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BAHA’I DIRECTORY
Local Spiritual Assemblies and National Committees
1944-1945
Gorrected 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. Whit-
enack, 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. Rut- ledge, 2828 Stuart St., Zone 5 Beverly Hills: Sec'y. Mrs. J. T. Davenport, P. O. Box 794 Burbank: Séc’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 Gro- ver, 1310 E. Acacia Ave., Zone 5 Long’ Beach: Sec’y. Mrs. Graydon Robertson, 1328 Orange Ave., Zone 6 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, 243 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.
Ban Peenciscs: Gary Mee Dass 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.
Vancover, B. C.: Sec’y. Mrs. Evelyn Kemp, 1210 Harwood St.
Winnipeg, Man.: Sec'y. Miss Patricia Mosher, P. 0. Box 1:
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.L: 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 Duell, 561 Whalley Ave. West Haven: Sec’y. Mrs. Belle Brad- ley, 235 Thomas St., Zone 16
Gertrude
Delaware: Wilmington: Sec'y. Mrs. 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 Mat Sec’y. Mrs. Mary T. Fantom, Spreckelsville, Maui, Hawaii Idaho: Boise: Sec’y. Miss Elizabeth Adelman, 906 E. State St. Mllinois: Chicago: Sec’y Mrs. Sarah S. Walrath, 4639 Beacon St., Zone 40 Danville: Sec’y. Miss Mary L. Schroe- der, 1230 E. Wellington St. Elmhurst: Sec’y. Mary L. Fischer, 300 N. York St. Evanston: Sec’y. Miss Virginia Rus- sell, 2622 Prairie Ave.
Sara Terry
Maywood: Sec’y. Mrs, Gladys Amer- son, 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, Hard- ing, 704 W. Nevada St.
Waukegan Sec’y. Mrs. Harriet Terry, 1522 Melrose Ave.
Wilmette: Sec’y. Miss Bertha Herk- lotz, 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 Pat-
terson, 2725 Station St., Zone 1 South Bend: Sec’y. Mrs. Sarah M. Russell, 1031 Lincoln Way West Towa: 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: ee Sec’y. Mrs. Dorothy Cress, Eliot, ie.
Maryland: Baltimore: Sec’y. Mr. Rowland R. ‘Mann, Box 855
Bethesda-Chevy Chase: Sec’y Miss
Hanna Lohse, 6 Quincy St., Chase
Chevy
Massachusetts:
Beverly: Sec’y. Miss Helen A. Miller, 15 Ives St.
Boston: Sec’y. Miss Natalie Anderson, c/o Baha'i Center, 26 Huntington Ave., Boston 16
Brookline: Sec’y. Mrs. brose, 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 Park- er, 1601 Pontiac St.
Detroit: Sec'y. Mrs. Beatrice Eardley, 2810 Woodstock Dr., Zone 3
Flint: See'y. Miss Mabel Kitchen- master, 1123 S. Saginaw St.
Grand Rapids: Sec'y. Mrs. Walsh, 526 Jefferson Ave.
Lansing: Sec’y. Mrs, Kittie Shetterly, 813 Fayette St.
Gertrude Am-
Laura
Muskegon: Sec’y. Mrs. Bernice B. Neal, 332 Jackson Ave. Minnesota:
Duluth: Sec’y. Mrs. Virginia B. Pet- erson, 624 Arlington Ave., Zone 2
Minneapolis: Sec’y. Miss Sina O. Ol- sen, 123 S. llth St. Apt. H
St. Paul: Sec’y. Miss Voroth 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. Hart- field, 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 Mere- dith, c/o Nurses Home, Portsmouth Hospital
New Jersey
East Orange: Sec’y. Mrs. Wright, 105 Leslie St.
Montclair: Sec’y. Miss Bessie Noyes, 17 Carteret St., Upper Montclair
Teaneck: Sec’y. Mrs. Amy G. Raubit- schek, 126 Evergreen Pl., West En-
Amie B.
glewood, N. J. New Mexico Albuquerque: Sec’y. Mrs. Kathryn Frankland, 123 S, Edith New York
Binghamton: Sec'y. Miss Marie Chris- tian, 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.
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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 Chris- tian, 959 Lancaster Ave. Yonkers: Sec’y. Mrs. Lillian Rogers, 64 Locust Hill Ave., Zone 2 North Carolina Greensboro: Sec'y. Miss 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, Cin- cinnati 11 Cleveland: Sec'y. Mrs. Mary J. El- more, 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. 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
Adrienne
Wm.
Oklahoma City: Sec’y. Mrs. Alice Entzminger, 734 N. W. 20th St. Oregon
Portland: Sec’y. Mr. Fred S. Young, 3207 N. E. llth Ave.
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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. e
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. 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. Wat- Kins, 733 N. Bellevue . Nashville: Sec'y. Mrs. Lola M. Crutch- er, 2510 Meharry Bivd., Zone 8 Texas Houston: Sec’y. Miss Charlotte Stir- ratt, 3409 Mt. Vernon, Zone 6
Wm. Doull,
Utah Salt Lake City: Sec'y. Miss Margaret Naismith, 1329 Sunnyside Ave. Vermont Brattleboro: Sec'y. Mrs. Stone, 24 Chapin St.
Eleanor
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, Rich-
mond Beach Seattle: Miss Elsa Nordquist, 4508 18th N._E., Zone 5
- 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 Wise 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 Baha'i 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 Na- tional 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 spe- cial subjects as may be required from time to time.
Edwin Mattoon, Chairman, 105 Sixth St., Wilmette, Ill.
May Scheffler, Secretary, 1821 Lincoln St., Evanston,
Bertha Herklotz, Hashim Hassan, Dor- is Holley, Mineola Hannen, Gertrude Struven, Amelia E. Collins. Assembly Development Committee Functions: To assist in the develop- ment of Assemblies by providing a liaison between Assemblies and their National Spiritual Assembly for pur- poses of consultation on matters re- lating to their local progress, their relation to the National Spiritual As- sembly and to the use of their Na- tional 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.
Bah@i Exhibits Committee Functions: To prepare material suit- able for use in public exhibits; to supervise and conduct exhibits in state Fairs and regional or national
Expositions. Curtis Kelsey, Chairman, 502 Gren- ville Ave., West Englewood, N. J. Karl Krug, Rafi Mottahedeh. Bah@i News Committee Functions: To edit and issue BanA’i News for the National Spiritual Assembly.
Horace Holley, Secretary, 536 Sheri- dan Road, Wilmette, Ill.
Garreta Busey, Mabel Paine.
Bahd@i News Service Committee Functions: To prepare and release publicity material to the National Press agencies; to provide publicity material suitable for release by lo- cal publicity committees, traveling teachers and groups; to make avail- able Baha’i photographs and other illustrated material of special pub- licity interest; to encourage prepara- tion of magazine articles on Baha’ themes of particular current inter- est; to encourage and train local publicity committees in the develop- ment of Baha'i publicity activities, by means of bulletins and instruction material.
William Henning, Chairman, 69 Ab- bottsford Rd., Winnetka, Ml. Virginia Russell, Secretary, 2622
Prairie Ave., Evanston, Il.
Clarence Niss, Hazel Rawitsch, Eve- lyn Erdman, Lawrence LaRocque. Bah@i Public Relations Committee Functions: To deal with issues aris- ing in the public press which tend to create misunderstanding or prej- udice about the Baha’i Faith; to ad- vise local Assemblies in matters per-
taining to such issues; to prepare statements for encyclopedias and the public press.
Horace Holley, Chairman, 536 Sheri- dan Rd., Wilmette, Il.
George O. Latimer, Allen B. McDaniel. Bah@i World Editorial Committee Functions: To obtain material from all parts of the Baha’i world com- munity, including reports, articles, historical data and illustrations suit- able for use in the successive vol- umes of “The Baha’i World.”
Nellie S, French, Chairman, 786 Ches- ter Ave., San Marino 9, Cal.
Marion Longyear, Secretary, 965 Schu- macher Dr., Los Angeles 36,
Jessie Revell, Robert Gulick, Sarah M. Eason, Victoria Bedikian, Photograph Editor, Marzieh Gail, Bertha H. Kirk- patrick, Christine Lofstedt, Virginia Or- bison, Mrs. Barbara Dean Davenport, Margaret Swengel, Mrs. Mariam Haney.
Bah@i Service for the Blind
Functions: To provide Baha’i litera- ture in Braille for the blind; to place Baha’i Braille literature in libraries and other institutions; to encourage the formation of groups of Baha’i workers to increase the supply of Braille transcriptions, and to pro- vide other means for serving the blind.
Miss Ella Quant, General Chairman, 1089 Glenwood Bivd., Schenectady, N. Y. Talking Book Division Hilbert Dahl, Secretary, 1502 Camden
Drive, Charleston, West Va.
Miss Ella Quant, Hilda Stauss, Ger-
trude Shurgast, Sarah Schoeny.
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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 Doolit- tle, 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 Baha’i teachings on the subject of child education; to prepare lessons suit- able for classes of children; to co- operate with child education activi- ties maintained in local communi- ties.
Janet Lindstrom, Chairman, 1723 Liv- ingston St., Evanston,
Annamarie Mattoon, Secretary, 105 Sixth St., Wilmette, Il. Mary Haggard, Viola Tuttle, Mrs.
G. E. Perry, Harry Ford, Edvard Lind- strom.
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 Cen- tral and South America; to assist the pioneers; to encourage the for- mation of local groups and guide their development in administrative practice; to supervise the transla- tion of Baha’i 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 encour- age the interest in the Baha’i prin- ciple of an international auxiliary language; to make possible effective cooperation with other workers in the field of international language; to provide Baha’i literature in Es- peranto and other international lan- guages.
Roan U. Orloff, Chairman, Hotel Can- terbury, 14 Charlesgate West, Boston, Mass.
Della Quinlan, Luella Beecher, Charles R. Witt, Lucy J. Marshall, Anna Kin- caid, Anna Mikuriya, A. E. Regal, Mabel Davis, Mabel Vicary, J. M. Clifford, Etty Graeffe.
Publishing Committee Functions: To print and sell the lit- erature approved and authorized by the National Assembly.
Horace Holley, Chairman, 536 Sheri- dan Rd., Wilmette, Tl.
Harry E. Walrath, Carl Scheffler.
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Staff: Clara R. Wood, Manager, 110
Linden Ave., Wilmette, IL
J. T. Wood.
Race Unity Committee Functions: To compile the teachings on the subject of race unity; to pre- pare bulletins of information; to plan race unity activities and programs; to conduct special meetings; to co- operate with Assemblies in race unity activities; to bring the Baha’i 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. i:
Louis G. Gregory, Mary Stevison, Clar- ence Niss, Marzieh Gail, Roan Orloff, Matthew Bullock.
Radio Committee Functions: To make available ap- proved radio scripts on a variety of Baha'i 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 Matthisen, Wendell E. Bacon, Emeric Sala, Reginald King,
Radio Script Review Dept.
Shirley Warde, William Sears.
Reviewing Committee Functions: To pass upon the accu- racy 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, Street, Waterloo, N. Y.
Mary Collison, Marguerite Firoozi, Gretchen Westervelt.
Study Outline Committee Functions: To compile outlines suit- able for Baha'i study classes; to examine and recommend outlines submitted to the committee; to en- courage and promote the practice of organized Baha'i 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 ad- vice to drafted believers, furnishing information to Federal Government officials and in maintaining the
status of Baha’is under said act.
Allen B. McDaniel, P. O. Box 96, Wa- terford, Va.
Paul Haney, 816 Chalfonte Dr., Alex- andria, Va.
Temple Guides Committee Functions: To conduct visitors through the House of Worship; to hold classes for training Temple guides.
1 Chestnut
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, view Ave., Hollywood, Il.
John Haggard, Secretary, 1229 Cleve- land St., Wilmette, Il.
James Lewis, Edna Coleman, Harriet Hilpert, Edris Rice-Wray, Pari Zia-Wal- rath, Albert Windust.
Legal Committee Functions: To examine the incor- poration 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, N. E. 40th Ave., Portland, Ore.
Horace Holley, Secretary, 536 Sheri- dan Road, Wilmette, Ill.
Chester F. Barnett.
Library Committee Functions: To place literature in public and university libraries; to encourage local Assemblies to pro- vide books for local libraries; to maintain a record of all Baha’t lit- erature in public libraries as far as can be determined.
Mrs. Ellen Sims, Chairman, Apts., Redbank, N. J.
Helen Reynolds, Dorothy Fisher. National Teaching Committee Functions: Plan, supervise and co- ordinate nation-wide and regional teaching projects; cooperate with lo- cal Assemblies in stimulating and developing teaching activities; safe- guard the “spiritual prizes” already won; increase the number of Assem- blies; plan for the extension of teach- ing work into areas where there are no Baha'is; prepare material, plans and methods that will lead to more intensive teaching; supervise re-
gional 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, Sixth St., Wilmette, I.
Victor Alexander, Archie Tichenor, Curtis Kelsey, George Miller.
Temple Librarian and Sales Committee To conduct the sale of
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literature in Foundation Hall; to pro- vide facilities for the sale of Baha’i photographs, ringstones, display and exhibits, slides and other Baha'i ma- terial.
Harry E. Walrath, Chairman, 4639 Bea- con St., Chicago, Ill.
May Scheffler. s World Order Magazine Committee Functions: To edit the American Baha'i magazine,
Horace Holley, Chairman, 536 Sheri- dan Rd., Wilmette, Ill
Gertrude Henning, Secretary, 69 Ab- bottsford Rd., Winnetka, Ill.
Garreta Busey, Bertha H. Kirkpatrick, Translations Committee—German Functions: To translate Baha'i 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, N. E. 40th Ave., Portland, Ore.
Alice Robertson, Mrs. Florence Camp-
bell.
Regional Teaching Committees Regional Committees are “auxiliary agencies" of the National Teaching Committee, to whom their reports and all details of their teaching ac- tivities should be constantly and di- rectly referred. Specific function in their respective regions include: Or- ganize teaching circuits and route traveling teachers through coopera- tion with Assemblies, Groups and isolated believers; encourage and stimulate teaching activities of groups and isolated believers; ex- tend teaching work to areas where no Baha’is exist; assist groups and prepare them for the election of a Spiritual Assembly; coordinate inter-community teaching confer- ences; stimulate teaching through bulletins and teaching reports; en- dorse applications for enrollment and transfers of believers outside the jurisdiction of Assemblies.
British Columbia
Eve Cliff Southwell, Chairman, tus Lake, B. C., Canada.
Katherine Moscrop, Secretary, 6009 Al- ma Rd., Vancouver, B. C., Can.
Florence Sherborne, Mae McKenna, Viola China, Muriel Warnicker, Austin Collin.
Alberta, Saskatchewan and Mani- toba (Prairie Provinces)
Rowland Estall, Chairman, P. O. Box 121, Winnipeg, Man., Can.
Elizabeth Brookes, Secretary, 40 Ar- lington 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
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Ave., Forest Hill Village, Toronto, Ont., Can.
Laura Davis, Secretary, 44 Chestnut Park Rd., Toronto, Ont., Can.
Winifred Harvey, Ethel Priestly, Au- drey Robarts, F. St. George Spendlove.
Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince
Edward Island. Novia Scotia
Emeric Sala, Chairman, 423 Riverside Dr., St. Lambert, P. Q., Can.
Louise Boudler, Secretary, 3721 L’Ora- toire, Montreal, P. Q., Can.
Margaret Laurie, Rosemary Sala, Rag- nar Mattson, Siegfried Schopflocher, Wil- lard 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 Ma- ple Tr., Three Rivers, Mass.
Helen Archambault, Roushan Wilkin- son, Elizabeth Ober, Karl Krug, Ralph
Bates. New York
Ugo R. Giachery, Chairman, 10 Mitch- ell Pl, New York, 17, N. ¥.
Mrs. Mildred Mottahedeh, Secretary, 225 Fifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y.
Lilli Olitzki, Ida Noyes, Helen Camp- bell, Rinaldo Quigley, Gertrude Atkin- son, Harriet Pettibone.
New Jersey, Delmware, Pennsylvania
Archie Tichenor, Chairman, 19 Hunt- ting Dr., Dumont, N. J.
Mrs. Ethel Crane, Secretary, 100 Pros- pect 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 Car- penter Rd., Mansfield, Ohio.
Florence Reeb, Charlotte Lindenberg, Helen Patterson. Mary Elmore, Addie Miller, Muriel Miessler, Mr. Arthur Pat- terson,
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 Hun- toon 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. 2ist St., Minneapolis, Minn.
Marie Tetu, Katherine M. Whitmore,
Elsa Steinmetz, Marguerite Bruegger, Alice Dudley. : North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
Terah Smith, Chairman, Ave., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. Phoebe Babo, Secretary, 208 Palmer Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.
Phoebe Babo, Birdie Cunningham, Doris Ebbert, Luda Dabrowski, Chris- tine Bidwell, Louise Sawyer, Eva Mc- Allister, 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
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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. Ver- non St., Houston, Tex.
Clark Pollard, J. R. Reynolds, Char- lotte Stirratt, Mary Edson, Albert Entz- minger, 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. Washing- ton St., Boise, Idaho.
Sally Sanor, Isabelle Silk, Bertha Ss. oe Charles Bryan, John Saun- ers,
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 Mun-
son. Alaska
Honor Kempton, Chairman, Box 1156, Anchorage, Alaska,
Janet Whitenack, Secretary, Box 2334, Anchorage, Alaska.
Dagmar Dole, Betty Becker, Verne
Stout.
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National Youth Committee
Functions: To stimulate and coor-
dinate activities of Baha'i youth
throughout the American Bahéa’i
community; to initiate worldwide
youth symposiums; to issue bulletins
of suggestions, plans and news of
youth activity; to provide study ma-
terial; 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 re- ported.
Bah@i Schools Functions: To provide instruction and study courses; to train teachers; to conduct the school program; to encourage attendance at the school.
tyille School Sore 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 Gro- ger, 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 Gu- lick.
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, Ed- mund Miessler, Rebecca L. Wideman, Roscoe Springston, Margaret Swengel, Richard Suhm.
BAHA’{ DIRECTORY 1944-1945
International School Functions: To provide instruction for the training of Baha’i teachers wishing to serve in other lands, espe- cially, 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, Cov- ington, La.
Amelia Collins, George O. Latimer, Inez Greeven, Max Greeven, Wanden LaFarge, Mark Tobey.
College Speakers Bureau Functions: To bring the Baha'i Faith for the first time, in its uni- versal aspects, to all American col- leges, by lecture and literature; to provide a regular service of annual speakers to all colleges that would welcome it, by means of chapel plat- forms and classroom discussions; to continually deepen the interest of faculty members and students, ar- ranging wherever possible, classes for regular study of the Faith and training for Baha’i membership.
Kenneth Christian, Chairman, 118 Sum- mit Ave., Greenville, N. C.
Roberta Christian, Allen McDaniel.
American Memorial to ‘Abdu’l-Baha Functions: To maintain in Ever- green Cabin, West Englewood, N. J., an exhibit of books and photographs commemorating the visit of ‘Abdu’l- Baha to North America in 1912; to recommend other appropriate activi- ties such as meetings and lectures which will contribute to the memo- rial in perpetuating the spiritual sig-
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nificance of the master’s mission; to conduct the annual gathering com- memorating the unity feast given by ‘Abdu’l-Baha 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 Franciso, Calif.
Ameila E. Collins
Ted Groger
Ray Brackett
John Bosch
Green Acre Trustees Charles S. Krug. Chairman, Brookline Ave., Boston, Mass.
Roushan Wilkinson, Secretary, R.F.D. No. 190, North Attleboro, Ma:
Nancy Bowditch Emma Flynn
Temple Trustees Robert S. Hammond, Chairman, 1217 Asbury Ave., Winnetka, Il. Lloyd Robinson Clarence Ullrich
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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. �
