st 1946 and helped
to form its first Assembly, leaving for Liverpool in 1949 for the same
purpose. She subsequently pioneered to Bristol, Exeter and Stornoway; was
the Secretary of the National Youth Committee when it launched its "Baha'i
Youth Bulletin" from 1946 to 1948; was Secretary of the Assembly
Development Committee for some years and was a member of the National
Assembly for seven years between 1948 and 1956.

ROBERT CHEEK

Became a Baha'i in London on Naw-Ruz 1945, pioneered to Bournemouth in
September 1946, to Bristol in 1947 to help form the first Assembly there,
and to Norwich in 1948 where he has lived since except for a short special
pioneer project in Blackburn in 1950-1.

MRS JOAN GIDDINGS (nee BROWNE)

Accepted the Faith in Bradford in 1938. She pioneered first to Cardiff and
later to York and Canterbury, and was active on Assemblies and on National
Committees throughout her Baha'i life. She passed away in Canterbury in
1978. (See also note about developments in Bradford under "Cyril and
Margaret Jenkerson".)

HUGH AND VIOLET MCKINLEY

Hugh McKinley and his mother, Violet McKinley, pioneered from Torquay to
Cardiff in 1947, serving on the first local Spiritual Assembly when formed
there in 1948. Together they pioneered to Nicosia, Cyprus in 1953, moving
to Famagusta in 1958. Violet passed away there in August 1959. In 1966
Hugh pioneered to Syros in the Cyclades Islands (Greece) and returned to
the United Kingdom in October 1977. ("Baha'i World", Vol. XVI, p. 512.)

DR. LUTFU'LLAH HAKIM

Was born into a family of distinguished Jewish medical doctors in 1888.
His grandfather was the first Jew to embrace the Cause and Baha'u'llah
revealed a Tablet in his honour. Lutfu'llah came to study physiotherapy in
England in 1910 and he was in constant attendance on the Master during His
visit in 1911. He went to serve in the Holy Land and returned to England
in 1920 when he accompanied Shoghi Effendi. He later served with
distinction in Persia and returned, at the request of the Guardian, to
Britain in October 1948, where he taught and travelled extensively until
called to Haifa by the Guardian on 14 November 1950. He was appointed to
the first International Baha'i Council. He was elected to the first
Universal House of Justice in 1963 but because of failing health and
advanced age regretfully his resignation was accepted in October 1967
though he consented to serve until t