Became a Baha'i in Northampton in 1946 where he was a member of the first
Spiritual Assembly. He later pioneered to Edinburgh where he was also on
the first Scottish Assembly and to the virgin territory of Northern
Rhodesia in 1951. He was Chairman of the first National Spiritual Assembly
of South Central Africa in 1964 and of the National Assembly of Zambia for
nine years from its formation in 1967. He has remained at his post and
became a Zambian citizen in 1973.

DR. ABBAS AND SHOMAIS AFNAN,

Abbas Afnan was a student in Paris and came to England as a pioneer to
Africa for the Two Year Plan. _Sh_omais 'Ala'i was the second Persian
Baha'i student to come to Northampton to train as a nurse and arrived in
1948. They married at Summer School, Cottingham, Yorkshire in 1951 and
pioneered soon afterwards--_Sh_omais to Ethiopia and Abbas to Persia. Abbas
joined _Sh_omais in Africa in 1953. They returned to England in 1958 and
opened the town of Burnley where an Assembly was formed in 1961. In 1975
Abbas pioneered to Newfoundland and _Sh_omais joined him in July 1976.
Abbas was a member of the National Assembly from 1964 until his pioneer
move, and _Sh_omais was active in United Nations' affairs. _Sh_omais
toured Persia in 1971 at the request of the Universal House of Justice,
was one of the representatives of the Baha'i International Community at
the International Women's Year Convention in Mexico in 1975 and travelled
extensively in the British Isles in 1978-1979.

EDMUND (TED) CARDELL, Knight of Baha'u'llah

Became a Baha'i in Canada in 1948 and returned to his father's farm in
England some time later. He pioneered to Kenya in October 1951 where he
was a founder member of the first local Assembly in Nairobi. He became
Knight of Baha'u'llah for South West Africa in 1953 and returned to
England in 1963. He was elected to the National Assembly in 1973 and is
still a member (1979).

DR. JOHN GEORGE MITCHELL, Knight of Baha'u'llah

Became a Baha'i in 1950, was member of the National Assembly from 1952 to
1954 from which he pioneered as a Knight of Baha'u'llah for Malta. He had
pioneered for a short while in Blackpool. He passed away on 19 February
1957 at the age of 50. ("Baha'i World", Vol. XIII, p. 901.)

MISS IRENE BENNETT

Became a Baha'i in Kenya in 1953 and has been in pioneering posts since
that time. She has served in Portugal, Switzerland, Scotland, Kenya,
Uganda (where she