Bahá’í News/Inserts/Issue 414/United States Bahá’í Directory Part II 1965-1966/Text

Bahá’í News/Inserts/Issue 414/United States Bahá’í Directory Part II 1965-1966

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INTERNATIONAL

International NGO Representatives to the United Nations Functions: To represent the Bahá’í International Community 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 Assembly of the United States in relation to matters concerning the United Nations. Mrs. Annamarie Honnold Mrs. Florence Steinhauer

U.S. United Nations Functions: To plan observances by the American Bahá’í 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 Bahá’í Community by the Universal House of Justice, including the recruitment 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, supervise, 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 Bahá’í anniversary gatherings held in the Temple (Naw-Rúz, Feast of Ridván, Declaration of the Báb, Martyrdom of the Báb, Birth of the Báb, Birth of Bahá’u’lláh, Day of the Covenant). Mrs. Barbara McCurdy, Chairman Mrs. Beatrice Buckley, Secretary, 2444 Central Rd., Glenview, 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 proclamation 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, Ill. 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, Ill. 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., Evanston, Ill. Mr. Kenneth Jennrich Mr. Frank Pumilia Mr. Leon Stevens

National Teaching

Functions: To proclaim and expand the Faith throughout the United States as called for under the Nine-Year Plan of the Universal House of Justice; to increase the number of localities where Bahá’ís reside; to raise groups to assembly status; to encourage, supervise and coordinate extension teaching activities of local spiritual assemblies; to arrange teaching circuits and settlement projects; to plan and conduct teaching conferences; 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 American 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, Ill. 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 become well-informed, firmly-grounded and actively functioning; to assist local spiritual assemblies in the achievement of incorporation and obtaining legal recognition of Bahá’í Holy Days and the Bahá’í 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 instruction and training of youth in community participation and personal conduct.

Miss D. Thelma Jackson, Secretary, 112 Linden Ave., Wilmette, Ill. 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 translation of the Teachings into Indian languages; to be responsible for the enrollment and deepening of believers on reservations where there is no existing local spiritual assembly; to assist in the formation and training 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 National Spiritual Assembly on matters of Bahá’í education at all ages and technical levels; to collect, study and make recommendations regarding Bahá’í educational literature for all ages of Bahá’í learning; to supervise the preparation of courses for children, youth and adults suitable for utilization throughout the national community; to conduct pilot programs of school curricula and material development as may be requested 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

Bahá’í Publishing Trust

Functions: To publish and distribute the Bahá’í Sacred Writings, books, pamphlets and other material authorized by the National Spiritual Assembly.

Mrs. Eunice Braun, Managing Director, 110 Linden Ave., Wilmette, Ill.

National Reference Library

Functions: To continue to assemble and organize necessary material for a Bahá’í Reference Library, including a master index of the Bahá’í Sacred Writings; to supply on request Bahá’í references on particular subjects, 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 Pohl Mrs. Lura Rouse Miss Alma Sothman Miss Eloise Walton

Service for the Blind

Functions: To prepare and distribute Bahá’í 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 Bahá’í teachings, including the principles involved in the training of character and Bahá’í standards of living.

Mrs. Jean Hutchinson, Managing Editor, P.O. Box 245, Wilmette, Ill. Mrs. Sylvia Dennis Mrs. Bette Duiker Mrs. Rosemary Eller

SERVICE

Bahá’í News Editorial

Functions: To edit and publish Bahá’í News for the National Spiritual Assembly in accordance with the principles defined by Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá’í 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 Bahá’í community and to report its recommendations to the National Spiritual Assembly.

Mrs. Alice S. Cox, Chairman-Secretary, 804 Hilldale St., Washington, 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 distributed or published by the Bahá’í Publishing Trust; to produce and sell such items as photographs of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the Bahá’í Temples, Bahá’í ring stones, and such other items as are listed in the Materials Directory.

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

Music Reviewing

Functions: To receive and review manuscripts of original music submitted for possible Bahá’í use; to solicit, receive and evaluate reports in regard to songs and music having possible Bahá’í use; to make recommendations for possible reproduction of music in printed form and in recordings suitable for use in connection with Bahá’í functions.

Mrs. Mildred McClellan, Secretary, 95 Avon Hill St., Cambridge, Mass.

Archives

Functions: To maintain the National Bahá’í Archives and organize its contents; to receive and preserve material suitable for the National Bahá’í Archives.

Mr. Carl Hannen, Chairman Mrs. Myrtle Wendler, Secretary, 112 Linden Ave., Wilmette, Ill. Mrs. Mineola Hannen

Convention Arrangements

Functions: To make the necessary physical arrangements 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 Sommerhalder [Page 4]

MATERIALS DIRECTORY

This materials directory has been prepared to aid the Bahá’ís 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 available from any single source, but rather to indicate where certain types of items may be obtained.

BAHÁ’Í PUBLISHING TRUST

Mrs. Eunice Braun, Managing Director 110 Linden Avenue, Wilmette, Ill.

Order only books, pamphlets, study outlines and miscellaneous teaching and administrative aids listed in the Bahá’í Publishing Trust catalogs, in special announcements sent out by the Trust, or in the Publishing Trust section of Bahá’í News concerning new and revised items. Out-of-print items listed in Bahá’í News should be deleted from catalogs.

BAHÁ’Í NEWS EDITORIAL OFFICE

112 Linden Ave., Wilmette, Ill.

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

CHANGES IN ADDRESS FOR BAHÁ’Í NEWS

National Bahá’í Administrative Headquarters, Office Annex 112 Linden Ave., Wilmette, Ill.

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

DISTRIBUTION AND SERVICE DEPARTMENT

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

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

ADMINISTATIVE FORMS

National Bahá’í Administrative Headquarters, Office Annex, 112 Linden Ave., Wilmette, IlI.

Send here for enrollment cards, transfer cards, report forms, annual election report forms, identification cards and Bahá’í 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 Bahá’í News announcements for special materials and order only from the committee indicated.

BAHÁ’Í 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 pertaining to Bahá’í 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 committee. Do not combine in a single order materials available from other departments or committees as this delays prompt attention to the order. Neither should payment for materials available from several offices or departments be included in one check as this involves extra bookkeeping and accounting. DO NOT include payments for materials in contributions to the National Bahá’í Fund.

Payments for materials to: committee or offices concerned. Contributions to the National Bahá’í Fund to: 112 Linden Ave., Wilmette, Ill.