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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; Flagstafi, 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:
Rocky Mountain Summer School . . . . . . . July 2, 3 Flagstaff, Arizona Summer School . . . . .July 9, 10 Green Acre Bahá’í Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . July 23, 24 Davison Bahá’í School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..July 30, 31 Geyserville Bahá’í School . . . . . . . . . . . . .. August 1, 2
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.
2 JUNE 1966
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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 Haakon I. Kolberg Summit, New Jersey Duluth, Minnesota
March 22, 1966 April 4, 1966 Miss Helen Boylan Melvin Nein Los Angeles, Calif. Dayton, Ohio
March 6, 1966 April 12, 1966 Ward Harvey Hawley Mrs. Marjorie Faye Pignard Oswego, N.Y. Monterey, Calif.
December 5, 1965 April 2, 1966 Elba Roy Higgins Miss Jessie E. Revell Clio, Michigan (Vienna Twp.) Haifa, Israel
No date Adolph A. Kamens Temple, Texas January 1966 ‘Ali Kuli }{_l1én Washington, D.C. April 7, 1966
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)
BAHA'l 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
