U.S. Supplement/Issue 92/Text

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The 1965 State Conventions

Once a year every adult Bahá’í—twenty-one years or older — has the legal right and spiritual privilege to vote for delegates to the National Convention, and all believers have the opportunity to consult upon the important issues facing us on the homefront and abroad. The annual State Conventions are scheduled this year for Sunday, November 7, and each voting Bahá’í in the United States will soon receive his Convention Call. With it will be the Convention Agenda, which should be a topic for study and consultation before hand, in preparation for a well-attended and fruitful Convention.

Purpose of State Convention

The State Convention is your convention. It provides every Bahá’í with the opportunity to get acquainted with the other Bahá’ís in his State or Electoral District, to exchange with them ideas on the needs of the Cause, and to vote, if he is of voting age, for those whom he considers qualified to be delegates to the National Convention and the electors of the new National Spiritual Assembly.

The State Convention was instituted by the Guardian in 1944 in order to permit Bahá’ís outside the local communities to have the privilege of voting for the delegate or delegates assigned to their State or Electoral District, and to provide opportunity for a greater deepening of the spirit of fellowship among Bahá’ís throughout the United States. He emphasized the fact that the State Conventions are designed not only to elect delegates to the National Convention, but also “to promote Bahá’í solidarity in every State . . , and, by bringing together the believers, enable them to function more efiiciontly and harmoniously and promote the work of the Cause that lies ahead.” They should be conducted in such a manner as to evoke latent capacity, create fellowship, and enkindle “acceptance" of the Message into the flame of zealous service.

From the consultations at the State Conventions come recommendations to the National Spiritual Assembly. When all the recommendations are reported to the believers, each accompanied by the action taken by the National Spiritual Assembly, it is evident how the State Conventions serve to focus the attention and release untapped energies of the Bahá’í Community.

Electors‘ Responsibility

Upon the voters at the State Conventions falls the responsibility to elect those individuals who in turn will elect our National Spiritual Assembly at the National Convention. Shoghi Effendi has pointed out: "It is expressly recorded in ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Writings that these National Assemblies must be indirectly elected

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by the friends; that is, the friends in every country must elect a certain number of delegates, who in their turn will elect from among all the friends in that country the members of the National Spiritual Assembly." _

Just as the annual local election determines the quality and capacity of the local Spiritual Assembly for the coming year, so the State Convention can and should determine, though indirectly, the quality of the National Spiritual Assembly.

Preparation tar Voting

Contrary to the ways of the world, Bahá’í elections are approached in a spirit of prayer without preliminary electioneering or nominating of candidates. Before the ballots are cast, prayers should be read and all participating ask for guidance in selecting those best fitted to serve.

The voter should not determine those for whom he wishes to vote before the Convention, unless he cannot attend and must mail his ballot. Although unhurried reflection and prayer beforehand are essential and beneficial, he should make his final selection through the guidance and inspiration he receives at the Convention.

Eligibility and Qualifications of Delegates to National Convention

Any adult Bahá’í resident in your Electoral District is eligible to serve as a delegate to the National Convention, even if his name is not listed on the membership list supplied each voter. The membership list is brought up to date and corrected at the State Convention before the voting takes place.

The beloved Guardian stated that the believers must

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do all in their power to ascertain the qualifications of those whom they elect for any national service, and “to consider without the least trace of passion and prejudice, and irrespective of any material consideration, the names of only those who can best combine the necessary qualities of unquestioned loyalty, of selfless devotion, of a well trained mind, of recognized ability and mature experience.”

Socredness of Bahá’í Elections

Shoghi Effendi, in referring to the election of local spiritual assemblies states a principle applicable to all Bahá’í elections: “. . . every declared believer of 21 years and above, far from standing aloof and assuming an indifferent or independent attitude, should regard it his sacred duty to take part conscientiously and diligently, in the election .”

Hand of the Cause Horace Holley, during one of the National Conventions several years ago, as the time approached for the election of the National Spiritual Assembly, likened the Bahá’í election to an act of worship.

Consultation

The principle of consultation, which constitutes one of the basic laws of the Administration, should be applied to all Bahá’í activities which affect the collective interests of the Faith for it is through cooperation and continued exchange of thoughts and views that the Cause can best safeguard and foster its interests. Individual initiative, personal ability and resourcefulness, though indispensable are, unless supported and enriched by the collective experience and wisdom of the group, utterly incapable of achieving such a tremendous task.

Opportunity for fuller consultation, more intimate association of the believers, and a closer familiarity with the character, mission and teachings of the Cause, offered at our State Conventions provide the means by which we seek to approach that “standard of excellence which should characterize the cooperative efforts of Bahá’í Communities" called for by the beloved Guardran.

Bahá’í Youth and the State Convention

Bahá’ís between the ages of fifteen and twenty-one have all the rights and privileges of a community member except voting in Bahá’í elections and serving as members of assemblies and as convention delegates. Bahá’í youth may participate without question in all the consultations. The State Convention is a Bahá’í institution of fundamental importance to every believer. Attendance and participation in the consultation of the State Convention, on the part of Bahá’í youth, will contribute in a very valuable way toward the success and actions of the convention body, and will serve as important preparation for their future service of full participation in voting for delegates who will elect the national representatives.

Additional ways in which youth can serve at State Conventions are as tellers’ assistants, registrars, readers of prayers or communications to the Convention, and as committee members in their home community to encourage and assist in gaining full attendance of both adults and youth.

OCTOBER 1965

Convention Procedures Arrangements

This year a local Spiritual Assembly in each electoral district will be asked by the National Spiritual Assembly to serve as host for the State Convention, making the physical arrangements for the meeting, appointing the tellers, and selecting the Convention Convenor and the readers.

Election

The system of election used at the State Conventions is that of plurality rather than absolute majority. The Guardian, in recommending it to the American believers, pointed out that this system does away with the serious disadvantage of “restricting the freedom of the elector who, unhampered and unconstrained by electoral necessities, is called upon to vote for none but those whom prayer and reflection have inspired him to uphold. . . . This simple system would safeguard the spiritual principle of the unfettered freedom of the voter, who will thus preserve intact the sanctity of the choice he first made.”

Mechanics of Voting With the Convention Call which each voting believer

' receives is a voting list for his State or Electoral

District, a blank ballot for the number of delegates assigned to that District, and envelopes in which to place his ballot after he has filled it out.

The Convention Call gives detailed instructions on how to vote by absentee ballot if the believer cannot attend the Convention. At the Convention, instructions for voting are given by the Chairman or some appointed individual.

It is important for each believer to vote for the full and exact number of delegates allotted to his State or District. To vote for more or fewer delegates than are allotted is to disqualify his entire ballot.

—COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMrr'rEs

Attend Your State Convention November 7, 1965

Place and other details will be mailed to you soon

PLAN NOW . . .

For observing U.N. Human Rights Day in your community. The date is December l0, 1965 and the theme is: Working Together for Human Rights. Consult the suggestions given by the United Nations Committee in the special insert of the May, 1965 Bahá’í News for new and effective ways of commemorating this very important day.

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The U.S. National Bahá’í Fund How. It Assists in Winning World Goals

Continuing the series of articles on the various categories of expense in the National Budget, we come now to those crucial items directly relating to our responsibilities for the international goals in the Nine Year Plan. These come in two principal divisions; pioneer teaching and acquisition of property. .

Financial assistance to Bahá’í pioneers has had a long and honorable history in the development of the Faith. The principle was originally enunciated by Bahá’u’lláh (Advent of Divine Justice, p. 70): "Center your energies in the propagation of the Faith of God. Whoso is worthy of so high a calling, let him arise and promote it. Whoso is unable, it is his duty to appoint him who will, in his stead, proclaim this Revelation, whose power hath caused the foundations of the mightiest structures to quake, every mountain to be crushed into- dust and every soul to be dumbfounded."

It was reiterated by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in the Tablets of the Divine Plan, p. 25: “O ye believers of God in the United States and Canada! Select ye important personages, or else they by themselves, becoming severed from rest and composure of the world, may arise and travel. . . .”

Shoghi Effendi dealt with the principle very specifically (Advent of Divine Justice, p. 55): “Should they find it impossible to take advantage of so rare and sacred a privilege, let them, mindful of the words of Bahá’u’lláh, determine, each according to the means at his or her disposal, to appoint a deputy who, on that believer’s behalf, will arise and carry out so noble an enterprise.”

Our present obligations fall in two areas: maintenance of past goals, particularly those in the Ten Year World Crusade, and achievement of the new teaching goals in the Nine Year Plan. The former requirement is particularly costly at this time. We have been instructed by the Universal House of Justice to avoid at all costs the loss of any of our past goals, which means keeping our pioneers at their posts until the number and experience of the newly enrolled believers has developed to the point where the local institutions are adequately safeguarded. Since our goals under the World Crusade were very broad, covering all of South and Central America and a large part of Europe, we had to send out a vast number of pioneers, a good percentage of whom needed financial assistance. Since the growth of the local community varied from place to place, it has proven necessary to keep a fair number in the field to this time. The National Spiritual Assem-' bly is watching these situations carefully, and at the earliest possible moment will bring these pioneers home, or move them to our new goals. But it was necessary to budget $115,000 for assistance in the old goals, the annual rate of sustenance for pioneers in these areas at the start of the current fiscal year. At present there are eighty pioneers at their posts in these goals being helped by the Fund.

In practice. a great deal of teaching effort results from the use of these funds. Some budgets in Latin

America are as low as $75 a month. In most of these countries pioneers live very inexpensively by American standards, yet they are able to reach scores or hundreds of potential believers. And with the pace of life less hurried, these interested seekers are in a position to give more time and attention to the study of the Faith.

The number of new teaching goals in the Nine Year Plan is considerably less,and so the National Spiritual Assembly hopes to fill most of these with self-supporting pioneers. It is thought very possible to find enough Bahá’ís willing to give at least a few years of their lives to this vital and rewarding work to fill all these interesting and challenging goals. Therefore, the major emphasis here is to set up an adequate administrative structure to find the likeliest pioneers from among the American Bahá’í Community, to screen them properly, and then to give them adequate training and background for this demanding and vital work. For this the sum of $40,000 has been budgeted.

The other major international goal is the acquisition of property. The United States Community is committed to assist with sixteen projects involvim! real property. This includes full responsibility for the purchase of a national Ḥaẓíratu’l-Quds. a Temple site and a national endowment in the Virgin Islands, and assistance to ten other national spiritual assemblies in acquiring five Ḥaẓíratu’l-Quds, four Temple sites. three teaching institutes and one summer/winter school. This assistance will be largely financial and will probably cover a substantial portion of the total costs.

At the present time the National Spiritual Assembly does not have a very precise idea of what the total costs will be on these projects. Thus far we have budgeted $25,000 in each of the first two years, which would assume a total cost of $225,000 for all of the goals over the full nine years of the Plan. As our experience develops we will adjust the total up or down so that the burden of the total cost will fall as evenly as possible over the nine years. We expect that in practice most of the actual purchases will be made in the earlier years of the plan, because of the relentless inflationary pressure on property values throughout the world. Should this happen, advances will have to be made, to be repaid from succeeding budgets. ARTHUR L. DA!-IL, Treasurer National Spiritual Assembly

“We must be like the fountain or spring that is continually emptying itself of all that it has and is continually being refilled from an invisible source. To be continually giving out for the good of our fellows undeterred by the fear of poverty and reliant on the unfailing bounty of the Source of all wealth and all goodthis is the secret of right living."

— SHOGHI El-‘FENDI

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Monthly Reports Show Deficit

Since expenses have been running at about the same rate as the budget, the above deficit picture is quite realistic. It is particularly discouraging to consider that we are already well behind last year which itself got ofl‘ to a very slow start, and we have a larger membership now than we did then. The big drop has been in special large contributions. We received several very large gifts last year both in the period given above and in the succeeding months. This year there is little change in the regular contributions and without the large ones we are again rapidly plunging into a desperate condition. At the rate we are going, the reserves that were so marvelously rebuilt last year will be gone in another five or six months and we will face the same type of crisis that stared us in the face toward the end of last year.

The one bright spot in the picture is the increase in contributions from local spiritual assemblies, which have increased not only in total but also in the number of assemblies contributing. This figure rose from 199 in May to 242 in June and 248 in July. In August, 244 assemblies contributed. We still should come closer to the total of 327 assemblies now functioning. There is no reason why every one of these divine institutions cannot contribute its bit, no matter how small, to the great combined effort being made to achieve total success in the Nine Year Plan.

— TREASURER

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If You Move . . . .

Please be sure to notify the National Bahá’í Headquarters, 112 Linden Ave., Wilmette, Illinois and, if you live in an organized community, your local secretary. Please do this promptly, preferably in advance of your move. Because Bahá’í News is not mailed as first class mail, it will not be forwarded to you at your new address by your Post Office, but will be returned to the Bahá’í Office at a cost of eight cents or more depending on the weight. Approximately 450 copies are returned each month, undeliverable because the addressee has moved or is not known.

Attention Called to New Directories

All enrolled Bahá’ís have received the new directories for 1965-1966. The directory of secretaries for local Spiritual Assemblies was mailed with the July issue of Bahá’í News and the committee directory was distributed with the September issue.

All believers and particularly secretaries of local Spiritual Assemblies and State Service Representatives are asked to make sure that they use the new address list and that any changes in secretary’s names or addresses reported in Bahá’í News be made on the directory so that it will be constantly up-to-date.

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Winning Our Caribbean Goals Now

“Let your exertions. henceforth, increase a thousandfold." Thus our beloved ‘Abdu’l-Bahá addressed the American Bahá’í Community when He gave it the Divine Plan in 1919. In this, the second year of the Nine Year Plan the American Bahá’ís are given wide scope for these increased exertions. They have been asked to provide pioneers for no less than thirty-two separate areas outside the United States, a total of fifty-nine pioneers is needed before Riḍván 1966.

The area where the United States has sole responsibility is in the Caribbean. Here in the Leeward, Windward and Virgin Islands the Universal House of Justice asks that we “firmly establish the Cause . . . in preparation for the formation of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the Leeward, Windward and Virgin Islands." To do this there must be six local assemblies on certain of these islands and believers on each of the ten other islands named in the group.

The American community can be proud of the progress that has been made through the response of the many dedicated believers who have already settled in the islands. Five local spiritual assemblies have been established, but in order to meet requirements assigned by the Universal House of Justice the United States Virgin Islands must have another assembly and the island of St. Lucia must have an assembly. The goal for the second assembly in the Virgin Islands is the island of St. Croix which now has a sufficient number to form its assembly. The island of St. Lucia, we are confident, will have its assembly by next Riḍván.

There are no Bahá’ís as yet on the following islands:

St. Kitts-Nevis (British)

Dominica (British)

Saba _(Netherlands)

St. Eustatius (Netherlands)

St. Martin '(Netherlands 8: France)

Reinforcements are needed on the islands where only one or two Bahá’ís reside. They are:

St. Vincent (British)

Martinique (French) (Only French is spoken and U.S. citizens would not ordinarily be allowed to work)

Antigua (British)

Barbuda (British)

Settling in any of these islands is a challenge equal to the spirit of a follower of Bahá’u’lláh. The beloved Guardian says in The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 13: “. . . the Force which energizes your mission is limitless in its range and incalculable in its potency.”

If the glorious goal of firmly establishing a new pillar of the Universal House of Justice in the Caribbean Islands may be achieved by 1967, many more dedicated American believers must be at their posts before next Riḍván, 1966. Our pioneers must be self supporting, with sufficient financial reserve to meet emergencies and for maintenance until they can procure positions. The beloved Guardian urged pioneers to put down roots and remain at their goals. ..

In the Leeward and Windward Islands under British, Netherlands or French control a citizen of the U.S. must be able to establish a business or have outstanding skills to gain employment. For those pioneers who

have independent incomes these islands provide a fertile field for advancing the Nine Year Plan. Many of these islands ofler job opportunities for:

Expert accountants

Secretaries with experience

Trained hotel personnel

Dentists with modern equipment

Doctors and surgeons

Servicemen for large and small electric appliances

Mechanics — automobile, electric. gasoline and Deisel motors

Electricians, plumbers. carpenters, bricklayers, concrete workers

There may be opportunity also for those in other highly specialized fields.

Do you wish to pioneer, the most meritorious service a Bahá’í can render to our beloved Faith? If so, write to: Foreign Goals Committee, 112 Linden Ave., Wilmette, Illinois.

“That which has been destined for him who aideth My Cause excelleth the treasures of the earth.” Bahá’u’lláh in The Advent of Divine Justice (p. 71).

—Fom:IcN GOALS COMMITTEE

Special! Special!

The Foreign Goals Committee has pioneer applications from many friends who have definite plans to reach a Nine Year Goal either early or late in 1966, and also from a number of those planning to pioneer who have not set a definite date. The Committee especially invites these people who have determined on pioneering to attend a winter school now in the planning stage, set for Davison School for five days during the week between Christmas and New Year. This winter school is designed to better prepare the pioneer for living on foreign soil, adapting to totally different cultures, and imparting to those he meets the true spirit of the Bahá’í Faith. Watch for specific details, dates and information in the next Bahá’í News.

Attention Pioneers . . .

There is an unusual opportunity for two dedicated believers to pioneer on an Indian Reservation. Needed to assist in establishing a clothing factory are two Bahá’ís with knowledge of operating power sewing machines. Those interested should write to:

Miss Rowayne A. Cox 3105 Fremont Ave., North Minneapolis, Minnesota

Bahá’í Marriages

Huntsville, Alabama: Miss Aillean Horton to Charles C. Abercrombie. Jr. on June 13, 1965

Phoenix, Arizona: Miss Cheryl Sue Cook to Bruce Malcolm Palmberg on July 2, 1965

Phoenix. Arizona: Miss Bonnie Mae Linder to George Charles Reutter on July 8. 1965

Compton. Calif.: Mrs. Patricia L. Wright to James E. Eddens on June 6, 1965

Washington. D.C.: Mrs. Betty Jean Nolden to Irving Merrill Allen on June 9, 1965

Champaign, Illinois: Mrs. Shirley Ann Elliott to Aubrey Tewes on May 30, 1965

Evanston, Illinois: Miss Ruhiya R. Vafadari to Donald Taylor Streets on June 27, 1965

Urbana, Illinois: Miss Patricia Jeanne Kissner to Behrouz Peikari on June 6, 1965

Urbana. Illinois: Miss Joan F. Parrott to George E. Brehman, Jr. on June 26, 1965

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Waterloo, Iowa: Mrs. Mary E. Simpson to Jack V. Powers on June 5, 1965

Ann Arbor, Michigan: Miss Connie Hobson to Faramarz Samadani on June 26, 1965

Flint. Michigan: Miss Dorothy Jean Norris to John Wesley Nash on June 10, 1965 '

Jackson, Miss.: Miss Dorothy Jean Penro to John Daniel Smith on May 29, 1965

Jackson, Miss.: Miss Doris Lewis to Joe Turner Darden on June 3. 1965

Reno, Nevada: Mrs. Patricia Anne Cofiman to Larry Roger Cofiman on June 13, 1965

Reno, Nevada: Miss Marilynn Neil‘ to John N. Sniffen on July 1, 1965

New York, N.Y.: Miss Cynthia McLellan to Douglas Anderson on May 12. 1965

Rochester. N.Y.: Miss Ann Louise Mather to John C. Wolf on June 19, 1965

Asheville, North Carolina: Miss Margaret Greenlee to Matthew Peterson on June 20, 1965

Columbus, Ohio: Miss Susan Anne Clay to Timothy L. Porch on June 2. 1965

Portland, Oregon: Miss Georgene Mikesell to Wesley J. Sprinkel on June 25. 1965

Seattle, Wash.: Miss Sonja Claros to James Falconer on June 5, 1965

» BAHA'l DIRECTORY CHANGES

FOREIGN GOALS COMMITTEE

112 Linden Avenue, Wilmette, Ill. (committee address omitted from Directory)

ASSEMBLY SECRETARIES

Arizona . North Maricopa County: Mrs. Lenore P. Cleveland, 3815 N. 27th Ave., Phoenix . Tempe: Miss Alice G. Tyler, P. O. Box 504 Northern California ' Alturasz Mrs. Lillian Weidner, P. O. Box 1104, Zip code 96101 Central Marine J.D.: Mrs. Carol Noah, 248 Mt. Shasta Dr., San Rafael Redding: Mrs. Viviana Lisota, 910 Sierra Vista Dr., Zip code 96001’ Salinas: Mrs. M. Faye Pignard. P. O. Box 5544, Alisal Station, Salinas Southern California District No. 1 Antelope J.D.: Mrs. Beatrice L. Busby, 1105 East Ave., J-1, Lancaster 93534 Citrus J.D.: Mrs. Billie Palos, 15757 Francisqulto Ave., #6, West Covina 91744 Monrovia: Mrs. Helen S. Pinkerton, 520-A Diamond St., Zip code 91016 Pomona: Mrs. Lois Hill, 1804 Norval St., Zip code 91766 Santa Monica: Mrs. Arleen Wiley, 1514 Yale St., .Apt. 2, Zip code 90404 Southern California District No. 2 Corona J.D.: Mrs. Ruth Hall, 3967 Blair, Corona Connecticut ' Greenwich: Mrs. Jeanette B. Moye, 22 Decatur St., Cos Cob Delaware Wilmington: Mrs. Helen C. Hutchinson, 808 E. 23rd St., Zip code 19802 Northern Illinois Chicago: Mr. William Munson, 6025 Kimbark Ave., Zip code 60637 Iowa Cedar Rapids: Miss Edna Mackinson, 94 - 2nd Ave., S.W. Maryland Montgomery County: Mrs. Mary A. Newkirk, pro-tem, 608 Northampton Dr., Silver Spring Michigan Grand Rapids: Mr. Richard Reid. P. O. Box 1112. Zip code 49501 Lansing: Mr. George Sanders. P.O. Box 221

OCTOBER ‘1965

North Carolina Raleigh: Mr. Bruce Barick, 2402 Van Dyke Ave. Ohio Toledo: Dr. Otto Zmeskal, Chairman, 2316 Pemberton Pennsylvania Philadelphia: Miss Eloise Mitchell, 1421 Arch St., #2030, Zip code 19102 Puerto Rico San Juan: Mr. Francisco Perez, pro-tem, 1960 Ave. Borinquen, Santurce Eastern Texas Austin: Mrs. Catherine Gent, pro-tem. 2802 Rae Dell Ave., Z 4 Houston: Mrs. Priscilla L. Banks, 5307 Knotty Oaks Utah Provo: Mrs. Jean Beach, pro-tem. P.O. Box 1321 Western Washington Seattle: Mrs. Nadine D. Cooper, 1932 Victoria Ave., S.W., Zip code 98116 Wisconsin Madison: Mrs. Charlotte Keefrey, 2416 Waunona Way, Zip code 53713

NSA-STATE SERVICE REPRESENTATIVES

Alabama Mr. Lester Himes, 3513 Spann St., Huntsville 35810 (new address) California — Southern Dist. #1 Mrs. Marie Sawyer, 325 S. Rexford Dr., Beverly Hills (to correct address) Delete name of: Mrs. Manila Lee Add name of: Mr. James C. Allen, 7801 Clearfield Ave.. Panorama City Kentucky Delete name of: Mrs. Linda J. Worth Add name of: Mrs. Eileen Embry, 4300 Southern Pkwy., Louisville 40214 Nevada. Add name of: Mrs. Eda M. Burns, 5733 Heron Ave., Las Vegas 89107 New York — Western Mrs. Jane Czerniejewski, 15 Norwood Ave., Hamburg (new address)

INDIAN SERVICE COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVES

Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Reynolds, Fort Yates, North Dakota for North and South Dakota. to replace Mr. Alvin Myers

Mrs. Arden Lee, Shorewood, Wisconsin—for Wisconsin to replace Mrs. Beth McKenty

in Memoriam

Leroy Ioas Charles E. Jacobs Hand of the Faith Kansas City, Missouri

Haifa, Israel June 28, 1965 July 22, 1965

Herbert O. Kamps

Medina, Ohio March 27, 1965

Miss Aleta Mallory

Royal Oak. Michigan June 21, 1965

Dr. Clara Berladsky San Francisco, Calif. June 24, 1965

Notice

The Spiritual Assembly of Urbana, Illinois would like to know the present location of Victor Munson, a Bahá’í aged 32 years trained in mechanics and electronics. If anyone knows his whereabouts please communicate promptly with the Urbana Assembly or with the National Spiritual Assembly. _