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Bahá’í Service for the Blind Needs Help

Each new blind Bahá’í that we hear about receives gifts from the Committee of the following items: Bahá’í Prayers and Occasional Prayers and our lists in Braille. and/or our Introductory Tape which contains: Your Experience as a Bahá’í, The Meaning of Worship and some prayers and other selections. Unfortunately we do not hear about some of these new believers for weeks or even months after their declaration and then through a friend or relative who may not even be a Bahá’í.

Meanwhile, the new believer has had to "make do" with firesides as a deepening medium. Please, friends, when your assembly (or teaching committee or individual) takes in a blind believer report this fact to Bahá’í Service for the Blind. Give name and address, whether youth or adult, and if possible the following additional information: Does he or she read Braille? If so, what grade? Just ask, the blind person will know what grade Braille he reads. Has he a tape-recorder or the use of one?

We urgently need more sighted Certified Braillists. If any believers are already so trained, we ask them to offer their services to the Committee. Believers who long to serve the Faith but are physically unable to engage in active teaching work might consider taking a course in Braille transcribing in order to become better qualified to help in this work. They could do this either by correspondence from the Library of Congress or through the Committee secretary who is a certified teacher of transcribing. In either case, the course is given free. Qualifications needed: A good knowledge of English usage, reasonably good eyesight, great patience and perseverance, and time to devote to the work.

Also urgently needed are blind proofreaders of Braille. The charge for professional proofreaders is beyond our means. And not by any means all readers. of Braille make good proofreaders. Qualifications needed: Knowledge of correct Braille (English Braille, American Edition 1959), the ability and willingness to read critically, finding and noting errors either in type or in Braille.

-Bahá’í Service for the Blind Mrs. Mary Francis Baral, Executive Secretary 3110 E. Lester Street Tucson, Arizona 85716

Souvenir of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

The 54th Souvenir of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá will be held on Saturday, June 25, 1966 at the Evergreen Cabin, 126 Evergreen Place, Teaneck, New Jersey. This Unity Feast in commemoration of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s visit to Evergreen Place on June 29, 1912 imparts a spiritual bounty to everyone attending. The day has a special and joyous quality. Bahá’ís and their guests will be warmly welcomed.

Flagstaff, Arizona Announces Summer School

The local Spiritual Assembly of Flagstaff, Arizona is sponsoring a summer school at the Bahá’í property in Bellmont, Arizona, near Flagstaff. This will be followed by an art exhibit July 1 to 3.

Date: June 25 to 30 Theme: Human Problems and Their Spiritual Solution "Be Concerned With the Day You Live In"

Rates and facilities: Camping facilities only are available at Bellmont at the rate of $1.00 per camp. Bring your own camping gear and eating utensils. Meals will be provided at the rate of $1.00 per person, children under 12, $.50. There are motels in Flagstaff, for which reservations should be made.

Reservations should be sent immediately to: Spiritual Assembly of Flagstaff, Arizona; Mrs. Gisela N. McCormick, Sec.; 2109 N. Navajo Drive; Flagstaff, Arizona 86001.

American Indian Service Committee Presents Summer Programs

To present new ideas on Indian teaching and to provide an opportunity for consultation on this important subject, the American Indian Service Committee will present two-day programs during regular sessions of several of the summer schools. Dates and places of these programs are as follows:

July 2, 3 Rocky Mountain Summer School July 9, 10 Flagstaff, Arizona Summer School July 23, 24 Green Acre Bahá’í Institute July 30, 31 Davison Bahá’í School August 1, 2 Geyserville Bahá’í School

For information as to rates and addresses of these schools consult the U. S. SUPPLEMENT for April, 1966 and for June, 1966. Details as to the programs on American Indian Teaching may be obtained from: American Indian Service Committee; Mrs. Nancy Phillips, Sec.; 736 Encanto Drive, SE; Phoenix 7, Arizona. [Page 2]

National Bahá’í Fund

Monthly Income: 1965-1966

Monthly Budget: 59.5 Regular contributions Special contributions & Miscellaneous Estates

Local Assemblies Contributing Each Month

Bahá’í Books for the Blind Offered as a kit

Bahá’í Service for the Blind offers a kit of five books and pamphlets in Braille at a reduction of approximately 20% on prices of the individual items if sold separately. The kit is a diversified and representative presentation of the Faith suitable for gifts to blind persons interested in it or for display in community libraries. The books included in the kit are: Hidden Words (new printing); Communion with God (revised edition); One Universal Faith; World Order Through World Faith; The Faith of Bahá’u’lláh: A World Religion. Price of complete kit: $5.00. Order from: Bahá’í Service for the Blind, 3110 E. Lester Street, Tucson, Arizona 87516.

In Memoriam

Mrs. Barbara H. Blair Summit, New Jersey March 22, 1966

Miss Helen Boylan Los Angeles, Calif. March 6, 1966

Ward Harvey Hawley Oswego, N.Y. December 5, 1965

Elba Roy Higgins Clio, Michigan (Vienna Twp.) No date

Adolph A. Kamens Temple, Texas January 1966

‘Alí Kuli Khán Washington, D.C. April 7, 1966

Haakon I. Kolberg Duluth, Minnesota April 4, 1966

Melvin Nein Dayton, Ohio April 12, 1966

Mrs. Marjorie Faye Pignard Monterey, Calif. April 2, 1966

Miss Jessie E. Revell Haifa, Israel April 14, 1966

Mrs. Myrtle E. Robinette Santa Paula, Calif. March 25, 1966

Mrs. Marie Geiger Turley Bloomington, Indiana March 12, 1966

Bahá’í Groups Should Elect Correspondent

Since every Bahá’í group "constitutes a vital resource in the national and international Bahá’í community," and is "a reservoir from which future local assemblies are to be formed," it is important for them to organize early in each Bahá’í year and designate a correspondent whose name, address and telephone number should be given promptly to the National Bahá’í Office, 112 Linden Ave., Wilmette, Illinois 60091

By this means it will be possible for vital communications to flow rapidly between the national headquarters of our Faith and the individual Bahá’ís who are two to eight in number within a single area of jurisdiction. (See Bahá’í Community pages 3-4)

Bahá’í Marriages

Los Angeles, Calif.: Miss Mavis Ingrid Holmes to Paul Vaughn on April 2, 1966

Pasadena, Calif.: Miss Lynn Miller to Jeffery L. Curtis on April 2, 1966

Winnetka, Illinois: Miss Jane Moore to Philip O'Brien on May 23, 1965

Winnetka, Illinois: Miss Pebble Sharron Story to Kevin Lacy McCord on April 10, 1966

Waterloo, Iowa: Miss Janet Carol Linn to Ronnie Ray Streed on February 1, 1966

Gallup, New Mexico: Miss Linden Rosa Woods to George Cory Riley on March 19, 1966

South King Co., C.D., Wash.: Mrs. Aleatha Olney Edsall to George Runnels on March 19, 1966