that might arise.

George O. Latimer, Chairman, 1927 N. E. 40th Ave., Portland, Ore.

Horace Holley, Secretary, 536 Sheridan Road, Wilmette, Ill.

Chester F. Barnett.

Library Committee

Functions: To place literature in public and university libraries; to encourage local Assemblies to provide books for local libraries; to maintain a record of all Bahá’í literature in public libraries as far as can be determined.

Mrs. Ellen Sims, Chairman, Leroy Apts., Redbank, N. J.

Helen Reynolds, Dorothy Fisher.

National Teaching Committee

Functions: Plan, supervise and coordinate nation-wide and regional teaching projects; cooperate with local Assemblies in stimulating and developing teaching activities; safeguard the “spiritual prizes” already won; increase the number of Assemblies; plan for the extension of teaching work into areas where there are no Bahá’ís; prepare material, plans and methods that will lead to more intensive teaching; supervise regional committees.

Leroy Ioas, Chairman, 640 46th Ave., San Francisco 21, Calif.

Charlotte Linfoot, Secretary, 156 Nova Drive, Piedmont, Calif.

George O. Latimer, Amelia E. Collins, Marion Holley, Amelia Bowman.

Photography Committee

Functions: To obtain and preserve photographic material, both motion and still, of historical interest and teaching value.

Edwin W. Mattoon, Secretary, 105 Sixth St., Wilmette, Ill.

Victor Alexander, Archie Tichenor, Curtis Kelsey, George Miller.

Temple Librarian and Sales Committee

Functions: To conduct the sale of [Page 4] literature in Foundation Hall; to provide facilities for the sale of Bahá’í photographs, ringstones, display and exhibits, slides and other Bahá’í material.

Harry E. Walrath, Chairman, 4639 Beacon St., Chicago, Ill. May Scheffler.

World Order Magazine Committee

Functions: To edit the American Bahá’í magazine.

Horace Holley, Chairman, 536 Sheridan Rd., Wilmette, Ill. Gertrude Henning, Secretary, 69 Abbottsford Rd., Winnetka, Ill. Garreta Busey, Bertha H. Kirkpatrick.

Translations Committee—German

Functions: To translate Bahá’í texts into German.

Siegfried Schopflocher, Chairman, 1102 University St., Montreal, P. Q., Canada. Hanna Neumann, Karl Neumann, Carol Hautz, Gertrude Shurgast.

Pamphlet Literature Committee

Functions: To gather manuscripts for a new series of pamphlets which will assist the smaller communities in their teaching work.

George O. Latimer, Chairman, 1927 N. E. 40th Ave., Portland, Ore. Alice Robertson, Mrs. Florence Campbell.

Regional Teaching Committees

Regional Committees are “auxiliary agencies” of the National Teaching Committee, to whom their reports and all details of their teaching activities should be constantly and directly referred. Specific ‎function functions‎ in their respective regions include: Organize teaching circuits and route traveling teachers through cooperation with Assemblies, Groups and isolated believers; encourage and stimulate teaching activities of groups and isolated believers; extend teaching work to areas where no Bahá’ís exist; assist groups and prepare them for the election of a Spiritual Assembly; coordinate inter-community teaching conferences; stimulate teaching through bulletins and teaching reports; endorse applications for enrollment and transfers of believers outside the jurisdiction of Assemblies.

British Columbia

Eve Cliff Southwell, Chairman, Cultus Lake, B. C., Canada. Katherine Moscrop, Secretary, 6009 Alma Rd., Vancouver, B. C., Can. Florence Sherborne, Mae McKenna, Viola China, Muriel Warnicker, Austin Collin.

Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba (Prairie Provinces)

Rowland Estall, Chairman, P. O. Box 121, Winnipeg, Man., Can. Elizabeth Brookes, Secretary, 40 Arlington St., Winnipeg, Man., Can. Jean Johnston, Blanche Mosher, Oscar Arkles, Doris Skinner, Anita Ioas, Ernest Court, Ann McGee.

Ontario (Including Ottawa)

John Robarts, Chairman, 4 Millbank Ave., Forest Hill Village, Toronto, Ont., Can. Laura Davis, Secretary, 44 Chestnut Park Rd., Toronto, Ont., Can. Winifred Harvey, Ethel Priestly, Audrey Robarts, F. St. George Spendlove.

Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia

Emeric Sala, Chairman, 423 Riverside Dr., St. Lambert, P. Q., Can. Louise Boudler, Secretary, 3721 L’Oratoire, Montreal, P. Q., Can. Margaret Laurie, Rosemary Sala, Ragnar Mattson, Siegfried Schopflocher, Willard McKay, Mrs. Merle McEwen, Fred Wade, Lloyd Gardner.

Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut

Florence Morton, Chairman, 5 Wheeler Ave., Worcester, Mass. Hattie Chamberlin, Secretary, 11 Maple Tr., Three Rivers, Mass. Helen Archambault, Roushan Wilkinson, Elizabeth Ober, Karl Krug, Ralph Bates.

New York

Ugo R. Giachery, Chairman, 10 Mitchell Pl., New York, 17, N. Y. Mrs. Mildred Mottahedeh, Secretary, 225 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y. Lilli Olitzki, Ida Noyes, Helen Campbell, Rinaldo Quigley, Gertrude Atkinson, Harriet Pettibone.

New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania

Archie Tichenor, Chairman, 19 Hunting Dr., Dumont, N. J. Mrs. Ethel Crane, Secretary, 100 Prospect Ave., Hackensack, N. J. Stuart Sims, Cynthia Powell, Florence Zmeskal, Jean Sharpless, Curtis Kelsey, Ida Huff, Dr. Mary Coffin.

Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia

Paul Haney, Chairman, 816 Chalfonte Dr., Alexandria, Va. Annamarie Honnold, Secretary, 3008 Lake Ave., Cheverly, Hyattsville, Md. Hazel Langrall, Mildred Elmer, Mrs. J. E. Rice, Elsie Austin, Raymond Rouse, Martha Dorrida, Hannah Lohse.

Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky

Edmund Miessler, Chairman, 411 S. Main St., Columbus Grove, Ohio. Margarite Ullrich, Secretary, 124 Carpenter Rd., Mansfield, Ohio. Florence Reeb, Charlotte Lindenberg, Helen Patterson, Mary Elmore, Addie Miller, Muriel Miessler, Mr. Arthur Patterson.

Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa

Katherine True, Chairman, 418 Forest Ave., Wilmette, Ill. Margery McCormick, Secretary, 503 Chestnut St., Winnetka, Ill. Monroe Ioas, Clarence Niss, Charles Reimer, Gertrude Struven, Adelaide Duff, Anna Kunz, Julia Sobel Shows.

Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska

Bertha Campbell, Chairman, 403 Hunton St., Topeka, Kansas. Opal Winans, Secretary, 421 N. Spring St., Independence, Mo. Anna Williams, May Brown, Eunice Baker, Velma Sherrill, Nayan Hartfield, Madelon Becktel.

Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota

Maria Montana, Chairman, 2009 Queen St., Minneapolis, Minn. Leonora Klein, Secretary, 2235 W. 21st St., Minneapolis, Minn. Marie Tetu, Katherine M. Whitmore, Elsa Steinmetz, Marguerite Bruegger, Alice Dudley.

North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

Terah Smith, Chairman, 572 Page Ave., N. E., Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Phoebe Babo, Secretary, 208 Palmer Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. Phoebe Babo, Birdie Cunningham, Doris Ebbert, Luda Dabrowski, Christine Bidwell, Louise Sawyer, Eva McAllister, Mrs. Margaret Ruhe.

Florida

Romette Davison, Chairman, 311 N. W. 30th St., Miami, Fla. Lucile Buffin, Secretary, 49 S. E. 6th St., Miami 36, Fla. Emily Bethel, Esther Webster Davison, Kathryn Vernon, Winifred Richards, Frances Guy.

Tennessee, Alabama

John Inglis, Chairman, 3431 Cliff Rd., Birmingham, Ala. Nina Howard, Secretary, 1315 S. 29th St., Birmingham, Ala. Martha Fettig, Robert Durr, Homer Dyer, A. K. Kessler, Nellie Roche, Edna Williams.

Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas

Marion Little, Chairman, Box 255, Covington, La. Esther Klein Little, Secretary, 3905 N. Claiborne St., New Orleans, La. Evelyn Bivins, Anna Smith, Margaret Ellis, Dorothy Campbell, Lane Skelton.

Oklahoma, Texas

Inez Butterfield, Chairman, 3409 Mt. Vernon St., Houston, Tex. Doris Corbin, Secretary, 3409 Mt. Vernon St., Houston, Tex. Clark Pollard, J. R. Reynolds, Charlotte Stirratt, Mary Edson, Albert Entzminger, Elizabeth Bailey.

California, Nevada, Arizona

Charles Witt, Chairman, 1508 Georgina Ave., Santa Monica, Cal. Mrs. Jesma Herbert, Secretary, 5372 Templeton St., Los Angeles, 32, Calif. Georgia Fitzgerald, Hascle Cornbleth, Jessie Kemper, R. F. Willis, Nancy Phillips, Sylvia Ioas, Florence Mayberry.

Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico

Mildred Clark, Chairman, 821 Marion St., Denver 3, Colo. Theresa Lillywhite, Secretary, 1015 Grand Ave., Laramie, Wyo. Rita Wallace, E. Lenore Morris, Clair Gillespie, Gladys Roberts, Kathryn Frankland, May Arno.

Idaho, Montana, Utah

Genevieve Ingham, Chairman, c/o Adelman, 906 State St., Boise, Idaho. Ona Ault, Secretary, 1402 E. Washington St., Boise, Idaho. Sally Sanor, Isabelle Silk, Bertha S. Adelmann, Charles Bryan, John Saunders.

Washington, Oregon

George Washington, Chairman, 1829 25th Ave., Seattle 22, Wash. Helen Wilks, Secretary, 319 N. 83rd St., Seattle 3, Wash. Clara Rainboth, Marjorie Taylor, Myrtle Campbell, Lavina Sprau Walter, John Clifford, Rachel Porter, Levi Munson.

Alaska

Honor Kempton, Chairman, Box 1156, Anchorage, Alaska. Janet Whitenack, Secretary, Box 2334, Anchorage, Alaska. Dagmar Dole, Betty Becker, Verne Stout. [Page 5]

National Youth Committee

Functions: To stimulate and coordinate activities of Bahá’í youth throughout the American Bahá’í community; to initiate worldwide youth symposiums; to issue bulletins of suggestions, plans and news of youth activity; to provide study material; to arrange conferences.

Robert Miessler, Chairman, 411 S. Main St., Columbus Grove, Ohio. Janet Spahr, Secretary, 504 Orena Ave., Lima, Ohio. Jeanne Pettit. Mrs. Muriel Miessler, Youth Adviser.

Additional appointments will be reported.

Bahá’í Schools

Functions: To provide instruction and study courses; to train teachers; to conduct the school program; to encourage attendance at the school.

Geyserville School

Arthur Dahl, Chairman, 2150 Byron St., Palo Alto, Calif. Gladyce Linfoot, Secretary, 156 Nova Drive, Piedmont, Calif. John Bosch, Amelia Bowman, Irvin Somerhalder, Sylvia Ioas, Louise Groger, Joyce Dahl, Mildred Nichols, Arna Perron.

Green Acre School

Genevieve Coy, Chairman, 10 Patchin Place, New York, N. Y. Wm. Roessler, Secretary, 246 W. 21st St., New York, N. Y. Bishop Brown, Glenn Shook, Sarah Eason, Mary McClennen, Robert Gulick.

Louhelen School

Bertha Hyde Kirkpatrick, Chairman, Olivet, Michigan. Helen Eggleston, Secretary, 3208 S. State Rd., M. 15, Davison, Mich. Phyllis Hall, Cor. Secretary, P. O. Box 25, Goodrich, Mich. Harry Whang, L. W. Eggleston, Edmund Miessler, Rebecca L. Wideman, Roscoe Springston, Margaret Swengel, Richard Suhm.

International School

Functions: To provide instruction for the training of Bahá’í teachers wishing to serve in other lands, especially, at present, in Central or South America; to stimulate Latin American contacts and activities by local assemblies in North America.

Loulie Mathews, Chairman, Box 1064, Pine Valley, Colorado Springs, Colo. Marion Little, Secretary, Box 255, Covington, La. Amelia Collins, George O. Latimer, Inez Greeven, Max Greeven, Wanden LaFarge, Mark Tobey.

College Speakers Bureau

Functions: To bring the Bahá’í Faith for the first time, in its universal aspects, to all American colleges, by lecture and literature; to provide a regular service of annual speakers to all colleges that would welcome it, by means of chapel platforms and classroom discussions; to continually deepen the interest of faculty members and students, arranging wherever possible, classes for regular study of the Faith and training for Bahá’í membership.

Kenneth Christian, Chairman, 118 Summit Ave., Greenville, N. C. Roberta Christian, Allen McDaniel.

American Memorial to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

Functions: To maintain in Evergreen Cabin, West Englewood, N. J., an exhibit of books and photographs commemorating the visit of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to North America in 1912; to recommend other appropriate activities such as meetings and lectures which will contribute to the memorial in perpetuating the spiritual significance of the master’s mission; to conduct the annual gathering commemorating the unity feast given by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in 1912.

Edith Inglis, Chairman, 474 W. 238th St., Fieldstone, N. Y. Harriet Kelsey, Roy C. Wilhelm, Amy Raubitschek, Agnes Tichenor, Carrie Kinney, Alai Kalantar, Doris Raymond, Walter Goodfellow.

Trustee Properties

Maintenance Committees

Bosch Trustees

Leroy Ioas, Chairman, 640 Forty-Sixth Ave., San Francisco, Calif. ‎Ameila Amelia‎ E. Collins Ted Groger Ray Brackett John Bosch

Green Acre Trustees

Charles S. Krug, Chairman, 274 Brookline Ave., Boston, Mass. Roushan Wilkinson, Secretary, R.F.D. No. 190, North Attleboro, Mass. Nancy Bowditch Emma Flynn

Temple Trustees

Robert S. Hammond, Chairman, 1217 Asbury Ave., Winnetka, Ill. Lloyd Robinson Clarence Ullrich

Wilhelm Trustees

Roy C. Wilhelm, Chairman, North Lovell, Maine. Walter Goodfellow Amy Raubitschek

Wilson Trustees

Harlan Ober, 53 Conant St., Beverly, Mass. Victor Archambault, 2 Pilgrim Rd., Arlington, Mass.