The task of the auxiliary Boards was to "increasingly
lend (their) assistance (for the) promotion (of the) interests (of the)
Ten-Year Crusade." Their function was to act "as deputies, assistants
and advisers of the Hands," "working in conjunction" with the
National Spiritual Assemblies on each continent. Their duties had been defined
by the Guardian in his cablegram of October 8, 1952, launching the World
Crusade: to "assist, through periodic systematic visits (to) Baha'i
centers (in the) efficient, prompt execution" of the twelve projected
National teaching plans.
The five auxiliary Boards appointed by the fifteen Hands of the
Cause were announced as follows:
Africa: John Allen; Elsie Austin; 'Ali Nakhjavani; Jalal
Nakhjavani; John Robarts;
William Sears; Muhammad Mustafa Soleiman; Valerie Wilson;
'Aziz Yazdi
America: Canada: Rowland Estall; Central America: Esteban
Canales; South America: Gayle Woolson; Margot Worley; United States and
inter-America: William de Forge; Margery McCormick; Katherine McLaughlin;
Florence Mayberry; Sarah Pereira
Asia: Agnes Alexander; Elena Marsella Fernie; Abul Qasim
Faizi; Abbas Ali Butt; Carl A. Scherer; Daoud Toeg; Kazem Kazemzadeh
Australia: H. C. Featherstone; Miss Thelma Perks
Europe: Marion Hofman; Dorothy Ferraby; Eugen Schmidt; Anna
Grossmann; Louis Henuzet; Joel Marengella; Elsa Steinmetz; Angeline Giachery;
Tove Deleuran
(The Baha’i World, 1950 – 1954)
