oss--member of the National Spiritual Assembly 1954-63,
appointed a member of the Auxiliary Board for Teaching in 1958.
58 Ahmad Sohrab--former secretary of 'Abdu'l-Baha, declared a
Covenant-breaker by the Guardian, died 1958.
59 Miss Greta Jankko--first pioneer to the Marquesas Islands (1954).
60 William Carr--Canadian pioneer to Thule Air Base, Greenland 1955-.
From 1955 to 1963 Mrs. Kaya Holck, a Danish believer, pioneered
among the Greenlanders.
61 Miss Mary Zabolotny (now Mrs. Kenneth McCulloch)--first pioneer to
Anticosti Island (1956).
62 The Tablets of the Divine Plan, revealed by 'Abdu'l-Baha in 1916-17,
and addressed severally to the Baha'is of the United States and
Canada, constitute the authority for the successive Plans
inaugurated by the Guardian for the spread of the Faith and the
establishment of its Institutions throughout the world.
63 Mrs. May Ellis Maxwell--spiritual mother of the Canadian Baha'i
community, became a believer in 1898, visited 'Abdu'l-Baha in 1899
and returned to Paris to found the first Baha'i centre on the
European continent, married Sutherland Maxwell and settled in
Montreal in 1902, achieved "the priceless honor of a martyr's death"
in Argentina in 1940. For a review of the vast range of her
contributions to the Faith in Europe and America, see "Baha'i World"
Vol. VIII, In Memoriam.
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