The Guardian appoints the first contingent of the Hands of
the Cause on December 24, 1951:
Dorothy B. Baker (1898-1954)
Amelia E. Collins (1873-1962)
‘Ali-Akbar Furutan (1905-2004)
Ugo Giachery (1896-1989)
Hermann Grossmann (1899-1968)
Horace Holley (1887-1960)
Leroy Ioas (1896-1965)
William Sutherland Maxwell (1874-1952)
Charles Mason Remey (1874-1974)
Tarazu’llah Samandari (I874-1968)
George Townshend (1876-1957)
Valiyu’llah Varqa (1884-1955)
(Adapted from ‘A Basic Baha’i Dictionary’, by Wendi Momen,
and from ‘A Concise Encyclopedia of the Baha’i Faith’, by Peter Smith)