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- Berdyne (Bea) Halsa Serves as Homefront Pioneer in FairfieldBy Diane Findlay, with information from Paula Schneider and the National Baha’i Archives staff, entered February 2026 Bea Halsa (1901–1998) was a Baha’i from Watertown, South Dakota who spent a couple of years serving as house mother for a dormitory at Parsons College, where there was a flurry of Baha’i activity in the late 1960s....
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- Iowa-Antigua Connections by Diane FindlayEntered in 2022 (Photo from 2005 Caribbean NSA Conference, held in Antigua. Jane Rodriguez-Javier is wearing a red shirt,and is standing behind the bush, in the middle of the photo.) IOWA-ANTIGUA CONNECTIONS When the Universal House of Justice issued a call for international pioneers at the beginning of Seven Year Plan (1979–1986), one of the...
- How I Became a Baha’i by Rodney H. ClarkenReprinted with permission, from Rod’s website, THE CLARKEN CHRONICLES, https://rodclarken.wordpress.com/personal/ I was born in 1951 to a mother who had dropped out of the eighth grade pregnant with my older brother and a father who helped raise four sons and a daughter on a farm where one-half of the crops went to the landlord. My...
- How I Became a Baha’i by Dan HimesBecoming a Baha’i – It Just Makes Sense! As I sit here thinking back over my 60 years as a Baha’i – my declaration took place August 18, 1962 – I wonder how did it happen so easily! I wasn’t searching, at least not consciously, and I wasn’t feeling as though something was missing in...
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