Biographies
“…Guides are they, make them to speak out with arguments and proofs. Ministering servants are they, cause them to pass round the cup that brimmeth with the wine of certitude. O my God, make them to be songsters that carol in fair gardens, make them lions that couch in the thickets, whales that plunge in the vasty deep.” – ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Sophie Hays
By Priscilla Hofert: Sophie Hays first heard of the Bahá’í Faith from her aunt who became a Bahá’í in Chicago…
Joan & Wayne Anderson
Joan K. (Wetzel) Anderson and Wayne G. Anderson were married at the beginning of their senior year at Iowa State University…
David Meswarb
“The Guidance Teacher at my high school, Mr. Francis Bob Cook, called me in for an interview…”
Ruth Moffett
From Bahaipedia: Ruth Moffett (January 19, 1880 – July 5, 1978) was an American Bahá’í notable for her tours…
Hugh Chance
From Bahaipedia: Hugh Emery Chance (December 1914 – March 29, 1998) was an American Bahá’í who served on…
Janice Westemeier Freese
By Charlotte Solarz: Janice Freese was transported to the Abhá Realm in 2016. But she belongs to memory as an inheritance to the Bahá’í Community of Dubuque, Iowa.
Hugh Emery Chance, JD: A Man Ahead of His Time, by Rolf E. Peters
Chiropractic Journal of Australia, Volume 45, Number 3, 2017
Wayne & Rita Landers: Demonstrating Community Service Every Day, Part I
by Dierdre Cox Baker
From the Quad-City Times, April 27, 1997
Wayne & Rita Landers: Demonstrating Community service Every Day, Part II
by Dierdre Cox Baker
From the Quad-City Times, April 27, 1997. Scroll down and over to see all of Part II.
Margery Davis: “But That’s Another Story…”
“It was 1970 and I was alone in New York City…”
Bruce Koerber: Divine Economy Theory
I became a Bahá’í in 1977 in State College, PA…
Marguerite Ashlock, TV Personality
From the mid 1950s to the mid-60s, Marguerite hosted a TV show called “Home Fare”…
My Bahá’í History, by Kal Basin
I was asked to give some historical account upon joining the Bahá’í Faith, February 1967, at Fairfield, Iowa…
James Siegling’s Journal, 1990-1999
“I hope [this] journal will be passed on to the generations that follow…”
Kathy Siegling, a Lifetime of Serving the Faith
Reprinted with permission from the June 2012 Cedar Rapids Bahá’í Newsletter
