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United States Bahá’í Directory Part II 1965-1966

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UNITED STATES BAHA'I DIRECTORY

PART II

NATIONAL COMMITTEES

1965-1966

INTERNATIONAL

International NGO Representatives to the United Nations

Functions: To represent the Baha’i International Com- munity in relation to matters concerning the United Nations.

Mrs, Mildred Mottahedeh Mr. George M. Nixon

U.S. NGO Representatives to the United Nations

Functions: To represent the National Spiritual As- sembly of the United States in relation to matters con- cerning the United Nations.

Mrs. Annamarie Honnoid Mrs. Florence Steinhauer

U.S. United Nations

Functions: To plan observances by the American Baha’j Community of special events supporting United Nations.

Mrs. Annamarie Honnold, Chairman

Miss Isabelle Silk, Secretary, 430 East 63 St., New York 21, N.Y.

Mrs. Lola Donaldson

Mrs. Lionel Gonzalez

Mrs, Etta Mae Mikhael

Mr. Frank B. Sawyer

Mrs. Juliette Soderberg

Mrs. Florence Steinhauer

INTERCONTINENTAL

Foreign Goals

Functions: To assist the National Spiritual Assembly in carrying out the international goals of the Nine-Year Plan assigned to the American Baha’i Community by the Universal House of Justice, including the recruit- ment and settlement of pioneers.

Mrs. Maurine Kraus Mrs. Sylvia Parmelee Mrs, Julia Shows

TEMPLE

Department of Temple Activities

Functions: To supervise the activities of the several Temple committees listed below, and to study, super- vise, improve and expand all activities such as worship, teaching, public relations, guiding, ushering, hospitality and similar current and new services at the House of Worship.

Mr. Leonard Braun, Chairman

Mrs, Lois Goebel, Secretary, 112 Linden Avenue, Wilmette, Illinois

Mrs, Jean Hutchinson

Mr. Richard McCurdy

Dr. Rexford C, Parmelee

Temple Worship

Functions: To plan and conduct the services of public worship in the Temple Auditorium, including music; to plan and conduct the programs for Baha’i anniversary gatherings held in the Temple (Naw-Ruz, Feast of Ridvan, Declaration of the Bab, Martyrdom of the Bab, Birth of the Bab, Birth of Baha’u’llah, Day of the Covenant).

Mrs. Barbara McCurdy, Chairman

Mrs. Beatrice Buckley, Secretary, 2444 Central Rd., Glen- view, Ill.

Mrs. Annamarie Baker

Miss Hortense Bredehorst

Mrs, Mabel Eastman

Mrs, William C, Henning

Mrs. Mary Lou Martin

Mrs. Harriet Terry

Temple Public Meetings

Functions: To conduct public meetings for the procla- mation of the Faith in Foundation Hall, including the six proclamation days as set forth by the National Spiritual Assembly.

Mr. Laurence LaRocque, Chairman

Mrs, Frances Hannen, Secretary, 607 Glendale Rd., Glenview, mM.

Dr. William K. Baker

Mr. Alex A. Briber

Mrs. Edna Coleman

Mr. Kent Holsinger

Mrs. Evelyn Marks �[Page 2]Temple Guides

Functions: To recruit, train and maintain a corps of guides for Temple visitors.

Mrs, Emma Allen, Chairman

Mrs. Helen Hobbs, Secretary, 500 E. Oakwood Blvd., Chicago, Il. 60653

Mrs. Minnie Hadley

Mrs, Nida Kern

Mr. Carl T. Meyer

Mr. James E. Tilford

Miss Katherine A. Walker

Temple Ushers

Functions: To provide ushers at the Sunday afternoon public devotions service and all other meetings held in the Temple Auditorium and public meetings in Foundation Hall.

Mr. Robert Coleman, Chairman, 1415 Darrow Ave., Evans- ton, Ill.

Mr. Kenneth Jennrich

Mr. Frank Pumilia

Mr. Leon Stevens

NATIONAL TEACHING

National Teaching

Functions: To proclaim and expand the Faith through- out the United States as called for under the Nine-Year Plan of the Universal House of Justice; to increase the number of localities where Baha'is reside; to raise groups to assembly status; to encourage, supervise and coordinate extension teaching activities of local spir- itual assemblies; to arrange teaching circuits and settlement projects; to plan and conduct teaching con- ferences; to foster youth teaching; to teach on college campuses; to enroll a greater number of believers from minority groups, especially Chinese, Japanese, Spanish- speaking peoples, Negroes, and off-reservation Amer- ican Indians; to encourage and stimulate isolated and small groups; to carry out any other national teaching activities approved by the National Spiritual Assembly.

Mr. James Nelson, Chairman

Dr. Rexford C. Parmelee, Secretary, 517A - 4th St., Wilmette, m.

Mr. T. Finlay Hollinger

Dr. Harrison Langrall

Mrs. Jane McCants

Mr, Glenford Mitchell

Mrs. Mildred Mottahedeh

Miss Bettijane Walker

Mr. James Keene (youth representative)

Community Development

Functions: To assist all local spiritual assemblies to be- come well-informed, firmly-grounded and actively func- tioning; to assist local spiritual assemblies in the achievement of incorporation and obtaining legal rec- ognition of Baha’i Holy Days and the Baha’i Marriage

Certificate; to facilitate dispersal; to carry out any other development activities assigned to the committee by the National Spiritual Assembly; to assist in the in- struction and training of youth in community participa- tion and personal conduct.

Miss D. Thelma Jackson, Secretary, 112 Linden Ave. Wil- mette, TI.

Dr. Amin Banani

Mrs. Lee Blackwell

Mrs. Gail Curwin

Mr. Samuel Jackson

Mr. Francis M. Johnson

Mrs. Marguerite Sears

American Indian Service

Functions: To devise ways and means of attracting and enrolling in the Faith greater numbers of American Indians resident on Indian reservations throughout the United States; to develop favorable attitudes toward the Faith among Indian leaders; to provide for trans- lation of the Teachings into Indian languages; to be responsible for the enrollment and deepening of believ- ers on reservations where there is no existing local spiritual assembly; to assist in the formation and train- ing of local spiritual assemblies on Indian reservations; to collaborate with the National Teaching Committee in its effort to carry the Teachings to greater numbers of nonreservation Indians.

Mr. John Cook, Chairman

Mrs. Maurine Thur, Secretary, 6549 W. Medlock Dr., Glendale, Ariz. 85301

Mrs. Beatrice Bechtold

Mr. George Bechtold

Mrs. Diana Cook

Miss Iris Danenberg

Mr. Frank Evans

Mr. Raymond Helmick

Mrs. Annie Kahn

Mr. Franklin Kahn

Mrs. Nancy Phillips

Mr. Calvin Thur

Committee on Education

Functions: To provide consultant services to the Na- tional Spiritual Assembly on matters of Baha’i educa- tion at all ages and technical levels; to collect, study and make recommendations regarding Baha’i educa- tional literature for all ages of Baha’{ learning; to su- pervise the preparation of courses for children, youth and adults suitable for utilization throughout the na- tional community; to conduct pilot programs of school curricula and material development as may be re- quested by the National Spiritual Assembly.

Dr. John Stroessler, Secretary, 4393 Avon Drive, La Mesa, Calif.

Dr. Dwight Allen

Mrs. Molley S. King

Mr. David Lepard

Mrs, Mildred Lepard

Mr. Fred Littman

Mrs. Dorothy Nelson

Mr. James Nelson �[Page 3]PROCLAMATION

Baha’i Publishing Trust

Functions: To publish and distribute the Baha’i Sacred Writings, books, pamphlets and other material author- ized by the National Spiritual Assembly.

Mrs, Eunice Braun, Managing Director, 110 Linden Ave., Wil- mette, Il.

National Reference Library

Functions: To continue to assemble and organize neces- sary material for a Baha’i Reference Library, includ- ing a master index of the Baha’i Sacred Writings; to supply on request Baha’i references on particular sub- jects, and to perform such other services as may be requested by the National Spiritual Assembly from time to time.

Mrs. Marian Lippitt, Chairman

Miss Adah M. Schott, Secretary, 206 Oney St., Charleston, W. Va. 25311

Mrs. Katharine Cole

Mrs. Amine DeMille

Mrs, June Harris

Mr, Edward Lippitt

Mrs. Janice Mollohan

Miss Pearl Poh]

Mrs. Lura Rouse

Miss Alma Sothman

Miss Eloise Walton

Service for the Blind

Functions: To prepare and distribute Baha’i literature for the blind.

Mrs. Amédée Gibson, Director

Mrs. Mary Francis Baral, Secretary-Librarian, 3110 E. Lester St., Tucson, Ariz, 85716

Mr. Lee O. Day

Child’s Way Editorial

Functions: To publish material in Child’s Way suitable for the education of children, based upon the Baha’i teachings, including the principles involved in the training of character and Baha’i standards of living.

Mrs. Jean Hutchinson, Managing Editor, P.O. Box 245, Wil- mette, Ill.

Mrs. Sylvia Dennis

Mrs, Bette Duiker

Mrs. Rosemary Eller

SERVICE

Baha’i News Editorial

Functions: To edit and publish Bahd’i News for the National Spiritual Assembly in accordance with the principles defined by Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Baha’i Faith.

Mrs. Sylvia Parmelee, Managing Editor Mrs. Eunice Braun, International Editor Miss Charlotte Linfoot, N.S.A. Representative

Reviewing

Functions: To pass upon the accuracy of manuscripts on the Faith submitted by members of the Baha’i com- munity and to report its recommendations to the Na- tional Spiritual Assembly.

Mrs. Alice S. Cox, Chairman-Secretary, 804 Hilldale St, Wash- ington, Ill, 61571

Miss Ruth Dasher

Mrs. Eleanor Hutchens

Mrs. Barbara Casterline

Distribution & Service Department

Functions: To handle for sale and distribution audio- visual materials, public proclamation items not dis- tributed or published by the Baha’i Publishing Trust; to produce and sell such items as photographs of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, the Baha’i Temples, Baha’i ring stones, and such other items as are listed in the Materials Di- rectory.

Dr. Rexford C. Parmelee, Manager pro-tem, 112 Linden Ave., Wilmette, Ill.

Music Reviewing

Functions: To receive and review manuscripts of orig- inal music submitted for possible Baha’i use; to solicit, receive and evaluate reports in regard to songs and music having possible Baha’i use; to make recommen- dations for possible reproduction of music in printed form and in recordings suitable for use in connection with Baha’i functions.

Mrs. Mildred McClellan, Secretary, 95 Avon Hill St., Cam- bridge, Mass.

Archives

Functions: To maintain the National Baha’i Archives and organize its contents; to receive and preserve ma- terial suitable for the National Baha’i Archives.

Mr, Carl Hannen, Chairman

Mrs. Myrtle Wendler, Secretary, 112 Linden Ave., Wilmette, Tm.

Mrs. Mineola Hannen

Convention Arrangements

Functions: To make the necessary physical arrange- ments for the National Convention.

Mr. J. Harvey Redson, Convenor Mr. Joseph Cole

Mrs. Dotha Cooper

Mr. Wyatt Cooper

Mrs. Minnie Hadley

Mrs. Nida Kern

Mr. Wilson Rankin

Mrs. Dorothy Redson

Mr. Irvin Somerhalder �[Page 4]MATERIALS DIRECTORY

This materials directory has been prepared to aid the Baha’is in directing inquiries and orders for materials to the proper committees and offices. No attempt has been made to list all of the materials and services avail- able from any single source, but rather to indicate where certain types of items may be obtained.

BAHA’{ PUBLISHING TRUST Mrs, Eunice Braun, Managing Director 110 Linden Avenue, Wilmette, Il.

Order only books, pamphlets, study outlines and mis- cellaneous teaching and administrative aids listed in the Baha’i Publishing Trust catalogs, in special an- nouncements sent out by the Trust, or in the Publish- ing Trust section of Bahd’i News concerning new and revised items. Out-of-print items listed in Bahd’i News should be deleted from catalogs.

DISTRIBUTION AND SERVICE DEPARTMENT Dr. Rexford C. Parmelee, Manager pro-tem, 112 Linden Ave., Wilmette, Ill.

Order from this department photographs of ‘Abdu’l- Baha, the houses of Worship, etc., slides, postcards, Temple models, Baha'i ring stones; audio-visual, ra- dio materials such as tapes and public proclamation and teaching aids not carried by the Baha’i Publishing Trust. Catalog available upon request.

ADMINISTATIVE FORMS National Baha’i Administrative Headquarters, Office Annex, 112 Kinden Ave., Wilmette, Ill. « Send here for enrollment cards, transfer cards, report forms, annual election report forms, identification cards and Baha’i marriage certificates.

MATERIALS FOR SPECIAL EVENTS

United Nations Day, Race Amity Day, etc., should be ordered directly from the committee responsible for planning those events. See Calendar of Special Events for sources of materials available. Watch Bahd’i News announcements for special materials and order only from the committee indicated.

BAHA’i NEWS EDITORIAL OFFICE 112 Linden Ave., Wilmette, Ill.

Articles, photographs and reports intended for Bahd’i News should be sent to the above address.

CHANGES IN ADDRESS FOR BAHA’i NEWS National Baha’i Administrative Headquarters, Office Annex

112 Linden Ave., Wilmette, Ili.

All changes in residence and addresses for Bahd’i News should be sent to the above address.

BAHA’! SERVICE FOR THE BLIND Mrs. Mary Francis Baral, Secty., 3110 E. Lester St., Tucson, Ariz.

Write this committee for list and price of Braille and talking books.

CHILD’S WAY, P.O. Box 245, Wilmette, Ill.

Subscriptions $2.00 per year for six issues, should be sent to the above address.

SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAMS and information per- taining to Baha’i Summer Schools must be requested from each school committee.

IMPORTANT!

When ordering any materials please make checks and money orders payable to the proper office or commit- tee. Do not combine in a single order materials availa- ble from other departments or committees as this de- lays prompt attention to the order. Neither should payment for materials available from several offices or departments be included in one check as this in- volves extra bookkeeping and accounting. DO NOT in- clude payments for materials in contributions to the National Baha’i Fund.

Payments for materials to: committee or offices concerned.

Contributions to the National Baha’i Fund to: 112 Linden Ave., Wilmette, Ill. �