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Carrying the Greater Aworldwide Further Greater attention Awider The pursuit of

healing message _ involvement of increase in the acceleration in to universal extension of Social and

of Baha'u'llah to the Faith in the translation, the process of participationand Bahá’íeducation Economic

the generality of life of human production, the maturationof —_ the spiritual to children and Development in

mankind. society. distribution and local and national enrichment of youth, and the well-established use of Baha’i Bahai individual strengtheningof Baha’i literature. communities. believers. Baha’ifamily life. | communities.

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‘The real treasury of man is his knowledge.’—Bahá’u’lláh

Volume 17, No. 11

November 1986

Baha’is across U.S. respond with vigor to ‘Spirit of Roses’

“Our National Spiritual Assembly,” said Counselor Robert Harris in a tape-recorded message for the Feast of ‘Ilm (October 15), “thas asked me to share the news of a movement that has grown from the deep family bonds in the global Baha’i community and has fired the imagination of believers across this land—a movement that

‘Spirit of Roses’: impact on Fund, Conventions, page 5; children urged to arise, page 9.

illustrates the power of the individual to arise, a movement that promises to shape the spirit of the entire Six Year Plan.””

That movement, he said, is no less than the ‘“‘Spirit of the Roses,”’ which sprang forth from the gift of 189 red roses presented to the American Baha’i community at last April’s National Convention by Baha’i prisoners in Iran, and whose impetus, said Mr. Harris, shaped the National Assembly’s consultation about the goals of the Six Year Plan.

“These wonderful Baha’is, these steadfast souls, these heroes of Bahá’u’lláh,” the Counselor said of the Persian friends, ‘‘sacrificed in order to send us, the American Baha’i community, a

See ROSES page 11

16-year-old Baha’i martyred near Teheran; U.S. State Department issues stern response

IN VARDAVARD, A VILLAGE IN OUTSKIRTS KARAJ, NEAR TEHERAN, SIXTEEN-YEAROLD BOY, MEMBER DEVOTED BAHA’! FAMILY, BIJAN TALIBI, WAS KILLED A FEW DAYS AGO. FANATICAL ELEMENTS IN VILLAGE HAD REPEATEDLY ABUSED THIS FAMILY AND OTHER LOCAL FRIENDS. BODY FOUND IN GARDEN WITH EVIDENCE SEVERE INJURIES THROUGH BRUTAL BEATING. MURDERERS HAD THE BODY HANGED TO SUG On October 9, responding to this message from the Universal House of Justice, a U.S. State Department spokesman said during his daily press briefing:

“We have a recent report of the continuing persecution of members of the Baha’i religious group in Iran.

“According to this report, Bijan Talebi, age 16, was stoned to death in the village of Vardavard near Tehran in early October by a group of fanatics who have previously harassed Baha’is.

“The body had been hanged to suggest suicide, but local police certified that death was caused by injuries sustained in the stoning. After Bijan’s mother brought the murder to the attention of the authorities, she, a son and a cousin were arrested and are

GEST SUICIDE. HOWEVER LOCAL GENDARMES WHO ARRIVED ON SCENE AVERRED DEATH WAS DUE TO INJURIES. MEMBERS FAMILY COMPLAINED TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES, BUT THIS RESULTED IN HIS MOTHER, BROTHER, AND COUSIN BEING HELD IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN TEHERAN. UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE OCTOBER 8, 1986

now being held in solitary confinement.

‘*We wish to take this occasion to reiterate what President Reagan said on Human Rights Day in December 1985, when he noted the ‘rampant religious persecution’ of the Baha’is in Iran. At that time, he asserted that ‘only the continued world outcry can help bring an end to their suffering.”

“We call upon the Iranian authorities to abide by the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion and Belief. In November 1981, Iran, under the present regime, joined in a consensus of the United Nations General Assembly in the adoption of this Declaration, affirming the principle of respect for the right of religious freedom.”

Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and saxophonist Marvin (Doc) Holladay perform during Peace Festival ’86 at the Louis Gregory Institute.

Institute’s ‘Peace Fest ’86’ a scorcher

By LAURA HILDRETH

The last weekend of summer proved to be the hottest in South Carolina as the sizzling sounds of trumpeter John Birks (Dizzy) Gillespie and his colleagues hit the airwaves over WLGI Radio, kicking off “‘Peace Festival ’86"’ at the Louis Gregory Institute in Hemingway.

The festival, held September 19-20, was sponsored by the Institute in celebration of ‘‘Peace Week” as proclaimed by South Carolina Gov. Richard W. Riley.

About 250 people crowded under a tent in the Institute’s “‘backyard’’ Friday evening for a jazz concert that featured Mr. Gillespie on trumpet, saxophonists Marvin (Doc) Holladay and Don Erdman, pianist Mike Longo, and drummers Jeffrey Morton and Jerome Green.

Local papers later exclaimed that Mr. Gillespie’s sextet was “cool, hot, and with-it,”’ an opinion that was certainly shared by his audience. Dizzy charmed them all, young and old alike, right out of their seats and onto their feet as they clapped their hands, danced and laughed all evening.

The festivities continued the following day as several inspiring speakers addressed a ‘‘Peace Forum’?.at the’ Institute.

The opening address was given by the Rev. McKinley Young, pas See GREGORY page 4

27th Green Lake (Wisconsin) Conference draws 900-plus to discuss Six Year Plan

By LAURA HILDRETH Electrified by the rising current of spiritual energy released in the wake of the Baha’i International Peace Conference in San Francisco, 969 people gathered September 12-14 for the 27th annual Green Lake Baha’i Conference at the American Baptist Assembly center in lovely

Green Lake, Wisconsin.

Baha’is and their guests heard several remarkable speakers; took part in more than a dozen workshops, all of which addressed the conference theme, “‘The Unfolding Pattern: The Fourth Epoch,” and consulted on how best to win the goals of the Six Year Plan as set forth by the Universal House of Justice.

Mankind has evolved physically, said Tony Pelle, a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of Hawaii, in an address entitled “Evidences of This New Life,’’ and now ‘“‘it is time for man to evolve spiritually.’”

We in this generation, he said, are witnessing the beginnings of this change; we are seeing the promise of Bahd’u’ll4h coming true.

He gave an example: ‘‘We are the first generation to have seen a picture of the whole earth from outer space; to have seen that it is indeed one world.

“We have seen technological advancement, cultural upheavals, the formation of countless international bodies including the natal images of a world government.

See GREEN LAKE page 18 [Page 2]2/ The American Baha’ / November 1986

Mayor of Baltimore responds with gifts

When members of the Baha’i community of Baltimore, Maryland, presented the peace statement September 17 to Mayor William D. Schaefer, they were surprised when he responded by presenting gifts to each member of the delegation, memorial plates for the women and cufflinks for the men.

The plates, crafted of Armetale metal, are embossed with the seal of the mayor of Baltimore and imprinted with the image of Fort McHenry.

Mayor Schaefer also proclaimed September 21 ‘UN Day of “Peace’’ in Baltimore.

The Baha’is presented a second copy of the peace statement to Marie Henderson, the campaign manager for Baltimore City Council President Clarence Burns.

a VIEWPOINT

During the last several years the assistants to Auxiliary Board members have done remarkable work in developing local Spiritual Assemblies, directing the energies of both individuals and Assemblies toward teaching, and encouraging greater use of the Creative Word.

The Seven Year Plan was to a great extent elevated to the plain of victory through the devoted services of assistants directed by Auxiliary Board members. Developing a strong local Spiritual Assembly

The main concern of an assistant to the Auxiliary Board is to make the local Spiritual Assemblies stronger. When an Assembly is strengthened spiritually, all plans are achieved.

Spiritual strength comes from associating freely with the Creative Word, using the Creative Word daily, and getting to the point at.which we absorb the principles and teachings of the Faith.

A local Assembly can cause confusion and great suffering for the’ friends if it is not properly trained and guided. No Assembly is automatically ‘‘spiritual.’’

The Assembly begins the process of becoming spiritual when it actively reflects the attributes of God such as patience, compassion, humility, service and lovingkindness.

Teaching

The assistant to the Auxiliary Board member usually meets with the local Assembly at the beginning of the year, as soon after Ridvan as possible, to help with teaching plans and to listen to the Assembly’s concerns.

The Assembly does not have to accept what advice the assistant has to offer, but should, in the spirit of unity, carefully evaluate his or her comments.

Teaching the Faith is discussed at this first meeting. In fact, two

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Auxiliary Board assistants stand ready to help

kinds of teaching are usually discussed: that which is organized by the local Spiritual Assembly or its teaching committee, and that which is the fruit of individual initiative.

The assistant encourages individual efforts and advises the Assembly on its organized teaching plan for the coming year. Establishing a working relationship with the Assembly

The assistant evaluates the capacity of the local Assembly. After all, a plan is only as good as the resources that are available to carry it out.

Every Bahda’{ is a resource, and everyone can add something to the success of a plan or program if it is properly explained, the community is inspired, and everyone feels he has had a chance to infuse his ideas and opinions into the making of the plan.

An Assembly often feels isolated and can become introspective as it struggles with its problems. In some cases it develops a rather narrow approach to problem-solving and lacks confidence in its ability to effect positive

It is then that the assistant inspires the friends, keeps the broad vision of the Faith before their eyes, and helps the Assembly remove all obstacles by aiding it to develop a cohesive plan of action.

The assistant always seeks to get close to the root of what is happening.

Meeting with the Assembly

1. The assistant discusses what can be done, helping the Assembly to set realistic goals and talk about realistic accomplishments.

2. The assistant helps the Assembly identify and learn how best to use the resources in the community.

3. The assistant helps the Assembly become unidirectional; that is, to move in one direction.

Progress is best made when we focus on a few specific goals and

the U.S.A.

The American Bahd’( (USPS 042-430) is published monthly by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States, 536 Sheridan Road, Wilmette, IL 60091. Postmaster: Send address changes to the Office of Membership and Records, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091. Editor: Jack Bowers. Associate editor: Laura E. Hildreth. The American Baha’i welcomes news, letters and other items of interest from individuals and the various institutions of the Faith. Articles should be wnitten in a clear and concise manner; color or black and white glossy photographs should be included whenever possible. Please address all materials to The Editor, The American Bahá’í, Wilmette, IL 60091. Copyright © 1986 by the National Spi itual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States. World rights reserved. Printed in

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This month’s column, “The

portunity that presents itself in

Good organization has to do

Assistants to the Auxiliary Boards,”’ was written by Robert G. Wilson of Seattle, Washington.

urge everyone to move toward their accomplishment. While we should not be sidetracked by extraneous developments, we should be ready to respond to every op teaching. Many opportunities arrive unannounced. Developing plans

Making plans is not enough. We should not be tricked into thinking that making plans achieves the plans as well.

The assistant helps the Assembly to be specific and to develop good organization.

with who is going to do what, when they are going to do it, and what will be its result. A plan is coordinating and defining action.

When a local Spiritual Assembly applies the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh and ministers to the spiritual needs of the people, it is guided and supported by the Holy Spirit.

Singer/composer Stevie Wonder (second from left) is presented a copy of ‘The Promise of World Peace’ following a concert appearance August 31 at the Albany,

Georgia, Civic Center. Pictured with him are Bahá’ís (left to right) Steven Ray of Alabama, Sharon Allen of Atlanta, and Diane Hunter of Albany. Mr. Wonder, who

is blind, was given copies of the peace statement and The Hidden Words in Braille. He expressed his appreciation and promised he would read both documents.

From the National Spiritual Assembly to all local Spiritual Assemblies and Groups assigned in December 1985 to coordinate presentations of the peace statement to U.S. Senators and Representatives:

On November 4, several elections were held for seats in the U.S. Congress. Please check to determine whether the federal official for whom you are responsible was one of those in the election and whether or not he or she was reelected. If a new individual was elected, your Spiritual Assembly or Group should coordinate a presentation of the

Those assigned to present peace statement should first check November election results

peace statement to that senator or representative. As before, a report of the presentation should be sent to the National Spiritual Assembly, _

New Haven, CT 06510. If you have any questions, please phone 203-787-0303.

If your Assembly or Group has not yet presented the peace statement to the federal official assigned by the National Assembly last year, please make every effort to do so by December 31, and to keep the National Spiritual Assembly informed of your progress at the address listed above.

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LETTERS

“The shining spark of truth cometh forth only after the clash of differing opinions.’’—‘Abdu’|Baha

The American Bahá’í welcomes letters to the editor on any topic of general interest. The purpose of the “‘letters’’ column is to allow a free and open exchange of ideas and opinions, never to denigrate another’s opinion or to attack anyone on a personal level.

Letters should be as brief as possible (a maximum of 250 words is suggested). Letters are subject to editing for length and style. Please address all letters to the Editor, The American Bahá’í, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60051.

An ‘inactive’ believer

To the Editor:

Baha’is who choose not to take part in meetings and other functions in their community are sometimes called ‘‘inactive believers.”” I once knew a Baha’i who some may have considered ‘‘inactive.””

1 first met him when I was the receptionist at a radio station where he wanted to work. My boss, the program director, was interviewing prospective announcers for an on-air shift.

He walked in and introduced himself as Ken Stevens. I knew nothing of the Baha’i Faith at that time and would not have cared to. My priorities at that stage of my life were simple: me, myself and I. Thad no room in my life for worship, unless, of course, I was the one being worshipped.

He sat down to wait, and I prepared to ignore him and go about my business.

I had no burning desire to become friendly with every Tom, Dick or Jane who walked in the door or passed me on the street. Why, should I? Most of them didn’t give a you-know-what about me, so why should I care about them? Besides, I knew that people were basically no good and definitely were not to be trusted.

With no encouragement from me he started to talk about something. As I listened I couldn’t help but chuckle to myself at how hard he was working to convince me he was a nice person.

But meanwhile, something deep in my heart was telling me that although I might have a hard time accepting it, this man was really sincere.

The more he talked the more at ease I felt until at one point I realized I was smiling because I really wanted to.

To this day I can’t remember a word he said. What I do remember is an aura of happiness and contentment that seemed to overflow from him. And all this at a time in his life when he was out of work and struggling to get by.

Ken had his interview, and the minute he was out the door I said to my boss that this happy person must be hired! He agreed, and a week later Ken became my coworker and friend.

Over the years I became acquainted with some of the many others like me whose lives had been touched in one way or another by Ken. Many related that

they too had experienced his unusual ability to share love, acceptance and happiness seemingly without effort.

He was the kind of person who could enter a room full of strangers and leave with a roomful of friends. When you needed him he was there for you.

During the years I knew him I was aware that he was a Baha’i but I don’t recall ever talking to him about it. He did not wear “wage peace’’ buttons. He did not try to ‘‘convert’’ me.

My impression was that he was deeply committed to his religion but did not choose to participate in the way others did.

It was a horrible shock but no surprise when I learned one Sunday afternoon that Ken had died trying to save a six-year-old boy from drowning. I was not surprised because it seemed to me that he had spent his life “‘saving’’ people in one way or another.

In my case, he had saved me from myself—that part of me that did not believe I could be loved and accepted—the part that had given up hope.

I didn’t make the connection between the inner peace he seemed to have and the Baha’ Faith until Thad to say goodbye to him at his funeral. As I mourned, I realized that it was the spiritual part of him that had touched me, and it was the spiritual part of him that would live forever in my memory.

To some he may have been an “inactive believer.’ To me he was an “‘incredible believer.”

Christina M. Price Kirkland, Washington Baha’i ILD. No. 0120274

Baha’is and space age

To the Editor:

Recently I was fortunate enough to attend a conference about the planet Mars at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., sponsored by NASA’s Solar System Exploration Committee (SSEC).

It was held during the 10th anniversary of the Viking landings, and for three days around 500 interested students and lovers of Mars from industry, government and education listened to prominent scientists discuss almost every aspect of the red planet.

When the gift lapel pins were passed out by the SSEC, I was again reminded that the Space Age is one of the many marvelous aspects of the New Age initiated by Baha’u’ lah.

The pins show the sun, depicted by a nine-pointed star, surrounded by nine circles representing the nine known planets in our solar system.

One hundred years after the arrival of Baha’u’llah in the Holy Land, the first of six Apollo missions brought men to the surface of the moon.

If projections are correct, sometime soon after the turn of the century humans will walk and perhaps settle on Mars and its two small moons. Then we may have to say: ‘‘Many planets, one people ... please!”

Baha’is should consider the impact space travel will have and help it proceed in a healthy way by bringing the teachings of the Faith to the vanguard of space science.

In particular, young students may want to study space medicine, space law, high energy particle physics, special materials engineering, or the psychology of astronauts confined to close quar ters for voyages of many months

. OF years.

These and other areas are in need of the illuminating guidance that the Baha’i Writings can offer.

We know from the Writings that ‘‘every fixed star hath its own planets; and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can reckon.” (Bahá’u’lláh) How will we reconcile the apparent sterility of the known planets with this verse?

One of the friends with whom I spoke disclaimed belief that the other planets in our solar system could have life on them. I am reluctant to conclude this yet; but the verse continues to puzzle me.

At the Mars conference there was sharp debate about the ambivalent results of the Viking landers whose purpose was to search for life. Could it be that every fixed star goes through a “‘life-cycle”” of its own during which different planets appear, burgeoned with their inherent life at optimum times?

Or could it be that one planet out of the group, in our case earth, produces a facile race, the crown of creation, which utilizes the resources of every available body circumambulating the star?

Bahá’u’lláh says ‘‘its own creatures,’’ implying indigenous to that planet. This is only one of the questions begging clear answers.

Mark Townsend Garden City, Kansas

Cheers for ‘World Order’

To the Editor:

I want to encourage your readers to peruse the most recent issue of World Order magazine, which I think is the most exciting in several years.

Geoffrey Nash’s ‘‘Thomas Carlyle and Islam’’ provides a scholarly and interesting analysis of the impact that Muhammad had on a pivotal 19th century European thinker.

Rick Johnson’s ‘‘Toward a Revitalization of Higher Education’’ explores the crisis that higher education presently faces, while Will van den Hoonaard’s ‘‘The Persecution of the Iranian Baha’i Community and the Emergence of a Universal Moral Order’’ describes the impact of the persecution of our Persian brethren on the devel The American Baha’i / November 1986 / 3

opment of an international consensus on human rights.

Especially significant, I feel, is Linda and John Walbridge’s ‘“Baha’i Laws on the Status of Men’’ which explores the laws of Baha’w’ll4h in the Aqdas—such as the inheritance laws, which do not give men and women equal shares of the estate of the decedent—in order to determine the status of both men and women in the Faith.

The result is a startling reexamination and reclarification of the Baha’i concept of the equality of men and women.

The Walbridges conclude that the Faith advocates a patrilinealbut not a patriarchal—society in order to overcome the tendency of men to abandon their families and leave the wife alone in raising and supporting the children.

Right or wrong, their article is thought-provoking and deserves a wide readership.

Robert H. Stockman Somerville, Massachusetts The Peace Conference To the Editor:

It is with a heart brimming with love and gratitude that I write to both thank and congratulate the National Spiritual Assembly for presenting the world with a conference on world peace that was truly worthy of the name of the Baha’i Faith.

Too many times the believers act as if the members of the National Assembly are paid workers instead of devoted representatives, and I wanted to let our beloved National Assembly members know that their devotion and tireless efforts for the glorious Cause of Bahá’u’lláh have not gone unnoticed. Each and every one of them is a shining example for the rest of us.

May the Blessed Beauty bless them all and reward them as richly as they deserve.

Nahid B. Sobhani Frederick, Maryland

To the Editor:

I returned from the Baha’i International Peace Conference in San Francisco wondering if our World Center had moved from Haifa to Hollywood.

Granted we have great talent in our national community, but I

think one evening devoted to such would have been a better balance.

I heard from several noted non-Baha’i speakers, but missed that healthy dose of inspiration that can come only from a Bahd’{ speaker.

Yes, this was a more ‘‘open’” conference, meant to appeal to both Baha’i and non-Baha’i, but is it not Baha’u’llah that we have to offer to the non-Baha’i world? I_missed not hearing His Name more.

Don Erdman Stone Mountain, Georgia . To the Editor:

Hundreds of Baha’is donated blood during the Peace Conference in San Francisco. Many of the donors were Iranians, of course, and seeing them stretched out, one could not help thinking of their brethren in Iran who have given every drop of their blood.

There is another connection: We as American Baha’is are “‘the spiritual descendants of the Dawn-Breakers,”’ and the Fund is the “‘lifeblood”’ of the Cause.

Why does it trickle in such tiny drops in this, the richest country in the world? Have we rejected our birthright?

How much do we love Bahá’u’lláh? Let us downgrade our lifestyles and lay the difference at His blessed Threshold.

Bret Breneman Florence, South Carolina ° To the Editor:

I would like to thank all those friends who were responsible for the great success of the Baha’i International Peace Conference. This was clearly the most intelligent and energetic gathering in recent memory.

Every aspect of the conference, from the location to the choice of speakers, the variety of topics and, of course, the magnificent bookstore, was well planned and executed.

The fruit of such efforts is always self-evident. I wish to welcome into our Baha’i family my friend and companion at the conference, Dr. Pablo Andres Alvarez, who declared his faith in Baha’u’llah on the Friday fol

See LETTERS page 26

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CHAMPIONBUILDERS

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MARY HOTCHKISS BODE

Mary Hotchkiss Bode, whose services as a pioneer spanned a quarter of a century and took her to three continents, was born in 1896, the daughter of one of the very early and active Baha’is in Washington, D.C.

She was privileged, as a teenager, to have met ‘Abdu’l-Bahá during His visit to America in 1912, at which time he gave Mary the Persian name Ruaq{yyih, which means “‘lofty’’ or ‘‘exalted.””

To Mary’s sister, Helen Hotch

kiss Lielnors, he gave the name Latifih, meaning ‘“‘pure’’ or “‘radiant.”’

Their mother, Mrs. John Burton Hotchkiss, received from the Master His signed photograph, and a Tablet in which He supplicated that ‘“‘thy two blessed daughters may be encompassed with the grace of the Kingdom.””

Mary and Helen also received Tablets from ‘Abdu’l-Baháé, and in 1919, at the annual Convention held in New York City, the two sisters formally presented that part of the Master’s Tablets of the Divine Plan now known as the “first” and ‘‘second’”’ Tablets to the Southern states.

Mary taught the Faith to many people. including Edward Bode, whom she married in 1936. Together they helped establish the first Spiritual Assembly of Beverly Hills, California, and between 1941 and 1942, served on the Inter-America Committee, arranging for and helping prospective pioneers to Central and South America.

In 1946, under the guidance. of Shoghi Effendi, Mary and her husband embarked on their first pioneering assignment, to Brazil, where they helped form the first local Assembly in that country.

A letter to Mrs. Bode from the Guardian, dated January 28, 1948, said in part, “I deeply appreciate your high and constant endeavour for the establishment of the Faith in Brazil, and feel truly proud of your historic achievements. I urge you and your dear husband to persevere in your task, however great the sacrifice involved, and to rest assured that the Beloved is well pleased with you both, that He will watch over you, and aid you to render still greater service to His Cause.””

Over the course of the next 25 years, Mary and Edward helped Baha’i communities around the world. They settled in Chile to help with the teaching work there, then pioneered to Panama, Mex See BODE page 13

Gregory

from page 1

tor of historic Big Bethel A.M.E. Church in Atlanta, who urged hi: listeners to continue peace activities and quoted the words of Christ, ‘‘ ‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.”

“‘With peaceful interaction between brothers,”’ he said, ‘‘we can make a better society for everyone.”

The assemblage then heard a panel discussion entitled “Peace ... More Than an End to War” which was moderated by Dr. Elise Davis-McFarland, director of planning and institutional research at The Citadel in Charleston.

Panelists were Mrs. Melba Taylor Holt, the wife of a Lutheran minister and member of ‘‘Peace Links—Women Against Nuclear War’; Skip Johnson, a features writer for the Charleston News and Courier specializing in religion; Holly Gatling, Pee Dee Bureau chief for the Columbia State; Alexander Gray, associate director of Carolina Peace, co-chairman of the state Rainbow Coalition, and editor of the Palmetto Post, a weekly black-oriented paper in Columbia; and Dr. Roger Doost, a doctor of public administration and member of the Spiritual Assembly of Clemson, South Carolina.

Together, they made several interesting points about the ways in which peace can be brought about, and agreed that peace is a very real possibility, not merely

An enthusiastic welcome for Dizzy Gillespie and his sextet.

the dream of the overly optimistic.

Mrs. Holt explained why so little is being achieved by the many peace organizations already in existence:

“They’re trying to make peace by using the same power strategy used by those who are opposed to peace. We have to do peace work in a peaceful, spiritual dynamic or it will come to very little.

“‘We’ll turn to hating, and we cannot be working for peace while hating even our enemies. Jesus said, ‘Love your enemies.’ The civil rights movement never would have gotten off the ground if blacks had given vent to all the hatred they justly could own. We have to say to our government, ‘We ain’t gonna study war no more.’ ’”

Ms. Gatling, a journalist for more than 13 years, said the news media have changed the face of human perception more than any other force in history.

We no longer have to wait for

news, she said; it is brought to us almost instantaneously: ‘‘Television took us to Cape Canaveral on January 28 when we lost the space shuttle Challenger and all seven astronauts aboard including e son Ron McNair. ‘The tremendous capacity and power of the media has truly given our entire planet the characteristics of a neighborhood—a neighborhood with a lot of problems, but nonetheless a neighborhood.

“It is possible,” she said, ‘‘for us to live in harmony with our global ‘neighbors.’ Conferences such as this one are the seeds of peace. When peace-minded people come together, they become peace-minded institutions. And these institutions, magnified through the news media, reach millions of people with the peace message.””

Speaking later that afternoon were Dr. Frederick Clark, an engineer at the International Paper Corporation in nearby Georgetown; Latta Thomas, a representative of the governor’s office; Dr. Leroy Brown, vice-president of student services at Midlands Technical College in Columbia; and Shiva Tavana, the National Spiritual Assembly’s representative at the United Nations in New York.

“Baha’u’llah said that the age of maturity has come and that peace is now possible,” said Ms. Tavana, who also stressed the role of women in bringing about a lasting peace.

““Abdu’l-Bahá stressed the point that when women become

all people; and

tions Peace Day.

ber 15-21, 1986, as:

in the State of South Carolina.

Proclamation by Governor Richard W. Riley of South Carolina

WHEREAS, the members of the South Carolina General Assembly and indeed all South Carolinians share in the recognition of 1986 as the International Year of Peace as proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations; and

WHEREAS, peace entails more than an end to outright warfare, but also the need to actively promote justice; racial understanding; universal education; and the equality of opportunity for

WHEREAS, a South Carolina Peace Week would reflect the wishes of all South Carolinians for peace in a world which is both economically and socially just; and

WHEREAS, a South Carolina focus on a week of peace would lend an opportunity for groups and individuals to express this aspiration through thought and action; and

WHEREAS, the Baha’i community of South Carolina is supporting a major peace festival in conjunction with the United Na NOW, THEREFORE, I, Richard W. Riley, Governor of the State of South Carolina, do hereby proclaim the week of Septem SOUTH CAROLINA PEACE WEEK

(signed) Richard W. Riley

involved in the great arena of law and politics,” she said, ‘‘then war will cease. He said, ‘It is a prerequisite for peace.’ ’””

The conference ended Saturday evening with a joyous ‘Gospel Jubilee’? featuring Sam and the Exciting Linen Singers, a traveling gospel group; soloists Kathy Murray and Priscilla Jeanne; and a Baha’i youth choir from Kingstree.

The emcee was Shirlene Brown, a local Baha’i who is a staff announcer at WLGI.

The conference, said Dr. Roy Jones, director of the Louis Gregory Institute, was a big success in many ways.

“It provided an opportunity to lead the way in promoting the UN Year of Peace in South Carolina,’ he said, ‘as well as a chance for us to promote the Universal House of Justice’s state ment, ‘The Promise of World Peace.” “‘Perhaps most important,

however, is that it gave those in this area an opportunity to come together and share in the soothing, spiritual atmosphere of the Institute’s ‘backyard tent.’ ’”

Above: The Rev. McKinley Young of Atlanta’s Big Bethel A.M.E. Church speaks at ‘Peace

Above: Don Erdman, Dizzy Gillespie and Marvin (Doc) Holladay perform at the Louis Gregory Institute’s ‘Peace Fest ’86.’ Below: Dizzy takes center stage for one of his inimitable solos.

Fest ’86.’ Below: Dizzy Gillespie signs autographs at the Louis Gregory Institute’s snack bar. [Page 5]The District Conventions held in October were touched deeply by the ‘‘Spirit of the Roses.”

Across America, Baha’is are arising to the essence of the new spirit—a global family uniting to carry the healing Message of Baha’u’llah to all of mankind.

The ‘‘Spirit of the Roses’”’ began with a gift of 189 red roses to the American Baha’i community from the Baha’is imprisoned in

Iran. It was presented to the delegates at the National Convention, and immediately sparked a movement that shaped the consultation of the Town Meetings and, in turn, affected directly the formation of the national goals and objectives of the Six Year Plan.

The gift serves as a poignant example of the power that is released when individuals arise to serve the Faith.

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‘Spirit of Roses’ deeply touches District Conventions

The National Spiritual Assembly, touched by the spirit of the roses, offered a rose along with the following message to each of the District Conventions:

“‘We present you the gift of one red rose, a visible symbol of a campaign of action to redeem the debt of the 189 Persian Roses who gave their lives for these victories. We anxiously await your response.’”

The reports of districts responding to the message are mounting. In Eastern Oregon (Unit 106), the response was ‘‘we will ransom the rose with a goal of 189 new believers, achieving more than 19% growth.””

Western Oregon (Unit 110) responded by vowing to hold firesides: ‘We will hold 189 firesides in the two-month period beginning in October.””

Meanwhile, the friends in Northeastern California (Unit 16) resolved to have more Town Meetings where ‘189 ‘Ransom the Rose’ goals will be identified and adopted.””

The district planning committees were asked to purchase the roses locally for the National Spir itual Assembly. In Nebraska (Unit 86), this posed a small problem.

“Our rose was special,’”’ they wrote, ‘‘since we looked all over town for it. Finally, we found the last rose in town.

“The beautiful rose made a strong impression and statement. They (the friends assembled at the District Convention) made a connection with the friends in Irantheir sacrifices and dedication. Vows were made to teach the message of Bahá’u’lláh, to love our fellow brothers and sisters, and to achieve our own personal goals.’’

The spirit of one global family, uniting to carry forth the Cause of God, was echoed in many other reports.

For example, the representatives from Northeastern New York (Unit 96) said, ‘‘The rose was beautiful and well-received. It brought a special spirit to the convention ... a sense of unity and oneness ... everyone felt very close to one another. ...””

The rise of this family spiritthe ‘‘Spirit of the Roses’’—will assure the success of the goals of the Six Year Plan.

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‘Spirit of Roses’ fans flame of sacrifice, gives National Fund much-needed boost

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The ‘‘Spirit of the Roses’’ is providing a much-needed boost in gontributions to the National Fund.

The gift of 189 roses presented to the American Baha’i community at last April’s National Convention has captured the imagination of Baha’is throughout the country.

Assemblies, Groups and individuals continue to send stories of extra sacrifices for the recent Baha’i martyrs which the roses symbolize. In many instances, lovely hand-drawn roses have graced the stationery on which the stories were written.

Also, drawings, stickers and stamps of roses in every conceivable shape and size are decorating the outside of many Fund envelopes.

The following note accompanied the monthly contribution from the Spiritual Assembly of Clallam (Washington) CCD No. Ll:

““Our contribution this month reflects a decision our Assembly

made after hearing the inspirational tape for the Feast of Asma.

“We decided that in order to send extra this Baha’i year to “ransom the roses,’’ we would divide that amount by 13, the number of months remaining in this Baha’i year, and send that much in addition to our regular contribution each month.

“Won't it be wonderful if those precious roses inspire all Baha’ is to dig a little deeper in order to meet our goals!””

Since the anniversary of the Birth of the Bab on October 20, all ‘‘rose stories’’ have been placed in a special “Spirit of the Roses”’ journal. At the end of a 189-day period the journal will be forwarded to the Universal House of Justice as the American Baha’i community’s offering to honor the Baha’is who are held captive in the prisons of Iran.

Each month, as the book grows in size, a few of the stories awaiting placement therein will be highlighted in The American Bahá’í.

If your community has a “‘rose story,’’ please send it to ‘Spirit of the Roses,”” Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091. Photographs or color slides would also be appreciated. [Page 6]6 / The American Baha’i / November 1986

PAA AN : Kentucky Baha’i wins "86 state wrestling title

David Donley, a 16-year-old

Youth Committee can help you, and you can help the committee

How can we help you? Or, how can you help us?

The National Youth Committee has many things that may be a valuable resource for you. We can help you form a local youth or junior youth or college or peace club; we can answer questions about your district or regional youth committee; we can help place you in a youth year of service.

The staff at the National Youth Committee office can help you

about the Disney World Conference to receiving advice about how you can best serve the Faith.

On the other hand, there are several ways in which you can help us. The Youth Committee is always looking for articles written by youth—articles about your experiences, ideas, or thoughts on current issues. Also needed are study guides for any books you’ve read.

From those of you working on teaching projects, either now or in

third-generation Baha’i from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, representing Christian County High School, has won the 1986 state wrestling championship at 98 pounds.

Besides being named the team’s most valuable wrestler, he is a member of the National Honor Society and the Key Club, a service organization for which he serves as reporter.

Recently, David and his family

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the past, the committee would like to receive pictures of the youth for the bulletin board in the Youth Committee office that will be displayed at the National Convention in 1987.

If you need help of any kind, please feel free to contact the Youth Committee office by writing to the National Youth Committee, Baha’i National Centé?, Wilmette, IL 60091, or by calling the office at 312-869-9039.

More ‘than 70 young people from the U.S. and five other countries attended a Midwest Regional

Youth Conference held August 3 in the Twin Cities of MinneapolisSt. Paul, Minnesota.

Twin Cities host conference

On July 3, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, hosted a Baha’i Regional Youth Conference for the Midwest area.

Besides the U.S., the more than 70 Baha’i youth at the conference

hosted a teaching/service/fun weekend in the Hopkinsville area. One project, cleaning up a river bank, resulted in a large picture in the local paper, the Kentucky New Era, with a headline that read, “Baha’i youth help clean river banks.””

Louhelen to host training session

There is only one left! October and early November greeted the Youth Teacher Training Consultations with great success. If you happened to miss them, you still have one more chance.

The Louhelen Baha’i School will host a Youth Teacher Training Consultation on December 19-21. Please contact Bluey Diehl, 313-653-5033, for more information—right away!

Jeane Washington, a Baha’i from

Washington, D.C., who is a senior at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, has been elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, the national honor society for medicine, in recognition of her ‘scholarship, leadership and character’’ and “promise of becoming a leader in the profession.’’ Previously, she was one of 15 Summer Fellows from North America chosen to study at Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute for Bioethics, and at the 135th Founders Day observance at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, she received an award for distinguished research on “19th Century Women Medical Leaders.”

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Be a part of America’s spiritual destiny! Support the Fund on a regular basis. As you will notice, the youth participation level has dropped from the previous month.

The Guardian told the National Spiritual Assemblies of Canada and the U.S. that ‘‘the progress and execution of spiritual activities is dependent and conditioned upon material means.’’ As we arise from obscurity, our spiritual activities are increasing; therefore, our material means must also increase. Unfortunately,

Regular and sacrificial contributions to the Fund are part of the discipline that is necessary. The Baha’ youth can provide an example for the rest of the American Baha’i community by leading the way toward a dramatic increase in contributions to the Fund, however small their offerings may be.

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Walt Disney World

December 26-30 Orlando, Florids

Come join us December 26-30 at this year’s Disney World Conference in Orlando, Florida, sponsored by the National Youth Committee.

The theme of this year’s conference is ‘‘Living a Life of Service: Please God Ye May Achieve It.’”” Speakers are to include Counselor Robert Harris; Jane Faily, a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of Canada; members of the National Youth Committee, and a number of youth speakers.

All ages are welcome at this ‘‘youth’’ conference. Don’t forget to bring your seeker friends. A special part-time program is available for aren four years old and up. It’s a great experience for the whole family.

All housing arranged by the Youth Office is in Fort Wilderness, the official onsite campground at Disney World. We must receive your resieerenga and full payment by December 12. (No reservations by phone.)

Space is hard to come by at Disney World this time of year, so register early. If you plan to wait and register on-site, you should plan to stay in a tent, as trailers are filled quickly. Prices below include four nights’ housing and registration fees per person:

Plan A (own tent), $30 per person; Plan B (rental tent), $45 per person (5 people per tent); Plan C (trailer), $95 per person (6 people per trailer); Plan D (day student), $12 per person.

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came from Brazil, Canada, Japan, India and Iran.

They heard talks on the Six Year Plan by Auxiliary Board member Stephen Birkland; on Indian teaching projects (‘The Spirit of the Rose’) by a Native American, Joye Le Beau; and on the courage of Persian youth in the face of persecution by Maria Assadolahzadeh, who recently fled from Iran.

Speakers from the local area were Lisa Wilson, Charles Howard, Lawrence Arturo and Scott Hakala.

Also included were recreational activities and an evening of fun in which skits such as “‘As the Baha’i World Turns”’ had most of the audience limp with laughter.

Afterward, the young Baha’is turned their energy toward teaching in the uptown Minneapolis area.

Magazine profiles Amoz Gibson Centre

An article about the Amoz Gibson Training Centre for Baha’i Media in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, appeared in the Summer 1986 issue of Development Communication Report, a prestigious non-Baha’i journal with a readership of more than 6,000 that is published quarterly by the U.S. Academy for Educational Development.

The article, which describes in some detail the Centre’s courses, curriculum and special training programs, was written by Randie Gottlieb, a Baha’i who is administrator of the Amoz Gibson Centre.

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Baha’i Nat’l Youth Committee; Baha’i Nat’l Center; Wilmette, IL 60091. [Page 7]Welcome to ‘‘Campus Clips,” a new column that will appear regularly in The American Bahá’í. This column will be provided for clubs and individual students at the various colleges and universities around the country to share ideas that have worked on campuses, communicate thoughts, discuss current issues, and get a feel for what is happening throughout the U.S. We encourage you to send in your statements, letters, news and thoughts to the Baha’i National Youth Committee, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091.

The Smith College Baha’i Club in Northampton, Massachusetts, reports that a series of three firesides are being presented on campus in October, November and December. Baha’is with professional degrees will be the guest speakers to attract intellectual students. The club is also considering the idea of hosting a luncheon for 25 selected professors to present the Baha’i textbook, ‘‘The Emerging Global Religion,” for suggested use in their classes.

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Last June 3, the Baha’i Club at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California, received front-page coverage in the Poly Post for its commendable efforts in promoting the UN International Year of Peace ’86.

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During the previous academic year, the Baha’i Club at North Carolina State University, in collaboration with the Baha’i community of Raleigh, had great success as the result of a series of 14 discussions designed to share the Baha’i perspective on current events. The topics addressed each related to a major principle of the Faith and was presented by a different speaker each week. The series was cleverly publicized on bookmark-sized cards.

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The college club at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs reports, ‘‘Taraz Samandari put together a 30-40 minute slide show along with a sound track on the necessity of establishing world peace. We made a public presentation of the slide show and had a Baha’i speaker give a summary of the peace statement on campus (July ’86). About 30 people attended, more than half of whom were seekers or friends of Baha’is. We felt it was highly successful.’”

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The Baha’ Association at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque hosts a Baha’i booth every Wednesday at the Student Center. A billboard-sized poster that reads ‘‘Spread the Promise of World Peace’’ makes the booth highly visible. Free posters displaying a descending bomb that transforms into a dove are given away with ‘‘Steps to Wage Peace’’ outlined on the back. The stu

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The past few months have been truly exciting ones for a number of youth who have volunteered as projecteers for the Youth Year of Service program.

Young Americans from all parts of the country have recently been placed in positions of service, both domestically and overseas, and another is waiting for an immediate assignment.

At the most recent Pioneer Training Institute held at the Baha’i National Center in September, several of these young Baha’is attended the session as final preparation for their year of sac

Time now to plan your winter break

Before the winter breaks roll around, it’s time to start planning your winter break teaching project!

If your break is already taken by the Phoenix conference, the Disney conference, or even the Temple dedication in India, plan to travel and teach on your way to or from.

Another option is to take part in an ongoing project. For details about the one nearest you, contact the National Teaching Committee, 312-8699039.

Young Baha’is do some direct teaching during the ‘New Jerusa tifice and service to the Cause of God.

Among youth placed in overseas posts are: Quddús Addison, 17, of Troutdale, Oregon, who has been assigned to serve in Kenya, while Russ Maxcy, 21, from Dallas, Oregon, will be working in Tanzania and Robert Davis, 20, of Boca Raton, Florida, will serve in the Cameroon Republic.

These young men have all been assigned to work with the African Mobile Institutes and will help with consolidation and teaching in village communities in their respective posts.

They are the first American youth to be placed in these special projects and have specifically answered the call of the Universal House of Justice by arising to serve in Africa.

Two young women, 16-year-old Britt Alschuler from Amherst, Massachusetts, and Ruth Forman, 18, from Rochester, New York, have left for their year of service in the Leeward Islands where they will serve as special assistants to the secretary of that National Spiritual Assembly and work to develop children’s educational programs in the island community.

John Foster, 20, of Grand Island, Nebraska, was assigned to serve in Ecuador where he will work as a teacher’s aide at a bilingual school run by American pioneers.

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e BS lem’ campaign held August 1-19 in north and south Georgia.

‘New Jerusalem’ campaign covers 19 cities in North, South Georgia

Forty-five young Baha’is from five states whose average age is 14 years took part August 1-19 in the “New Jerusalem’ teaching campaign in Georgia.

The campaign, which was sponsored by the Spiritual Assembly of Albany, covered 19 cities and towns in north and south Georgia, and among the results were 131 declarations including Mexicans, Cambodians, and black and white Americans.

Plains, Georgia, where former President Jimmy Carter was born and raised, was opened to the Faith when six new Baha’is were found and enrolled.

Also in South Georgia, the Spiritual Assembly of Leesburg was saved.

Teaching has continued since the “‘official’”” end of the cam paign with at least 25 declarations reported to date.

In Albany, Georgia, the peace statement was given to the mayor, and the young Baha’is were interviewed on three local radio stations and visited the newspaper and two local TV stations.

On August 17, four people declared at a concert by ‘‘The Sound’’ (formerly ‘‘The New Generation”), which joined the campaign that weekend before traveling to Charlotte, North Carolina, to help with the Payman Sobhani project.

The youngsters were also helped by several older Baha’is including Carey Murphy, Carole and Larry Miller, Wendy Vaughn, Ema Mae and Warren Lombard, Linda Nesby, Sharon Allen and Bob Cadwalader.

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Young Baha’is prepare to begin Year of Service

New York, 17-year-old Malcolm Bell, attended the Pioneer Training Institute to prepare for his year of service and awaits assignment to an international post.

Besides these youth, two others have been placed in recent months. Connie Jeffers, 18, of Liguna Niguel, California, is serving as administrative assistant to the National Youth Committee at the Baha’i National Center in Wilmette, Illinois, and Carrie O’Hare, 20, from Pleasant Plains, Illinois, is now serving at the library of the Baha’i World Center in Haifa, Israel.

While most of these young Baha’is were working on very limited budgets, each has contributed his

own travel expenses, and in some cases, will take care of living expenses as well.

Prospective youth projecteers are encouraged to save the funds necessary for travel and room and board, as funds for deputization are limited. In some instances, stipends are available to help with expenses, and housing is often provided in Baha’i homes or Centers.

A variety of exciting positions is currently open for those youth who can arise to serve as projecteers. A complete listing of openings and application forms are available from the National Youth Committee, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091.

ee ie On August 1-3, the Baha’is of Miami County, Indiana, hosted a youth teaching project for young people from nine Indiana towns and from Detroit and Kalamazoo, Michigan who were joined by adult chaperones from Indiana and by Connie Alexander, a member of the Regional Youth Com

mittee. On Saturday, the youth went door-to-door inviting people to a showing of the ‘Mona’ video that evening; on Sunday, they had a chance to see how a dairy farm works, went horseback riding and to the beach. A deepening for youth was being planned for the Halloween weekend.

National Center has to work there during

This summer the National Center hired 20 youth from out of state to work there in a variety of departments: maintenance, grounds, Office of the Treasurer, National Teaching Committee, etc.

The youth were paid employees and paid their own expenses. Chris Sollars from Idaho, who worked in the maintenance department, had this to say about the experience: ‘‘You’d be working real hard and then look up and see the House of Worship. It

openings for youth summer months

made you feel like your work had a lot of meaning to it.

“It was so nice to be working for the Baha’is instead of for some ‘fat cat.’ ””

If you are between the ages of 16 and 24 and are interested in taking part in this great opportunity, write for an application for the summer of 1987 to the National Youth Committee, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091. Hurry; opportunities are limited.

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D.C. area to host Thanksgiving gathering

A Regional Baha’i Youth “Thanksgiving Conference’ will be held November 27-30 in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.

The conference theme is “It Can Be Done.” Included will be prominent speakers (including three members of the National

Youth Committee), a concert by “The Sound,’? and many surprises.

For registration information and other details, contact the Virginia Youth Committee,

_ Dunn Loring, VA 22027 (phone 703-573-7044). [Page 8]8 / The American Baha’i / November 1986

Two letters recall words of beloved Guardian

Letters from a pioneer to St. Vincent in the Caribbean and from a pioneer in Mozambique, off the coast of southern Africa, arrived in the International Goals Committee office on the same day.

Pioneer Lisa Blake in St. Vincent asked us to remind the friends in the U.S. of two quotes from the beloved Guardian, which she found in Quickeners of Mankind, while the letter from Donna Taylor in Mozambique seemed to underscore the two quotes.

None of the staff in the IGC office remained unmoved, and we decided to share with you the quotes from Lisa’s letter and much of the letter from Donna.

“Neither the threatening world situation, nor any consideration of lack of material resources, of mental equipment, of knowledge, or of experience—desirable as they are—should deter any prospective pioneer teacher from arising ...”’ (Guidance for Today and Tomorrow, pp. 227-28)

“Such a steady flow of reinforcements (pioneers) is absolutely vital and is of extreme urgency, for nothing short of the vitalizing influx of new blood that will reanimate the world Baha’i community can safeguard the prizes which, at so great a sacrifice involving the expenditure of so much time, effort, and treasure, are now being won in virgin territories by Bahda’u’ll4h’s valiant

knights, whose privilege is to constitute the spearhead of the ontushing battalions which, in diverse theaters and in circumstances often adverse and extremely challenging, are vying with each other for the spiritual conquest of the unsurrendered territories and islands on the surface of the globe.” (Citadel of Faith, p. 117)

Dear Friends, Alláh’u’Abhd!

It seems that Bahá’u’lláh wants me here. It is another of the many proofs that ‘‘doors open according to His Will.’’

‘Where else can a person in this day get a teaching position in a university without a degree of any kind? Furthermore, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts did not even ask to see a diploma, my papers, or anything. A curriculum vitae was sufficient.

There is a desperate need in Mozambique for teachers, and I am so happy to be able to help them. The students are, as usual, delightful, but know very little English. It’s like teaching beginners. (Donna teaches English to geology and chemical engineering students.—Ed.)

This is an example of what can happen when one puts his whole faith and confidence in Bahd’u’ll4h and the institutions of the Faith. Many people asked me, “‘Why do you want to go to Mozambique? It’s a terrible place!”’ My reply was, ‘‘Because the Universal House of Justice told me to follow the directions of the International Goals Committee, and IGC has told me to go there. That is why I am going.”

Now, as ‘Abdu’l-Bahá said, the

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true seeker will find delicious and fragrant fruits growing in the garden, if he will but enter and leave the doubters and the suspicious outside. I have found sweetness and fulfillment in Mozambique, as ‘Abdu’l-Bahá promised.

The Baha’i community here has a lot of growing up and weedingout to do, but everywhere the growing pains are straining nerves and trying the patience. None of us can escape the “‘spiritual earthquake”’ going on—and none of us knows who will be swallowed up in the upheaval.

I am reading Scholem Asch’s Moses, a most enlightening account of the miseries Moses suffered in His attempts to spiritualize the stupid, childish and weak Israelites.

Every moment was a disappointment. So many times Jehovah appeared in His glory to the people, but their hearts were unfaithful. They doubted, they disobeyed, they deserted the faithful.

Many times, Moses entreated God to be merciful to them. In the end, they were destroyed and punished, giving their spiritual birthright away to the generations to come.

Will that happen to us? Will we, in our pride, reject these glorious opportunities and show our pride before God? Will we, too, forget our heritage and our responsibilities to the future generations in our selfish quest for monetary satisfaction? Will the new race of men be better than we?

How I pity Moses and Abraham, Muhammad, Noah, Jesus, the Bab, and Bahá’u’lláh. What suffering their great Spirit had to endure because of the people’s frailties! Yet how great the sacrifice they offered at the feet of humanity! How wondrous is this! How far beyond our understanding is such sacrifice, such mercy, such forgiveness!

Bahá’u’lláh promised us that one pure heart could change a continent. Where is that heart? What have we done to expose it?

Like Jeremiah, my heart also weeps in secret for our pride. The moments of joy come when a soul is awakened to the new Cause of God, but often this is followed by moments of fear for steadfastness which may not present itself.

How we need each other—as reinforcements—against the darkness of neglect and error. Our “‘army’’ must be one to achieve victory. With forces scattered, danger lurks.

Our commanders must be faithful and our recruits disciplined. The hosts of the Glory of God must not fail Him. At all costs, we must persevere and not falter. We

Those traveling to Eastern Bloc need guidelines

Would believers who intend to travel to China, the USSR or any Eastern Bloc country please apply to the International Goals Committee office at the Baha’i National Center for guidelines?

The guidelines are important for ensuring that Baha’is do not give offence or bring the Faith into disrepute while traveling in communist countries.

must find the true, courageous, and dedicated soldiers who are willing and eager to take the offensive against the forces arrayed against us.

Victory should come to our generation, not another. I do not want to forfeit my position to another of the “‘new race,’’ and I am sure there are many of us who feel the same.

Much courage is needed. Pure thoughts must guide our behavior, and we must look straight ahead at the horizon of the New Day, leaving the errors and wickedness of the valleys behind us.

Our vision must be of the future, but our feet must walk on

the path of today. We must walk together in obedience, understanding, and be of one purpose, setting aside our own desires and ambitions. But can we do this?

A pioneer is a special being, and must disassociate himself from his materialistic, insecure past. His thoughts must not be divided. He must have time and strength for the Faith.

He cannot afford, in this time, to make mistakes, for all of us, and the institutions, are affected by them. We must be that new race of men. Why should we relinquish our position to another?

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Forty-eight Baha’is attended a Pioneer Training Institute held September 25-28 at the Baha’i National Center in Wilmette, Illinoi

The speakers at the Institute included Auxiliary Board members Thelma Jackson and Javidukht Khadem; Lois Goebel, from the World Center in Haifa, Israel;

ie Bis ot f and Suellen Dornbrook, a visiting pioneer from Argentina. The pioneers were preparing for posts in Fiji, Kenya, Antigua, American Samoa, Peru, France, the Canary Islands, the Bahamas, Cameroon, Ecuador, Bolivia, Jamaica, Botswana and Thailand.

Pioneer: Alumni magazines good way to let friends know you’re now a Baha’i

Tim and Diana Schaffter, pioneers to Thailand who have been working closely with the refugee camps there, sent the International Goals Committee an article about Tim that appeared in his high school alumni magazine.

He writes, ‘For people who have completed a university or attended a private school at some point, these institutions usually have some kind of alumni newsletter or magazine, and it is possible to write to the ‘Alumni Update’ or ‘Who’s Doing What?’ section to say what you’re up to.

“We have done this several times, and have added comments like ‘we are also active in the Baha’i Faith in our town.”

“Tt would be possible to mention that one is busy organizing children’s classes for the Faith, or something similar (good to work in the word ‘Faith’ as well as ‘Baha’i’ to make it clear).

“My high school newsletter recently circulated to hundreds of people that we had ‘enclosed to the editorial staff some interesting literature on the Baha’ Faith.’ This can be quite effective, as many people reading will have known you, and if you were not a Baha’i at that time, they will have their interest in the Faith piqued when they learn that you have become a Baha’i.

“In my case, although there were Iranian Baha’is at my high school, I didn’t begin to investigate the Faith until years later

when I heard that a Chinese student at the same school had embraced a Persian religion. ‘Why?’ I asked myself.’’

Texas to hold Winter School in Bridgeport

The Texas Baha’i Winter School will be held December

26-30 at the Conference Center in Bridgeport. This year’s

theme is ‘‘Baha’i Family Life.” Accommodations include

closed campus dorms and semi-private rooms (attendees must provide their own bedding).

Recreation will include planned indoor, family-oriented activities.

Various rates are available; call for specifics. To pre-register, contact Shahram Rohani,

. _. Grand Prairie, TX 75051, or phone 214-642-8923.

Please register before December 12; there is an extra charge for those who are not pre-registered.

CORRECTION

In a photograph on page 23 of the August issue of The American Bahá’í, Magdalene Jane McCarty of Neah Bay, Washington, is incorrectly identified as Megan McCarty. We apologize for the error.

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Family

Unity ad Night

(Fun)

FIRST WEEK OF DECEMBER: Human Rights Day, December 10. Thought for the week: “... The fundamentals of the whole economic condition are divine in nature and are associated with the world of the heart and spirit. ...”” Prayer: Bahá’í Prayers (1982), pp. 22-23. Lesson: Read and discuss one or more of the suggested lesson materials. Note: This lesson refers to human rights and economics. 1. The Hidden Words, No. 57, (0. 49, p. 39. 2. Bahá’í World Faith, p. 240 (Fifth and Sixth); pp. |; p. 290. 3. The Promulgation of Universal Peace, pp. 216-17; pp. 238-39. 4. Bahd’u’lldéh and the New Era, pp. 148-51. Activity: Pretend that the members of your family have been asked by the local Assembly to be on a committee to help solve a community problem. There is a family that is unemployed and living below the poverty level. There are three children in the family. Using the above-mentioned writings, consult on what could be done to help alleviate the immediate problem and how this i through education, job training, talents, mercy, and justice. ReJreshments: Hot apple cider with a cinnamon stick. SECOND WEEK OF DECEMBER: Feast of Masa’il (Questions), December 12. Thought for the week: ‘... If the nations of the world investigate reality they will agree and become united. ...’” Prayer: Bahá’í Prayers (1982), p. 22 (the B4b). Lesson: Read and discuss one or more of the suggested lesson materials: 1. The Hidden Words, No. 9, p. 25.2. Bahá’í World Faith, pp. 238-39 (‘The first teaching ...”) 3. The Promulgation of Universal Peace, pp. 291-95. Activity: Play a game of ‘Question and Find.”’ Pick an object and have someone hide it. Search for it by asking questions. To find the truth, one must ask questions. Refreshments: Fruit and cheese kabobs on toothpicks; juice.

THIRD WEEK OF DECEMBER: December 19, Love (the Greatest Holy Leaf). Thought for the week: ‘Love is the most great Law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly Cycle ...”” (‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Divine Art of Living, p. 108). Prayer: Baha’i Prayers (1982), pp. 71-72 (‘‘O Compassionate God! ...’”). Lesson: Read and discuss one or more of the selected materials: 1. The Hidden Words, No. 4, p. 4. 2. A Gift of Love, by A.Q. Faizi, pp. 19-20; pp. 25-26; pp. 33-34. 3. The Chosen Highway, by Lady Blomfield, pp. 39-46. Activity: Prepare a ‘family tea.”” Make cupcakes and specially decorate them. Prepare a mild tea, perhaps herbal. Gather your best table cloth, cups and saucers, a centerpiece, place mats and silverware, and set a lovely table. Let all family members help in the preparations. Refreshments: Tea and cakes.

FOURTH WEEK OF DECEMBER: Joy. Thought for the week: ‘Joy gives us wings!’’ (‘Abdu’l-Bahá) Prayer: Bahá’í Prayers (1982), p. 204 (unity). Lesson: Read and discuss one or more of the selected materials: The Hidden Words, No. 35, p. 12. 2. God Loves Laughter, by William Sears. Begin with chapter 1 and continue reading regularly as a family until completed. This is an excellent “‘read aloud’? book. Acti Play “Remember When ..."’ Have each family member tell the funniest thing that ever happened to him/her. Refreshments: Homemade peanut butter cookies and milk.

Child Education Office has workshop on politeness, manners during Feast

A workshop entitled ‘‘Politeness and Manners: Children and the Nineteen Day Feast”? is available to local Baha’i communities that would like to more effectively integrate children and youth into the Nineteen Day Feast experience.

The workshop provides a procedure by which friends in the local community agree on and im UNICEF materials

UNICEF packets, with the 1987 UNICEF calendar and other multicultural informational materials including ‘‘Games Around the World,” are available during November and December from the National Child Education Office, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091.

The UNICEF calendar includes Baha’i Holy Days, and a fact sheet entitled ‘‘The Baha’i Faith and Its World Community” is also included in the packet. This makes an appropriate gift for school teachers from Baha’i parents, and helps to establish the child’s Baha’i identity in the classroom.

The packet costs $9. Checks should be made payable to ‘‘Baha’i Services Fund,” earmarked “UNICEF Packet.”’

plement a Feast behavior standard for children. The material looks to the local Spiritual Assembly as the point of unity for establishing the behavior standard.

Steps in the procedure include:

¢ a local community member conducts the workshop, making use of the following materials: convenor guidelines, agenda and handouts; letters on the topic from the Universal House of Justice; a cassette tape; and a Feast questionnaire that can be used to secure feedback from parents, youth and children about how local Feasts are currently perceived.

© workshop activity results in recommendations to the local Assembly regarding a behavior standard.

• the Assembly consults and approves the behavior standard for

the community, and then lovingly helps parents, teachers and other community members to implement it.

Workshop materials can be ordered from the National Child Education Office, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091. The cost is $5. Checks should be made payable to ‘‘Bahai Services Fund’? and earmarked ‘‘Children.””

lovely story of

Parents and children’s class teachers are encouraged to share with children the story of the

National Convention received a gift of 189 red roses from their imprisoned Iranian brothers and sisters. Each delegate was given one rose and carried it home after the Convention.

The gift has inspired many acts of service, teaching and special contributions to the Fund

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Parents, teachers are encouraged to share

throughout the U.S. Baha’i community. For example, the Spiritual Assembly of Eagle Butte, South Dakota, on the Cheyenne River Reservation, pledged to raise up 19 local Assemblies to redeem their rose; believers in Connecticut will use the symbol of the rose as an annual award given to the local community that is most active in the teaching work; and some of the friends in Wisconsin have begun a ‘‘Ransom the Rose’’ fund campaign to raise at least $1,890 for the National Baha’i Fund.

The 189-day ‘‘Spirit of the Rose”’ is a worthy introduction to the Six Year Plan. Beginning with the anniversary of the Birth of the

‘Roses’ with Baha’i children

Bab on October 20 and continuing until the last day of this year’s National Convention, April 26, the Baha’is in this country are making a special effort to redeem the roses of loving sacrifice offered by their brothers and sisters in Iran.

After the Convention, the National Spiritual Assembly will send to the Universal House of Justice a journal—including pictures, letters and reports—of the contributions and teaching activities that have been carried out.

Bahá’í children are encouraged to take part in the ‘‘Spirit of the Rose”’ and to send descriptions of their activities to the National Spiritual Assembly, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091.

December Brilliant Star devotes issue to race unity, peace

Look out! Brilliant Star’s sixth and final issue of 1986 is outstanding. It’s devoted to the topic of peace, specifically race unity and its part in world peace.

Racial diversity is examined in many ways, using the South Pacific as a focus, through poetry, a fairy tale, and more.

Susan Engle’s “Take Me to Australia’’ is delightful, as “On a Honolulu Bus’ is thoughtful. And “‘A Letter from Australia’’ by young Adrian Hall of New South Wales shares with the reader some of the differences and similarities between growing up “down under” and the U.S.

Navigating the Pacific in “Oceania!” by Sue Lang is an activity. to test all of us in ‘‘Baha’i geography.”

And an inspiring tale is woven about a monarch who accepts the Faith, not unlike His Highness Malietoa Tanumafili II of Western Samoa.

Prominent in this issue is a child’s look at ‘The Promise of

Herald of South looks for articles, stories

The editors of Herald of the South, a quarterly magazine in color published by the National Spiritual Assemblies of Australia and New Zealand, are always looking for well-written articles and stories of between 1,500 and 3,000 words that cover a wide range of ethical, humanitarian and Baha’i topics.

While the editors have no hard and fast rules, they do not generally look favorably on articles that consist mostly of quotations from other works, whatever the source,

Articles should express the author’s ideas in an easy-to-read, non-academic style that demonstrates the broad-minded and liberal interests and attitudes of the Faith. Poetry is seldom published.

Manuscripts should preferably be typed and double-spaced and have the author’s name and address clearly written at the top of the first page. Manuscripts cannot be returned.

If you would like to put some of your thoughts and feelings into writing, send your article to Herald of the South, P.O. Box 283, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia.

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World Peace,”’ the statement by the Universal House of Justice to the peoples of the world. It will help children to understand what the adults have been so excited about.

Summing things up is a Parents’ Page on “Appreciating Diversity”

by Mary K. Radpour, a member of the National Race Unity Committee.

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Reaching Gypsies is hard, but not impossible

Teaching stories...

The ongoing Raul Pavén Project, involving direct door-to-door teaching within a 50-mile radius of Phoenix, Arizona, has had amazing results.

A core group of 8-10 teachers, working on weekends, with at least two people teaching and consolidating throughout the week, has enrolled between 175 and 200 new believers since January.

These new Baha’is include Hispanics, blacks, Filipinos, Yuma and Maricopa Indians, and many others. ...

In Massachusetts, the Lowell Project, manned by some 60 Baha’is from 11 states from Maine to Texas, spread the teachings to receptive souls in that area, with the result that 43 enrolled, bringing to 78 the number of new Baha’is in the Lowell area since last summer.

Some of these new believers are from a minority background, thus adding great beauty to the project, especially when they have voluntarily taken part in teaching the Faith to others.

Some of the goals established at the outset of the project included creating a bi-lingual newspaper for the Laotian and Vietnamese friends; reciting 20,000 ‘‘Remover of Difficulties’; increasing the level of participation in giving to the Funds and emphasizing the importance of doing so; and trying to locate and acquire a suitable Baha’i Center. ...

The Baha’i Cycle Club in San Bernardino, California, under the auspices of the Spiritual Assembly of Grand Terrace, celebrated World Peace Day this year with “Cycle for Peace ’86,”’ a bicycle ride whose proceeds were donated to the Riverside Area Committee for the Special Olympics.

Some 600 cyclists from all parts of Southern California rode the 65-mile route through four communities September 21 with the words ‘‘Cycle for Peace’? and “Baha’i Cycle Club’’ pinned to the front of their cycle jerseys and on T-shirts that were issued to each rider compliments of the Special Olympics and the Baha’i Cycle Club.

The more than $2,000 raised for the Special Olympics is to be used to create and organize events for the children and youth in the pro

gram.

The club is already planning next year’s event, ‘‘Cycle for Peace 1987.’

At least 20 businesses in Grand Terrace were introduced to the Faith while being approached to sponsor trophies for the winners of Cycle for Peace.

Also, four members of the Assembly met for 30 minutes with the local Chamber of Commerce, after which members of the Baha’i community were invited to attend the Chamber’s monthly luncheon to promote Cycle for Peace and mention the Faith to more than 50 local businessmen.

A brief article about the event appeared in the Chamber of Commerce newsletter, and two promotional ads placed in the biking newspaper, Southwest Cycle, showed the Baha’i Cycle Club and

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Joseph Galata, chairman of the Spiritual Assembly of Sparks, Nevada, and former representative to the United Nations for the World Gypsy Congress, has received news that a local Assembly in Spain has been formed whose members include seven Gypsies who recently declared.

One of the members wrote to Mr. Galata, saying, ‘‘I became a Baha’i because it is the only hope of the Gypsy people in this world.’”

Before his passing, the beloved Guardian, Shoghi Effendi, issued a call to reach the Gypsy people with the Message of Baha’u’llah.

Many Baha’is tend to think that reaching the Gypsies is nearly impossible because of the Gypsy life Everyone welcome at Grenada school

The Baha’is of Grenada, the “Spice Island of the Caribbean,’” extend a warm welcome to those who would like to attend their Winter School from December 27-January 2.

For information and bookings, please contact the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Grenada, P.O. Box 323, St. Georges, Grenada, Windward Islands.

style, and Mr. Galata says, ‘‘This appears to be true. Gypsies do not, by and large, assimilate with people who are not Gypsies.

“But,"’ he adds, “‘there are ways to reach the Gypsy population, especially in the U.S.””

The majority of American Gypsies live in Chicago; Long Beach, California; Portland and Eugene, Oregon; New York City; Austin and Houston, Texas; and Florida.

Other areas having relatively large Gypsy populations include Spokane and Seattle, Washington; Cleveland, Ohio; and Kansas City, Missouri.

Gypsies are divided by tribes; that is, Eastern Europeans, Romanichaels (British), and Spanish. Dialects are different, but customs tend to remain similar.

Many of the customs are identical to Baha’i laws and principles such as no pre-marital sex, no drugs, parental consent before marriage, the observance of and obedience to an administrative order (Kris).

One way to make contact with Gypsies in the U.S., says Mr. Galata, is to work on the level of the social/economic development plan urged by Baha’i administrative bodies.

Recently, Mr. Galata appointed a Baha’i in Seattle to serve as a

On September 5, U.S. Congressman Jack Kemp of New York State (left) and Erie County Executive Edward Rutkowski were presented copies of ‘The Promise of World Peace’ by Baha’is from

the Village of Hamburg, Laurie Lynch and Ethel Hare. Also present was Jerry Spear, representing the Baha’is of the Town of Hamburg.

Town, Village of Hamburg collaborate to distribute peace statement widely

To lead up to and publicize the UN’s International Day of Peace in September, the Spiritual Assemblies of the Town of Hamburg and Village of Hamburg in New York state collaborated over a three-month period to distribute “The Promise of World Peace’’ and to make its contents known to people in that area.

Weekly newspaper ads featuring passages from the statement were run, and the statement itself was presented to some 35 local government officials, civic leaders, educators and clergy with an invitation to attend a public meeting to express their views on the ity of achieving world

The statement was also given to U.S. Congressman Jack Kemp of New York state and to Erie County Executive Edward Rutkowski.

Posters were distributed widely giving information about the UN Day of Peace and announcing a series of follow-up meetings.

Attendance at the first two of these events was good and included people of various backgrounds and affiliations who were willing to express their ideas.

Positive responses to ‘The Promise of World Peace’’ were made by a local legislator, a recent convert to Hinduism, a Rotary Club member, a Quaker, and a member of,a local church.

media consultant for the Gypsy Congress. The Gypsies approved the nomination, which set a precedent, i. a non-Gypsy working with Gypsies.

Mr. Galata says the consultant has made such gains that recently she sent a copy of the Universal House of Justice’s peace statement to a well-known Gypsy woman in Florida who was so impressed by the statement that she called the Baha’i and asked for literature about the Faith.

Another Baha’i in New York City is working with the new Gypsy representative to the UN who wrote a letter saying, ‘“‘The Baha’is are the only ones who really care about the Gypsies.’’

Another way to reach Gypsies with the Message of Bahd’u’ llah is

to join the Gypsy Lore Society in New Jersey, which is composed of Gypsies and non-Gypsies and devotes its time to newsletters, studies, research and seminars regarding the various aspects of Gypsy culture.

Of special interest is the religious practices of Gypsies, the majority of whom in this country are Roman Catholics.

To help in supporting the Gypsy World Congress, or to join the Gypsy Lore Society, the addresses are provided by Mr. Galata:

World Romani Congress, United Nations Representative, Social/Economic Council, New York, NY.

Gypsy Lore Society, Centenary College, Hackettstown, NJ.

Members of Bahá’í children’s classes in the Richmond, Virginia, area designed and built this float for the annual Westover Hills Azalea Festival parade April 20. The banner above the float was made by Atiyyih Tammaddon, a

_— Bs local Baha’i who is a professional seamstress. A photograph of the Sloat, which received considerable applause along the parade route, appeared the following day in the Richmond News Leader.

Alabaman named Scout representative

Julius (Butch) Fuller of Brierfield, Alabama, has been named by the National Teaching Committee to be the Bahd’{ representative to the Boy Scouts of America Religious Relationships Committee, National Council.

He will work closely with that organization to gain acceptance of the Baha’i ‘‘Unity of Mankind” religious emblem that is designed specifically for the Boy Scouts.

Official notification of the development of the program will appear in an upcoming issue of The American Bahá’í.

Mrs. Miriam Nelson of San Juan Capistrano, California, has been named official Baha’i representative to the Girl Scouts, and like Mr. Fuller, will be working closely with that group to gain acceptance of the Baha’i program.

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[Page 11]TEACHING

The number of teaching projects held across the U.S. since Ridvan has risen to 122, according to the National Teaching Committee.

These projects, sponsored in most cases by local communities, have included both direct and indirect teaching, and have involved consolidation, expansion, raising local Assemblies, and service pro jects.

Of the 122 projects, 17—including 10 on Reservations—have involved some element of service. The others have used a wide range

of teaching methods that led to the enrollment of 536 new believers during the summer.

Consolidation was a major focus of many projects, especially in areas of South Dakota, South Carolina and Massachusetts, where large numbers of believers entered the Faith last year.

Thirty-nine of the projects have become ongoing efforts, which of The American Baha’i / November 1986 / 11

Teaching projects in U.S. increase to 122

fers great promise for continued expansion and consolidation during the Six Year Plan.

In the summer of the sixth year of the Seven Year Plan there were four summer projects in the U.S. In the last year of that Plan there were 45 summer projects.

Because of the heightened involvement of local communities, we can already sustain on a year round basis nearly the peak number of projects held in the final year of the Seven Year Plan. Among the ongoing projects are Project Raul Pavén, near Phoenix, Arizona; the Southeast Asian Teaching Project in St. Petersburg, Florida; ‘‘Fire in the Heartland” in Davenport, Iowa; and the Lapwai Service Project on the Nez Perce Reservation in Idaho.

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gift—a gift of 189 red roses, a gift that would encourage us, inspire us, and call us to action.

“It quickly became apparent, as

~_ KENNETH R. JEFFERS

Ken Jeffers new administrator at House of Worship

‘On August 15, Kenneth R. Jeffers of Liguna Niguel, Californi assumed the position of administrator at the Bahd’{ House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois.

Mr. Jeffers succeeds Bruce Whitmore who served for more than 13 years at the National Center before leaving this summer to enter private business ‘in Georgia.

Mr. Jeffers, who has been a Baha’i for more than 20 years, has a professional background in sales with a specialty in human resource training and motivation.

Since 1982 he has had his own family business, Jeffers Health Systems, which serves health-care professionals throughout the U.S.

In 1973-74, Mr. Jeffers, a graduate of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, where he majored in psychology, worked on the ANISA project with the late Dr. Daniel C. Jordan.

He comes to the Wilmette area with his wife, Shookoh, and two of their eight children. Four other children are in California running the family business.

On his arrival, Mr. Jeffers’ first move was to invite area clergy and peace groups, as well as participants in the Great Peace March moving from California to Washington, D.C., to gather for a Prayers for World Peace program August 17 at the House of Worship. About 500 people attended the event.

we studied the reports from the Town Meetings held in June,’’ he added, “‘that the fragrance of the roses had permeated the Baha’i community and invigorated our actions.

“‘With spontaneous unity and enthusiasm, the American community was responding. Our National Spiritual Assembly was also touched by this response. ...

“Now, the National Assembly desires to send a tangible gift to the Baha’is in Iran, a token from us that will let them know that we heard their appeal, that we were touched by the beauty of their roses, that we responded with resounding victories in all aspects of our Baha’i lives, and that we did it in the names of those who are today prevented from promoting their Faith.”

The National Assembly, ‘‘with your help,” said Counselor Harris, “‘will compile a record of all the victories achieved for the Faith here in the U.S. for a period of 189 days... ending at the National Convention in April during the Festival of ba

All of those victories, he said, will be entered in the journal, which will then be sent to the Universal House of Justice ‘‘so that the news of our love and devotion c&n find its way back to the friends in Iran.

“Is there really any better way to cheer their hearts during these days of severe oppression?’’

The journal, said Mr. Harris, “will contain mention of every victory won in the name of the prisoners in Iran ... and in particular, we want to mention special contributions offered to replenish the National Fund.’”’

Imagine those prisoners, he said, ‘‘hearing of the efforts of our children and the great contributions that youth are making as they connect their hearts with the youth of Iran.

“The idea is to make a book so filled with stories of sacrifice and victories, so packed with the good news that the Cause of God is growing, so overflowing with great accomplishments for this, the first year of the Six Year Plan, that the 700 who sit in prison today will feel the warm embrace of their global Baha’i family.””

The family spirit sown by the roses, said Counselor Harris, ‘‘is blossoming throughout this land. It is so obvious that the roses of Persia have touched the hearts of America from coast to coast.

“Now is the time for us to move into the field of action and redeem the roses. ...””

We begin the Six Year Plan, he said, ‘with a magnificent realization that we know what it means to be sisters and brothers, a coat of many colors.

“Now we have 189 days to complete our book. Let’s show the world what it means to be a global family.”

National Assembly members join 200 friends to inaugurate Green Acre restoration project

Although the October air was cool and crisp, the spirit of love and fellowship was warm and joyous as the National Spiritual Assembly, National Teaching Committee, and more than 200 Baha’ is from the New England area gathered last month to inaugurate the restoration of the Green Acre Baha’i School in Eliot, Maine.

Judge James F. Nelson, chairman of the National Assembly, compared Green Acre to a lovely lady who, although visited by “Abdu’l-Bahá and once looked up to as the fairest of her class, had suffered from inattention in recent years.

“She has now come to the time for her reward,” Judge Nelson said. ‘‘We can tell her, this beloved place, that the winter of her neglect has ended and the springtime of her restoration is here.”

The two-hour inauguration ceremony marked the beginning of a long-awaited process that will lead to the restoration and physical development of Green Acre’s campus, said Charles (Cap) Cornwell, a member of the National Teaching Committee.

That process, he said, will include a fund-raising effort spearheaded by the Green Acre Council and the newly emerging Friends of Green Acre, and a professional plannning effort by the Green Acre Restoration Task Force, a group of five local people recently appointed by the National Properties Committee to guide and organize the architectural and physical reconstruction tasks ahead.

Mr. Cornwell said that the specific physical plan for the restoration has not yet been definedthat will be the job of the local task force.

The plan, he said, will certainly include a detailed proposal for “the restoration of the Inn itself to its original state’’ and the renovation of other buildings on campus that are of historic significance.

“The actual amount of funds to be used,”’ said Mr. Cornwell, “will be determined after the task force’s work is completed and the plan is presented to and approved by the National Spiritual Assembiy.””

That the National Assembly is behind the project, however, was clear from their expressions of support at the inauguration ceremony, held at the school on Saturday, October 11.

“These are holy grounds,”’ said Soo Fouts, addressing the audience of Green Acre supporters in the school’s sunlit recreation room. “I know ‘Abdu’l-Bahá walked on the ground here, and I can’t help but feel very committed to what we’re doing.”

Another member of the Na 3

Dr. Robert C. Henderson (left), secretary of the National Spiritual Assembly, addresses the audience of more than 200 who were present October 11 at the Green Acre

tional Assembly, Dr. William Maxwell, noted that when Sarah Farmer first bought the four-story white inn on the banks of the Piscataqua River, she organized peace conferences there, even before becoming a Baha’i and turning the property over to the Faith.

He noted also that the announcement of the restoration project comes during the UN International Year of Peace.

“The timing is right,”’ said Dr. Maxwell.

Two members of the Continental Board of Counselors, Robert Harris and Fred Schechter, spoke of the historic significance of Green Acre and its role in the spiritual development of many individuals who have gone on to render great service to the Faith.

Jaci Delahunt, secretary of the National Teaching Committee, said recent management changes at Green Acre promise to help speed the restoration process along.

She noted that in September, Ray LaBelle, who has experience in real estate and restaurant management, was appointed Green Acre’s director of operations.

“‘Ray’s management and operations skills, combined with the wonderful skills at building spirit and programs of Dick Grover,” said Ms. Delahunt, “‘will be invaluable as Green Acre begins a new cycle of development.’’

Mr. Grover, who served as school administrator until Mr. LaBelle’s appointment, was given a special gift—a prayer book signed by members of the National Spiritual Assembly—in recognition of his service at Green Acre, and received a standing ovation. é

Mr. Grover will continue at

Baha’i School to help launch the Green Acre restoration project. Waiting to speak is Judge James F. Nelson, chairman of the National Spiritual Assembly.

Green Acre as coordinator of educational programs.

Members of the National Teaching Committee also gave Green Acre a gift during the ceremony.

Ms. Delahunt, a Native American, presented a white pine tree to the gathering, saying that the tree is an important symbol of life and growth, and has special meaning for Indian people.

“The tree of life is often referred to,’”’ she said, ‘‘and the white pine tree is called the ‘Tree of Great Peace’ by Indians in the northeast.

“It seems appropriate to use this tree because ‘Abdu’l-Bahá asked that Green Acre give attention to the furtherance of universal peace.

“With it,’’ she said, “‘comes a pledge from the National Teaching Committee to support the efforts of the restoration project in any way we can.””

The ceremony also featured entertainment by Do’a, a Baha’i music group from New Hampshire.

Green Acre was the first Baha’i Summer School in the world. The inn there was built in 1889 by Sarah Farmer and a group of four others.

Miss Farmer became a Baha’i in 1900, and Green Acre was visited by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá during His trip to America in 1912.

He spent seven days there, giving lectures, saying prayers and visiting many of the friends in the Eliot area.

In the future, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá said, Green Acre ‘‘shall become a. great center, the cause of the unity of the world of humanity, the cause of united hearts and the binding together of the East and the West.””—Brad Pokorny [Page 12]12 / The American Baha’i / November 1986

Baha’i CROSSWORD

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ACROSS among the believers and is nor 1. The Bahd’{ day begins and ends at set. 2. July 9 commemorates the an niversary of the dom of the Bab.

7. The Baha’i calendar is not based on the month.

8. Arabic name of the Sth Baha’i month: Light.

9. The Baha’i ____ began with the Declaration of the Bab in 1844.

11. There are teen days

in each Baha’i month.

12. To refrain from something voluntarily.

13. Opposite of out.

14. What one should do before he speaks.

17. “‘... and beware lest desire deprive you of this that is appointed in the Book.’’ (Shoghi Effendi, Principles of Bahá’í Administration, p. 9)

19. Cowboy actor Tim ___. 20. The Baha’i calendar is based on the year.

22. There are 19 Baha’i year.

23. Egyptian god of the sun.

24. The quality of mind that enables one to face danger/opposition with fearless calm.

26. To forbid.

27. Baha’ is should make

effort in their places of employment to be excused on Baha’i Holy Days.

29. Arabic name of the 19th and last Baha’i month: Loftiness.

30. The Nineteen Day

is a community meeting designed to foster fellowship and love

in the

mally held on the first day of each Baha’i month. 31. The annual Fast is ______ic and is commanded by Baha’u’llah in the Aqdas.

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1. Baha’is are encouraged to do this with dignity at the Feast.

2. The first two letters (Arabic) in the 18th Baha’i month (Dominion).

3. Five of the Baha’i Holy Days are days of celebration.

4. falls on the just and unjust alike.

5. Registered Nurse (initials).

6. During the Fast, the believer abstains from food and from sunrise to sunset.

10. To the same degree.

13. calary days number four in ordinary years and five in leap years.

14. The Feast is divided into

parts.

15. Reading and reciting the

Words is done in the spiritual part of the Feast.

16. The Feast of (Knowledge) is held in October.

17. Cogs (scrambled).

18. Char (scrambled).

21. The period of the Fast serves

as a reminder to us to control

selfish and desires.

25. We should make every effort

to ___ to the Feast.

26. The Inaugurator of the Baha’i

calendar.

28. We are encouraged to be par ticipants in the Feast, not standers.

Answers to this month’s puzzle are on page 26.

Papers of Virginia Orbison, Albert Vail major additions to Archives’ collection

The National Bahd’{ Archives recently received two major additions to its holdings: the papers of Viginia Orbison and Albert Vail.

Miss Orbison spent many years at pioneer posts in South America and Europe, starting with the first Seven Year Plan. Several years ago she had given some of her papers to the Archives. The remainder were left to the Archives in Miss Orbison’s will, thus safeguarding them for future generations of Baha’is.

The papers include letters from such notable Baha’is as Edna

True, Honor Kempton, Mary and Edward Bode, and Eve Nicklin.

The papers of Albert Vail, an early and prominent Baha’i teacher who had left the Faith, turned up in the basement of a Baha’i relative who was moving.

Luckily, instead of being discarded, the papers were offered to the National Archives.

The Vail papers were found to contain letters from a number of early Baha’is including Lady Blomfield, Auguste Forel, J.E. Esslemont, Horace Holley and Alfred Lunt.

New video cassette, ‘Promise of World Peace,’ produced by L.A.’s Radiant Century Productions

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A 27-minute video cassette, “The Promise of World Peace,” has been produced and released for distribution by Radiant Century Productions, an independent Baha’i production company in Los Angeles.

The video, written by Lisa Janti and Sharon Barnes, presents narrated highlights from the Universal House of Justice’s peace statement, using visual materials from various Baha’i and non-Baha’i sources including the United Nations, Kiva Films, and NASA.

Also featured are comments by two members of the National Spiritual Assembly, Dr. Firuz Kazemzadeh and Judge Dorothy Nelson.

The video has been seen and been well-received by producers and program directors of independent and cable TV stations on the West Coast and has been scheduled for viewing by some of them.

It has also been presented to various public officials including the mayors of Los Angeles and Culver City, California.

“The video ... presents a powerful and hopeful message,”’ said Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles. ‘‘It is a clear, comprehensive and universally applicable statement that gives one much to ponder and act upon.

“Most important, we are left with the assurance that workable solutions to abolish war do exist, and that lasting peace is indeed within reach if we but exercise our collective will to establish unity

and justice on the planet. I highly recommend it.””

The video is now available in some Baha’i bookstores and is distributed nationally through Kalimét Press, 1600 Sawtelle Blvd., Suite 34, Los Angeles, CA 90025 (phone 213-479-5668).

The price is $29.50 (VHS or Beta), $65 for 3/24-inch broadcast quality.

A Spanish-language version will soon be available.

About 450 attend 6th conference at Massanetta Springs

About 450 people attended the sixth annual Labor Day weekend conférence at Massanetta Springs,

Virginia. Among the speakers were Kathy Hoganson, Mabel Garis and

James Mock. Also heard from were Donald Kinney, who met ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in New York City when he was two years old; and Dr. Monibor Golestaneh, who as a child knew Shoghi Effendi and was close to the Greatest Holy Leaf.

Workshops were a new and popular feature of the conference. Children’s ‘‘challenge courses’ raised more than $1,900 in Fund pledges, while a sculpture by Bill Davis was auctioned for a Fund donation of $1,200.

Entertainment included two musical performances by Kathy and Eric Cowan and Mike Williams, and a talent show that featured poetry, gymnastics, and music that ranged from jazz and rock to folk and Persian.

Can you identify anyone in this picture?

This is a photograph of a Bahá’í children’s training class in Alhambra, California, in 1943. The National Archives would like to know the names of everyone in the

picture. If you have information, please contact the National Bahá’í Archives, Bahá’í National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091.

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Of course, you can subscribe to Bahd’/ News for $12 a year and you’ll receive this issue. And if you are already a subscriber, you can look for it in your mail box.

But we want everyone to be able to enjoy this special issue of Baha’i News and to have a keepsake of this extraordinary con ference.

To receive your free copy, simply mail a postcard with your name and address to: Subscriber Service, Baha’i National Center, Wil mette, IL 60091.

[Page 13]Personal papers help document history of Baha’i community

Personal papers are an important source of information for scholars about the history of the Bahá’í Faith.

Often, they contain information not found in the records of Baha’i institutions. Moreover, when such papers come from many different people they help to document the diversity of the American Baha’i community.

Personal papers donated to the National Baha’i Archives will eventually be processed, arranged and opened to research. They will become part of a Baha’i archives, referred to in a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi as ‘‘a most valuable storehouse of information regarding all aspects of the Faith, historical, administrative as well as doctrinal.”

The National Baha’i Archives has been given the responsibility of locating original Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá4 and letters from Shoghi Effendi and of obtaining either the original letters or photocopies.

The Archives also actively seeks the papers of Baha’is who have made contributions to the Faith on the national or international level or who lived during the early days of the Faith in America. Information on the whereabouts of any such papers is appreciated.

Personal papers are the material accumulated during the course of one’s life. The kinds of materials found in personal papers can vary widely, but materials of particular interest to the National Baha’i Archives include:

Original letters, including Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and letters from Shoghi Effendi; personal and family correspondence; diaTies; photographs; printed matter, including annotated books; literary manuscripts, such as drafts of talks, books, articles, poetry, plays, music, etc.; personal recollections; relics and some personal belongings; financial and legal records; and scrapbooks.

Stories from page 10

the Committee for the Special Olympics as its main sponsors.

During the presentation of the peace statement to the City Council of Grand Terrace, ‘‘Cycle for Peace’”’ was mentioned as one of the ways in which the Baha’is of Grand Terrace would be observing World Peace Day.

As a result, the mayor and City Council declared September 21 “Grand Terrace Peace Day.”

ico, Portugal and Holland.

In March 1969, at the suggestion of the Universal House of Justice, whose guidance they had sought, the devoted couple settled in Funchal, Madeira Islands. Later that year, while attending a teaching conference in Lisbon, Portugal, Mary became seriously ill and died within a few days. Her resting place, in a British cemetery in Lisbon, is surrounded by a beautiful garden.

In a cable issued on news of her passing, the House of Justice lauded Mary Bode’s rich record of service as “‘exemplary.

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Noticias de ensenanza de la frontera

Los Baha’is en el Valle de Mesilla de nuevo Mexico y Texas han estado teniendo actividades intercomunicativas para llevar el mensaje de la Fe Baha’i a la gente local.

El 85% de la pobacién habla espafiol. Por eso muchos eventos Baha’is incluyen el sabor mexicano: baile, comida y drama. También grupos no Baha’is y individuos son invitados para participar.

Las respuestas han sido excitosas. Algunas veces mas de cien personas han venido representando a todas la razas y las religiones. En estas actividades nos han brindado ayuda los Baha’ is de

Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Recientemente una campafia de actividades fue iniciada por diecinueve dias durante el mes Baha’i de Mashiyyat. En cada hogar Baha’i se les a impulsado para que tengan reuniones Baha’is en sus hogares durante este proyecto.

Est6 ha atraido a Baha’is locales a participar mas directamente en actividades Baha’is y a sido una manera de impulsar a cada creyente a ensefiar la Fe regularmente.

Dos Ilaves para este gran exit6 han sido el hacer nuevos amigos y sobretodo la unidad de los Baha’is.

San Diego creates ‘Forum for Peace’ to involve community in peace issues

To channel the energy and enthusiasm generated at the. first Baha’i International Peace Conference in San Francisco, the Baha’ is of San Diego created ‘‘Forum for World Peace,’’ a series of programs designed to involve Baha’ is and the community at large in discussions of the various aspects of

peace.

More than 70 people attended the first program, held September 13 at the San Diego Baha’i Center. Topics covered included ‘‘Teaching Children Peaceful Ways of Living,” ‘Women in the Peace Movement,” “World Organizations That Work for Peace,’ “Religious Groups for Peace,’ “Professionals for Peace,’”? and “Removal of Prejudice for Peace.””

Each of these discussions had a Baha’i as moderator and included participation by members of non Resource Center whose aims are compatible with the topic at hand.

Grand Canyon theme is racial harmony

“Racial Harmony—A Key to World Peace’’ is the theme of the second Grand Canyon Baha’i Conference, to be held December 26-29 at the Phoenix (Arizona) Civic Center.

Among the highlights will be well-known speakers including members of the National Race Unity, Teaching, and Social and Economic Development Committees; workshops and dramatic presentations on the conference theme; programs for adults, youth and children; and music and entertainment from many cultures.

For more information, contact: Grand Canyon Baha’i Conference, P.O. Box 9961, Phoenix,

Baha’i groups from the Peace AZ 85068.

Reports from pioneers are sought

On November 14, 1963, the Universal House of Justice wrote to all National Spiritual Assemblies soliciting written or tape-recorded accounts of the experiences of pioneers in the Ten Year Crusade. ‘‘Far more important than a mere recounting of the chronological order of events,’ the House of Justice stated, ‘‘these stories should portray living experiences which will be a source of inspiration to succeeding generations of Baha’i pioneers.”

The House of Justice has not relaxed its interest in obtaining these reports. The accounts of the Knights of Baha’u’llah are of particular, but not exclusive, interest, as reports by all pioneers will be welcome.

Biographical information, a photograph and an outline of services rendered in the years since the Ten Year Crusade would also be appreciated. This material should be sent to the World Center and, if desired, a copy should be sent to the pioneer’s original national community for its archives.

It will be appreciated if those pioneers who have not already provided the House of Justice with an account of their pioneering experiences will do so now. The original and subsequent requests for information may not have reached all those who played a part in the Ten Year Crusade.—Universal House of Justice, Department of the Secretariat

Office of External Affairs serves as National Assembly’s ‘executive arm’

Over the last several years the volume of business transacted by the National Spiritual Assembly through the Office of the Secretary has greatly increased. In the spring of 1984 the National Assembly determined that it needed an office that would deal exclusively with the federal government, national organizations, and national communications media. Therefore, the National Assembly established the Office of External Affairs.

The Office of External Affairs, which is headed by a member of the National Spiritual Assembly, is, like the Office of the Secretary, an executive arm of the National Assembly. It is not a committee or a consultative body.

All Baha’i administrative agencies as well as individuals who have dealings with the federal government or officials with national organizations or media should maintain close contact with the National Spiritual Assembly through its Office of External Affairs which is located at 26 High St., New Haven, CT 06510 (telephone 203-787-0303).

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were used to produce special materials especially for the year-long observance. Proceeds from the sale of this edition will still be used to produce new teaching items.

Five new books in Persian received from West German Publishing Trust

The Baha’i Distribution Service has just received five new books in Persian from the Publishing Trust in West Germany.

Due to the popularity of these new titles at the Peace Conference in San Francisco, the books sold out their initial order very quickly and had to be reordered.

The new books are: Amr Va Khalq, Volume 2, a compilation

2nd in Baha’i Focus series of books due soon for U.S. release

The second in the series of ““Baha’i Focus”’ books, Baha’i Focus on Peace, and a booklet called Prayers and Thoughts for Peace are expected in November or early December by the Baha’ Distribution Service.

Bahá’í Focus on Peace ($5 SC) is part of a series dealing with issues of general concern and details. Baha’i contributions to peace, analyzes problems facing world leaders, and offers a clear and concise explanation of Bahd’{ teachings on peace. It also demonstrates how the Baha’i community offers hope for peace and a model for the future.

Baha’i Focus on Peace is written by Philip Hainsworth, a longtime member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the United Kingdom, who is also the author of Bahá’í Focus on Human Rights and co-author of the introductory book, The Bahá’í Faith.

The Publishing Trust in England has also produced an attractive booklet that is designed to be presented with ‘‘The Promise of World Peace’’ called Prayers and Thoughts for Peace ($2 SC).

Besides prayers, it contains passages from the Baha’i writings on the theme of peace.

of Baha’i writings on various topics ($29.95 HC); Bahá’íyyah Khanum, a Persian translation of the World Center compilation on the Greatest Holy Leaf ($16.50 HO); The Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a biography of the Master written by Muhammad-‘Ali Faizi ($20 HC); Nawnahaldn-i-Mad Dar Mahd-i-Amrulláh, stories about the courage of the Baha’i youth in Iran, written for both children and adults ($3 SC); and The Talks of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a compilation of talks by the Most Great Branch which includes material similar to that contained in Paris Talks and The Promulgation of Universal Peace.

The Distribution Service will also be selling two new instructional packets from the Office of Persian/American Affairs: Learning Arabic ($30 set), six tapes and two booklets to teach Arabic grammar to those who speak Persian; and Alláh-u-abhd ($4 set), a tape and booklet for children to

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Seven tapes of Peace Conference await final editing before release

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Editing work was being finished and duplication was scheduled (as of early October) on a set of seven audio tapes from the Baha’i International Peace Conference in San Francisco.

One of the seven tapes will include the keynote address by Dr. Ervin Laszlo, co-editor of the World Encyclopedia of Peace, and the closing address by Dr. Robert Henderson, secretary of the U.S. National Spiritual Assembly.

The other six tapes each cover one of the major workshops held at the conference: Spiritual Renewal, Social and Economic Development, the Elimination of Racism, the Equality of Women and Men, Universal Education, and Conflict Resolution.

Among the speakers on the panels are Robert Bellah, author of the best-selling book, Habits of the Heart; Jeff Faux, a leading economist and author; Dr. C. Eric Lincoln, author and professor of religion at Duke University; Riane Eisler and David Loye of the Institute for Futures Forecasting in Carmel, California, and contrib utors to the World Peace Encyclopedia; Frank Newman, retired Justice of the California Supreme Court; Counselor Wilma Brady; National Spiritual Assembly members William Maxwell and Dorothy Nelson, and many other

eminent participants.

The seven tapes will be sold as a set with an easy-to-store binder for $42. Individual tapes of the opening and closing sessions and each of the six workshops will sell for $7 apiece.

‘Teaching Peace’ ($8 CS), a new children’s audio tape by Red Grammer, is a hot item at the Bahá’í Distribution Service. ‘Red Grammer’s performances at the San Francisco Peace Conference generated a lot of interest in his tape,’ says Marketing Manager Robert Blum. ‘People are finding that their friends who aren’t Bahá’ís love the tape and want it for their children. Although the tape is done by Baha’is, it is so universal in its appeal and its message is

so appealing that people are anxious to get copies.’ Besides the title song, the tape offers songs that involve children and provides a message that is world-embracing, Mr. Blum says. Mr. Grammer and his wife, Kathy, who co-wrote the songs with him, say that ‘Teaching Peace’ is ‘a collection of songs created to help children break down the big idea of world peace into the individual daily actions that will make it a reality.’

Two books written especially for those who are investigating ‘the Bahá’í Faith are the latest publications from George Ronald. To a Seeker is by Nathan Rutstein, author of Teaching the Baha’i Faith. Mr. Rutstein says he wrote To a Seeker ($5.95 SC) ‘because I felt there was a serious need for an introductory book on the Faith that most contemporary seekers could relate to, one that addresses their concerns, fears and hopes, that explains the cause of the sad state of the world, and that points out why Baha’is are optimistic about the future of mankind.’ The other new book, The Way Out of the Dead End ($10.95 HC, $6.95 SC), is designed ‘to present the Bahá’í teachings on peace to non-Baha’is. Brief, witty and to the ‘point, it is eminently suitable for use as a gift and for presentations,’ according to the publisher. Its author, Huschmand Sabet, subtitled the book ‘A Plea for Peace.’ Franz Alt, the author of Peace Is Possible, says, ‘Mr. Sabet’s book has started new directions in my thinking about peace.”

Highland Park uses library to augment display

When the Baha’is of Highland Park, Michigan, secured a booth in the city’s annual Fall Festival, they decided to check out Baha’i books from the local public library to be used in their display.

A list of the half-dozen books that were used was prepared with the library call numbers so that those who were interested could find them easily and check them out for later reading.

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[Page 15]The Siac Year Plan

One of the goals under ‘‘carrying the healing message of Baha’wll4h to the generality of mankind” is the use of drama and singing in the teaching and deepening work and in Baha’i gatherings. Moreover, the Universal House of Justice has encouraged Baha’i artists to give expression to themes relating to world peace.

How will the arts help us to attract others and enrich our own events? How will the arts contribute to the achievement of world peace? How can Baha’i communities best use the talents and works of artists?

Music has the capacity to provide food for the spirit—to create a spiritual atmosphere and inspire and uplift the heart. Singing together, besides being pleasurable, can establish a feeling of unity and purpose. Drama has the capacity to be a great educational tool. Perhaps it is for these reasons and more that the House of Justice has encouraged us to use the arts in our activities.

Use of drama and singing

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The following resources will be helpful as we begin to meet the challenge of including music, drama, and the other performing arts in our daily activities during the Six Year Plan.

A compilation from the Universal House of Justice that helps us to understand the importance of music, its effect on the human spirit, its use in terms of the education and development of humanity, and the difference between ‘Bahá’í music’ and music in which the Faith is mentioned. Also inspires musicians to achieve artistic perfection. SC $2.50.

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Counselor Harris, at Green Lake, praises compilation on women, Power of Unity

“There are two books I would like you to get,’’ Counselor Robert Harris said during his Sunday morning address at the recent Green Lake (Wisconsin) Baha’i Conference.

“One of them,”’ he said, “‘is the compilation on women; the other is the compilation on race unity (The Power of Unity: Beyond Prejudice and Racism). If you walk away from this conference without these two books, I wonder how serious you are about world peace.’’

What is the correlation between women and peace and race unity and peace? Why are these two new resources essential to our understanding of how world peace will be achieved?

Women, the new compilation from the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice that was recently published in

Canada, contains many important references to the role of women in the family, in the world, and in the accomplishment of world peace.

Some of the passages in Women were previously unavailable. One such extract is the following from a letter from the Guardian:

“What ‘Abdu’l-Bahá meant about the women arising for peace is that this is a matter which vitally affects women, and when they form a conscious and overwhelming mass of public opinion against war there can be no war. ...””

A second new resource on the topic of women and peace is Women: Equality and Peace, a cassette tape of a talk by Counselor Peter Khan.

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EMPLOYMENT

THE WORLD Center in Haifa has an immediate need for a draftsman/designer and a craftsman/restorer, and an ongoing need for garden helpers and security staff. The draftsman is needed to preserve, restore and modify existing buildings; the work includes inspection, on-site investigation, testing, research, design and detail drafting. A general knowledge of building trades and drafting experience required; knowledge or experience with surveying and restoration techniques is helpful but not essential. Should be able to work independently and have at least five years’ drawing office experience in design capacity. Civil-design background is preferred but mechanical or electrical in civil works is acceptable. The craftsman/restorer surveys the Holy Places and assesses craft work necessary to conserve histotical building finishes, furnishings and ornaments; classifies historic materials and finishes; and prepares work standards and procedures and ensures documentation. Familiarity with working in various types of wood, metals, ceramics, glass, etc. is highly desirable, as well as experience in supervising such work. To obtain more information and/or an application, contact Karen Crenshaw, Department of Human Resources, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091, or phone 312-869-9039.

FUND education coordinator is sought by the Office of the Treasurer; an excellent opportunity to serve the Faith in Wilmette, Illinois. The coordinator helps administer a nationwide program designed to strengthen the institution of the Baha’i Fund: by overseeing the National Treasurer’s Representative (NTR) program and by responding to inquiries about the Fund from the field. Requires a liberal arts background with strong written and oral communications skills. The position also requires familiarity with the Baha’i Writings and an ability to relate them to the world around us. Other skills include flexibility, a sense of humor, and self-motivation. For more information or an application, contact Karen Crenshaw, Department of Human Resources, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091, or phone 312-869-9039.

THE Department of Human Resources at the Baha’i National Center is accepting applications for a general maintenance position at the Green Acre Baha’i School. Responsibilities include full-time general maintenance of grounds, buildings and equipment, trouble-shooting, and rec ord-keeping. Applicants should have a good working knowledge of electrical, plumbing and mechanical systems. Specific skills with professional training, especially in carpentry, are helpful. Ability to work independently or under close supervision with excellent organizational skills is essential. A minimum of 2-3 years experience is required. Hands-on experience in apartment complex, hotel, public school or other institutional maintenance is desirable. For more information or an application, please contact the Department of Human Resources, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091, or phone 312869-9039.

PERSIAN secretary wanted at the Baha’i World Center in Haifa, Israel, to type Sacred Text into a computer. Must be fluent in Persian and very familiar with the Writings of the Faith. Excellent typing skills are required. Must be mature and hard-working. For more information or an application, contact Karen Crenshaw, Department of Human Resources, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091, or phone 312869-9039.

WANTED: The Baha’i Publishing Trust and Distribution Service is looking for a receptionist/customer service representative for immediate hire. Besides acting as receptionist, his/her duties include entering orders on a computer, helping customers, telemarketing, and some clerical work. This is a responsible position with salary commensurate with duties. Please contact the Department of Human Resources, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091, or phone 312869-9039.

THE NATIONAL Spiritual Assembly’s Office of External Affairs is seeking help in both its Wilmette and New Haven offices. The office is responsible for contact with the U.S. government, national media and organizations, and prominent individuals. Needed are: Director, Office of Public Information (Wilmette). The director manages the office that is responsible for the training and development of the Baha’i public information network and a network of Baha’i media professionals and also supplies the Baha’i community with media materials. One to two years of professional administrative and supervisory experience is necessary, as is a college degree and excellent written and verbal communication skills. Public speaking experience is recommended, and a_background in conference planning and program development is desirable. Secretary (New Haven). Acts as receptionist, types correspondence, and maintains files in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment. Previous office experience, good telephone manner and typing skills of at least 60 wpm are necessary; word processing experience is desirable. Secretary (Wilmette). Handles telephone inquiries, opens and sorts mail, types correspondence, maintains public information network mailing lists, processes orders for audio-visual and special materials, analyzes news clippings. The position requires a flexible individual with previous experience in a fastpaced office environment. Good organizational skills, typing of 50-60 wpm, and a pleasant telephone manner are essential; word

processing skills are desirable. Those who are interested in applying for any of these positions should write directly to the Office of External Affairs,

New Haven, CT 06510.

THE DEPARTMENT of Human Resources at the Baha’i National Center is looking for a qualified, energetic and enthusiastic person to serve as assistant to the general editor at the Baha’ Publishing Trust. This individual is responsible for filing copyrights and renewals, handling rights and permissions correspondence, helping with the preparation of manuscripts for typesetting, and performing various secretarial duties. Strong organizational skills, typing of 60 wpm, and some word Processing experience are necessary. For information and an application, please contact Karen Crenshaw, Department of Human Resources, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091, or phone 312-869-9039.

HELP wanted: manager/housekeeper for elderly women in the Detroit area. $500 per month plus room and board. Contact Linda Strom, 313-532-4584.

THE DEPARTMENT of Human Resources at the Baha’i National Center is seeking a qualified individual to serve as department secretary in the Office of the Secretary. This person is responsible for typing correspondence, composing letters, transcribing dictation, maintaining office supplies and performing other tasks as needed. Two to three years of office experience, strong typing skills (55+ wpm), good communication and the ability to handle a large volume of detailed and routine work quickly. Knowledge of a Xerox 850 word processor would be helpful. For more information and an application, please contact Karen Crenshaw, Department of Human Resources, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091, or phone 312869-9039.

PIONEERING (OVERSEAS)

AN ENGLISH-language school in Argentina is offering a position to someone interested in teaching English to children, youth and adults. The school is in a city of 20,000 near a mass-taught tribal area. Pay is modest and commensurate with the number of classes taught. The climate of the region is akin to that of Florida. If you would like more details about this position, contact the International Goals Committee, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091, or phone 312-869-9039.

SECONDARY school teachers are needed at the Ruaha Technical School in Tanzania. Teachers are needed for all subjects, especially science, agriculture and technical subjects—mechanical, electrical and civil engineering, etc. The school includes grades 8-11 with a projected enrollment this year of more than 640. Applicants should have a BA or MA degree and either a teaching diploma or 2-3 years teaching experience. Good salary and housing are provided. Contracts run for one year or longer. For more information, contact the International Goals Committee, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091, or phone

312-869-9039.

A MAJOR health care products manufacturer in Puerto Rico has openings for a general accounting

manager, cost and budgeting manager, and administrative secretary. The accounting/budgeting positions require a bachelor’s degree in business administration and, preferably, an MBA or CPA. Managerial or supervisory experience as well as some knowledge of Spanish is preferred. The secretarial position requires a bachelor’s degree in secretarial sciences, fluency in Spanish, shorthand ability, and experience with word processors and calculators. For more information about these or other positions, please write to the International Goals Committee, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091, or phone 312869-9039.

AN ASSISTANT extension home economist is needed on the island of Yap in the U.S. Trust Territory of the Caroline Islands. Duties include developing and implementing educational programs in home gardening, hygiene, nutrition, physical fitness, food preparation, storage and preservation, and clothing construction in addition to training volunteer and professional staff in food and nutrition. Prefer applicants with an undergraduate degree in foods and nutrition. For more details, write to the International Goals Committee, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091, or phone 312-869-9039.

EXPERIENCE living in another culture on the homefront or in the international field: teacher certification candidates of special education, elementary, secondary and all grades are eligible through Indiana University. High job placement rate. This is a great opportunity to prepare for a lifetime of pioneering. For more informa tion, contact the International Goals Committee, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL

60091, or phone 312-869-9039.

CARETAKER is sought for an elderly pioneer to Taiwan. This gentleman is in his 90s but is not in need of medical assistance. The caretaker would help with his meal preparation and personal hygiene and also take care of the Baha’i Center where the gentleman lives, Living quarters and a nominal salary are provided, but the individual or couple would need an additional income of about $500/month. Anyone interested in this opportunity should contact the International Goals Committee, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091, or phone 312-869-9039.

A COUNTRY representative is being sought in Guatemala. Duties include hiring and training personnel to assume all program responsibilities, designing and monitoring credit component for micro-businesses and street vendors, designing and establishing management training component including appropriate written materials, helping the institution in over-all implementation and evaluation of the program, computerization of loan portfolio and accounting systems, formulation of a strategy for country-wide expansion, identification and appropriation of financial resources, and liaison with USAID and private sector officials. A graduate degree in business or a related field and a minimum of four years experience in micro-businesses, cooperatives or related areas is required. Knowledge of Spanish is also necessary. For more information,

contact the International Goals Committee, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091, or phone 312-869-9039.

FOSTER Parents Plan International needs an Information Systems regional coordinator to supervise installation and _utilization of microcomputer systems in various developing countries in Latin America. Applicants are required to have extensive knowledge of microcomputers including hardware set-up, telecommunications, and software systems development, knowledge of dBase III programming environment, and fluency in either French or Spanish. For more details, contact the International Goals Committee, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091, or phone 312869-9039.

NIGERIA is in need of a public health specialist/trainer to help the project director in curriculum development for training health educators and in the design, pretesting and completion of visual aids and other education/communication materials. A degree in nursing with public health training or an MPH degree is required. Specific skills in community health extension services including health education, nutrition and weaning practices is preferred. Please contact the International Goals Committee, Bahd’{ National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091 (phone 312-869-9039).

PIONEERING (HOMEFRONT)

HOMEFRONT pioneers are desperately needed in Southwest Florida, especially in Clearwater, Fort Meade, Greater Wauchula and Hernando County, areas that have many new believers as well as mass-taught ones who need extensive deepening. For fuller and more specific information about these localities, please write to Frances F. Hunter, secretary, District Teaching Committee of South West Florida, P.O. Box 415, Inverness, FL 32651, or phone 904-344-3458.

THE Baha’i Group of Wellesley, Massachusetts, invites you to join our community of six adults and two children as we grow toward Assembly status. Wellesley is a safe, beautiful and affluent community west of Boston which has two colleges, Wellesley (for women) and Babson (co-ed business, etc.). The economy is presently the best in the country, and offers many job opportunities in high-tech industry, medicine and education. Homes are well above $250,000, although there are opportunities for apartment and home rentals, house sharing or living with families (especially for students). The Boston metro area and New England as a whole offer an incomparable variety of scenery and cultural attractions, and most important, have the Green Acre Baha’i School, only 1 1/2 hours from ‘Wellesley. Those who are interested or who need more information may contact Edward M. a

Wellesley, MA 02181, or phone 617-239-0061.

‘WOULD you like to be able to say prayers at the beach every day? Do you like a small-town atmosphere, but also like to be near the ‘‘big city’’? Do you want to become a homefront pioneer in a pleasant environment? If your an then the central eee

swers are yes ... See ADS page 27 [Page 17]Names, addresses of 13 agencies devoted to resettlement of refugees

The U.S. Baha’i Refugee Office is happy to report that from June through September 1986, 148 Iranian Baha’i refugee cases have been processed involving the resettlement of 250 individuals.

In response to a number of requests for help in refugee matters, the Refugee Office is publishing a list of the directors of 13 Voluntary Agencies (Volags), the national organizations helping to settle refugees in the U.S. If you have any questions about what services are available to refugees, or if you are unhappy with the services that have been provided by a local agent of the Volags, please call or write directly to the national headquarters of the Volag that is handling your case. Send one copy to Ms. Karen McCarthy, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. 20520, and another to the local agent with whom you have been dealing.

Volags are generally responsible for: (1) informing the sponsor and refugee of what steps to take to secure refugee assistance of various kinds; and (2) checking periodically to see how the sponsor and the refugee are managing.

Sponsors accept the moral responsibility for providing food and housing to refugees for 90 days after their arrival. The sponsor should also be prepared to help the refugees adapt to the demands of their new life in as many ways as possible.

Sponsors are not responsible for the expenses of international transportation, medical care, schooling, etc., unless they sign affidavits that specifically state that they agree to undertake such expenses. They should be sure they understand the responsibilities they are undertaking as stated in the forms they sign, and keep copies of all such documents. The refugees themselves, however, are responsible for gradually repaying the cost of their air fare to the U.S. once they are gainfully employed.

If either sponsors or refugees have any problems, they should call the Voluntary Agency that handled their case. For more information about what government programs are available to refugees in your state, you may also contact the State Refugee Coordinator’s Office in that state. It is usually located in the state capital.

The name, address and director of each of the Voluntary Agencies in the U.S. handling the resettlement of refugees are as follows:

American Council for Nationalities Service. Wells Klein, executive director, . New York, NY 10016; 212-532-5858.

American Fund for Czechoslovak Refugees. Dr. Jan Papanek, president, . New York, NY 10019; 212-265-1919.

Buddhist Council for Refugee Rescue and Resettlement. Douglas Powers, deputy director, Gold Mountain Monastery, San Francisco, CA 94103; 415-621-5202.

Church World Service. Dale S. de Haan, director, Immigration and Refugee Program, _ New York, NY 10115; 212-870-2257 or 212-870-2162.

HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society). Karl Zukerman, executive vice-president, New York, NY 10003; 212-674-6800.

IRC (International Rescue Committee). Robert DeVecchi, executive director, . New York, NY 10016; 212-679-0010.

Iowa Department of Human Services. Marvin Weidner, chief, Bureau of Refugee Programs, . Des Moines, IA 50315; 515-281-3119.

LIRS (Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service). Rev. Donald Larsen, director, New York, NY 10010; 212-532-6350 or 1-800-223-7656.

Polish American Immigration and Relief Committee. Janusz Krzyzanowski, executive vice-president, New York, NY 10003; 212-254-2240.

The Presiding Bishop’s Fund for World Relief. The Rev. Canon Samir J. Habiby, executive director, Episcopal Church Center,

New York, NY 10017; 212-867-8400. Tolstoy Foundation Inc. Leon O. Marion, executive director, . New York, NY 10003; 212-677-7770.

USCC (United States Catholic Conference). Father Nicholas DiMarzio, executive director, Migration and Refugee Services,

- . New York, NY 10010; 212-460-8077.

World Relief. Dennis Ripley, deputy associate executive director for refugee resettlement, P.O. Box WRC, Nyack, NY 10960; 914-268-4135.

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Dan Seals’ new album a best-seller in Canada

“‘Won’t Be Blue Anymore,” a new album by Dan Seals, a Baha’i who lives in Nashville, Tennessee, is one of Canada’s best-selling LPs, having already been certified gold and nearing platinum status.

Mr. Seals, who recently completed a Canadian tour to promote the album, has released another new album, ‘‘On the Front Line,’’ which contains seven songs that he either wrote or co-wrote.

Before launching his career as a solo artist, Mr. Seals, the younger brother of Jim Seals, was one-half of the recording and performing team of England Dan and John Ford Coley.

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The persecution of Baha’is in Iran and the response to it by Baha’is in that country and in the U.S. are the topics of a cover story in the August issue of Lookout magazine, a monthly publication of the Bennington (Vermont) Banner.

The article tells the story of a typical Baha’i family in Iran and its trials since the Islamic Revolution in 1978, then interviews six Baha’is in South Burlington, including one who came to this country from Iran, concerning their feelings toward the persecutions.

The magazine has a circulation of 20,000.

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“Counsels of Perfection’’ is the theme of adult and children’s classes at the Heartland Baha’i School’s winter session to be held January 2-4 at the Chancellor Inn in Champaign, Illinois.

Adult classes will be taught by Lucile Taylor of Gainesville, Flo

Peace statement ready in Esperanto

Copies of the Universal House of Justice’s peace statement, ‘‘The Promise of World Peace,’’ are now available in Esperanto.

For more information, write to Pierre Parini,

Soleuvre, Switzerland.

rida.

Attendees are responsible for arranging their own housing; limited hospitality is available in Baha’i homes.

School fees (including four meals but not housing) are $50 for those 15 and older, $42 for ages 11-14, and $32 for ages 0-10.

For more information and registration forms, contact the registrars, Scott and Debbie Martin,

. Carmi, IL 62821 (phone 618-382-3771).

On September 10, the Spiritual Assembly of Cambridge, Massachusetts, presented the peace statement to the City Peace Commission, the only such funded commission in the U.S.

As a result, the commission, which had a vacancy, requested that it be filled by a Baha’i, and the Assembly has asked its secretary, Brian Aull, to serve on the commission.

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Bernice Montgomery, a Baha’i from Warrensville, Ohio, taught an eight-week course last spring on the basic beliefs and practices of the Faith in the Department of Continuing Education at Cuyahoga Community College, located in an eastern suburb of Greater Cleveland.

The course included discussion of the Central Figures of the Faith, its organization, sacred scriptures and literature.

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About 30 people gathered September 13 for devotions and fellowship at the first Unity Feast held by the Baha’i Group of Mitchell, Indiana.

Among those present was a young man from India who offered a Hindu prayer to complement the Baha’i prayers and Christian readings.

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Four Baha’i communities in the Olympia, Washington, area observed the International Day of Peace in September with a fourhour deepening on ‘“‘The Promise of World Peace.”’

Leading the discussion was Robert Putnam, a former member of the National Spiritual Assembly of Alaska, who recently moved to Olympia with his wife, Bette.

The day included an intercommunity planning session to schedule a full calendar of Baha’i events for the year and a potluck social during which the only non-Baha’i attending declared his belief in Bahá’u’lláh.

Interested in attending the upcoming Disney World Conference in Orlando, Florida? Dates are December 26-30. To register, please use the form on the Youth Page.

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On September 23, Dr. Houshmand Tirandaz, director of the University of Texas Medical Branch Substance Abuse Clinic, moderated a panel discussion in Galveston, Texas, on “The Role of Religion in Today’s Drug and Substance Abuse Crisis.””

About 60 people attended the discussion, part of an ongoing series designed to increase the awareness of and interest in the principles of the Faith on a community level.

Puerto Rico beckons with course in media

Plan your winter vacation now! Take a trip to Puerto Rico and participate in a development communication course. Learn about the use of media and technology for the spiritual, social and economic development of the peoples of the world.

Three-week intensive course, December 22-January 11. Excellent faculty. College credit may be available.

For information, contact the Amoz Gibson Training Centre,

_ Arecibo, Puerto Rico 00612, or phone 809-848-4189 before 9 p.m. Eastern time.

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Green Lake

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“Tt is time now for a change in the way people think,’’ said Mr. Pelle. “If people are God’s greatest experiment, they must be more than mere mechanical robots; they need to be the divine beings they’re supposed to be and carry out God’s plan.”

Other featured speakers at Green Lake were Counselors Eloy Anello and Robert Harris; Dr. Robert Henderson, secretary of the National Spiritual Assembly; Kevin Schuler of the Office of the Treasurer at the Bahd’{ National Center; and Morris Taylor of Evanston, Illinois.

Those at the conference were also pleased to welcome Ebenezer Iniyezo, vice-chairman of the National Spiritual Assembly of Nigeria.

Counselor Anello spoke about the Six Year Plan from an international perspective, saying that its success on that scale depends to a great extent on the response of the American Baha’i community.

“One way in which the U.S. Baha’is can contribute to the international needs of the Faith,” he said, “‘is by making use of the ample supply of energy and enthusiasm found in our youth.

“All we need to do is allow them to make a commitment to spend a year overseas, working for the Faith in a foreign country.”

Parents of Baha’i youth, he

i Singer/guitarist Mark Spittal entertains.

Morris Taylor, a Baha’i from Evanston, Illinois, delivers one of

said, need to be informed of how a year of service can be beneficial to the personal and spiritual growth as well as to the education of their sons and daughters.

Counselor Harris stressed the excitement of being a part of this period in history and witnessing the many changes that have brought us to the fourth epoch of the Formative Age of the Faith.

Dr. Henderson presented a “family talk’’ on the importance of grassroots activity in the growth of the worldwide Baha’i community, reminding his audience of the spiritual legacy inherited by the Baha’is from the heroic steadfastness of the martyrs in Iran.

“Sometimes,” he said, ‘‘we see ourselves only in terms of our limitations and conflicts. We don’t always see the magnificence that others see in us; the love and unity that others call ‘outstanding.’

“The Peace Conference in San Francisco was the largest public conference we've ever attempted for Baha’i and non-Baha’i participation. The one statement repeated by almost every non-Baha’i speaker there was, in essence, “You have the message that mankind needs; the problem is, you won’t tell anybody!’ ’”

Mr. Schuler shared some inspirational letters received by the Treasurer’s Office in regard to the National Fund, while Mr. Taylor’s talk, ‘‘Journey Out of Darkness,” dealt with the fourth epoch of the Formative Age.

Mr. Taylor also treated the gathering to a talk entitled ‘‘Foibles of the Formative Age’’ which could have been subtitled, ‘‘Comedy with a Message.””

He pointed out that the friends seem to share universally a certain set of foibles—persistent quirks that are peculiar to members of the Faith. Although we laugh when we recall that, yes, we did think that a certain well-known children’s show host was a Baha’i (and still want to believe that it’s true), we must nevertheless rid ourselves of those foibles.

Besides the speakers and workshops, two slide programs were presented, the first by Mr. Pelle, who delighted everyone with a marvelous set of slides depicting

his two addresses at the 27th Green Lake Conference.

the building of the newest House of Worship in India, the other by Ethel and Lacy Crawford from the World Center in Haifa entitled “Vital Developments,” which illustrated some of the exciting events in Bahd’{ history leading up to the fourth epoch of the Formative Age.

The Green Lake bookstore played items from the Bahd’{ Distribution Service in Wilmette as well as some materials from the Baha’i Publishing Trusts of Canada and India. Also included was an art exhibit and a series of children’s peace posters.

Each of the 14 workshop sessions dealt with issues relevant to the Six Year Plan. The sessions and those conducting them were:

• “Moving Into the Fourth

Epoch with Media’’ (Marcia LeRoy, Office of Public Information).

• “Global Patterns’’ (Counselor Anello and Tim Wilson, International Goals Committee office).

• “The Changing Role of the

National Center’? (David Rouleau, Office of the Secretary).

¢ “Baha’i Basi (Auxiliary Board member Khalil Khavari, Sue Khavari).

¢ ‘Raising One Who Will Make Mention of Me: Being a Baha’i Parent’? (Nancy and Mike Furst, Minneapolis, Minnesota).

° “The Old Way, the New Way, and Bahd’{ Teachings” (Ed Roberts, coordinator of the Amoz Gibson Teaching Project).

© “Refugees: Resettlement in the U.S.’’ (Puran Stevens, National Persian/American Affairs Committee office).

¢ “The Challenge of Diversity: The Emergence of a World Civilization’”” (Dr. Manouchehr Derakhshani, National Persian/American Affairs Committee office).

¢ “Thy Kingdom Come... Teaching CI ‘ians’’ (Ted Heizer, Eau Claire, Wisconsin).

© “The Beauty of Diversity” (Rhea and Eric Harmsen, Middleson, Wisconsin).

• “Intone, O My Servant:

Reading the Creative Word’ (Anne Atkinson, Baha’i Publishing Trust).

• “The Role of Women in the

New Epoch”? (Elizabeth Jenner, Shokouh Rezai).

• ‘Areas of Service in Baha’i

Administration’? (Karen Crenshaw, Department of Human Resources, Baha’i National Center).

• “Special Products During the

Six Year Plan: New Directions and Ideas’’ (Janet Bucknell, Baha’i Publishing Trust).

Also held was a meeting exclusively for youth at which Mr. Pelle

One of Green Lake’s younger visitors kicks up her heels,

Janet Bucknell from the Baha’ Publishing Trust conducts one of Green Lake’s 14 work and Counselor Harris spoke along with two youth—Gilbert Smith, chairman of the National Youth Committee, and Mark Movagh.

As at every Green Lake Conference, a superb group of children’s teachers conducted classes for the various age groups. The theme for children’s classes, which were coordinated by Judy Amburn of Arlington, Wisconsin, and Laurie Krautz of Lodi, was “Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Baha’i Faith.’”

The entertainment at this year’s event attained a level that will stand as a measure of excellence for years to come as the planning committee made a special effort to elevate the arts as directed by the Universal House of Justice in its message announcing the Six Year Plan.

The performances, collectively titled ‘The Unfolding Pattern: The Magical Vision’’ were just that: magical.

Among the performing artists were Anne Atkinson and Ladjamaya Green who acted out a dramatic sequence entitled ‘‘Peace’’; mime Sharon Davis who was accompanied by her husband, George, reading about the role of women in peace; pianist Mark Ochu; singer/guitarist Mark Spittal; dancer Michele Broussard; vocalist Cecilia Smith, accompanied by pianist Ellen Swan Dixon; Jocelyn Boor who presented a poetry reading; Shokouh Rezai Davis who chanted Persian poetry; and a children’s group who presented a mime skit entitled ‘Each One Teach One.”

Following Saturday evening’s gala performance, many of the friends convened at the Green Lake “‘cabaret” for more music and dancing.

Emcee Robert Harris kept the

shops. Below: Some of the children enjoy a spirited game of ‘Simon Says.’

ball rolling, entertaining the friends with his rich repertoire of “true stories.””

Mr. Rouleau contributed a brief stand-up comedy routine, and Gilbert Smith delighted the crowd with his ‘‘Baha’i rap.’”

Jerry Lerner’s song, ‘Feel It in Your Heart,” written especially for the conference, describes well the inspiration felt in the hearts of the friends at the close of the conference which, as Counselor Harris suggested, they will try to take home and ‘‘put to good use’’ in their communities:

“The unfolding pattern, the undying dream,

“The unfailing promise of a world we’ve never seen.

“Person to person, spirits unite

“To glory in the morning light.””

Native American Institute’s Council holds 2nd meeting

On July 20, the Native American Baha’i Institute Council held its second meeting.

The meeting was involved mostly with consultation on the development of the Institute property. Council members were brought up to date on past developments and on the issues to be addressed at this time.

No final decisions were made, and many plans and designs are now under review.

A REMINDER: All people who are planning to visit the Baha’i World Center in Haifa, Israel, following the dedication of the House of Worship in India must request permission from the Universal House of Justice. Please contact the Baha’i World Center immediately, if you have not already done so. [Page 19]

Persian food: Much more than rice

When most American Baha’is think of Persian food, they probably think of rice. And that seems only natural, considering that rice is the staple diet of Persians. Not everyone in Iran can afford to eat it at every meal, though, and it is therefore a privileged food.

What Americans may not realize about Persian rice is that there are a nearly infinite variety of ways that it is prepared in Iran—with lentils, with raisins, with chicken, with orange rind, with lima beans, and soon. When it is cooked plain, the rice is known as ‘‘chelo,”” and when it is cooked with other ingredients mixed in, it is called pilau. cs

If you look up the word pilau (or pilaf) in a good English dictionary, you’ll find that the English learned the word in India. The Indians in turn had learned it from the Persians, who refer to such rice as ‘‘polo.””

Rice is often served with a colorful dash of saffron on top and is accompanied by a small plate of crispy rice called “‘tah dig.”’ This dark, crispy part of the rice from the bottom of the pan is considered to be the best part, so do not be offended if you are offered what you think at first to be the burnt part of the rice.

Rice may be the main part of the meal in Iran, but it usually comes with something else—broiled meat, for instance, known as ‘‘kabab.”” There is Chelo Kabab, which is char-broiled Persian steak served over plain tice. There is Shish Kabab, which is chunks of filet and a variety of vegetables roasted on a skewer (served over Tice, of course), and there is Jujeh Kabab, or broiled chicken, served with lemon and pilau.

Persian cuisine also features many delicious casserole dishes to serve over rice. These are known as ‘‘kho ‘resh,’’ of which there are many kinds. Take, for instance, Ghormeh Sabzi, which is lamb or beef stewed with a delicate combination of parsley, chives and other herbs. Gheymeh Bademjan is another kind of casserole, this one made with fried strips of succulent eggplant and sauteed meet served in a sauce with split yellow peas.

Then there are the side dishes: a cool yogurt and cucumber salad; torshi, a variety of pickled vegetables to garnish the rice; bread and Iranian feta cheese, eaten with fresh radishes, mint and basil leaves; and many others.

By now you may be hungry, so we thought you might want to try cooking up something for yourself. Here is a recipe for a chicken dish called Fesenjan. It’s not too complicated, but if you should run into difficulties, simply ask a Persian friend for help!

Ingredients: 2 1/2 to 3 Ibs. chicken breast, 5 tbsp. shortening or butter, 1/2 tsp. pepper, | large onion finely chopped, 2 cups walnuts finely ground, 1 1/2 cups water, 2 tbsp. lemon juice, 2 cups fresh pomegranate juice or 1 cup pomegranate sauce (1 cup frozen concentrated black grape juice can be used instead), 1 tbsp. sugar.

Preparation: Wash and prepare the chicken for frying. Sautee in shortening or butter until light brown all over (alternatively, chicken can be baked in an oven for 45 mtinutes at 350°). Put chicken aside. Now sautee onions in 3 tablespoons butter until golden brown. Add chopped walnuts and sautee five more minutes over medium heat, stirring constantly. Be careful not to burn the walnuts! Now add water, lemon juice and pomegranate juice or sauce (or, if you use grape juice, do not add water). Cover and let cook on low heat for 35 minutes, then add the sauteed chicken to the sauce and simmer for 20-25 minutes or more. Served over rice, this makes 5-6 servings. Enjoy!

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September saw unprecedented Baha’ activities in Brazil beginning with a historic meeting September 16 of a Baha’i delegation with President Jose Sarney to present a copy of ‘‘The Promise of World Peace’’ and a beautiful hand-worked porcelain plate commemorating the UN Year of Peace as a gift of the Baha’i world community.

Also in September, about 7,000 people took part in a ‘‘March for World Peace’’ in Campinas sponsored by the local Bahd’{ community with the full support of the city prefecture and peace and humanitarian organizations.

Among the highlights were a parade of 150 children, each bearing the flag of a different country in the world, and the release of nine white doves symbolizing the nine Messengers of God Who came to bring peace to humankind.

The peace march ended with a concert by the city’s symphonic orchestra.

Meanwhile, in Goiania, the first National Symposium for Peace, inspired by five dedicated Baha’is in that city, was held with the support of commercial authorities, hundreds of citizens, industrialists and artists.

A great glass monument to peace, designed by a famed sculptor, was raised on land allocated by the city council in a national historic park, with the approval of the Ministry of Environment.

The cost of the monument, and nearly all costs of the symposium, were contributed by non-Baha’is.

The symposium, inaugurated by the wife of the state governor, drew more than 500 participants, two-thirds of whom were not Baha’is, including representatives of the Ministries of Culture and Education and other dignitaries.

President Sarney, UN Secretary-General Pérez de Cuéllar, and various ministries sent messages.

In Kailua-Kona, on Hawaii’s Big Island, more than 140 people took part in a Baha’i-sponsored candlelight peace walk using Tiki torches.

Among the participants were Hawaiians, Tongans, Chinese, Europeans, Filipinos, Japanese, Portuguese, and an Apache Indian plus peace organizations, churches, and a Buddhist mission.

In Burkina Faso, the government used national radio to call upon ‘‘Muslim, Christian and Baha’i youth’’ to attend a meeting to organize activities for the International Year of Peace.

As a national ad hoc committee for the Year of Peace was being set up, Muslim youth insisted that young Baha’is be included, emphasizing that ‘‘the Baha’is have

ideas.”

The Baha’is participated in a major Peace Year event, planting 300 trees in a special government plot, ‘‘The Peace Grove.”

The Baha’is of Papua New Guinea announced the successful completion of the Port Moresby Peace Exposition, August 30-31, which was initiated by the National Spiritual Assembly with help from prominent non-Baha’is, the government of Papua New Guinea, and UN officials to promote the cause of world peace.

Fall issue of U.S. Baha’i Report

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The Fall 1986 issue of U.S. Bahá’í Report is a perfect companion piece for presentations of “The Promise of World Peace.”

Written for the non-Bahd’{ reader, it reports on the International Peace Conference in San Francisco. Photographs show the San Francisco Taiko-dojo Japanese Dance Company and a diverse range of speakers and panelists.

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N.Y.C. Baha’is take part in two events to commemorate bombing of Hiroshima

In August, Baha’ is in New York City took part in two events that commemorated the bombing in 1945 of Hiroshima, Japan.

The first of them, the third Universal Peace Day, organized by Art for the People, was held in Central Park and drew an audience of about 1,000.

Clyde Herring, an assistant to Auxiliary Board member Táhirih Ahdieh, was the only speaker to appear on the artistic program, at which she addressed the aims of the peace statement, ‘‘The Promise of World Peace.”

A steady stream of inquirers responded by taking copies of the peace statement and other Baha’i materials from a table manned by the Baha’i Displays Committee.

The following evening, Baha’is were present and e“fered ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s prayer for mankind and

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The Baha’i Club at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, was revitalized last year by a homefront pioneer, Nicole Maurice. The club now consists of four new members from Maine, Connecticut, Oregon and Colorado.

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Welcome back to Baha’i Clubs at Kentucky State University in Frankfort; Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan; the University of Montana in Missoula; Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia; and Emory University in Decatur, Georgia. Each of these clubs was re-formed recently after a year or more of absence. And a special welcome to the students at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California, who recently formed the first Baha’i Club to present itself on that campus.

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excerpts from the peace statement at an interfaith ceremony conducted on Roosevelt Island and sponsored by the Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist Order.

The Baha’is, including members of the Spiritual Assembly of New York City and Mary Hardy, director of the Baha’i International Community’s Office of Public Information, were able to present copies of the peace statement to representatives of other faiths and members of the audi Dr. Erin Laszlo delivers the keynote Peace Conference in San Francisco, ‘address atthe frst Bahi's International California

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HERALD OF THE SOUTH FOR $... [Page 23]id er Oe Following this year’s Bahá’í National Convention, at which a delegate from South Dakota said the state would raise up 19 new local Assemblies on Indian Reservations during the Six Year Plan @s a response to the gift of 189 red roses from Bahá’í prisoners in Tran, a ‘Spirit of the Rose’ teaching team was organized and came

to the Flathead Reservation in Montana to help in Indian teaching. One team member, Randy Robinson, came all the way from Florida. The team taught door-todoor in St. Ignatius and Polson, showed a video on Indian prophecies at the community center, and presented the peace statement,

‘The Promise of World Peace,’ to Ron Therriault (third from right), tribal chairman of the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribe. Pictured with Mr. Therriault are (left to right) Sandy Munoz, Brenda Eagle Chasing, Sandy Le Beau, Albert Le Beau, Randy Robinson and Joye Le Beau.

Tepees, adobe bread oven new at Institute

Visitors to the Unity Council Fire held in August noticed some new developments at the Native American Bahá’í Institute.

At the “‘pow-wow grounds”’ in the center of the property, five lovely tepees were arranged in a semi-circle, creating a wonderful setting for Saturday evening’s

songs and dances, as well as for overnight lodging.

The tepees were bought by the Institute to provide temporary shelter for the friends during conferences, shelter that could be taken down and stored away when not in use.

The tepees also honor the tra ditional lifestyle of the Plains peoples.

Also new at the Institute was a Pueblo- (and Mexican)-style adobe bread oven built at the administrators’ house. And there is now yet another one—even larger and more beautiful—near the cookshade east of the Big Hogan.

Mark Alexis (second from left), chief of the Potawatomi Tribe in southwestern Michigan, is given a copy of ‘The Promise of World Peace’ by Bahá’í Dorothy Gemmel (left) during the annuul Kee NS Ta a Boon-Me-Kaa Festival in which the Baha’is have participated for the past two years. Standing at the right are Dale Williams and Tom (Dancing Feather) Ebbing.

Friends translate prayers, Creative Word into Navajo language at Institute session

Thirteen people (and sometimes more) took part in the first session of the ‘‘Navajo Bahd’{ Translation Institute’? held July 15-17 at the Native American Baha’ Institute in Houck, Arizona.

The friends were able to revise former translations of some Baha’i prayers including the wellknown prayer for unity and the short healing prayer, and then

went to work on new translations.

As well as producing new translations of the Creative Word, the institute served as a splendid deepening for the participants.

The Translation Institute is coordinated by Lorraine Kahn and Helen Kiely who are presently working on typing up the new translations and getting them onto cassette tapes.

Yucatan Baha’is visit Institute, share slides, songs with the friends

On September 17-18, Alfonso and Roberta Escobedo, Baha’is from the Yucatén Peninsula in Central America, and their children visited the Native American Baha’i Institute in Houck, Arizona.

Alfonso, who is part Mayan, serves as a tour guide to the landmarks and ruins of the ancient Mayan civilization, and both work closely with the Mayan Baha’i Institute at Muna.

The Escobedos met with local Baha’is from the Houck and Pine Springs communities, sharing slides of the Yucatan along with Mayan and Spanish Baha’i songs.

Alcoholism workshop has 10 participants

Ten Baha’is took part in a workshop on ‘‘Alcoholism: How Baha’is Can Deal With It,” conducted July 19 at the Native American Baha’i Institute in Houck, Arizona, by Barbara and Fred Simmons of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Mrs. Simmons, who works as an alcoholism counselor in Albuquerque, presented some helpful—and surprising—information about the families of alcoholics, and showed how alcoholism is a physical disease that needs to be understood in order to be properly treated.

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Unity Council Fire draws 1,000 to Native American Institute

NATIVE AMERICANS

More than 1,000 people attended a Unity Council Fire held August 16-17 at the Native American Baha’i Institute in Houck, Arizona. The Council Fire theme was “Native Americans and the Promise of Peace.”

Highlights included a Saturday evening performance by the Pine Springs Singers, a group of children from the Pine Springs community who, through the efforts of Ben and Lorraine Kahn and the Pine Springs Baha’is, have become quite popular as performers of traditional Navajo songs and dances, and the introduction by Franklin Kahn of Flagstaff of the “talking stick’? given to him in Alaska.

The lovely stick, created by J.C. Lucas, a Native American Baha’i from the Northwest, is decorated with many important symbols, and Mr. Kahn shared the meaning of many of them.

The Council Fire lasted until late Sunday afternoon as the friends lingered to share in the wonderful circle of unity in which the ‘“‘talking stick’? was passed

around the group for each one to share thoughts and feelings from the heart.

As the day drew to a close, many of the friends gathered for prayers at the grave of Gordon Tong.

Hopi artist speaks of spiritual needs during Institute visit

Staff and neighbors at the Native American Baha’; Institute in Houck, Arizona, had the pleasure of a recent day-long visit with Riley Sunrise, a Hopi artist who has been a friend of the Faith for many years.

Mr. Sunrise, who once worked as a commercial artist for Walt Disney Studios in the Los Angeles area and was brought to the Institute by Bob James of Garden Grove, California, had much to say about the spiritual needs of the day and the tragedy of the Navajo-Hopi land dispute.

Dr. Kazemzadeh to speak

Dr. Firuz Kazemzadeh, vicechairman of the National Spiritual Assembly, will be the speaker December 6 at the 11th annual Human Rights Program sponsored by the Baha’i community of Beaufort, South Carolina.

Arizona Baha’is use peace statement, ceremony to spread Faith in Globe-Miami

For the past several months the nine Baha’is who live in Greater Globe-Miami, Arizona, a rural mountain area on the western edge of the San Carlos Apache Reservation, have been busy with teaching and proclamation activities.

On June 4, a copy of ‘The Promise of World Peace’’ was presented to Hank Williams, the mayor of Globe, at the city hall.

From June 7-11, Ferris Paisano of the Nez Perce Indian Tribe in Idaho held a basketball clinic for young people on the San Carlos Reservation.

On June 8, copies of the peace statement were given to Tribal Chairman Ned Anderson and other members of the San Carlos Tribal Council, and the following week, on June 15, the statement was presented to the mayor of Miami, Elias Lazarin.

On August 23, the GlobeMiami Baha’is held a special ceremony to honor Philip Cassadore, an Apache singer, lecturer and consultant who had become a Baha’i in 1970 and died in August 1985.

That program, an inter-faith affair, included speakers from several churches on the Reservation as well as John Cook of the American Indian Teaching Committee.

More than 85 people, most of them Apaches, attended the ceremony at the Cassadore home at which the Baha’is presented a memorial plaque to the Cassadore family.

On September 13, an International Day of Peace Program was held at the Globe-Miami Chamber of Commerce building, the highlight of which was a slide program entitled ‘‘Religion, the Foundation for World Peace.”

During this period the Arizona

Philip Cassadore, the late Apache singer and lecturer who was the first Bahá’í on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona.

Silver Belt newspaper printed nine articles about the Faith totaling 80 column inches, while a spot advertising the International Day of Peace program was run for six days on the public service channel of the local cable television network.

Public response has been gratifying, and the friends are now holding weekly firesides on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

The immediate goals are to reestablish the Assembly on the San Carlos Reservation and to form new Assemblies in Globe, Miami and Gila County.

For information about the area, contact R.N. Wilson, P.O. Box 206, Claypool, AZ 85532, or phone 602-425-9295.

Navajo translation

A translation in the Navajo language by Chester Kahn of a summary of “‘The Promise of World Peace’’ is now available on an audio cassette for $3 from the Native American Baha’i Institute, P.O. Box 167, Houck, AZ 86506.

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More presentations of the peace statement

Sheila Banani (standing at left), a member of the Bahd’{ community of Santa Monica, California, addresses the Santa Monica city council before presenting copies of ‘The Promise of World Peace’ to Mayor Christine Reed and the six members of the city council.

Carl Curry, the mayor of Pryor, Oklahoma, signs a proclamation designating September 16 ‘Inter national Day of Peace’ in Pryor as

Bahá’ís Frank and Elizabeth Palmer look on. During the ceremony, which took place Septem ber 11, the mayor was given a copy of ‘The Promise of World Peace.’ Articles about the event

appeared in all three local newspapers, and there was a spot on radio station KGCR in Pryor.

Persian refugees should receive blue handbook

All refugees who arrive in this country should receive free of charge a blue booklet entitled Handbook for Newly Arrived Persian Bahá’ís.

Included with the handbook is a membership questionnaire. If there are any refugees who have not received these materials, they should write to the Baha’i Refugee Office at the Baha’i National Center (Wilmette, IL 60091), being sure to enclose their current address, and request a handbook.

The questionnaire must be completed and returned to the Office of Membership and Records at the National Center, which handles all matters relating to transfers of membership.

If you have any questions about the transfer process, please contact the Office of Membership and Records at the above address or phone 312-869-9039.

Mrs. Banani, who served from 1976-80 as a member of the Santa Monica Recreation and Parks Commission, was warmly thanked for her service to the city. The presentation was broadcast by the local public radio station, KCRW FM. World Peace,’ to the Hon. Mark

White (seated), the governor of Texas. Standing (left to right) are Baha’is Dale Ricklefs of George On July 17, a delegation of Baha’is presented a copy of the Universal House of Justice’s peace statement, ‘The Promise of

him are Bahá’ís (left to right) Joseph Galata of Sparks, William Garbett of Las Vegas, Chris Bily of Lovelock, Marion West of Boulder City, and Jack H. Lee of Washoe County South. The event was planned by the Spiritual Assembly of Reno.

Governor Richard H. Bryan of Nevada (third from left) holds a plaque presented to him March 27 by Baha’is from northern and southern Nevada in appreciation for his efforts on behalf of peace. The governor was also given a copy of the peace statement, ‘The Promise of World Peace.’ With

U.S. Rep. Robert Kastenmeier of Wisconsin (fourth from left) receives a copy of ‘The Promise of World Peace’ from a delegation representing the Spiritual Assembly of Middleton. Pictured with

Warwick; and Alberto Gonzalez and Kambeze Etemad, both of Providence.

left). Making the presentation were (left to right) Alegra Jones, Cranston; Edwin Phelps, West Greenwich; Mary Shadravan,

On January 31, Bahá’ís in Rhode Island presented a copy of ‘The Promise of World Peace’ to Governor Edward DiPrete (third from

town, Susan Gerard of Travis County, Robert Ramirez of Harlingen, Hovieh Hezari of Austin, and Bob Sauter of San Antonio.

Rep. Kastenmeier at the January 6 presentation are (left to right) Robert R. Shaw, Shinji Yamamoto, Jane Kershner, Charlotte L. Shaw and Dennis Bahr.

In early December, the Baha’is of Cary, North Carolina, a city of 32,000 in the suburbs of Raleigh, the state capital, sent copies of the two-page summary of ‘The Promise of World Peace’ to more than. 500 business, professional people, school principals and others in Cary asking them to consider the message and to contact the Bahá’ís for more information. The positive, response so far includes an article and photo in the local newspaper, The Cary News. Pictured with a copy of the peace statement are Bahá’ís (left to right) Carolyn Reusche, Michael Jamir and Diane McKinley.

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Jan Dempsey (second from right), the mayor of Auburn, Alabama, receives a copy of the peace statement, ‘The Promise of World Peace,’ from Bahá’ís (left to right)

Rodney Smith, the mayor of Columbia, Missouri, is given a copy of the peace statement ‘The Promise of World Peace’ by Farah Nieuwenhuizen, a member of the Bahá’í community of Columbia.

On August 14, Virginia State Senator Richard L. Saslaw was given a copy of ‘The Promise of World Peace’ by Jule Keskinen, a member of the Spiritual Assembly of Springfield. Also present were two other members of the Assembly,

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Ramin Sabet, Janet Sanders and Jacqueline Konan. The presentation, made March 17, led to articles with photos in two local newspapers. The Bahd’ com ident of the University of Louisville (Kentucky), receives a copy of the peace statement ‘The Promise of World Peace’ from Bahá’ís (left to right) Dr. Jahangir

Mohammad Feshami and Shelley Ryan. Mr. Saslaw asked a number of questions about the Faith, and asked for and was given the packet of information for public ofJicials.

munity of Auburn has also given copies of the statement to the Auburn University Library and the Auburn public library.

Cyrus, Saghar Shafizadeh and Mary Register. The presentation, made in April in the president’s office, was photographed by the university for preservation in its archives.

Bernard E. Brooks (third from left in front row), the mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey, receives a copy of ‘The Promise of World Peace’ from the Spiritual Assembly of Teaneck. In return, the mayor presented the Assembly with a township proclamation recognizing the contributions of Ba

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William Reeves of Summerville, South Carolina (right), presents a copy of ‘The Promise of World

Mayor Richard Berkley of Kansas City, Missouri, listens as Anne Biswell, secretary of the Spiritual

Assembly of Kansas City, reads an

introductory statement before

presenting copies of ‘The Promise

hd’is living in the community. With the mayor are (back row left to right) Catherine Huff, Jack Kelly, Marty Ravellette, Bijan Rasekh, and (front row left to right) Rosemary Kelly, Bahi Williams, Dr. Edward F. Carpenter, Jan Bloom and John Anderson.

Peace’ to Mayor Charles Ross of Lincolnville, the oldest surviving black township in South Carolina.

of World Peace’ May 15 to each of the nine members of the city council. Personal presentations have also been made in Kansas City to U.S. Sen. John Danforth and U.S. Rep. Allan Wheat.

Assemblies sponsor UN Day observance in Orange County

Several Spiritual Assemblies in Orange County, California, cosponsored a United Nations Day celebration, ‘‘Uniting for Peace,” October 18 at Chapman College in Orange.

The centerpiece of the day-long event was a panel discussion on “Working for Peace’? in which the Faith was represented by Juana Conrad, founder and president of Women for International Peace and Arbitration (WIPA).

Larry Agran, the mayor of Irvine, moderated the panel session, while Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb, president of California State University at Fullerton, served as chairman of the program.

Also included were a number of workshops, classes for children, ethnic food, a folk-dancing exhibition, raffle, release of a “peace balloon,” and music by the Baha’i duo of Seaforth and Jenkins.

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Letters

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lowing the conference. May we be companions at many other such places in the future. Mike Mostafanejad Napa, California

An ‘oasis of faith’

To the Editor:

The Baha’ Faith is a life-giving oasis in the surrounding desert of decay and corruption that is destroying the world.

Having reached this oasis, we cannot expect automatic salvation. We must partake of the waters of the Writings, becoming refreshed and renewed, so that they can be of lasting value to our spiritual well-being.

Then too, we must protect this oasis of faith from the encroaching sands of idle fancies and vain imaginings of materialism, not by building a wall around it, but by carrying the life-giving waters to the edge of the oasis so the desert can be reclaimed and become fertile once again.

The true protection of our wondrous and wonderful Faith lies in the Teachings of Baha’u’llah being spread abroad in a neverending, day-by-day—nay, hourby-hour, endeavor.

We are farmers, tilling the soil, planting the seeds while weeding out those things that endanger our efforts, so that at some future date, after a glorious ripening of the fruits of our labors, Bahd’u’ll4h can reap a crop of healthy, well-nourished and nourishing citizens of a New World.

M.J. Antoinette Isaac Bisbee, Arizona

An overlooked minority?

To the Editor:

In our zeal for the equality of men and women, we sometimes forget one minority—those men who are so responsible, hardworking, reliable, upright, faithful and unassuming that they are taken for granted.

In the June ’85 issue of Reader’s Digest, in an article entitled “Daddy Doll Under the Bed,”’ the author writes of one such man, her father.

My father also was such a man. Were I to enumerate all he did for his family and church besides going each day to work, this letter would assume impossible dimensions. In his last illness, he managed to struggle to work. They sent him home in a cab.

In our efforts for equality, let

us also bear in mind such men as these.

Carolyn des Granges

Roxbury, Massachusetts

Likes National Review

To the Editor:

Tam so happy to see the Baha’i National Review once again a part of The American Bahá’í. This is the kind of information/deepening many of us crave, and makes The American Bahá’í an even more effective tool. Thank you!

Sandra McCool Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

A Christian viewpoint

To the Editor:

1 am writing to you not as a Baha’i, but as a Christian. Even though our names are not the same, I nevertheless believe that we worship and pray to the same

I also believe we are both working toward the same goal (that is, the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth).

And because I believe in the unanimity of the Way of Yeshu’a, and the Cause of Bahá’u’lláh, I feel no qualms about reading the Bible, the Qur’4n, the {gan or the several other inspired Revelations received by Bahd’u’ll4h and His Son, ‘Abdu’ l-Baha.

As a matter of fact, I find the book of Baha’i prayers that I have in my possession to be a constant source of inspiration and edification.

To carry my love for the Cause even further, I have a poster of the Baha’i House of Worship in Wilmette tacked to a wall in my bedroom.

Besides that, I have donated several of the Baha’ holy books and a copy of Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era to the public library in my hometown.

But alas, despite my love for the Cause of Bahd’u’ll4h, many Christians do not look upon the Baha’ Faith with the same affinity that I do.

Instead of praising God for the Manifestation of His effulgent glory in the Person of Baha’w'llah, they have opted to cast aspersions on the Glory of Allah. Because of this narrowness of mind and of vision on the part of my Christian brothers and sisters, the gulf that separates mankind grows ever so much wider.

My prayer is that Christians all over the world may come to acknowledge and accept not only Baha’is but also Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists as their brothers

and sisters in the Lord—and not look upon them as their enemies. Or, to put it in the words of Yeshu’a: ‘‘O Father most holy, protect them with your name which you have given me that they may be one, even as we are one.’” Allah’u’ Abha.

Michael G. Lechner Dallas, Oregon

We don’t act, teach alone

To the Editor:

I did not see the cartoon referred to in the most recent issue of The American Bahd’ (August), but I did read the two letters concerning the cartoon as well as Mr. Smith’s drawing in that issue.

I should say that I have only recently become a Baha’i, but in this past year I have noticed an almost compelling need for Baha’is to address the ironies of teaching the Faith, as if we acted alone when doing so.

The truth is that God has promised that the Lesser Peace will be established by the end of this century. And it will be established.

If we get sidetracked by the ironies that continue to exist in the physical world, we lose sight of God’s promise. To quote a prayer on steadfastness revealed by Bahá’u’lláh, ‘Send down, then, upon me, O my Beloved, that which will enable me to be steadfast in Thy Cause, so that the doubts of the infidels will not hinder me from turning towards Thee.”

In this world we have physical obligations, but the realities of life are spiritual.

If a man strikes me because of my love for God, then in the physical world I must bleed, and, if struck hard enough, die. But in the spiritual world, which exists forever, my love for God is what will carry me into the next world with a closeness to God.

We teach the Faith by and through our actions and reactions. Let us not lose sight of God by becoming distracted by the ironies that have existed throughout all time, whether good or bad.

If teaching the Faith and living the Word of God were an easy task, ‘‘by what claim have ye believed in God’’?

The tests that face us only appear insurmountable, but with God’s divine assistance even this rag-tag handful of Baha’is can live out their lives according to God’s divine Plan.

George Via Miami, Florida

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New book aids friends to help

victims of alcohol, drug abuse

This review of the book Intervention (How to Help Someone Who Doesn’t Want Help) was written by Stephen Birkland, an Auxiliary Board member from (get community).

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Frequently, friends ask me questions about alcohol and drug abuse, and most of the time they want to know how to help someone who doesn’t want help.

Almost always, I recommend some reading material, but I have been frustrated until now by the lack of a simple but comprehensive book to refer to.

A new publication by the internationally known Johnson Institute entitled Intervention (How to Help Someone Who Doesn’t Want Help) is just what I was looking for. The author, Vernon Johnson, a pioneer in the field of chemical dependency, devotes the first part of the book to information about chemical dependency including the disease concept.

He also gives a list of 30 questions, ‘‘How to tell if someone you know is chemically dependent,’’ describes the emotional syndrome and how others are affected by the addiction.

In addition, there is a marvelous description of the delusional system of the dependent person and how the co-dependent can become a part of that.

Mr. Johnson leads the reader progressively into the description without overwhelmingly declaring, ‘‘This is what/who you are!””

With the preliminaries out of the way, he delves in the book’s second and final section into the intervention process.

Mr. Johnson outlines five clear steps before the intervention can take place; he then provides a helpful scenario to show how a

In Alamogordo, signing helps teach hearing impaired

One of the goals of the Baha’is in Alamogordo, New Mexico, is to teach the deaf and hearing paired. The method used is “‘sign

The effort has been led by three members of the Assembly: Carolyn Nichols, who is hearing impaired, teaches sign language, and serves on the City Commission for the Handicapped; Fred Shearer, a nuclear engineer who has been signing since he was a boy; and Dr. Greeta Brown, a writer and retired professor of music who is a student of Mrs. Nichols’.

They have formed a committee known as ‘Project Keep-inTouch” which, in addition to teaching in the Alamogordo area, would like to help others who are interested in teaching the hearing impaired.

To contact the committee, write c/o the Spiritual Assembly of Alamogordo, P.O. Box 1461, Alamogordo, NM 88310.

Baha’i National Center Office Hours 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Central Time) Monday—Friday

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successful intervention works, and offers the opinion that properly conducted interventions never fail.

Even if the dependent person refuses treatment, he says, the family and friends involved in the intervention are ‘‘forever changed” and the victim ‘‘will never again be able to fully deny (the addiction).””

Mr. Johnson ends the book by encouraging the reader to seek help for himself or herself regardless of what decisions the chemically dependent person makes.

The context of the examples in the book is limited by the dominant culture in the U.S., but overall the book offers clear, concise and up-to-date information on chemical dependency and the role intervention plays in interrupting the course of addiction. I recommend it to anyone concerned about another’s chemical use.

(Intervention, 1986, by Vernon E. Johnson, Johnson Institute Books,

Minneapolis, MN 55403, $7.95. Phone 1-800-231-5165.)

Gregory Institute’s garden pays off big

The garden at the Louis G. Gregory Baha’i Institute in Hemingway, South Carolina, provided all of the fresh vegetables for this summer’s programs at the Institute.

The yield for this year’s crop included corn, tomatoes, peanuts, squash, turnips, radishes, watermelon, onions, cucumbers, snap beans, greens, bell peppers, hot peppers and sweet banana peppers.

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10 YEARS AGO

Charlotte M. Linfoot, a leading figure in the growth and development of the Baha’i Faith in this country for nearly half a century, dies October 30 in Wilmette at the age of 81.

For 22 years, until hospitalized by her illness, she has served as assistant secretary of the National Spiritual Assembly.

On learning of her death, the Universal House of Justice sends the following cable to the American believers:

“Share grief passing dearly loved Charlotte Linfoot. Her tireless selfless service wholehearted commitment teaching and administration of Cause she embraced nearly 50 years ago indelibly inscribed annals American Baha’i community. Convey loving sympathy assurance prayers her sister Gladys. Advise hold befitting memorial service Temple.”’...

Attendance at District Conventions is up roughly 10 per cent above 1975 as some 12,000 Baha’is take part in the election of the 171 delegates to the 67th National Convention to be held April 29-May 1, 1977, in Wilmette.

Kansas Baha’is are in the forefront of participation with 82 per cent of eligible Kansans casting their ballots. ...

The Bahá’{ community of Loveland, Colorado, joins in rescue and relief operations after about 150 people are killed and hundreds are injured or left homeless in the wake of a flash flood that roars through the Big Thompson Canyon near Loveland on August 31

One of the Baha’is’ tasks is to locate missing vehicles in the canyon for the Larimer County Sheriff’s Department. They also take every opportunity during the week of rescue efforts to counsel and comfort bereaved families and to aid survivors.

Since the disaster, local Baha’ is have been asked to become part of an Interfaith Task Force which formerly was comprised only of Christian and Jewish representa The Universal House of Justice says that the majority of pioneer goals assigned during the Five Year Plan have been filled.

The U.S. has only 25 posts remaining to be filled by Ridvan. Of its 312 assignments, 287 have been

The Bahd’{ community of Dallas, Texas, takes part in a Bicentennial parade September 11 in a minority neighborhood.

Two large banners, one reading “The Baha’ Faith welcomes the dawn of America’s third century,”’ and the other proclaiming America’s spiritual destiny, are seen by about 2,000 people. The Baha’is are greeted with applause along the parade route. ...

Bahd’{ recording stars Seals and Crofts and England Dan and John Ford Coley pay visits in August and September to Columbia, South Carolina.

In August, more than 1,000 people attend a post-concert fireside in Columbia hosted by Seals and Crofts, while two weeks later, nearly 500 are at a proclamation in that city that features a performance by England Dan and John Ford Coley. ...

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Peace

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religion has contributed to their subjugation in the past, and contrasts this attitude with the Baha’i teachings. Guiding principles that will help us build a civilization based on equality and supportive of peace are also included.

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It asserts the vital need for us to examine and root out our own prejudices, fight against inherited tendencies, and demonstrate the transforming power of the Faith to create bonds of unity that have a direct impact on the achievement of peace. Many of the extracts are new translations or were previously unpublished.

A related resource is This Century of Progress, a 60-minute cassette tape of a talk by Dr. Bahia Mitchell of the Baha’i World Center staff, which examines world conditions and discusses the scientific and social achievements of the 20th century that will help bring about world peace.

With all of these resources, we can’t help but be ready to discuss the many aspects of peace with our friends and associates. As Counselor Harris suggests, our own understanding of how peace can be achieved will be vastly increased as we reflect on the role of women and the importance of racial harmony.

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PIONEER to the heart of Iowa: rural Dallas County, only 10-30 miles from the state capital, Des Moines, offers peace, quiet and a relaxed lifestyle. Benefit from the excellent school systems and enjoy hometown life while helping to create an aspiring Assembly. Many businesses, and employment opportunities for teachers and medical personnel. For more information, contact Diane Findlay, Dallas Center, IA 50063, or phone 515992-3381.

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WANTED: information to help in research being done by an Auxiliary Board member in Peru who is writing a history of the Faith in that country. Does anyone have information on the following early believers in Peru who moved to the U.S.: Ricardo Calderan, Alfonso Bouroncke, Isabel and Alfredo Barreda, Alejandro Franco? Specifically, such facts are needed as when and how they became Baha’is, who their spiritual parents are, whether they traveled and taught in the Peruvian provinces, and their association with Eve Nicklin. Of course, any information relevant to the Baha’i history of Peru would be appreciated, such as recollections of early believers, memories of Eve Nicklin, or any sources where further information might be obtained. Write to Eugenia Pritchard,

Boca Raton, FL 33428, or phone 305-483-3520.

WANTED: Copies of Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era, in good or excellent condition: cloth, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1938, 1942, 1944; paper, 1930, 1931, 1938, 1942, 1944, 1948. Anyone having copies they can donate should contact the National Baha’i Archives, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, IL 60091.

WANTED: Original Tablets of ‘Abdu’ l-Bahá to the following individuals, with approximate dates of the Tablets: Elizabeth Shoaff, Alameda, CA (1911), Archibald Saunders, Newark, NJ (1910), Miss Anna Schmitt (1908), L.K. Scotford, Chicago (1910), Mrs. Ellen Smith, New York City (1909), Swen Knudson Stangland, Chicago (1910), Mrs. Eva H. Startzell, Bowline, WY (1909), and Jessie F. Stewart, Chicago (1903). Anyone having information about the possible location of these Tablets is asked to contact the National Baha’i Archives, Baha’i National Center, Wilmette, TL 60091.

WHAT is out there? What do you have other than what is available from the National Distribution Service that could be used on public access or commercial TV, home VCRs, or audio materials that you would be willing to share with other communities? Baha’is from Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa who are interested in using the media are willing to compile a Baha’i Media Resource Directory, but they need your help. Please send a list of materials you have along with a description as to the subject, format

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(1/2-inch or 3/4-inch, etc.),

ing appropriate use, profesmal/amateur, whether it can be

edited, copied legally or even

shown legally, to Mrs. Lee Reams

(KSAS-TV),

Wichita, KS 67203.

AM SEEKING a Ph.D program in public health with a focus on health promotion and disease prevention and would like to communicate with students in such a program and professors with a wellness orientation. Would like to begin the program as soon as possible. Please contact Marylou Krummenacker, Las Cruces, NM 88001, or phone 505522-7834.

I WOULD like to hear how Baha’is are promoting health education and wellness programs in their local areas. Would also like to have quotes from the Writings about nutrition, wellness and disease prevention. Please contact Marylou Krummenacker,

Las Cruces, NM 88001, or phone 505-522-7834.

ANYONE with experience using a BBS to teach the Faith directly or indirectly, would you please share your ideas and experiences with the Baha’is of Sulphur, Louisiana? Contact us at

Sulphur, LA 70663, or phone 318-625-2783.

I AM in the process of editing a book on dreams of spiritual significance, such as those that have led individuals to the Baha’i Faith. If you’ve ever had a dream which you feel has had an important spiritual meaning, relevance or influence in your life, and would like the story of your dream

to appear in this book, please send your story (with a release statement of your name and aD to T. Foroughi,

Glendale, AZ 85302.

WANTED: Information about the address of the Baha’i newsletter for singles, ‘‘Assistance Alliance,’”’” and/or the address of its founder. Anyone with information about this is asked to write to Dennis Bumford, _

Tasmania, Australia.

THE BAHA’{ community of Derry, New Hampshire, is formulating plans for a public meeting and is interested in having a speaker from outside the New England area if possible. We are asking those Baha’is whose “‘life experiences/efforts,”” i.e., occupation, home-work, volunteer work, etc., would be of interest and/or recognizable to non-Baha’is, to please contact our Assembly by December. Our address: Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Derry, P.O. Box 780, Derry, NH 03038. Attention: Saundra J. Rothman, secretary.

MISCELLANEOUS

“SPIRITUAL Mothering Journal’’ is an independent Baha’ioriented magazine that promotes the unique role of mothering and fathering in the development: of a peaceful humanity and supports parents in the noble work of raising children as spiritual beings. Published quarterly, ‘each issue contains feature articles, book reviews, columns on marriage, parenting and more. Cost: $10/year. The address is

Sandy, OR 97055.

IN MEMORIAM

Will Barron Gladys Harvey Edward Mitchell Hawkinsville, GA Fort Meade, FL Richmond, KY Date Unknown Date Unknown Date Unknown Leamon Bell Joseph Harvey Alice Nelson Roberta, GA Fort Meade, FL Nevada City, CA Date Unknown Date Unknown Date Unknown Linzie Bentley Richard Irvin Barbara Perleberg Notasulga, AL Fort Meade, FL Madison, WI December 1985 Date Unknown September 11, 1986 Alma Blackwell Eunice Jackson Alfred R. Price Iva, SC Shelby, NC Lima, OH

Date Unknown September 30, 1986 August 28, 1986 Mrs. Willie Bradshaw Gordon Jackson Fred Robinson Hawkinsville, GA Richmond, CA Fort Meade, FL Date Unknown September 30, 1986 Date Unknown Burnice Brophy Raymond Jacoby Leon Sternberger Fresno, CA Van Nuys, CA Hollywood, FL June 19, 1986 September 6, 1986 June 29, 1986 Johnny Brown Melissa Jones Ghodssieh Tabibi Marshallville, GA Boone, NC Laguna Beach, CA 1984 August 28, 1986 1983

Lester Dampier Nadine Kinney Nettie Tipton

W. Palm Beach, FL Auburn, CA Springfield, MO August 1986 Date Unknown Date Unknown Rahmatullah Eghrari Jeanette Lin Shawkat Taeed-Yazdani Forest Park, IL Oak Ridge, TN League City, TX July 18, 1986 Date Unknown July 25, 1986 Annie Ervin Isabell J. Lupu Beeman Terrance Lumpkin, GA Southgate, MI Hogansburg, NY Date Unknown January 19, 1986 August 24, 1986 Joseph Florida Asadullah Modiri Laverne Webb Dawson, GA Bethesda, MD Los Angeles, CA Date Unknown Date Unknown September 21, 1986 Ronald Gould Jessie Moss Catherine Williams Helena, MT Notasulga, AL Fort Meade, FL Date Unknown Date Unknown Date Unknown Jonell Goston Joan Miller Mrs. Ediete Wirth Greenville, SC Fairhope, AL Fox Point, IN September 7, 1986 July 17, 1986 December 19, 1985 Shahin Hardwick Robert R. Miller

Sacramento, CA Whitwell, TN

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David Strom (left), chairman of the Spiritual Assembly of Detroit, Michigan, presents a certificate of appreciation on behalf of the Assembly to Father Cunningham, a Catholic priest who help found ‘Focus Hope,’ an organization

that provides job training and helps coordinate distribution of

Sood to the city’s poor. The award

ceremony, held on Naw-Rúz, was video taped by the local ABC-TV affiliate and shown on the 11 o’clock news that evening.

More than 6,000 attend Peace Exposition held by Baha’is in Atherton, Australia

More than 6,000 people attended a Baha’i-sponsored Peace Exposition last May 24-25 in Atherton, Australia.

The following day, the Cairns Post described the public response to the Expo as ‘‘overwhelming.”’ There are only 8,500 people in the whole of Atherton Shire.

The event was organized by the Far North Queensland Bahá’í communities of Atherton, Herberton, Mareeba and Eacham,

In July, the six-member Bahá’í Group of Fredericksburg, Virginia, set up a display at the Central Rappahannock Regional Library

whose theme was ‘Baha’i Architecture Around the World.’ The display featured a model of the Shrine of the Bab, constructed by John Higgins of Richmond, and photos of the Baha’i Houses of Worship with their locations pinpointed on a map of the world. The Baha’is also presented a copy of The Baha’i Faith: The Emerging Global Religion to Linda Baer, the library’s coordinator of special events. Making the presentation is Mary Jo Parrish (left), a member of the Bahd’{ community of Fredericksburg.

supported by a host of community organizations and interested individuals.

More than 120 groups packed the exhibition hall and surrounding grounds with peace exhibits and international food stalls or provided part of the non-stop entertainment that ran all day Saturday.

The first sight to greet visitors was that of more than 1,500 peace banners hanging in a giant display down the center of the 60-yardlong exhibit hall. A floral globe, two meters in diameter, prepared by the Mareeba Baha’is, was the centerpiece of this display.

The Baha’i exhibit, deliberately kept to the same small scale as the others, contained a small video theatre as well as a static display and book display.

More than 1,000 people attended an International Concert held Saturday evening, while a Peace Dance, organized by Mabel Dean, an 81-year-old Baha’i from Rayenshoe, involved 20 non-Baha’is drawn in as volunteers from her Shire.

On Sunday, about 200 people took part in an all-day Peace Forum.

Atlanta paper devotes nearly page to Faith, persecutions in Iran

On August 21, the North Fulton Extra, a part of the Atlanta (Georgia) Journal and Constitution, devoted nearly a full page to two articles about the Faith, each of which dealt with the persecution of Baha’is in Iran.

One of the articles chronicles the story of 37-year-old Mansour Sobhani who left Iran in 1970 because of persecution there; the other includes interviews with a number of Iranian Baha’is who were forced to leave that country after the Islamic Revolution in 1978 toppled the Shah and placed the government and its power in the hands of the Ayatollah Khomeini.

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On May 18, the Baha’is of St. Charles, Missouri, dedicated the gazebo garden in Laurel Park, St. Peters, ‘in memory of those persecuted for their faith.’ A lovely bronze plaque depicting a blooming rose was commissioned by the Baha’is and cast by artist Kern Wisman of Washington, Missouri. Attending were Mayor Tom Brown of St. Peters who gave the dedication address; Alderman Donald Aytes; Superintendent of

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Simple kindness leads to feature in Montreal paper

A simple kindness performed by a Bahda’{ family in Montreal, Canada, led to a feature article June 11 in the Montreal Gazette that contrasted the peaceful and honest lifestyle of Baha’is with the vicious persecution the Faith is encountering in Iran, the land of its birth.

The article, written by columnist Nick Auf Der Maur, describes how a woman who lost her purse on a bus was contacted by a Baha’i who had found it.

The Baha’i and his family refused a reward, saying they were happy to be of help, and the Baha’i Center in Montreal, contacted the following day, politely turned down a donation, saying that Baha’is are self-supporting and accept no money from those outside the Faith.

“‘We were so impressed by people who actually live their religion,”’ the woman said. ‘‘I just wanted to express some sort of public tribute to these admirable people.” �